WordPress Tutorials about WordPress Plugins
Reviews of the best Wordpress Plugins to add functionality to your WordPress website or blog plus step by step instructions and marketing ideas on how to use them.
Design a Form for Your Sidebar
January 23, 2012
A form at the top of your sidebar is not only highly visible on every page but also provides a quick and easy way for customers to get in touch. 
Forms like:
- Join Our Email Newsletter
- Ask a Question
- Request a Consultation
- Ask about this product
- Download our FREE Guide
- Login to WordPress/Create an Account
- Register for Event
Entice customers to get in touch before they have a chance to click somewhere else or leave your website entirely.
In this tutorial, you will learn to:
- Add a Gravity Form to your sidebar
- Add a hidden field to show which page/post your form was submitted from
- Change the background and border color of your submit button
- PLUS see examples of effective sidebar forms
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User Notifications on Gravity Forms
November 11, 2011
Forms mean potential customers but you have to give visitors a reason to fill your forms in.
If you have fantastic, well-known product, you might get away with just a form with a ‘thank you form your interest’ message on submission. However, you might want to offer an extra incentive for filling in your form like a free download or discount code.
Gravity Forms user notifications options include:
- on-screen confirmations which appear the instant your form is submitted
- redirects to another web page with special instructions or files
- Email notifications with a custom message/instructions or download link
Customising your notifications with merge tags (information pulled automatically from your from fields) can make each notification unique and personal. Eg. You could add the user’s first name at the top, the name of the product they were interested in and the name of your nearest branch as part of your message.
Keep reading to find out how to setup on-screen notifications, redirects and email notifications as well as using merge tags for personalisation and adding download links. Try filling in a test form to see what notification you get. Get tips on making your forms more effective,in my previous tutorial.
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User Submitted Online Directory
October 17, 2011
There is a free addon for Gravity Forms which allows you to turn one of your online forms into a directory you can publish elsewhere on your website.
This is perfect for Membership lists, local business directories, book lists, practitioner directories, job listings, feature request lists and any other type of online directory. Use Cart66 to collect payment in return for listing on your directory.
The fields in your form become the fields in your directory but you can choose which fields show initially before clicking through to see all the information for each record. You can set the form to only publish to the directory once approved by an administrator. Alternatively you could put the form and directory into a member only section of your website.
Keep reading to find out how to setup your submission form, decide what appears in the directory and customise the look of your directory. You can also submit to and view a live directory as part of this tutorial and find out how to combine this plugin with Cart66 to create a Pay to List Directory.
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Create Custom Landing Pages in WordPress
September 13, 2011
A landing page is a webpage with a single focus which helps close your sale. Landing pages also allow you to focus your page titles and meta information for the best possible search engine optimisation for your key phrase.
This is the sort of page you want people responding to your advertising to land on rather than your homepage. Landing pages bypass your website layout so there is as little distraction as possible.
Common uses for landing pages:
Generate a newsletter signup, Sell a single product, Generate enquiries about a single property, Sell tickets to a special event, Introduce a product to a particular target market.
The Max Landing plugin lets you create custom landing pages from inside your WordPress admin choosing from a whole variety of different layouts including forms, photos and video. Keep reading to find out how…
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iPhone App Icon for your Mobile Website
August 17, 2011
Turn your website into an app so iPhone/iPad users can save your website to the Home Screen of their mobile (where all the apps icons sit) making it easy to visit your site again with just one click.
You can also create and upload your own custom icon and add a message encouraging people to add your website to their Home Screen.
The WP Touch plugin lets you create a version of your website with the layout and content optimised for mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. Read my tutorial on how to setup a Mobile Friendly Website with the WP Touch plugin…
Keep reading to find out how to create your own custom bookmark icon, add it to your WP Touch mobile theme and how to activate and customise the App section.
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One SignUp Form, Many Newsletters
July 18, 2011
Gravity Forms has a great little MailChimp Add-on which lets you use a gravity form as your email signup form. You link the form to your newsletter list and subscribers are automatically added to your database. You can include a drop down field or check boxes on your form giving subscribers a choice of newsletters. Each option sends their details to a specific MailChimp list.
You Can Offer Your Subscribers
- different categories of content (eg. beginners tutorials vs advanced tutorials)
- different sending frequencies (eg. daily vs monthly)
- specific information (eg. workshops, shop products, special offers etc)
- Newsletters customised to your subscribers interests.
There is no reason why you couldn’t have a different newsletter for each of your blog categories but I tend to think 2 or 3 options is best. Although your content is pulled into an RSS campaign automatically, there is no reason why you can’t customise each newsletter’s sidebar, section above the posts or header with a personal message, special offers and supporting info.
Some of the other benefits of creating your signup form this way are:
- You can gather all sorts of other info when people subscribe
- You can add a newsletter subscribe check box to other forms like your enquiry form
Keep reading to find out how to create a signup form with more than one newsletter option linking to different mailing lists in MailChimp.
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Send Posts to Multiple Twitter Accounts
June 27, 2011
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.
WordTwit Pro also lets you customise the wording on your tweet, add hashtags and even schedule when the tweet should send. This means you can publish your post at anytime but make sure the tweet linking to your post doesn’t go out until first thing in the morning when your followers are checking their accounts. You can publish as many times as you like and even tweet old posts.
NOTE: Only the paid version ($39) lets you publish to multiple accounts.
Keep reading to find out how to setup WordTwit Pro to send to one or multiple Twitter Accounts.
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Keep Forms Short – Conditional Fields
June 22, 2011
Keep certain fields on your forms hidden until a particular option is selected on another part of the form. This keeps your forms short and uncomplicated but still gathers all the information you require. This is easy to do with Gravity Forms by adding a conditional statement to any of your form fields. You don’t have to know any coding or computer speak – I promise.
You might want to use this functionality to:
- Only show Address fields if someone selects ‘delivery’ rather than ‘pickup’
- Only show ‘more info’ field if someone selects ‘other’ from a list of options
- Only show product specific fields if someone selects that product from a list
Keep reading to find out how to add conditional fields and see examples of conditional fields in use.
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WordPress Websites Get Mobile
May 28, 2011
The WPtouch Pro Plugin lets you create a mobile friendly version of your WordPress website so when people access your website using their iphone, ipad etc, they see your information and graphics easily on their small screen and can quickly navigate to other areas of your website.
Some of the features that set this plugin apart from other mobile plugins are:
- You can choose which page users see first so you can create a special homepage just for mobile users
- You can easily upload your logo to appear at the top of every page
- You can select a custom menu showing just the pages and categories you want
- Use your featured images/thumbnails as icons on pages and posts
- Upload custom icons for your menu as well as using the preloaded selection
Keep reading to find out how to use this plugin, what to put on your mobile website, how to add the features listed above and examples of other websites using this plugin.
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How to Improve Your Website Forms
May 10, 2011
Online forms should make life easier for your customer and your business and are a great tool to add value to your website.
There are a lot of ways you can improve your online forms so they are more intuitive, better formatted and (most importantly) more likely to be filled in by a potential customer.
Keep reading to find out which fields to use when and how to make your website forms more user friendly…
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