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Add Single Post Templates To WP

Published July 11, 2009

When you create a website or blog you want your visitors to get a variety of information. It’s always much nicer to have a few different styles to your pages and posts so you don’t bore people with the same look everywhere they go. This has always been possible with WordPress pages, where all you do is make a copy of your page.php file, rename it, add a little code to the top, upload it to the theme folder, and then when you create pages you get to select the page template you want to use. So by also copying your sidebar files and renaming those and also uploading them to the theme folder you can now call your different sidebars from your different templates. In your new sidebars you can code in different ads or widgets giving that page a different look to it. If you know what you are doing with the code you can also make page templates that display your page differently altogether like maybe full width and no sidebars at all.

Now you can do the same thing with your posts. Using the plugin called the “Single Post Template Plugin” , by Nathen Rice, you can do the exact same thing with your posts or articles. With this you copy the single.php file and insert the template code at the top just like in a page template. You can do the different sidebar thing or code in different ads to the top or bottom of your new templates. Just like a Page, when you edit or create a Post, you have a drop down to select the the post template you want to use.

This pluging does require a little extra work but it adds a nice touch to your blog or website and gives it additional functionality to set it apart from the rest.

Nathen Rice has some other nice plugins too and you can check them all out at http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/

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What can you do with WordPress

Published May 30, 2009

Besides your design, it’s all about the plugins.

Plugins are add-on features to your WordPress driven website. There are simple announcement plugins, statistic plugins, photo gallery plugins, all kinds of technical plugins, email Forms, Spam, Security, you name it. Plugins give you the ability to customize your site or blog and help you create your unique web presence. Here’s a link to a Large List of great and very useful plugins.

http://mashable.com/2007/08/16/wordpress-god300-tools-for-running-your-wordpress-blog/

You can also always check wordpress.org for a large selection of great plugins. www.wordpress.org

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Genki Announcements – WP Plugin

Published March 27, 2009

Genki Announcements

WordPress We found a nice little plugin that allows you to make a timed announcement and you can display it in a widget or at the top of your blog. Or with a little php code you can put it anywhere. You might think, well I can just use a text widget. Yea but, This nice little plugin lets you display your message for a duration of time and you also have the ability to show different messages to different level users. The top of the blog display may have problems with certain themes but the widget should work well with any. We used it as a widget and made it an “About Me” block with a picture even. Since the plugin works through the control panel giving you a spot to put your message, with html, we just uploaded a picture and pointed to it it the message.

Check it out here. http://ericulous.com/2007/03/09/genki_announcement/

We’re finding it very useful.

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Plugins give WordPress even more!

Published December 7, 2008

WordPress Plugins.

One of the great things about WordPress is that you can install “Plugins”. Plugins supply additional functionality to your WP Blog. Some things you can see and some things you can’t. We always seem to install a favorite set of plugins for any blog and then there are others that we install according to the specific needs of your site. Such as photo galleries or music players. The plugins we install all the time are listed below.

All In One SEO Pack – Adds good meta decsription and keywords to all your pages and posts automatically plus you can add even more.

Google XML Sitemaps – Creates a correct XML Sitemap and notifies Google and other search engines of its status.

StatPress – Basic Real Time Stats of visitors and spiders with many details.

The above plugins and many more can be found at wordpress.org .

There are many other Plugins that we use and they all add terrific benefits to your site. These are what we consider essential for a site that wants to be indexed in the major search engines.

Other plugins can also be installed to give your site features like photo galleries, email forms, event listings, Gig listings, music players and more… Your possibilities are endless due to the efforts of all the people that contribute to the WordPress effort.

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