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Elegant Themes at a bargain price

Ant Harper — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:25:12 +0000

As a Web Designer that uses Wordpress as a CMS ‘engine’ for quite a few of my sites, I am always on the lookout for innovative themes as starting points for my projects.

I had been watching Elegant Themes with interest for a while and recently decided that their latest offer was just too good to be missed. For just $19.95 per year you get full access to their entire collection of premium Wordpress themes plus access to any themes they might add in the future. Yes you read that correctly – $19.95.

Now a low price is all good and well, but are the themes any good? Well in a word, yes. Their themes just happen to be some of the best thought-out around with all the bells and whistles you would only expect to get from themes that cost more per theme elsewhere, than they are charging for the entire collection.

Need a highly polished, highly configurable Wordpress theme for your latest blog that will make it stand out from the crowd? What are you waiting for? Get on over to Elegant Themes and see the demos for yourself!

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Top 20 Wordpress Plugins – June 2009

Ant Harper — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:46:30 +0000

Back once again with the Enterprise Master… er …mind. Neglect. Thats all I can call it and I have to hold my hands up and admit that I have neglected this blog completely in the last few months. So in a small gesture of recompense my Top 10 Wordpress Plugin roundup for June is a Top 20. Some plugins are the same as previous months, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins. For more great plugins please see my now ancient post Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – February 2009.

If you think there is a plugin worth a mention here or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com. This monthly (…excuse me?) post does get a lot of traffic so if you are a plugin developer it might be in your best interest to get your latest work reviewed here! I don’t charge a penny…

1. WP Ban

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Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name or referer URL from visiting your Wordpress Blog. When a banned user attempts a visit they will be greeted by a custom ban message. Statistics are also recorded on how many times they attempt to visit.

2. WP Security Scan

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You can never take the subject of your sites security too lightly. Use this plugin to scan your Wordpress installation for security vulnerabilities and get a list of suggested corrective actions to take.

3. WP Greet Box

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A plugin to show a greeting message to your new visitors that is dependant upon their referrer URL. For instance, when a user clicks through a link from a particular referrer (example Digg, Twitter) they will be shown a message suggesting that they Digg or Tweet your post. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors suggesting that they subscribe to your RSS Feed. Brilliant.

4. WP Easy Paypal Payment Accept

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Here is a great Wordpress plugin to accept paypal payments for a services, products or donations in multiple currencies with just one click. Can be used in the sidebar, posts and pages of your Wordpress install.

5. WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

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Written by the same author as the plugin above (Ruhul Amin), this one allows you to put shopping cart interactivity and ‘Add to Cart’ buttons on any post or page within your Wordpress installation. An excellent alternative to the hassle of a fully blown e-commerce website if you don’t have a large product range.

6. WP Thickbox Integration

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Want a simple but elegant way of displaying larger images without having to open a new window? This nifty little plugin utilises jquery to open gallery images in a ‘Lightbox’ style once you have added them via the ‘Add an image’ button. Simply tick the extra ‘Open in the same window’ field and away you go!

7. Contact Form 7

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Not the most fully featured contact form plugin out there, but I find this the easiest to implement. Supports Ajax-powered submitting, multiple languages but for captcha to work it now requires installation of the plugin ‘Really Simple Captcha’ (see below).

8. Really Simple Captcha

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Designed to work with other plugins and not as a standalone form Captcha. By the author’s own admission its does not provide much security but does work seamlessly with the plugins that support it. It avoids any conflicts by using temporary files instead of using PHP for sessions.

9. MobilePress

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With so many of us using mobile platforms (phones/PDAs) to browse the web now it is essential that your web pages are rendered correctly. MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers. Excellent!

10. Flipping Book Wordpress Gallery

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Ever wanted one of those galleries where your users turn the pages like in a book? This great plugin lets you do exactly that. Please note that there is a paid for version of this plugin if you wish to remove the authors branding.

11. Google XML Sitemaps

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If you don’t know how beneficial Google Sitemaps can be to your blog then read my articles on SEO. Once set up this plugin will inform Google of any changes or additions made to your site automatically. I find this plugin indispensable.

12. Quotes Collection

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I was recommended this by a friend whilst trying to source something that would display a set of testimonial quotes on a client’s website in the sidebar. This does the job magnificently.

13. Google Translator

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A blog knows no boundaries or borders and no doubt if you have a large readership, a sizeable proportion of that readership will not speak English (or whatever you speak) as a first language. You can set the base language and supports multiple languages. Remember, this translator may help but as with all machine translators it’s not perfect and is no substitute for a correctly translated page.

