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WordPress Plugins/Resources

Lynn Dye lynn@extremevirtualsupport.com

@LynnToTheRescue

WordPress MeetUpJune 24, 2013

How to favorite your WordPress plugins

• Register at wordpress.org

• Look for plugins in the repository and look for a little heart in the lower right and click on it. Now it’s saved and you can view it at http://profiles.wordpress.org/yourname

• OR when you’re logged into your dashboard, click on the ‘Favorites’ from the Plugins Add New menu, type in your user name (or anyone else’s) and find your favorites there

Widget Context Plugin

• Removes the entire sidebar (or specific widgets) from a sidebar on specific pages

• Let’s take a look at how it works

Custom Google SearchThe Google Search box in the plugin repository is…well…pretty sorry!

You can sign up and Google will generate code for your site(s)

http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2630969

1.Click on the ‘Custom Search home page’

2.Sign in to your Google account and click ‘Add’ search engine

3.Fill in the url of your site, you can choose to have it search on just one page (/blog), or specific pages or the entire site.

4.Click the ‘Get code’ to get your personalized code and copy and paste it in your site. I pasted mine in a text widget and added it to a sidebar

Let’s Log in and Try it!

Result

Podcast/Audio ResourcesYour Website Engineer – Dustin Hartzler: Dustin has been doing his weekly podcast for over 2 years now and it’s on topic, informative and he has monthly free webinars on WordPress how-to’s. http://yourwebsiteengineer.com

WordPress Plugins A to Z : Marcus Couch & John Overall: They have a weekly show where they bring 2-4 plugins each and discuss and rate them. Focus is mainly on business. http://wppluginsatoz.com/

Podcast/Audio ResourcesWP Candy – Ryan Imel & friends: Nine

podcasts from this site. I haven’t checked them out for a couple of years. http://wpcandy.com/

• You can download this presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/lynndye