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How to make WordPress widgets show only on selected pages and posts
Have you ever wanted a WordPress widget to show only on one page or post? It’s extremely useful to be able to limit widgets based on where a visitor is in your blog. Not only does it help you preserve and manage your valuable screen real estate, but it also helps you organize information for your website visitors. A good example of how this might work limiting ads to relevant pages. Let’s... More...
Create Robust Contact Forms Using The CForms WordPress Plugin
We always seem to want information from people who visit our sites. Online forms are a basic component for collecting this information. Contact forms, registration forms, or help requests all require a site visitor to input their information. After having a client complain about an existing WordPress form plugin on his site, I went looking for alternatives. What I found was the CForms WordPress plugin. CForms... More...
Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Matt Mullenweg spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the state of WordPress. Here are a few screenshots from the live stream. Matt Mullenweg State of the Word Presentation Matt Mullenweg on B2 Matt Mullenweg Blogging Software Dilemma Post World Wide WordCamp Events Indonesian WordPress Books WordPress Logo T-Shirts P2 Faster Blogging Real WordPress Tatoo Question And Answer Resource Mentions TypeKit –... More...
Randy Hoyt at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Randy Hoyt spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on putting custom fields to work on a WordPress blog. Custom fields give you the ability to extend the type of meta-data that can be associated with your WordPress posts. This session topic was covered in extreme detail so I won’t try to reproduce the bulk of the session materials here. But, the important take away is that WordPress is extremely flexible... More...
Panel Discussion at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Photos from the WordCamp Dallas 2009 discussion panel via screenshots of the Ustream Live event feed. John P moderating the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Liz Strauss on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Mark Hopkins on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Cali Lewis on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Dave Moyer and Matt Mullenweg... More...
Douglas Hanna at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Douglas Hanna spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the WordPress showcase to help people understand how WordPress can be used. WordPress can be used for blogging (of course), CMS, eCommerce, community building, etc. Here are a few key points from the session: Here is a list of information you can find out about a site that is listed in the WordPress showcase. Site name and url Screenshot Description Why... More...
DB Ferguson at WordCamp Dallas 2009
DB Ferguson gave an insightful talk at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on authority. DB runs No Fact Zone, one of the top Stephen Colbert fan sites on the Internet. She has spent a lot of time reporting on news and information that surrounds Stephen Colbert and his tv show The Colbert Report. Here are a few excellent key points from the session: Speak with the voice of authority or gravitas Present yourself... More...
Gio Galluci at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Gio Galluci spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on extreme social media promotion hacks. The overall theme of the talk was to add value to existing conversations, be helpful, and stop trying to hard sell and start attracting people by really living and owning the space you talk about. White Hat + Black Hat = Blue Hat Here are a few key points from the session: Don’t blast your brand out to everyone.... More...
Scott Kingsley Clark at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Scott Kingsley Clark from ViZion Interactive spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on using WordPress as a content management system (CMS). To kick the session off Scott highlighted the fact that WordPress plugins can extend WordPress blogs for many forms of content management. There are plugins to manage a variety of content such as: Social Networking Photo Galleries Products Ads Events Polls Audio / Video... More...
Dave Curlee at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Dave Curlee spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 about adding video to your WordPress blog. Here are some of the highlights from that session: People have different learning styles including visual, auditory, reading and writing, tactile learning Budget does not necessary to produce a quality video product Video software does not replace skills Continual practice is key to improvement Low budget does not... More...
Chris Silver Smith at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Chris Silver Smith from Search Engine Land gave a very informative talk on using social images sharing sites to get more traffic to your blog using SEO techniques. He gave some valuable insight to using Google Image Search and popular image sharing sites to grab more traffic for your blog. Here is a handy formula for considering how to get good traction for your images in Google Image Search: Google... More...
Jonathan Bailey at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today presented a good bit of material on how to find free, legal content for your blog at WordCamp Dallas 2009. Here are some key points that he covered. Creative Commons Licensing: Creative commons is a collection of 6 licenses. All creative commons licenses require attribution, allow a choice for commercial use, and derivative use. Creative commons licenses include... More...
Mark Hopkins at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Mark Hopkins, who previously wrote for Mashable, presented on how to make money on your blog without relying on AdSense. Here are some of the tips he gave: Make sure you let people know you’re a content producer. Your blog is a vehicle to get you from where you are to where your audience lives. Your content is your cargo. Text is not the only form of content that should be on your blog. People... More...
Matthew SpamBoy McGarity at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Matthew McGarity (aka., @SpamBoy) gave an excellent talk at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on performing local installs of WordPress. One reason you might want to run a locally installed version of your WordPress blog is that you can make changes to a copy of your blog before you roll those same changes out to your production WordPress installation. Here are a few key points from his presentation: Local WordPress... More...
