Where to put ‘Read More’

March 26, 2009

By using the ‘Read More’ tag well on your blog posts, you will get more subscribers clicking through to your website from their email newsletter and will improve the chances of your readers finding what they need when searching your website using categories or tags. [Read more]

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Sell Personalised Products with WP E-Commerce

March 17, 2009

Although the WordPress E-Commerce plugin is essentially an off-the-shelf shopping cart, you can setup numerous complicated variations including allowing your customers to write a personal message and upload a photo.

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Allow Customers to Upload a Photo

This e-commerce function could save you a lot of extra time if you:
  • Sell advertising – customers can upload logos and images for their ad
  • Print photos onto products
  • Provide expertise based on a visual
  • Creative agencies – web designers, graphic designers, artists, PR companies

Instructions for adding this functionality to a product in your e-commerce shop.
  1. Login to your WordPress website and click on the E-Commerce button
  2. Click on Products in the submenu.
  3. Select the Product you want to have this functionality.
  4. On the right side of the page, scroll down until you see the Advanced Options section.
  5. Tick the box next to “Users can upload images at checkout.
  6. Click on the Edit button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

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Creating HTML Email Templates

March 9, 2009

The Post Notification Plugin for WordPress allows you to customise the look and feel of the email newsletter your subscribers receive through the use of templates.

You can choose templates in different languages, text only templates, html templates or can customise an html template of your own to reflect your branding and website’s look and feel. [Read more]

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Protected: Password Protected Test Post

March 2, 2009

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Password Protect Your Blog Posts

March 2, 2009

If you are keen to charge people to subscribe to your blog posts or to write some blog posts which only subscribers can see, WordPress’ “password protect” feature makes it easy to manage.

To see an example of a password protected post, visit http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2009/03/password-protected-test-post/. The password is test. [Read more]

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