http://www.creative-web-ideas.com Custom designed Wordpress websites and blogs plus WordPress articles and tutorials. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:55:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're promoting events, courses, workshops, timetables or online seminars etc on your website, then a calendar is a 'must-have'. There are a lot of WordPress calendar plugins out there but my favourite is the Calendar Plugin by Kieran O'Shea. Not only does it display a great looking calendar on any page/post you can also include a widget to show upcoming events in your sidebar or a widget to show today's events in your sidebar.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/07/online-calendar-with-upcoming-events/ 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/index.php/2010/07/let-readers-create-a-watchlist-of-favourite-posts/ Wordpress and real estate are a match made in heaven especially when you start with a WordPress theme made especially for Real Estate like the AgentPress theme from StudioPress. Find out more about multiple categories, easy photo uploading, multiple authors and access levels, superior search engine optimisation and ways to automatically promote your listings.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/06/wordpress-theme-for-real-estate/ On large websites where posts are listed under many different categories, it makes sense for readers to be able to search several categories at once to narrow down their search. The Multiple Category Selector Widget is perfect for Real Estate, Car Dealers and any website with a lot of blog posts (like mine).]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/06/multiple-category-search-box/ Frequently Asked Questions pages are difficult to handle well. They tend to be long which means readers have to scroll a lot. The Expanding Text Plugin from DagonDesign lets you hide the answer until someone clicks on the question. Your page looks clean and organised and your answers are easy to find.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/05/expanding-text-for-faq-pages/ The Gravity Forms Plugin for WordPress works for almost any form you can dream up, is unbelievably easy to use and has so many extra features I am planning several articles dedicated to this plugin. You do have to pay for this plugin but the $39 is well worth it.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/05/online-forms-plugin-for-wordpress/ MailChimp lets you setup daily, weekly or monthly e-newsletters which send automatically containing summaries of your blog posts. It is all done using their 'RSS to Email' function (Translation: Blog Posts to Email Newsletter).]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/05/wordpress-posts-to-e-newsletter/ 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/index.php/2010/04/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/ 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/index.php/2010/04/wordtube-embed-media-player-wordpress/ The new Genesis theme framework from StudioPress has widgetised not only the sidebar but also the entire homepage and even the right hand side of the header. This means that you create your homepage layout by dragging a combination of different widgets into the various homepage sections in the Presentation section of your website admin. For example, if the theme's homepage layout is split into top left, top right and bottom, you just drag widgets into each of these areas.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/04/flexible-homepage-layouts-genesis/