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Jan 22, 2012

Make a Plush Material & Embellish a Custom Logo In It | Photoshop Tutorial by Graphisutra

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Create A Sales Page Easily With The Convertible Landing Page WordPress Theme

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Create A Sales Page Easily With The Convertible Landing Page WordPress Theme from WordPress Mods

Elegant Themes announced the release of their newest theme the other day. The Convertible Landing Page lets you easily create sales pages to help you market products.

The main focus of the theme is the in built drag and drop page builder that allows you to create your landing pages using modules. Using the builder you can create unique sales pages without ever having to to edit any code.

You can create a wide range of pages easily. Columns, sliders, pricing tables, buttons, tabs, images and more can be added with just the touch of a button.

Elegant Themes have called each type of content a 'module'. Modules such as horizontal bars, lists, images or text blocks can be added to your page by simply dragging and dropping them into area you want them displayed. You can divide content into 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns and columns can be resized with the click of your mouse. One of the coolest things about the builder is that modules can also be added using short codes too. The theme also comes with its own ajax powered options page that lets you change page elements quickly.

Elegant Themes have clearly designed Convertible with affiliate marketers in mind. This is particularly noticeable by the modules that are included in the theme such as testimonial boxes for quotes from past customers, video embedding for displaying your product video and three different list styles for listing the products biggest strengths.

Convertible is free to all Elegant Themes members. A membership retails for only $39 a year and gives you access to over 70 WordPress designs. It's a great deal for anyone who has multiple WordPress websites.

Thanks,
Kevin

Link: Convertible Landing Page

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Original Article can be found at Create A Sales Page Easily With The Convertible Landing Page WordPress Theme WordPress Mods : WordPress Mods - WordPress Themes, Plugins and Modifications

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Jan 19, 2012

How To Make An Email Server On Your Home Computer

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A Simple WordPress Plugin To Integrate Registration And Login Forms Into Your Design

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A Simple WordPress Plugin To Integrate Registration And Login Forms Into Your Design from WordPress Mods

Front End Registration and Login Forms Plugins is a useful form plugin from WP Mods author Pippin Williamson. The plugin lets you insert a registration form, login form and change password form into any area of your site.

The forms can be added as a widget into your sidebar, footer or any other widget ready area of your website. It can also be inserted into posts and pages using short codes. The plugin does not however change your existing registration and login pages (i.e. wp-register.php and wp-login.php). It was designed to integrate the registration and login form into your existing website design rather than sending them away the default pages.

The plugin has a few settings. You can disable CSS and the icons on the login form. You can also choose what page the user is redirected to after logging in and choose from 5 colour schemes: light, dark, blue, red and green.

The great thing about the forms is that they are only shown if the person isn't logged in. For example, if you place all three widgets on your sidebar, the registration and login forms will show when on the sidebar but when the user logins in these will be replaced by the change password form.

The plugin is free to all premium members of Pippins Plugins. You can get a membership for only $2 for a day or $6 for a month, making this a very affordable solution.

It's a simple plugin but it works great. I recommend checking it out if you are looking for a stylish way of integrating a registration and login form into your website design.

Thanks,
Kevin

Link: Front End Registration and Login Forms Plugins

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Jan 18, 2012

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Jan 17, 2012

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Ninja Forms: A New Free Plugin for Creating Forms in WordPress

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Every website needs forms – it's an integral part of visitor/customer communication. However, custom forms can be a downright pain to code. That's why most WordPress users benefit from a plugin that does all the work. Introducing : a new form building plugin that allows you to easily create and customize forms through the WordPress dashboard.

All the magic happens within a drag-and-drop interface that looks like a native part of your WordPress dashboard:

Ninja Forms Features:

Fully customizable CSS – make your form look the way you want.
Create any type of restricted input field by using filters.
Add a spam filter to prevent those pesky bots from filling out your form.
Save form submissions and download them in .xsl format.
Show custom help text for any form field.
Send a completion message to the end-user and to a list of email addresses with the ability to customize the email address this comes from.
Use required fields to ensure that your users fill in important information.
Easily create dropdowns, multi-selects, checkboxs, radio buttons, etc. with the drag and drop interface.
Attach a form to a page or post by simply checking a box, or use our shortcodes and functions to place your form anywhere you want.

