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Widgets: Calendar

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Builds a calendar with the days of the calendar linked if there were one or most posts on that day.  This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.

Widgets: Archives

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives a List of recent months where you posted content to your site.  This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.

Widgets: Meta

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives links to special areas of your site including the admin pages, logout pages, posts RSS feed, comments rss feed, and the main WordPress site.

Widgets: Pages

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Gives a list of links to the pages on your site. This is very useful for giving your visitors another way to find your pages, other than your site's menu.

Widgets: Recent Posts

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows a list of the most recent posts that you have published on your site.  This is very useful if someone comes to a specific place on your site without seeing the homepage.

Widgets: Recent Comments

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows a list of the most recent comments submitted to any post or page on your site. This is a great feature to help your visitors see the conversation that is currently happening on your site.

Widgets: RSS

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Allows you to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and show it on your site. This is a great feature to help promote another site that you like to your visitors.

Widgets: Tag Cloud

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Creates a list in paragraph form of the most commonly used tags from your posts.  The tags used the most will be shown larger than other tags.  Each word in this "cloud" will be linked to a page of the posts associated with that tag.

Widgets: Text

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Text Allows you to put anything you want in the sidebar of your site. This can be plain text or HTML, which leaves the possibilities to be endless. Typically, people will put images, JavaScript, social media links, or many other things in the text widget. Remember to click "Save".

Suggested Plugin: Role Scoper

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://agapetry.net/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ What is it? This plugin allows you to micromanage the roles that each user level has access to.  You can even create new user levels. Install Directions Normal plugin installation procedure.  You have plenty of configuration options once this is installed. Standard Roles: Subscriber: Can Read, ...

Plugin: Post Notification

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://pn.strübe.de/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/ What is it? This plugin will send an email to anyone who subscribes to be notified whenever a new post is published on the site. Install Directions Follow the normal plugin installation procedure, then once the plugin is installed you will want to add the widget to ...

Suggested Plugin: WP Super Cache

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ What is it? This plugin will create cached versions of pages on your site when they are visited so that the next visit to that page will require less of your server's resources and load much faster than if the pages were generated by the ...