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Showing posts with label AddOns. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Addons widget for WordPress


WordPress offers many benefits when it comes to web publishing. There are many reasons use WordPress people. One of the easiest to use the functions of WordPress are widgets. Most WordPress themes come with sidebars "widget ready". Back office of WordPress, you can drag and drop widgets in your sidebars. Widgets can add such variety to your site such as:
Calendar
Research
Posts recent
Categories
Text/HTML.
Etc....The above list is only touching on features, you can add widgets. If you want to take to the next level, you can also add widgets that come not standard with your WordPress installation.

I will share 3 I found very useful. Most of these widgets is added using plugins.

1 Video Widget - this plugin will add a video widget that you can add to your sidebar. It will allow you to choose more of 25 video services. You can control the video size in the widget. With this widget you must only add ID video-no code embed. Finally, this widget also allows you to add a list of videos that will be chosen randomly to your visitors.

2 Sexy Bookmarks Sidebar Widget - a quick note first of all, this plugin works with the original Sexy bookmarks plugin, you need installed to work. This is a great and unique media social sharing plugin that you find it useful even if you do not want this widget. The widget itself will allow you to add Sexy bookmarks to your sidebar. This widget is very similar and should give rise to social media presentations more for your site.

3. Flickr Widget - Flickr is one of the best and simplest ways to both store and share your images. With this plugin, you will get a Flickr widget which will display your latest Flickr images in your sidebar. The widget will display up to 10 photos to a Flickr photostream. It is ideal for blogs of type family newsletter.

These 3 widgets are a drop in the bucket compared to all the available widgets. If you want to add something to your sidebar and can't understand - search in the menu of WordPress plugins in the back office of WordPress, they can have an add on the widget that will give you exactly what you need.

A last suggestion: Please don't Pack your so full of widgets sidebar, it extends on the screen. It seems botched and unprofessional, not to mention people not usually scroll under your content to see your sidebar, so it is wasted. When used correctly the widgets can be a powerful addition to your WordPress site, make sure that to take advantage.








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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Modules to include on your WordPress blog


If you have just started or are words to start a WordPress blog, you probably know that there are many of various Add ons, you can include to make everything what you want with the program.

This is the beauty of WordPress. There are so many ways, you can upgrade in the core curriculum and include all kinds of features. There is a plugin for just about everything you can imagine.

For me, there are a few different type of Add ons then say speak one by one:
1 Widgets
2 Plug-ins
3 Themes

Widgets

Each installation of WordPress is installed with the option of using what is called "Widgets". A widget is basically a feature that you can add to the sidebar of your WordPress blog. The great thing about widgets is that they are simply as drag and drop to only install - no dev knowledge necessary!

Some features you can add to your sidebar with the click of a mouse:
-Calendar
-Links (also known as the Blogroll)
-Recent comments
-Text (you can put anything in including your email address subscribe form)
-Meta Information (you can put your blog login and other information in the sidebar)

Now, some of the custom themes you will get have included their own unique widgets that are not usually in the widget area. There is also widget options to add archives, categories and a search bar, but they are generally automatically encoded in most of the WordPress themes.

Plugins

If you can think of something, that you want to do with your blog, there is probably a plugin for this.

The plugins are another add on functionality that make WordPress a powerful leader in blogs and also in the design of Web site.

Here are some of the types of plugins, you can install and use on your site:
-Spam protection.
-SEO
-Connections social media.
-Comment answers.
-RSS feed.
-Post related lists.

Plugins are quite easy to install as well. You can simply click on the "plug-ins" option in your WordPress dashboard, and then choose to add new plugins. Then, you can search through the available plug-ins that you can download and install. Once they are installed, it is a question to go to your plugins page and click on activate.

Themes

WordPress itself is a free program. There are also hundreds or thousands of free themes available online by a wide range of designers. Not only this, but you can buy a better quality more professional themes for a fairly reasonable price.

I put themes in the category of an "add on" because they really can be changed very easily. This is the kind of like a dress, you can put on your site. If you change your theme to all the other elements of the blog as your widgets, plugins and content remain the same.

Many of the themes come with their own characteristics, and as I mentioned before widgets.








Then, you have three main categories of Add ons you can include in your WordPress blog.

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Author: Angela wills of the Mojo Marketers