Easy to install plugin that adds a Like on Facebook button to your posts. Has lots of configuration options in the admin section. Ability to add the like box at the top or the bottom of the post. Also gives you the option of adding like button to WordPress pages too. Continue Reading »
I have been wanting to add threaded comments to the blog so that is possible to reply to a specific comment rather than the whole chain of comments. In the past I had used the Brian’s Threaded Comment’s Plugin. There have been some changed to WordPress with 2.7 and 2.8 and Brian’s plugin has some been updated since 2008. I started to search for another solution but I couldn’t find a plugin that didn’t require me to make changes to the template.
A friend suggested Disqus as a solution. Disqus is a service outside of WordPress that allows people to create a profile which can be used whenever they leave comments on a blog that has Disqus – you don’t have to have a Disqus plugin to leave a comment on a blog with Disqus. Continue Reading »
Image via CrunchBase, source unknownTracking your traffics is a key part of understanding and improving your website. Google Analytics is a free and easy tool to track your traffic and website statistics. Click here to read the post about Google Analytics.
There are 2 steps to getting started with Google Analytics – 1. set up an account at Google Analytics. 2. Add the tracking code to your website. Step 1 is easy. Step 2 can get a little tricky. In the past I have just added the analytics code to my wordpress theme, but then when I change the theme, I always forget to add the analytics code to the new theme.
A possible solution – A wordpress plugin for Google Analytics - Google Analyticator. The Google Analyticator is a plug that lets you add your google code once and it updates all of your templates for you. According to WordPress.org – 47,000+ people have already downloaded this plugin. I have installed it on this blog and a few others – so far so good.
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EasyRedirect is a helpful plugin that lets your create an existing webpage. I used this plugin on IheartPGH to create a link to the IheartPGH Shop. The links across the top of the website are all pages in my website. I wanted to add a link to the shop. The Easy Redirect plugin makes this easy to do. I have also used this plugin to create a link to a category of the blog. For example if you wanted a menu link to all the blog posts about events – just create a page named events and then redirect to the events category of the blog.