Saturday, February 15, 2014

How to make WordPress Sociable?

Register or comment on a WordPress blog is simple to do using social networks is even better...
Allow your visitors to comment Sign And With The Social Network Of Their Choice.

How to make WordPress Sociable?

The Social Login Plugin

Allow your visitors to comment and login with social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Paypal, LinkedIn, OpenID, Google, etc..

Installation: Download the Social Login plugin and install it. You will see a new menu on your left bar "Social Login", click and start the configuration.

Install Your API Key

API: Application Programming Interface, sites like Google, Facebook and many others allow programmers to access their database. To ensure that nobody uses this feature maliciously, these sites control access by providing said key API (the equivalent of a password).

This plugin is managed by Oneall.com, so you must register in advance to get the API key to enter the setup screen plugin. Registration is free and very simple (installation step-by-step), you must add the URL of your site and other necessary details, then you will get your API key.


Once the API key obtained, return to the plugin parameters and click "Verify API Settings".


Select Social Networks Authorized

Always on the plugin parameters, select the social networks you want to set up your blog.


Finish to complete the basic settings, such as the use of the plugin on the login page, the text to display, use in the comments or not, etc..


Conclusion

You can use Social Login for registration, connection and feedback from your visitors. Note that a widget and a shortcode are also provided with the plugin to place the plugin anywhere on your blog.

This plugin is a great solution if you want to facilitate social interaction on your blog. The text "Powered by OneAll" can be removed from the site settings Oneall.com.

Since the "Screen Options" tab in the "Users" menu, it is possible to add an extension to whether a new user is registered on your blog via Social Login.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

5 +1 Google+ Plugins for WordPress

Google+ is affirmed and this is only the beginning, so rather than miss the boat, here is a list of 5 +1 Google Plus plugins for WordPress.

Google+ Comments For WordPress

Update v1.4.2 plugin for this excellent comments via Google+ and offers commenting using Tabs: Google+, Facebook, Disqus, etc., while keeping the native WordPress comment system and old ... Excellent! See here


Floating Social Media Icon

A nice little plugin that allows you to add share buttons with a neat and highly customizable design. See here


Google Plus Favicon

This plugin uses the image of your Google+ profile to create a favicon for your website. See here


WP Google Authorship

You want your information and your profile picture appear in Google SERPs? Use Google Authorship


Crossposting Google+

To publish public activities of your Google Plus account directly on your website. Like the existing plugins for Twitter and Facebook, Google Plus discover Crossposting


WP Google Plus Connect

This plugin allows your visitors to sign up more easily on your website directly using their Google+ account. See here


Google+ has recently changed its look, strengthening its position as challenger to FaceBook and above all it is the work of giant Google. All good reasons not to neglect...

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Widgets that you should put in your Sidebar

Sidebar or Sidebar is omnipresent on WordPress sites staple of blogs, a simple look on the right of this article and you will see all kinds of widgets.

WordPress sidebars are very popular especially because of their great flexibility. You can put just about anything and anything (images, text, stream, pub, etc). The problem is that too many blogs abuse this freedom and end up with dozens of widgets next to their content, to the point of drowning it in a mass of pubs and other calls to action ...

By having this pitfall in mind, today exploring the most popular elements of sidebar encountered when browsing through blogs and make a judgment about the practical value of each.

Begin by seven widgets that you should take into consideration and six that you should absolutely avoid ...

Useful Widgets To Your Sidebar

Bio From the Author

Considered the essential widget Bio of the author of this blog is usually its brand identity. On the web and generally in blogging, it is important that people recognize you and know who you are.

To install a mini bio nothing more simple, use the WordPress text widget then open a new section, create your content in "visual mode" and switch to "text" mode and copy / paste all the text widget.

Subscribe Newsletter

The newsletter is an important widgets on your blog, collect the email addresses of your readers an advantage. Therefore placing this entry prominently is paramount. On this blog, this entry is at the bottom of each article, the results are almost identical or even better at the top of the Sidebar.