14. PageMash

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If like me you use WP as a CMS to build regular websites then you will no doubt use a lot of pages instead of posts. The Wordpress interface basically sucks when it comes to having to re-order your pages and this plugin rectifies that suckiness. The Ajax interface allows you to drag-and-drop the pages into the order you like, modify the page structure by dragging a page to become a child or parent and toggle the page to be hidden from output. Just what we were looking for!

15. AX Sidebar

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Gives you an extra couple of fields within your post admin. Input a title and some content (this can be HTML or plain text) and the content added will then show in the sidebar whenever that particular post is opened. A great idea.

16. Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin

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If you are a theme designer or just want to give your visitors a choice of themes to choose from when visiting your site, this plugin is for you. Not only can you list the themes in a simple dropdown menu but you can also add a preview thumbnail to make choosing easier. Excellent in its simplicity.

17. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

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I have always been a fan of Akismet and in the past it has graced my Top 10 lists almost every month. I have noticed of late that just too much spam is getting through Akismet, no matter how much I tell Akismet it’s spam, it doesnt seem to learn like it should. So I decided to try out another plugin and I am glad I did. This fully featured anti-spam plugin not only stops comment spam, trackback spam and pingback spam but it also includes its own spam-free contact form. Give it a try.

18. Pageear Page Peel Plugin

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Not a massive fan of page peels, I think they are OK if they aren’t too obtrusive, which they all too often are. Nevertheless they are a tried and tested means of marketing and they are proven to work so I thought I would trial one for Wordpress. I found this one to be best, you can see it in action up in the top left hand corner of the screen (if you haven’t already clicked it!). Simple to set up with clear and comprehensive features. A great plugin.

19. WP-Cumulus

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OK, I’ve succumbed to form over function (very unlike me!). Never been a big fan of Tag Clouds let alone spinny, swirly, pretty ones – but if you like that sort of thing then this is probably your cup of tea. The Author even admits that clicking the tags is a little hard (!?)… I despair.

20. Twitter Widget Pro

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A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how long ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). Requires PHP5.

Check back next month to see which plugins I’m recommending!

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – February 2009

Ant Harper — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:33:58 +0000

I’m not managing much in the way of blogging lately due to a sudden explosion of interest in my Website Design and Development business which is not leaving me with a lot of time spare. Nevertheless, I think I should make the effort to at least keep this, one of my most popular monthly posts, alive and kicking. So here’s my Top 10 Wordpress Plugin roundup for February. Some plugins are the same as previous months, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins. For more great plugins please see Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – January 2009.

If you think there is a plugin worth a mention here or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com. This monthly post does get a lot of traffic so if you are a plugin developer it might be in your best interest to get your latest work reviewed here! I don’t charge a penny…

1. WP Easy Paypal Payment Accept

2. WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

3. WP Thickbox Integration

4. Contact Form 7

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Not the most fully featured contact form plugin out there, but I find this the easiest to implement. Supports Ajax-powered submitting, multiple languages and has its own Captcha to filter out non-human sp@mbots.

5. Google Translator

6. Flipping Book Wordpress Gallery

7. Google XML Sitemaps

8. Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin

9. AX Sidebar

10. Pageear Page Peel Plugin

Check back next month to see which plugins I’m recommending!

Niche Markets and your Business – Part 2

Ant Harper — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:19:52 +0000

In Part 1 we took a look at why you need to find a Niche Market for your business. It helps to focus your marketing and ensures that your chosen market can be targeted and reached effectively. Finding a niche market that suits you personally is equally important and by asking yourself the questions below you will greatly improve your chances of being successful.

Do I know about my niche product or service?

Think about what you are good at. What skills do you have? Have you got any hobbies that you could turn into a product or business? If you don’t have any skills or hobbies that you could use, what would you like to try? Then consider whether this could be turned into a business venture and put aside some time to research the topic thoroughly, eventually leading you to the knowledge to build your own marketing niche in that subject.
By knowing your niche product and service you will ensure that you have the edge over competitors that don’t.

Am I passionate about my niche product or service?

Sometimes knowledge alone is not enough and enjoying what you are doing in your business venture will ensure that you devote the time and attention needed to make things happen. When the chips are down (and profits) you will be more likely to keep going with something you enjoy doing. Anyway, who doesn’t want work to be enjoyable?

Will enough people want my niche product or service?

If you choose a niche market that is too broad in its scope it may be difficult to make your business stand out against all the others in its field. Choose a narrow, highly targeted product and the lack of competitition will mean that anyone searching for that product will find you. Do research into your chosen product or niche and make sure that people are searching for your product by using an online tool such as those listed below.

