Posts Tagged ‘wordpress plugin’

To Comment or Not To Comment! Problem Solved -

Just setting up a site as a CMS using WordPress, I’ve done this many times  and one of the things that is not needed when setting sites up this way, that comes with every WordPress installation, is the ‘Comments’.

Of course you can untick the “comments” before you publish a post or page but it shows up as “no comments” or ” no comments allowed”, something to that effect.

So I went looking and found a very neat little plugin called – wait for it!- “No Comments Plugin”.  

And….it works like a treat, activate it and no more comments or notation that  the comments have been turned off.

Very neat, very nice, very light!

If you go the the ‘Add New’ plugin and search for no comments and it should be the first result.  Install, activate and Presto!!

Talk later,

Cheers

Carmel

Cyber Shoplifters, How Do They Get Their Kicks?

What do people who steal from others on the Internet get out of it.  I call them cyber shoplifters, petty thieves.

In the off line world, shoplifters get a bit of an adrenalin rush when they get away with stealing from retail stores.  They’ve beat the security system and the store detective/detection.

But in the online world, where or how do they get their kicks?  Do they get any satisfaction from sitting in front of their computer, pen.jpgGoogling all the different words that will get them through to a download page to steal someone’s product…..the mind boggles at the mentality….you have to feel sorry for them.  What a life they must have or NOT!!!  Some achievement.

I know there are forums where they pass around how they got to these download pages but they are still nameless/faceless, they use avatars and nicknames so no one really knows who or what they are.  Still with achievements like they have, maybe that is the idea.

Recently someone got through to a download page of mine, well to actually get there they had to subscribe to my list for that product and as soon as that happened and no payment, I sent them an email asking for their receipt number so I could put them in a draw for ‘money’ prize competition.  Naturally I didn’t hear….lol.

But then I went to the site and checked on a great WordPress plugin called StatsPress Reloaded.  This plugin shows you the terms searched and the page on your site that is accessed.

There was only the one search that qualified.  So I went and changed everything that this ‘petty thief/cyber shoplifter’ could have passed on.

Then for several days everytime the search term appeared in the StatsPress they went through to another page.  So my little cyber shoplifter looked like a  ‘BIG DUMBE DILL’ to those on the forums where he big-noted himself.

Not the most satisfying experience for the poor little no-name/no-face.

So if you want very up to date stats, take a look at StatsPress Reloaded, it’s a free plugin and well worth adding to your favourite plugins list.  You can take a look at it here

Well that’s my little tip for today, take care and I’ll catch you later.

Cheers

Carmel

This Is Really Unique – WPUnique Plugin

I haven’t been here for a little while, actually it is much longer than I thought, as the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun.

It is great when work can be classed as fun.

Apart from the ‘fun’ I have managed to find some great tools and products which I will fill you in on over the next few days.

The first one is a, wait for it, WordPress (knew it would be that didn’t you) Plugin.  This is no ordinary plug,, no this one is unique and so simple to use too.

Now it is not a free plugin and after you find out what it does, you wouldn’t expect to get something this powerful for free.  But the price is right……

Okay! Here it is!!

WPUnique……now can you guess what it does?

Yes! it turns your PLR content into unique content, actually it turns any content you have on your site into unique content.

Watch the videos here.…..I tried what is in the videos and my results were really, really good!

A site that I  installed the plugin on was really doing nothing, looking great but doing nothing.  I had heaps of PLR articles and content for the niche but was too busy with other work to rewrite the articles and unique them.

After adding the WPUnique plugin and setting up the un-rewritten, PLR articles to drip feed  onto the site, I noticed the traffic to the wpuniquecoversite had increased to the point where the month was  only a couple of days old and the visitors had increased to many more than the two previous months.  And….visitors who will leave a comment too, not just the ‘link’ kind of comment either, a comment relevant to the article they have read, and by that, you can see they have really read the article.

I’m not going to try to explain the WPUnique plugin to you, I’ll let the developer do that, Steve  does it so much better than I can.  I can only tell you the results I have been getting and they are only two instances.

But I will give you an outline of what else this plugin can do -

You can unique all your posts and pages.
You can unique individual posts and pages
You can spin all content.
You can spin individual content.
You can link keywords up to your money products
You can make these links Dofollow or not
And -
The links can be opening in a new window or not.

With the unique option for posts and pages, they still read the exactly the same, it is not the visitor who picks up the duplicate content, it is the search engines and that is where the content is made unique, all above board too, not black-hat stuff.

So far I have only used the spin option on one site and on one article but even without setting up the ‘necessary’, the article still read well and was 32% unique from the original.  So with a little bit of work there, this will be a winner too.

Okay, if you are like me and have lots of PLR stuff, even a little PLR stuff, then this is the plugin for you, don’t take time to think about it, give your brain a rest, this is one of those ‘no-brainers’, or as they say in Nikeland – “Just Do It!!!”

Head on over to WPUnique now,read all about it, watch Steve’s video but most importantly, make the decision to ‘get it’…….

Catch you later

Cheers

Carmel

WordPress Plugins, Three Handy Ones.

smashyaliennews1Three plugins I’ve found recently, thought you might like to take a look.

So this first plugin was just what I’ve been looking for.

StatPress Reloaded

From  Manuel Grabowski

I know most people use Google Analytics and yes, they are good and your stats from your web host cpanel are excellent too but this one is right on your site, in your Dashboard and so easy to check.

