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Make Your Site Do More:

Using Plugins

If you can think of it, there’s probably a plugin that does it*

* And we probably already have it installed.

A Few Of Our FavoritesFrom the back…• Mail SMTP• wpDirAuth• Akismet and WP Zero Spam• Black Studio Touch

Dropdown Menu• Google Analyticator• User Role Editor• Private! and Private Only• Sidebar Login• My Custom CSS• WPtouch Pro

To the front• Social media widgets• Advanced YouTube, Custom

Field and Featured Page Widgets

• Contact Form 7• Events Made Easy• Google Maps• Search Everything• Shutter Reloaded• Subscribe by Email• Yet Another Related Posts

Plugin

What We’ll Cover• Events Calendar• An Image Gallery• A More Advanced Image Gallery• Forms for contacts, information,

applications• Social Media Integration

How To Do It• Click Activate

• But wait, that’s not all. – Read about it. Click on the link to the

plugin page– Look at the screenshots–Make sure you configure it!• Look at the settings• Apply the widget and configure it, too.

New Stuff

http://blogs.shu.edu/wordpress201/wp-admin

Let’s Experiment• Make an events calendar– Activate Events Made Easy– Look at the settings page – Add a location– Add a new category– Create a new event– Preview the home page, then the

calendar page

“Events Made Easy”

Find your new menuand do some basicset-up…

Add A Location

• Create a Location using the “Locations” link in the left column

Leverage Categories

Your Big

Event

Warning

Add The Widget*

Put It On The Menu*

Admire Your Work

An Image Gallery• Built-in tools let you do some things• Powerful plugins let you do more.

Using the WordPress Gallery Tool

• Group your images into blocks of thumbnails

• Each leads to a larger version• Captions• Basic functionality

• Do it from within a post or page• Use the Add Media button

NextGEN Gallery

• NOT MULTISITE COMPATIBLE!

• But it works great on individual sites.

• A fairly complex plugin with lots of features and customizations.

• Gather images into galleries• Gather galleries into albums• Different views

Creating a NextGEN Gallery

Working With A Gallery

A Basic Gallery View

Slideshow View

Working With Albums• When have more than one Gallery, you can

comyou bine them into Albums.

Manage Albums• Name and create a new album• Drag-and-Drop galleries or other albums

Using Your Galleries and Albums• Look for the green button on your edit

screen

• The popup window lets you do anything:

Adding an Album

And there you are.

Contact Us• Gather information• File uploads• Storage• Activate the “Contact Form 7” plugin• Start to build your form

Include Your Form on a Page

Social Media• For following, – Invite your blog readers to follow or like

your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. page

• Sharing, –Make it easy for people to share your

stories on social media sites• Integrating– Including social media content within

your blog

Including a Twitter feedUsing the Twitter Widget Pro plugin.

Pull Content In

Set up API keysYou’ll need to log into the Twitter Developer section to do this.Instructions are included on the other tabs More details are available at blogs.shu.edu

Configure the Widget

Add it to the widget area of your choosingAccount nameTitleSpecifications and options

Advanced Twitter Feed IntegrationUses full API credentials, which can be tricky to set upAvatars, additional links, more options

Recent Facebook Posts

Tumblr, RSS, YouTube, Flickr Feeds

Push Content Out

• Microblog Poster• WP Twitter Autopost

Set Up The Ones You Like

Sharing Is Good

Clockwise from top left• Share Buttons by

AddToAny• Social Sharing Toolkit• Facebook, Twitter &

Google+ Social Widgets• Monarch

Social Sharing ToolkitCan add icons for 26 different social media presences

Build Followers

Other WidgetsEP Social Widget

Theme SupportAccurax Social Media Widget

Subscribe by EmailMonarch

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