Google Trends – http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Amazon Bestsellers - http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers
Magazines.com - http://www.magazines.com/
Shopping.com Top Searches – http://www.shopping.com/top_searches
AOL Hot Searches – http://hotsearches.aol.com/

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – January 2009

Ant Harper — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:34:29 +0000

Well here’s the first of my monthly Top 10 Wordpress Plugin roundups of 2009. Some plugins are the same as previous months, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins. For more great plugins please see Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – November 2008.

If you think there is a plugin worth a mention here or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com

1. ‘Branded Admin’ Plugin

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If you are a web designer like myself, you will no doubt have set up a few Wordpress based websites for some of your clients. This plugin enables you to rebrand the /wp-admin pages to follow your own styles. Great if you want to remind your client just who put in all that hard work re-skinning and hacking that theme as they set about trashing your lovely site.

2. ‘Branded Login Screen’ Plugin

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Completely hide the fact that your site is a Wordpress Installation (or at least make it less obvious) with this plugin and the plugin listed previously. Does what it says, allows you to rebrand the login page with your own graphics.

3. GD Star Rating

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Want to put a rating systems on your post content? How about your comments? This nifty plugin allows you to do that and much more. Have statistics generated and displayed in your sidebar by using the GD Star rating widget and have full control over the look and feel of your stars (or whatever graphic you choose!) Looks great too! The author has even put together different star sets for you to upload.

4. Old Post Promoter

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Allows you to promote old posts back to the top position on your home page and back into your RSS feed. The Old Post Promoter randomly chooses a post from posts in your blog and updates the timestamp. When the timestamp on the post is updated, the post will appear to be the latest post on your WordPress blog, returning it to the front page of your blog. Ideal if your blog sin’t going to get updated for a while but has planty of content to keep new visitors interested. **IMPORTANT – DO NOT USE IF YOUR PERMALINK STRUCTURE INCLUDES DATES – UPDATE YOUR PERMALINK STRUCTURE FIRST!**

5. Wordpress Backup

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Something we should all do on a regular basis – backup. This handy plugin backs up your upload (images), current theme, and plugin directories. You can specify a regular scheduled backup that can be then sent to an email address of your choice. PLEASE NOTE: You will still need to make sure your database is backed up seperately!

6. Akismet

Bundled with Wordpress and for good reason. Without a spam blocker such as this your comment queue would be full of trash in no time at all. Requires a Wordpress API key to function. If you haven’t got this plugin activated already, do it now!

7. Google XML Sitemaps

8. My Adsense

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Great plugin that helps you manage the Google Adsense ads that you wish to display on your blog posts or sidebars. Easy to use and fully featured.

9. In the Loop

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Ever needed to add things to the end of every post or page but had to hack the theme to do it? Well if you don’t want the bother or don’t know how then this plugin may be for you. With this plugin you can add any code you like to your posts and pages without ever having to mess with templates or theme files. The plugin provides an options panel with two input boxes. One is for content you want to appear before your post, the other for after it. Each box comes with a set of options to control whether to show it on Teasers, Single Posts, Pages, The Feed and whether or not to execute PHP. Genius.

10. RSS Includes Pages

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And this is STILL at number 10 because I just can’t dispense with this simple plugin. If like me you use Wordpress as a CMS to build websites as well as blogs you will no doubt have found that Pages are not included in the RSS feed. Well, with this plugin your problems are over. Simply install, activate and voila, your pages will appear within the feed.

Check back next month to see which plugins I’m recommending!

Niche markets and your business – Part 1

Ant Harper — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:02:21 +0000

What is a niche market and why do I need to find one?

With recession looming and predicted to last at least the next 2 years, more and more individuals and businesses are quite rightly deciding that now is the time to diversify. I have done it myself, blogging is only a hobby for me and my day-job is running my own Website Design and Development company, but realising that times are going to be tough and bills will still need to be paid, I also run an online store selling videogaming equipment and sell photographic services alongside my Website Design. The choices I made when deciding how to diversify were easy for me, both of these other businesses closely relate to my hobbies (being a keen videogamer and photographer in my spare time) and my Website Design skills enabled me to get them online with considerable ease.

It may not be as simple as that if you decide to start up a new business in your own spare time though and finding a market for a business that is going to be profitable is a tricky thing to do. Many markets are already saturated and getting a foothold and exposure in these markets can be a time consuming and cost-ineffective endeavour.

“Why find a niche market?” I hear you say. “Doesn’t that just limit the people I can sell to?”
Not at all. In fact, finding a niche market and marketing specifically to that niche is one of the most important things to get right in any Internet Marketing Strategy. Once you know who it is you are marketing to it is easy to spend your energy and money on the right things.

