From my own experience and from looking at the various posts on the web, I can see a lot of people have problems with the WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress. I had serious problems trying to get a page to look the way I wanted with text and images always getting skewed. I was trying to format this page without any luck. I tried using the <br> line breaks to try and separate each image evenly but the editor kept automatically deleted the <br> tags for some reason.
After a few hours of searching I came across FCK Editor, which seems to a much more powerful and feature rich plugin that the built in rich text editor in Wordpress. The only issue I’ve had with it so far is that you can’t seem to add an image using the default ‘Add Media’ part of the original Wordpress editor. However, you can just use the one which comes with FCK Editor which seems to work fine. There are some cool features like a built in file manager which enables you to upload the files directly through the editor. It also supports the wordpress read more feature. The editor looks like this – see below.
- enables your visitors to select the order in which posts are displayed
Plugin #3: aStickyPostOrderER - enables users to customize post order according to category, tag, or the entire set of posts
Plugin #4: WP-Snap Plugin - creates an alphabetical listing of post titles on a Category or Page template file
Plugin #5: Sort Category Posts by Title
- this plugin looks like a quick and easy way of sorting category posts in ascending alphabetical order according to post title.
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As good as WordPress is as a standalone application, there are still things that WordPress lacks. Users are requesting more and more features for WordPress that would be very feasible to write as a plugin. There are many untapped ideas out there, and new ones created every day.
Below is a great tutorial on how to write a wordpress plugin.
This is a great tutorial on how to use permalink redirection correctly. The suggestion on this site is to use 2 permalink redirection plug-ins which work in harmony together. When using redirects it is important to avoid any google duplicate content penalties and this tutorial explains how to avoid that and a lot more.
I was trying to add a hyperlink to an affiliate program which had a https address. For some reason Wordpress wasn’t allowing me to do it. I had no way of knowing why this was happening but finanlly figured out it was a cookie problem. All I had to do was clear my cookies and everything was fine again.
To clear your cookies you basically just do the following:
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE)
1. Open IE and click on the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Internet Options.”
3. Click on the “General” tab if it isn’t selected already.
4. Under the heading “Temporary Internet files,” click on “Delete Cookies…”
5. Click “OK” for the “Delete all cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder?” prompt.
6. Click “OK” to exit.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Open Firefox and click on the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Options.”
3. Click on the “Privacy” icon on the left.
4. Select “Cookies” and click on “View Cookies”
5. Select google.com from the list and press “remove cookie.”
6. Click “OK” to exit.
Below is a list of the plugins I find most useful for my websites.
1. Akismet plugin This default plugin which helps protect you from Spam should be activated as soon as you start your blog.
2. A Sticky Post Orderer Allows you to control the order of your posts in categories. This is a must plug-in for me and helped me get around the problem of ordering my posts which was nagging me for some time. You can download the plugin from here
3. Popularity Contest Plugin This is one of my favourite Wordpress plugins because it is so useful. It automatically calculates the number of hits you get on posts, categories etc. and allows you to display them on your front page. Just using this plugin as a tool to better understand how users are using your site is useful, but having the top 10 posts always displayed on your site is good for SEO and allows users to easily see what is popular on your site.
4. Google Sitemap Generator I am not technical, so creating a sitemap for me was way beyond my skill set. In fact, I didn’t even know what a sitemap was! Using this plugin makes it a cinch to create and submit your sitemap to Google.
5. Easytube This plugin makes it easy to insert YouTube videos. Once you install it all you have to do is activate and then when writing you post simply add and you’re done. I’m sure there are other YouTube related plugins around but this is the easiest one I’ve found so far.
6. Smart Update Plugin
A great plugin which allows you to track which pings have been successfully ‘pinged’. It also allows you to create a log file for debugging purposes. This was good for me because I had no idea before I used this plugin whether or not the sites I was pinging were being successfully sent to. It turned out that about 1/3 of the sites I was trying to ping weren’t working.
7. WP-d-tree Pluging
This is a great plugin and allows you to create drop down menus and collapsible and expandable categories for all your posts, categories, archives etc. and also enables a fair bit of tweaking of the colour scheme and the way the categories are displayed when you expand them. Surprisingly easy to install and use.
8. WP Review SIte
This is the perfect plugin if you want to add a ratings system to your site. The plugin integrates with Wordpress administration and you can sort your posts by weighted average. Unfortunately you have to pay for this plugin but it’s probably worth purchasing if you have a site based on user ratings.
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This is sort of an aside from my WordPress Tutorial though really it IS part of my Wordpress Tutorial ! It’s the issue of “plug ins”. Once you start feeling comfortable with the power of Wordpress for website creation, you naturally …
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