Archive for the ‘Working With Wordpress’ Category
Wordpress as a Content Management System
Yes, Wordpress is used most often to create a blog – but it is not at all limited to bloggers. Wordpress is an amazing Content Management System and with so many awesome premium themes available these days it’s easier than ever to create a great look and manage large amounts of content.
I have worked extensively with the Revolution Themes lately and I love it. It’s flexible and the code is dreamy to work with. This site is built with Revolution Pro Business.
A new premium theme I’m hungry to work with is the WP Remix. It promises to be the ‘only’ wordpress theme you’ll ever need for all of your projects.
Do you have a content site you want to move from HTML to Wordpress? Freshnets would love to help you with the process!
Recommended Wordpress Plugins
All in One SEO Pack – Allows you to create meta tags for title, description and keywords.
Podpress – For podcasters or anyone wanting to easily share mp3 recordings.
Sitemap Generator – Create an XML file to submit your site to Google and others.
Post Plugin Libary & Similar Posts – Works together to create a list of Related Posts
Share This – Provides easy way for readers to submit your content to Social Bookmarking sites and email a friend your link.
Permalink Redirect – Ensures that only one version of your post is indexed.
Comment Luv – If you want to display a link to your commenter’s most recent blog post.
What Would Seth Godin Do? – Cool plugin that recruits your readers as RSS subscribers.
RSS Footer – If someone ’scrapes’ your content to display on their blog it ensures that link(s) will be placed back to your site.
Complete RSS – Makes sure your entire post is provided in RSS feeds.
Automatic Wordpress Upgrade – Just what it says.
Google Analytics -Easy way to add Google Analytics code to your blog.
For Community Blogs:
Author Advertising – Allows you to share ad exposures with your authors.
Posts by Author – Creates list of recent posts by an author
Want to Move from HTML To Wordpress?
Many website owners are seeing the long term advantages of working with a database driven website. Being able to edit your site from any computer with an internet connection is attractive. Being able to post content and photos from a smart phone is also pretty darn cool.
If you have built your existing site in HTML you are probably considering making a move to a full Wordpress site (or some other database driven script) but feel intimidated by the process.
This is the perfect opportunity to outsource and Freshnets is both experienced and available to take on your project.
We’ll take a look at your existing site and chat with you about your desires for a new layout and site structure. Once we have a clear view of your wishes we’ll make a bid on the project. Smaller sites (as far as number of existing web pages) start at $250, larger sites start at around $500.
Our goal at Freshnets is always to put as much power into the hands of the website owner as possible so we will take the time to explain everything we’ve done to organize and optimize your site.
You can have us do as little or as much as you wish as far as moving your content into the new site and setting up web redirects. We are currently billing this sort of ancillary time at $15 an hour. You may prefer to outsource this work to a Virtual Assistant or tackle it yourself.
If you’re interested in learning more, contact us for a free 20 minutes consult. (designer@freshnets.com)