WP Plugins

Creating Sales Letters Using WP Themes

September 15, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

If you are doing business online, chances are you have heard about "squeeze", "landing" and "sales" pages. If you have connected with an online entrepreneur, chances are you probably landed on one of the pages mentioned above, promoting that person's program, ebook etc. You know the ones, they nearly always have a button that looks something like the image at left. The reason you see so many squeeze and sales pages with a similar design and content layout, is because they work! Period! If you have a Wordpress blog/site, I bet you're wondering just how you can create effective sales, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Creating Content, eCommerce, Monetize Your Blog, WP For Business, WP Plugins, WP Themes Tagged With: blog marketing, e-business, landing page, sales letter, squeeze page

Coming Soon Plugin for WordPress

September 10, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

Did I tell you that one of my favorite things is researching and trying out Wordpress Plugins? Did you know that there is a plugin for almost every conceivable feature you need for your Wordpress blog/site? Today's featured plugin is CJ Coming Soon. This plugin shows a 'Custom Coming Soon' page to all users who are not logged in. However, one of the kewl features of this plugin makes it possible for Site Administrators to see the fully functional website, including themes, active plugins and the fully functional dashboard once they are logged in. Some other kewl features of … [Read more...]

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Connect Your Blog to Social Media

August 24, 2010 By Your WP Diva 6 Comments

Are you using Social Media Plugins on your blog? If not, you are missing a great opportunity to have your content shared with just a click of a mouse! Thanks to some really smart developers that there are tons of great plugins that make it easy for you to encourage your readers to share your content via social networks. Here is a list of my favorites: Simple Facebook Connect: Simple Facebook Connect (SFC) is a group of plugins that let you add a variety of Facebook Connect functionality to your Word then, each of the add-on plugins will let you add specific Facebook-related … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facebook, Linked In, Social Media, Twitter, WP Plugins, You Tube Tagged With: cute profiles, disqus, sexy bookmarks, simple Facebook connect, social media plugins, WordPress Twitter badge

How to install a WordPress plugin

August 17, 2010 By Your WP Diva 1 Comment

If you've used Wordpress, or even if you haven't, it's likely that you have heard the term Plugins for Wordpress. The question is: just what is a plugin??? In a nutshell, Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. WordPress was designed to be simple, clean and, to maximize flexibility and minimize code. Plugins provide custom functions and features so that you can tailor your blog/site to your preferences. There are a ton of plugins available, mostly free, created by volunteers. I think it is safe to say there is probably a plugin for everything you want to do on your … [Read more...]

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My favorite WordPress plugins – at the moment!

August 6, 2010 By Your WP Diva Leave a Comment

My latest fascination is with Plugins for Wordpress. And, thanks to the talented developers out there, there are a lot of plugins to choose from. Here is a list of my fav five at the moment: Exclude pages from navigation: This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WP Plugins Tagged With: contact form plugin, exclude page plugin, span free plugin, wordpress plugins

1 Shopping Cart Plugin

July 26, 2010 By Your WP Diva 3 Comments

Did you know that 1Shopping Cart now has a plug in for Wordpress that lets you create forms right from within your Wordpress dashboard? No need to go back and forth to create forms from your 1Shopping Cart account. It's easy to install, just like most Wordpress plugins, and it can save you a lot of time. Here are the key features : Easy to Install and setup Full design flexibility with HTML enabled text areas Display standard of custom fields Ability to offer multiple sign-up lists Controlled flow and Custom thank you page To install: Find your 1SC merchant account ID as you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: eCommerce, WP Plugins Tagged With: e-commerce, shopping cart