WordPress Weekly Round Up – 19 May 2013

Free WordPress Plugins

As always the WordPress community has had their thinking caps on this week to create WordPress plugins that are not only useful but also free.

As usual with the round up, I’m only highlighting plugins that would be particularly useful to internet marketers using WordPress as their CMS.

If you are not a code king/queen you may appreciate the ease that you can add a scroll to the top action on your … Read More

include specific pages in rss feed

Include Selected Pages in RSS Feed

Often you might want to include pages that are updated in your RSS feed. You might have a testimonials page, services page or portfolio that is constantly updated for your visitors.

Most feeds generated for WordPress are for posts.   This is great if you have a blog that is constantly updated but it’s not good for those that have a blog and a static site or a static site that is updated.

The good news … Read More

amazon product research plugin

WordPress Weekly Round Up – 12 May 2013

There’s some great new plugins in the WordPress repository this week for internet marketers. However, internet marketer developer types have been a bit slow this week at enticing us with premium plugins. There’s not a lot to talk about on the premium side of things so let’s get it over and done with quick smart :)

Let’s look at the premium plugins first.

Premium Plugins

Magic Sales Page – It seems that sales pages are all … Read More

different themes on different parts of your blog

Multiple Themes on One WordPress Installation

Years ago I wrote a post on using different themes on different pages. That post is now out of date because nowadays we can have different themes on different posts/pages and core pages like Category/Archive and Home.

Multiple Themes WordPress Plugin

The reason that we have more control over our sites is because of the new multiple themes WordPress plugin.

Why would you want a different theme on a page/post?

You might like to … Read More

memes plugin

WordPress Weekly Round Up – 5 May 2013

What a pain this week has been!

toothAs some of you know I had emergency root canal surgery last week. Turns out my nasty habit of clenching my teeth cracked a tooth in a few places. The root canal was no big deal – I have no fears of the dentist.

The dentist told me all would be good by that night and I would be back to normal the next day. He then set … Read More

ip neighbourhood review

IP Neighbourhood Review

I seen people talking about a new website called IP Neighbourhood on Facebook the other day and I was a little curious to see what it was all about.

The front page of the site tells me that this service provides “competitive intelligence services to businesses”.

Sounds a bit high brow :) but that’s exactly what it does.

The site has a low cost day trial which is a good enough reason to sign up and … Read More

wordpress pop up plugin

WordPress Weekly Round Up – 28 April 2013

What have the plugin and theme developers brought us this week?

It seems like plugin developers have been on a google plus bender! It also seems that the scare mongering continues with a lot of new WordPress “security” plugins/reports being generated for sale. Again, I am NOT going to review any of them.

Free WordPress plugins

Selective Loading Plugin – this nifty little plugin helps make your blog faster which is good news!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/selective-loading/

It … Read More