You get in the Overview (Includes Column Graph for daily quick comparison)

  • Hits  (date, time, IP etc)
  • Search Terms
  • Referrers
  • Agents (bots)
  • Pages
  • Spiders

There are many options to enable you to collect data on your site’s stats,
and you get all this right there on your Dashboard, no bringing up a new browser.

WordPress.com have great stats built in, and I’ve tried the plugin for my own hosted sites but no matter what, I’ve never been able to get the API key to work on a WordPress.org site.

This plugin (previously known as StatPress) shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

Once the plugin StatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect information. Using StatPress you can see your visitors actions while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories. In the Dashboard menu you will find the StatPress page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed). StatPress also includes a widget you can add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

StatPress speaks English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Brazilian, Turkish, Swedish!

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SEO Smart Links

From Vladimir Prelovac

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

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WP125
From  redwall_hp

Easily and efficiently manage your 125×125 advertisments with this plugin. Used on The Theme Blog’s sidebar, WP125 provides a simple admin panel system for creating new ad campaigns, setting a time for removal and reviewing click statistics.

This plugin is for  the little 125×125 ad blocks like the ones on my sidebar or similar type ads, you can use this plugin on a single colums too.

From this plugin’s admin panel, you can control those little 125x125s.

The features included are:

* One or two column ad display, and support through template tags to implement your own unconventional design.
* Show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order
* Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked
* When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
* When an ad run is over, the record is archived on the Inactive ads screen, so you can check on the final click count, or revive the ad for another run.
* When an ad slot is empty, a placeholder ad of your choice will be displayed. This could be a �Your Ad Here� image linking to a page with statistics and pricing, or an affiliate link.
* Optionally recieve email notifications when an ad expires. Useful if you send follow-up messages to advertisers, or if you just want to stay in the know.

Hope you find these useful

I’ll add these three to my WordPress Plugins page.too.

Catch you later,

Cheers
Carmel

PS if you check out the last sentence above, the link for “WordPress Plugins” was done by the SEO Smart Links Plugin automatically……Nice!

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The Ultimate WordPress Package Plus A Great Plugin

I have had a really good day so far.  There have been a few frustrations but that goes with what I’ve been doing, par for the course as they say everywhere except in the golf club.

I bought WPQueen’s WordPress Package and what a good buy it was.  Hope you were able to get it at the lower price as this is the best value in anything I have bought or seen for WordPress.

The package is for Leanne’s book on all things WordPress as well as a great WordPress template. There is a WSO running at the moment.

I’ve been playing with the template, it is very versatile and from now on, no two sites will look alike unless I intend them to do so.

This site is the one I’ve been playing with, very basic playing, so once I get into the swing of it, no saying what I will achieve. There are a couple of areas that I want to tweak and haven’t found how….yet.

As far as the book goes that comes in the package, Leanne’s book is on another level altogether from what is out there for WordPress, much higher level that is.

It is more like a WordPress Encyclopedia, not the book you sit down to have a good read, it is the quintesential WordPress reference book.  Actually it is six volumes plus Resources and ReadMeFirst.  think of something you want to do with WordPress and check the contents and there it will be, how to do it in great detail.

I don’t think Leanne has left anything out, while I haven’t read it all, what I have read has covered the minute details that are usually missing from other tutorials and books.

Leanne had done a great job and certainly deserves the title WPQueen, she certainly is that.

Get yourself over to the Warrior Forum and see for yourself, you won’t be disappointed.

Now the other thing I have been doing is trying out a plugin.  I can hear you, yeah! what’s the big deal?

Well, this plugin is for an autoresponder that is working like a treat.  At the moment the free version only lets you send out once a day, there is a pro version that if this works as well as it seems to be, I will get.

The beauty of this is, it is right there, no going over to Aweber or GetResponse  to set up messages, broadcasts etc.  If you use WordPress for your niche marketing, how easy is it to have your list for that niche right there, accessible from your Dashboard.  All neat and tidy.

If you use the sidebar Widgets with your WordPress blog, then what could be easier than adding the GWA Autoresponder to your sidebar with the optin code already there, no setting that up either.  When someone opts into your list, they receive the email asking them to confirm and as soon as that is done, they receive the welcome email that you have set up,

You can also add the code to another site if you wish, it is right there waiting for you.  As I am using the free plugin, there is a little ad that goes with the form, I think this doesn’t happen with the pro version.

If you are into flipping niche type websites, what could be better as a selling point than to have an ecourse all set up with the buyer not having to pay out extra to get an autoresponder and learn how to operate it.
The link for the GWA autoresponder plugin is on my WordPress Plugins page here

So there you go, I am having a good day and so can you.  Nothing like good resources and tools to work with to make the job so much easier.

BTW I just checked the WSO that Leanne is running, she was only selling 50 Packages of the WordPress book and the Template and looks like they are all sold. But…….

You are in luck as individually she is only selling 50 of each too and she still has them to purchase individually and the price of the two combined is well worth it.

So hop on over and take a look, this is not an affiliate push, I’m not an affiliate, I don’t think Leanne has opened up an affiliate program.  It’s just such a good product and you get all the updates as WordPress grows and all for free too…….Bargain.
Take care

Cheers

Carmel

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