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Love it or hate it, you really should be using Google Analytics on your WordPress site.
Even though the dark overlords at Google have restricted a lot of the data that used to be available in Analytics, it’s still an extremely valuable tool for gathering intelligence on your site visitors. Analytics can show you where they landed, what they read, how long they stayed, what they were searching for, and a heap of other valuable stuff.
Have you noticed how many WordPress themes there are out there that feature massive, panoramic images in the sliders? Or perhaps the featured images require an unusual panoramic ratio. Certainly panoramic images can be stunning and impactful, but how in the world do you find suitable images for such a requirement?
The secret is simple…
The other day I found myself wanting to upload video files directly to a WordPress blog. They were instructional videos and I didn’t want to make them available on the public domain, so I couldn’t simply upload them to YouTube.
There was just one problem – the maximum upload file size in the WordPress media uploader. It was set at 10mb, which wasn’t nearly big enough for the size of the files I was uploading. Sure, I could upload the videos via FTP, but it is a whole lot easier to keep things within the WordPress interface when possible.
The Solution
With the American Presidential election season heating up, candidate’s websites and other relevant news sites are becoming more and more important to the public. The 2008 election demonstrated just how powerful online presence can be to a candidacy, as Facebook and Twitter became major tools for driving information and getting out the vote. Today, more voters are getting their facts from the internet than ever before. Today we’re going to look at 15 WordPress sites from around the world that pertain to political news and campaigns. You’ll be able to see just what WordPress is capable of providing for a high-impact political blog, online magazine or campaign site. Enjoy!
Part 2 of a Series
This post is the second in a series. Yesterday we talked about ”custom fields.”
Today we will go over “custom post types” and also look at how they work together with “custom fields.”
What Are Custom Post Types?
“So when you make up a custom post type and you assign custom fields to it, it can be a good idea to associate a custom taxonomy with it as well.”
Oh! The pain of speaking WordPress!
If that sentence didn’t twist your brain, even just a little, then this post probably isn’t for you. (You’ve obviously already had your brain twisted.)
But if you’re like most of us, then these three terms—custom fields, custom posts types, and custom taxonomies—probably don’t just roll off your tongue at the drop of a plugin.
No, I didn’t make $15,000 from one blog post. But Yasmine Mustafa did. Actually, she’s now made over $17,000 from that one post, and she talked about it at WordCamp Philly and the subsequent video titled, “How I Made $15,000+ From One Blog Post.”
Below is a video of her talk. Because it lasts about forty minutes, I’ve gone through and pulled out some of the major areas she discussed along with notes on each. You will find a time stamp beside the title for each section that marks the approximate place in the video where that section begins.
Effectively utilizing social media is a great way of building traffic. Broadly speaking, there are two strategies that you should follow:
Build up a strong social network of followers to whom you can promote your content
Have people promote your content on your behalf
The effectiveness of the second strategy is contingent upon the first – the stronger your social network is, the more likely that more people will be exposed to your content via your followers’ shares.
I have got a real quick tip for you today, but it is an extremely effective method of boosting traffic to your blog. We are going to leverage the currency of Twitter (tweets) in order to drive traffic.
It is really simple – just publish a post on your blog offering some sort of product (be it an eBook, an audio file, or something else) in return for a tweet promoting that same product. This is easily done with Pay With A Tweet. Simply enter the relevant details, place the code in your post, and this button will appear:
Much like Facebook, Twitter, and countless media outlets, WordPress has a function that allows you to specify how long ago a post was published in days (or hours if it was recently published). So, for example, instead of having your posts say, “Posted on Feb 6, 2012,” you could have them say, “Posted 6 days ago.”
Or, you could have say both.
How to Do It
