Create An Online Media Library
September 26, 2009
I wrote a post a while ago on how to use the WP Download Monitor Plugin to organise and display downloadable files on your WordPress website. The latest version of this awesome plugin by Mike Jolley goes another step further by allowing you to create a dedicated Downloads Page. [Read more]
Social Media Plugins to Spread Your Words
September 10, 2009
The internet today is all about easy access to information. By adding social media buttons to the posts on your website, you ensure that your readers can share/spread your information easily by whatever means they prefer – whether it be by email, Twitter, Facebook, Digg etc.
How many times have you read a blog post or online article and thought ‘I must tell a friend to read that’ or ‘I must share that with my customers/subscribers’? With a WordPress website, you can easily add social media buttons by adding a simple plugin to your site. Here are my 2 favourite social media plugins and how to add them to your website…
1. Sociable Plugin by Yoast
This plugin gives you a huge number of social networking sites to choose from as well as:
Email this Post- Print this Post
- PDF this Post (great for backing up your posts or offering an alternative delivery method)
Download the Sociable Plugin (You should be able to do this inside your WordPress admin by going to Plugins/Add new and searching for sociable).
Once you have uploaded the plugin to your plugins folder and activated it, go to the Sociable settings page which will appear under your admin Settings menu.
- Tick the buttons you would like to appear on your website and drag them to the top of the stack in the order you would like them to display.
- Enter the wording you would like above them in the Tagline box
- Tick what type of pages you would like them to appear on (I usually choose posts only but if you have a large site with lots of pages of info, you might also tick pages)
- Tick the open in new window box and save your changes. [Read more]
