http://www.creative-web-ideas.com Custom designed Wordpress websites and blogs plus WordPress articles and tutorials. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/social-media-plugin-buttons/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/social-media-plugin-buttons/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:20:55 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1377 Preview tutorial... ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/social-media-plugin-buttons/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-in-mailchimp-e-newsletter/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-in-mailchimp-e-newsletter/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:57:53 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6008 Showing your latest Facebook Business page updates on your email newsletter means that your valuable tips and conversations reach your loyal newsletter subscribers and customers on your mailing list instead of being lost. Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-in-mailchimp-e-newsletter/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-on-website-newsletter/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-on-website-newsletter/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:30:22 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5904 Add your Facebook updates to your website's homepage or sidebar. If you feel like some of your most useful tips and conversations happen on your Facebook Business Page, then this is a good way to ensure that they reach a wider audience and that website visitors are converted into Facebook followers. Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/facebook-updates-on-website-newsletter/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-facebook-updates-from-your-blog/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-facebook-updates-from-your-blog/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:37:05 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5217 The FacePress II plugin sends your blog posts to your Facebook profile or Facebook Business page as soon as you publish them. Individual blog authors can setup to send to their own Facebook pages and you can customise the format of your updates.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-facebook-updates-from-your-blog/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:11:03 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4858 As well as sending your WordPress posts to your company twitter account automatically, the Wordtwit Pro plugin allows your blog authors to also send their posts to their own twitter accounts so you can tweet one post many times.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/how-to-get-a-facebook-username/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/how-to-get-a-facebook-username/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 03:20:07 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4391 Once you get 25 fans on your Facebook business page, you can get a proper username. This means that instead of having a string of letters and numbers in your Facebook address, you can just have www.Facebook.com/businessname. So much easier for people to remember and looks way better when listed on business cards and in email signatures.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/how-to-get-a-facebook-username/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/newsletter-signup-form-on-facebook/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/newsletter-signup-form-on-facebook/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:05:07 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4216 If you have a Facebook business page, you can add a MailChimp signup form so people can signup to your email newsletter directly from Facebook. This is also a fantastic and professional way to run a special Facebook competition or promotion with customised signup form, autoresponders etc. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/newsletter-signup-form-on-facebook/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/embed-youtube-videos-in-wordpress/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/embed-youtube-videos-in-wordpress/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:52:53 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4165 WordPress makes it easy to embed YouTube videos in a Page/Post as well as in a widgetized section like your sidebar or homepage. However, if you don't do it the right way your video code will probably disappear completely the next time you go to edit your page. You can also create a YouTube playlist (a collection of video clips) and embed this on your website.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/embed-youtube-videos-in-wordpress/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:16:24 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3033 Using the flickrRSS plugin means you can have your most recent Flickr images or your Flickr group's most recently submitted photos displaying across your homepage, in your website banner, in your sidebar or any other location on your website. This is an easy way to keep your website looking fresh and interesting and (if using the Flckr group option) to build a community.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:44:34 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2655 Use the PollDaddy plugin for WordPress to add a survey to your website quickly and easily. Find out what they think about your products, what they want to know more about and a host of other questions. You can have the survey results instantly visible to everyone or just to yourself from inside your WordPress admin.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/feed/ 5 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/let-readers-create-a-watchlist-of-favourite-posts/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/let-readers-create-a-watchlist-of-favourite-posts/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:29:32 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2501 The 'My Favourite Posts' plugin lets your audience save a list of their favourite posts with one click. They can then login at any time and view their list as well as add/delete items. When you have hundreds of tutorials, property listings, shopping cart items and other types of blog posts on your website, it becomes more and more difficult to ensure that your readers can find the post they need quickly and easily.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/let-readers-create-a-watchlist-of-favourite-posts/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:53:05 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2280 Linking your Flickr account to your WordPress blog means you can turn each new Flickr image into a blog post without even leaving Flickr. Just create a photo category on your website and make it the default category, add your blog to Flickr, then click on the 'Blog This' button above any of your images to create a new post. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/feed/ 3 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordtube-embed-media-player-wordpress/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordtube-embed-media-player-wordpress/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:42:17 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2198 Wordtube is a WordPress plugin which works with the JW Flash Video Player allowing you to embed videos, music and other media files on your website. It is easy to use and looks clean and professional. Website visitors can view the files without leaving your website or having to download any special software.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordtube-embed-media-player-wordpress/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/screenshots-notes-blog-visuals/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/screenshots-notes-blog-visuals/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:51:40 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2021 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/screenshots-notes-blog-visuals/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/subscribe-to-comments-plugin/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/subscribe-to-comments-plugin/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:34:22 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1979 The Subscribe to Comments plugin adds an option to your comments form so that readers can receive email notification of any comments added to a post they are interested in. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/subscribe-to-comments-plugin/feed/ 7 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-a-facebook-page/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-a-facebook-page/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:14:45 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1664 I recently realised that my business needed a Facebook Page rather than a regular account on Facebook. There are lots of reasons to do this but these 3 motivated me most: 1)So people could see the page without logging into Facebook first and so that I could link directly to that page from my website, 2)So that people could become fans without needing me to approve them first, 3) So that there would be no restriction on the number of fans I could have in the future.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-a-facebook-page/feed/ 9 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tweetbeep-twitter-alert/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tweetbeep-twitter-alert/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:13:16 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1437 Twitter alerts email you hourly or daily to show you converstions involving your choosen words or phrases.TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter. You can click on anything to see more updates from the twitterer, reply or retweet. See sample email below.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tweetbeep-twitter-alert/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-a-video-blog/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-a-video-blog/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:38:37 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1381 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-a-video-blog/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-retweet-plugin-custom-urls/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-retweet-plugin-custom-urls/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:52:28 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1178 One of the most popular uses of Twitter is to share links to great websites or blog posts you have read. By adding a ReTweet button to the top of each of your blog posts, you encourge your readers to share your post with other Twitter users.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-retweet-plugin-custom-urls/feed/ 5 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/put-a-face-to-your-comments/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/put-a-face-to-your-comments/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:45:00 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1018 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/put-a-face-to-your-comments/feed/ 8