Installing Plugins in WordPress
Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.
Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website.
Insights – Plugin Tutorial – Awesome WordPress Media and Links tool
Insights
What It Does: Allows you to quickly and easily, search for and insert YouTube movies, royalty free images from Flickr, Wikipedia links, Google searches and even links from your own site, into your posts and pages.
Insights uses a dynamic AJAX interface which loads search results in seconds, all within the WordPress posting page!
Who Needs It: Anyone that has a self-hosted WordPress website.
New WordPress E-Commerce plugin hits it out of the park
If you’ve been looking for a smooth, cleanly implemented, well supported e-commerce solution for WordPress then read on…
Shopp
What It Does: Allows you to sell both shipped and digital products or services from your WordPress website. It offers a variety of different payment gateways to suit many nationalities and requirements. All major gateways such as PayPal are supported.
Who Needs It: Anyone that wants a serious e-commerce business.
How To Upload using Cpanel – Install WordPress plugin WP-Easy Uploader
WordPress 2.7 users: You can use the inbuilt plugin and auto install feature to install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This bypasses having to use Cpanel in the below example. (Go to Plugins >> Add New. In the search type “uploader” and a little way down you will see WP-Easy Uploader – Choose Install Now and foloow the prompts to have this plugin installed.)
This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel.
Cpanel is a very common admin backend system that comes with most hosting packages.
In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This one plugin gives us the ability to upload anythign to our WordPress blog. Plugins, Themes and anything in fact.
Upload A Plugin within WordPress – Built in and Wp-Easy Uploader
Being open source, features in WordPress come in the form of plugins. Made by developers.
Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of WordPress.
Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google WordPress search engine page.
Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.
This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.
How To Manage Widgets – WordPress Sidebar Layout
This Screencast will give you an introduction to the Widgets page in the Design tab
Widgets are blocks of content that make up your sidebar or sidebars depending on the Theme you are using. To re-arrange the order of sidebar Widgets click and drag them then press Save.
Adding plugins will add more widgets. Explore more widgets on the WordPress website right here.
Managing Comments in WordPress 2.6 – Screencast Tutorial
Comments are a fun way to start a dialogue with your readers.
Create something of value and ask for peoples involvement to refine your ideas. or you can use various plugins to add features to the comments process.
This video training will show you how to setup ,edit and delete comments on your WordPress website.
This video requires Quicktime for Mac and PC. Download it here.
NOTE: The Author of a particular page or post determines who is sent the Comments email notification. Make sure that the Authors are correct AND that you have a correct email address in Users > My Profile.
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