Create Simple WordPress Terms of Service With This Plugin

by Seth Czerepak October 28^th, 2012 Leave a comment

We all want to succeed at our businesses. We want our customers to trust us, and we want them to come back in the future. We want to make a good, lasting impression on them.

At the same time, your business deserves solid legal protection. Without a valid Terms of Service agreement, you may be left liable should a customer have a complaint. Having clearly defined terms of service on your website is also a good move if you’re trying to win the trust of everyone’s favorite search engine (that would be Google BTW).

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Know Your Traffic Simply and Easily with WP Slim Stat

by Seth Czerepak October 27^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Knowing your traffic sources at your WordPress site is absolutely vital if you want to succeed at having a business or a blog. WP Slim Stat offers you comprehensive data on your traffic sources in an easy-to-use interface.

Step 1: Install
It’s simple. Click Plugins -> Add New and search for Slimstats. The result will show as WP Slim Stat. Install and activate, and you’re ready to use it.
Step 2: Check your Stats
You’ll find Slim Stat as a part of the Dashboard. You have the following data sets to work with:

Right Now
Overview
Visitors
Content
Traffic Sources
World Map
Custom Reports

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NaNoWriMo WordPress Plugins: Keep Track of Your Novel Writing Progress

by Joe Foley October 27^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Every year in the month of November, a challenge takes place that thousands of writers from all across the globe participate in – National Novel Writing Month, more commonly known as NaNoWriMo.

The idea is simple – write at least 50,000 words on a novel between November 1 and November 30.

If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo, then you may want to either let others know about your progress on an already existing WordPress blog, or you may even want to set up a WordPress site in order to make your work public.

In either case, we have a few plugins that may help.

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Improving Plugin Coding Standards in WordPress Plugins

by Tom Ewer October 26^th, 2012 1 Response

If you are a regular WPMU reader you may have read my rant on plugin usability back in May. Whist I am no developer, I think it is safe to say that the kind of inconsistencies we see with in certain plugins’ user interfaces often walk hand in hand with poor coding standards.

Not only that, but poor coding standards can lead to a raft of even greater issues such as resource intensive processes, incompatibilities, and security vulnerabilities.

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Introducing WP Recycle: A Recycling Program for Abandoned WordPress Plugins

by Sarah Gooding October 25^th, 2012 Leave a comment

The Velveteen Rabbit once had a shiny coat, bright button eyes, and a boy that loved it very, very much. But after years of wear and tear, it grew shabby and didn’t look so good anymore. It wished that someday it would be a real live rabbit, bright and shiny once again.

Maybe you once had a “Velveteen Rabbit” WordPress plugin: a plugin that filled a purpose that nothing else could, a bright and shiny plugin that you loved intensely for a while, only to watch it fall into disrepair and grow shabby and un-maintained.

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The No-Tricks Approach to Increasing User Engagement on Your WordPress Blog

by Tom Ewer October 24^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Forgive me for my cynicism, but if something seems too good to good to be true, it usually is.

The blogosphere is littered with silver bullets for everything from boosting traffic to making money from your blog. But for the most part it comes back to a simple process of learning and persistence.

The No-Tricks Approach to Increasing User Engagement on Your WordPress Blog

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How To Finance Your Site With Micro-donations

by Matthew Tschoegl October 23^rd, 2012 Leave a comment

Every time you go to the coffee shop nowadays, you will see a tip jar next to the register. Why do the baristas put it out there? Because they know that people are more willing to give a little bit a lot of the time than to give a lot once. If the barista were to ask me for a $35 dollar donation, they would be very lucky to get it out of my hands. But when I buy a cup of coffee each morning for $1.86, hand over $2.00, and then drop the remaining $0.14 in the tip jar, that is exactly what I am doing.

WordPress MicroDonation Plugins That Meet Your Needs.

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The latest version of our ‘Snapshot’ WordPress backup plugin is amazing

by James Farmer October 23^rd, 2012 20 Responses

If you haven’t already, you should take a look at our stunning Snapshot WordPress Backup plugin, it’ll completely blow your socks off.

No need to spend a fortune every month on VaultPress, BackupBuddy or some other expensive third party backup service when you can just use Snapshot and Dropbox :)

Oh, and did we mention this WordPress backup plugin works with Multisite. Yep. Multisite!
Here’s some of the backup goodness that you get with Snapshot…
Create as many ‘Time Machine’ snapshots of you entire database (or individual tables) as you want

Select as many, or as few, database tables as you like

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Integrate Google Analytics with Your WordPress Dashboard

by Seth Czerepak October 20^th, 2012 3 Responses

Take advantage of the full power of Google Analytics with Google Analytics Dashboard to unleash your site’s full potential. The WordPress Plugin is easy to setup and start using.

You will need:

A Google Analytics Account
Google Analytics Dashboard Installed on your Site

Step 1: Configuring Google Analytics Dashboard
After installing the plugin, click Settings -> Google Analytics Dashboard. This will take you to the configuration process, as shown below.

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WordPress Ad Plugins That Go Beyond The Banner

by Matthew Tschoegl October 19^th, 2012 Leave a comment

As anyone who has put AdSense on their website recently can attest, it is becoming harder and harder to get people to click on ads. Once upon a time, you could just throw up a couple of banners and the clicks would come running in. Then people got savvier and you had to figure out how to insert ads to work better with your theme and content. But now, visitors’ eyes glide over even the best-placed ads and thousands of impression can go by without one measly click.