Here’s a simplified example:

I am asked by a garden building manufacturer and retailer in Manchester to come up with an Internet Marketing Strategy. They are not selling enough Summer Houses. The first thing I ask them is “Who do you market to?” They tell me “Anyone who wants a Summer House.” Now the chances of someone coming from Birmingham to purchase a garden building in Manchester is slim. So instead of wasting money and time marketing to ‘anyone who wants a Summer House’ I tell them they would be better marketing to “anyone interested in buying a Summer House within 50 miles of Manchester”. By narrowing their niche market down they now know where to spend their time and marketing money and are now at an advantage over the other garden building retailers in the Manchester area who are still selling to ‘anyone who wants a Summer House’.

Finding and defining a niche market before you start any Internet Marketing Strategy is important for the following reasons:

By targeting a clearly defined niche market you will know exactly where to advertise and where to look to find related sites that cater for your market therefore maximising your marketing budget.
You can build a website that caters specifically for your niche market. This makes Search Engine Optimisation easier and enables you to target your niche market effectively via the search engines.
By knowing your niche market, it will be easier to develop new products and services to cater for that market.
With time and effort you can become a market leader in your chosen niche.

Coming in Part 2 – Finding your own niche market

How to build a brand for your business

Ant Harper — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:12:50 +0000

There is much more to branding your business than picking a name and choosing a logo and getting it right is probably one of the most important choices you will make.

A strong brand is a marketer’s dream and makes promotion exponentially easier. In fact, a brand is often just as important as the product itself. For example, what’s the difference between Pepsi cola and generic cola? They’re almost identical in content and yet one does billions of dollars in sales and the other is ignored on store shelves.

Read the full article over at: http://www.winningtheweb.com/build-brand-future-business-depends.php

Top 5 Christmas Wordpress plugins – December 2008

Ant Harper — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:57:12 +0000

OK, so this is a bit of a departure from the usual ’serious’ plugins I blog about. As I have a little of the Christmas spirit in me (mainly Rum) at the moment I thought I would give you a rundown of my Top 5 Christmas plugins for Wordpress. I could only find 5 items, I just couldn’t bring myself to subject my readership to some of the hideous Christmas crap out there on the interweb. For ’serious’ plugins please see Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – November 2008.

If you think there is a plugin worth a mention next month or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com

1. Snowfall Plugin

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Does what it says on the tin really. Lets you have lovely snowflakes falling down your visitors screens and stuff. You specify the graphic you want to use so I suppose this could be a Valentines day plugin (hearts) or anything else you want. Guaranteed to reduce your readership considerably. Use sparingly.

2. ChristmasSprite – Christmas CountDown

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Lets you place a flash banner on your blog that counts down to christmas. See below. Especially useful if your readership regularly lose track of the day they are in and need a reminder.

What your reader might not say: “Really? Great, glad I came here now”.

3. Christmas Days theme

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Not a plugin I know, but out of the Christmas themes available for your beloved Wordpress, this is probably one of the least offensive to your eyeballs.

4. Let it snow!

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Another snowfall plugin I’m afraid. In case you wanted 2. Or have 2 blogs and wanted a different snowfall plugin on each. Whatever.

5. Vermilion Christmas Theme

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I thought this would be easy, but I really struggled to find 5 half-decent items for this post. That fact is reflected here. Enjoy… or not.

Check back next month when normality will resume and there will be useful stuff here instead of all this garbage. Bah humbug!

Oh, and to all of my readers – have a happy Christmas and New Year! I hope Santa brings you a booklet explaining where everything has gone to in WP 2.7.

What is social bookmarking, and why is it important to your business?

Ant Harper — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:14:06 +0000

Social bookmarking is just like bookmarking or “adding to favorites” in your browser. Except it’s not.

When Johnny adds your site to his browser bookmarks, it’s because he values your content and wants to refer back to it later. Hopefully, Johnny will use the same computer and the same browser, because that’s where that information lives.

But if Johnny decides to add your site to a social bookmarking website, a few things happen. Johnny can access your site from any browser and any computer. He can describe why he bookmarked the site, using a title, description and tags. (Interesting fact: the social bookmarking site delicious.com (formerly http://del.icio.us) actually developed the notion of “tagging”.) This can make it easier for him to refer back to later.

So that’s the bookmarking, where does the social come in? Well in addition to being able to access his own bookmarks from anywhere, Johnny can also see what other people are bookmarking, and they can see his bookmarks. Johnny can search by ‘tags’ to find content related to his interests, and see how popular sites are based on how many people have bookmarked them.

Johnny is able to access his own preferred content easily, and discover new content that others have found valuable– social bookmarking is great for individuals’ productivity.