I highly recommend the Plugin Newsletter Wysija, simple, effective and French.

Recommended items/Popular

View a list of your most popular items in the sidebar is considered by some as evidence. And in theory, they are right, but I think there are good and bad ways to do it.

Besides the problems of duplicate content which must be considered, we see too often categorized lists based on the number of comments or the number of readings, and it is clear that these are not necessarily your best articles;)

Here are some plugins to help you do:


Pages Of Resources

Display prominently a relatively succinct and intuitive list of all your classes, your services or benefits on your blog is altogether difficult but absolutely necessary.

The alternative is to create links "resources" that include some of your services or subject categories and present prominently in your sidebars.

Again, the "text" made in WordPress widget will be very useful!

Search form

The research is a necessity for any blog offering a number of items consistent. Visitors expect to be able to easily find the content - this is the most common form of web browsing.

A good place in the Sidebar (or in the menu like this blog) improves ergonomics and research on your blog. Native search function in WordPress is very improved, I suggest you use a search plugin to improve it.

Social Networks Buttons 

Do not confuse the display buttons / counters social networking and sharing (share) your articles on networks.

You must necessarily include links to your social networks? This generates traffic on the site. Of course - it drives people to your profiles, but are they necessarily follow you? Furthermore, is it really useful to see if you have 12 followers that duel?

Testimonials

Even if we can estimate that it relates more particularly to bloggers Pros, it is always helpful (and reassuring) to display some evidence.

Extremely effective is social proof of your skills and it can make a difference. To display just use the free plugin Testimonials Widget.

Widgets To Avoid

If some widgets are very useful, others are not. Everyone is able to judge what is best for him and for his blog but in my case is a list of widgets that I do not recommend using the sidebar.

Latest Articles

We all know that the home page is by far the most visited page of your blog and it already appears likely a reverse chronological list of published articles. In that case, why do you need a "Recent Posts" widget? You're just duplicating what already exists!

The Cloud Of Keywords/Tags

The tag cloud but it was in the 90s, well ok I believe ... But let me ask you a simple question? When was the last time you clicked on a tag cloud?

It is an abuse and a mess of links. There are other ways to improve the navigation and usability of your WordPress blog ...

Latest Comments

This one I do not even understand its usefulness ^ ^ Tell me what's in it for your reader to read a series of comments, without head or tail, displayed in your sidebar?

Still links or irrelevant content that you display on all items in your blog ...

The Ads

Like everything, abuse seriously affects the health of your blog. Delays, SEO, disaffection readers, use and abuse of advertisements / Adsense on your sidebar make less compelling ads. In addition, how we use AdBlock permanently on our web browsers?

Blogroll

Abuse links is strongly disapproved by Google and should be avoided whenever possible. As far do I completely remove them? No, but it is used sparingly, for example on one page. Avoid at all costs footer and sidebars to display a blogroll.

Twitter Feed Or Facebook 

What is the interest for your reader to see in your sidebar the flow of your social networks? A series of comments, answers, or other private joke that will bring him nothing. Avoid slow benefit your blog and go away!

Use Better Space Available On Your Blog

In conclusion, I would say that you need to be ruthless with what you include in your sidebars and the less the better! Do not forget a fundamental principle: Fewer choices means more action!

If you can, try to focus down your main calls to action for more conversions, everyone will find: your readers, your blog and you;)

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Create your WordPress install bespoke

WordPress install is simple and it can be done in less than 5 minutes! It is already very well but once installed it must still choose WordPress plugins, the/themes ...

When you know that on average a WordPress site there are between 10 and 20 plugins that turn, you can imagine the time required for a complete installation, not to mention the optimization after installation.

Have you ever dreamed of a system including both the latest version of WordPress, your favorite plugins and your theme?

This is where the website WPRoller into action...


