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Best Weather Plugin

I tried out several different WordPress weather plugins and found that wp-weather was the best plugin as well as the easiest to use. You first install the plugin how you would install any other plugin. Then you have to go to weather.com and set up an account and put in the zip code for the [...]

Better Quote Plug-in

There was a lot of talk about the Quotes Collection plug-in and Quote Rotator was also mentioned.  Personally, after a bunch of tinkering with all these quote plug-ins I found Stray Random Quotes to be the best for managing a quote collection.  It has far and away the best menu in terms of navigation.  Hope [...]

Facebook Plugin

This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both. Clicking this link will bring the user to the Facebook site. [...]

Offline plugin

“This plugin enable admin to put up a splash page to show that the site is down for maintenance. Come with a timer to tell how long the site is down. User can customize their own splash screen or get a list of splash screen from author’s site.” If someone’s site has high traffic and [...]

CNN Plug In

I found a plug in that has the top stories from CNN.  Just look up CNN in the Plugs> Add New section.  It works great. Robby Burns

Add a rotating flash tag cloud

If any of you guys are trying to add a floating tag cloud to your site, here is a link for a plugin called WP-Cumulus. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/ It has alot of options and is pretty simple to customize under the plugin settings. Just put it as a widget in the sidebar or the bottom and mess [...]

Screengrab

This firefox plugin helped me with my marketing anaylsis paper. I suggest downloading the plugin and using it over other screenshot options. What makes screengrab different from others is it’s ability to grab the whole page, just the screen as seen on your computer or the option to select a specific text to screenshot. I [...]

Stream News Live!

Awesome widget i’ve been using that streams news live to your site.  It gets added to your sidebar and scrolls different news categories. Great random content for your site! You can choose one of these categories – politics | Cars | Tech | Finance | Music | Movies | Fashion | Gossip | Art | [...]

Creating a Hidden Link

In order to insert a link under a different name in Hypertext you need to use the href code. Example: <a href=”http://www.google.com/profiles/bothellwomenshealth”> Lauren Schweizer, ARNP</a> Lauren Schweizer is the linked word and it takes you to the Google web page in the code. You can use this code to link to a google profile in [...]

Test Your Website’s SEO

I was researching search engine optimization and I found a site that grades your website’s SEO and gives you tips on how to improve different aspects of it. It gives you an overall grade out of 100 so that you can compare your site with competitors. Websitegrader.com

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