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Scribe SEO for WordPress

Valerie — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:14:23 +0000

If you’re truly focused on getting your rankings up in your search engine, consider investing in Scribe for WordPress (also available for Joomla and Drupal). For a monthly fee you will get a plugin that searches and helps you optimize your posts AS YOU CREATE THEM, right there from your WP dashboard.

Find out how Scribe Makes SEO Simple

Video tutorial: How to use GWA Autoresponder in your WordPress blog or site

Valerie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:53:29 +0000

Just a short tutorial on how to use the WordPress plugin GWA Autoresponder. It’s a handy, easy-to-use tool to manage your online leads and automate your marketing emails.

Video tutorial: How to add a basic WordPress gallery

Valerie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:40:53 +0000

After futzing around with this a bit, I finally mastered the gallery feature. The step most people miss is saving the post as a draft. If you skip that, the gallery option won’t show up. In any case, if you’re adding photos to a basic blog and aren’t using a gallery plug-in like Nex-Gen Gallery, the basic built-in WordPress gallery is there for you.

Speaking of galleries… do you have a favorite gallery plug-in? Share it in the comments section.

Magical Movable WordPress Panels

Valerie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:23:46 +0000

This is a tip most bloggers miss: you can arrange your workspace by moving the panels around in the main parts of the WordPress dashboard by dragging them. Watch this short video to see how easy it is.

WordPress Plugins I Can’t Do Without

Valerie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:49:16 +0000

In my opinion, these are the top 10, “must have” plugins on any WordPress site. These are the absolute must-have plugins for any WordPress blog. They are all free, though the developers do encourage donations.

Contact Form 7: Simple, but effective contact form.
By Takayuki Miyoshi | Visit plugin site
Simple CAPTCHA: A simple captcha system for comment system to prevent spam.
By Zorex | Visit plugin site
3. All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
By Michael Torbert | Visit plugin site
4. Akismet: Comment spam filter. Included with default installation of WordPress
By Matt Mullenweg | Visit plugin site
Sociable: Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
By Blogplay | Visit plugin site
Page Link Manager: Adds admin panel to choose which pages appear in the site navigation.
By Garrett Murphey | Visit plugin site
FD Feedburner Plugin: Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
By John Watson | Visit plugin site
Google Analytics for WordPress: This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
By Joost de Valk | Visit plugin site
Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
By Arne Brachhold | Visit plugin site
WordPress Database Backup: On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
By Austin Matzko | Visit plugin site