The WPRoller WordPress Installation Made to Measure


The principle is very simple, WPRoller offers the ability to configure your WordPress step-by-step and asks you to choose in order facility:

  • Your version of WordPress
  • Your language us, fr, etc.)
  • Plugins
  • a/themes

Once this is done, it'll just download a ZIP file containing WordPress plugins & themes you have selected a transfer via FTP and voila!

With WPRoller Create Your Installation Step-by-Step

WProller displayed via categories, different plugins categorized as follows: Analytics API, Contact, Social, etc ... Just check the boxes to the plugins you want and they are directly integrated in your ZIP file.

The same goes for themes, you can choose a few topics or start one of the most popular free themes and they are automatically added to your installation zip.

Plugins & Themes regularly updated

Once you have chosen your optimal configuration, you can download the zipped installation file.

Want to save this configuration to access again in the future?
Just give it a name, enter your email, a password and add this facility on your account WPRoller and it will be automatically updated when new versions of plugins or selected themes emerge.

So the next time you download your saved installer, it will contain your plugins and themes in their latest version.

Bonus & Benefits WPRoller

As start there immediately, the proposed WPRoller service is free and unlimited in time, create as many installation files as you like, download and store your themes and plugins.

The ability to create WordPress installations measures and updated, this is a real time saver and efficiency. The list of plugins and themes available is pretty good overall and includes some essential:

  • WordPress SEO
  • ContactForm 7
  • Plugins cache
  • Newsletter Wysija
  • Etc ...

Themes and plugins and pay you say? So I answer you that registration you will be able to upload your premium and even enter the serial numbers or license information associated with each file.

Coming soon on WPRoller.com, the ability to customize the install.php file wp-config.php and htaccess for even more customization but also the title of your site and its slogan, striking out the first message of the page test of Famer and "Hello Dolly", securing your files and many other aspects of your WordPress ...

An interesting and very successful service, try emergency!

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Roles, rights and privileges of WordPress users

WordPress uses a concept of roles, designed to give the website owner the ability to control what users can and can not do on the site.

A site owner can therefore manage user access to tasks such as writing and editing articles, creating pages, the definition of links, create categories, moderate comments, manage plugins, managing themes and management of other users, assigning a specific role to each user.


Who has the right to What About WordPress?
  • Administrator: Access to all features of the WordPress administration
  • Editor: Can publish and manage pages as well as those of other users
  • Author: Can publish and manage their own items only
  • Contributor: Can write and create their own articles but may not publish
  • Subscriber: Can only manage their profile
When WordPress installation, an Administrator account is automatically created. The default role of any new user can be set via Settings> General.

Summary Of Roles, Rights and Privileges Under WordPress

PRIVILEGES
ADMIN.
EDITOR
AUTHOR
CONTRIBUTOR
SUBSCRIBE
PRIVILEGESADMIN.EDITORAUTHORCONTRIBUTORSUBSCRIBE
Enable pluginsX
Create usersX
Clear pluginX
Clear themesX
Delete usersX
Edit filesX
Edit pluginsX
Edit theme optionsX
Edit themeX
Edit userX
ExportX
ImportX
Install pluginsX
Install themesX
List usersX
Manage optionsX
Promote usersX
Delete usersX
Change themeX
Update WPX
Related plugins dayX
Update themesX
Edit DashboardX
Moderating commentsXX
Manage categoriesXX
Manage LinksXX
Edit other itemsXX
Edit pagesXX
Edit other pagesXX
Edit pages publishedXX
Publish pagesXX
Delete pagesXX
Clear other pagesXX
Clear pages publishedXX
Clear articlesXX
Clear private itemsXX
Edit private itemsXX
Read private itemsXX
Clear Private pagesXX
Edit private pagesXX
Read private pagesXX
Edit articlesXXX
Upload filesXXX
Create productsXXX
Publish ArticlesXXX
Clear articlesXXX
Edit itemsXXXX
Clear itemsXXXX
ReadXXXXX
CommentXXXXX

Some Plugins For Going Further

With the addition of some WordPress plugins, you can change some capacity for a specific role or even create a new role and customize the privileges of the latter.
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