It’s similarily valuable for businesses, for a few reasons.

From a promotional standpoint, Johnny bookmarking a site means others may access it more easily. Social bookmarking sites often have the concept of “friends” or “networks” within which links are more frequently shared.

From a reputation management standpoint, businesses may monitor what is being said about their site, or their competitors. As individuals add their own tags to content, a business may be able to get a better sense of how they are being perceived externally.

Related to social bookmarking sites are social news sites like digg and sphinn. These sites are also driven by individual submission. However, whereas social bookmarking sites were originally intended to provide an individual with a personal space to store information for later retrieval, social news sites are more focused towards promoting timely information to the community.

A subtle difference is that on social news sites, articles may be “demoted” the same way they are “promoted” – the sites assign value based on individual rankings. This is not the case with social bookmarking sites, where each individual has the opportunity to define his own organization of resources.

Getting listed on the front page of digg can drive tremendous traffic to a site, which has resulted in abuse. Some services where people can pay for their stories to be dugg have cropped up, but this is NOT a recommended practice. Digg is intended to be a community, and therefore it is also considered poor etiquette to create a profile solely to submit your own content. If you want support from others, you must support them as well. Indeed, so important is this notion of trust and reputation, there is some sense that only through endorsement by a digg power user will you hit the front page. These power users have built up a following who trust their judgment in what is worthy to be dugg. Spend the time to work within the community or befriend a power user, and you may be amazed at the results.

Sold on the benefits of being bookmarked or dugg? Ready for the wealth of riches that awaits? Here’s some quick tips:

Write good content. The number one way to achieve social success is to write content that is worthy of people wanting to share and save for later.
Make it easy to promote. Many blogs or sites use services like “Add this” or “Share this” to encourage visitors to bookmark or promote the site.
Understand the value of social sharing, and buy into it. if you expect others to bookmark or share your content, you should also be engaging in the same activity. This will help you understand what’s worthy content, and also help create that sense of community.

About the Author

Andrea Hill is the Director of Social Media and Interactive Technology at Worldways Social Marketing. She got her start online nearly a decade ago as a web designer/developer, and has worked with such prolific clients as Procter and Gamble, Limited Brands, ScottsMiracleGro and LexisNexis. She has retired her coding gloves, but continues to contribute to online conversations and blog about web development, Internet marketing and social media at http://www.afhill.com/blog

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – November 2008

Ant Harper — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:47:09 +0000

Here’s my latest offering of what I view to be the best new (or old!) plugins available for Wordpress. Some plugins are the same as on last month’s list, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins. For more great plugins please see Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – October 2008.

If you think there is a plugin worth a mention here or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com

1. Kaltura Interactive Video Player Plugin

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I was asked to review this plugin for my readership by the folks at Kaltura. In a nutshell this plugin allows you to show video on your pages and posts whilst allowing others to add their own videos, comments, annotations and remix and edit existing video. It does lots more besides and is great fun. Read more here.

2. All in One SEO Pack Plugin

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I found this plugin so good I just had to write a review. This plugin will optimise your Wordpress blog so that your posts and pages are indexed more efficiently by the search engines. It is fully featured and lets you single out individual pages for optimisation. Great stuff. Read more here.

3. Wordpress Database Backup

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This one is a long term survivor on these lists because of its importance. I cannot stress enough just how important it is to backup and as a Web Developer I have learned the hard way in the past of the importance of regular backups, not only of your website data itself but also the database. The plugin itself is easy to use with simple backup options including the ability to schedule an email that includes your database backup as an attachment. Genius.

4. Akismet

5. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin

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The purpose of this wordpress plugin is to redirect clicks to your standard blog feed links to your feedburner RSS feeds enabling all subscribers to subscribe to the same thing. Very useful if you still have the standard wordpress RSS links in your theme but don’t want to mess with the code.

6. Max Blog Press Unblockable Popup

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Got a newsletter no-one will subscribe to? No-one noticing your latest product? Ram it down their throats with this unblockable popup plugin. Joking aside, popups are irritating to some but research shows that they increase subscriptions/sales so why not give this free plugin a go?

7. Google XML Sitemaps

8. Wordpress Auto-Tagger

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This nifty little plugin chooses appropriate tags for your posts by looking at whats popular over at Yahoo and comparing search results with your posts content. A big time saver.

9. Redirection

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Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

10. RSS Includes Pages

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Still at number 10 because nothing else does this (as far as I’m aware). If like me you use Wordpress as a CMS to build websites as well as blogs you will no doubt have found that Pages are not included in the RSS feed. Well, with this plugin your problems are over. Simply install, activate and voila, your pages will appear within the feed.