Creating a new form is easy and very similar to writing a blog post:

All submissions through your forms are viewable in the dashboard and can be easily exported to a .xsl file for use with other programs when managing your contacts:

…Are you sure this is free?

Yes! is free and available for download from the WordPress plugin repository.

What do you get with NinjaForms Pro?

Ninja Forms Pro is just $30 and gives you access to some pretty cool functionality:

Allow users to create posts/pages/etc. from a front-end form.
Make long forms easier to manage by separating them into sections using multi-part forms.
Give users the option to save their progress and come back to complete the form at a later date.
Access to powerful pre and post processing hooks so you can manipulate the form data however you want.

is probably more than adequate for most regular WordPress users who just need a simple customized form for making a connection with visitors. Give the free version a test drive today and post your mini-review in the comments.

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WordPress Question: How Can You Set Up Customized User Roles?

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Our WordPress Question and Answer sessions continue this week. We're asking WPMU readers to tell us about a tricky WordPress problem they're trying to solve.

The most interesting questions we receive will be published here on the blog, and the author will receive a three month membership at WPMU DEV, free of charge. Please submit your own WordPress question for your chance to win.

Today's WordPress question was submitted by a WPMU reader named Andrew.

Is it possible to create a customized user profile on a WordPress site, where the site owner can specify what each user does and does not have access to? For example:

An administrator profile that does not allow access to page and post editing, or…
A content creator profile that does not allow access to the admin functions in WordPress dashboard

Instead of relying on the standard WordPress User Roles (contributor, author, editor etc.), is it possible to create my own?
-Andrew

Over to you, WordPress ninjas! Does anyone have a suggestion for Andrew? Have you ever tried something similar?

If you can offer any wisdom on this subject, please leave a comment below this article and let us know. You can also check out some of our previous WordPress questions here:

And remember to send us your own WordPress question! There's three months of WPMU DEV lovin' to be won, plus you can connect with WordPress experts to help solve your problems.

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Create Categories for Your Media with this WordPress Plugin

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If you're someone who works with your uploaded media more than just once, then the plugin may be of help to you.

This plugin allows you to create media categories, assign media to those categories, and then search the categories, filter by categories, and even automatically insert media from a category into a post with a shortcode.

The Media Categories Plugin in Action

Settings

The main settings page allows you to control which user roles have access to the categories.

Media Categories Button

You will notice a new button under your Media section titled Media Categories.

Add Categories

In order to add categories, you will need to go through the backend section.

Manage Categories – Add Shortcodes

The Manage Categories section is for editing your categories. But you will also notice that each category is assigned a shortcode. Using this shortcode will automatically include all the images from that category into your post.

In the Media Uploader

When you are in the media uploader (when uploading media on the post-new page), you will notice that a new link titled Media Categories shows up in the media uploader beside the Media Library link.

Choosing a Category

When uploading an image in the media uploader, you can choose a category for an image (however, you can't create a new category through the uploader itself – it needs to have already been created).

Categories in the Uploader

Once in the media uploader, you can choose from your categories to find the media in those categories. You can also automatically insert the shortcode for the category, which will insert the images from that category into your post.

Images Via Shortcodes

The one potential drawback of this plugin that I found is that there doesn't appear to be an easy way to style images that are inserted via shortcode. The images simply line up in a column one after another. If using them in a sidebar, this may be all right, however.

In any case, the ability to insert media with shortcodes doesn't seem to be the main selling point for this plugin. The categories themselves are. If you are someone who works with your media files a lot, then having the ability to put them in categories makes a lot of sense.

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WordPress Tutorial For Beginners: Additional Screen Options In New Post/Page Screens

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A whole world of bonus features await you...

Please note: this tutorial assumes that you are using WordPress 3.3.1 with the default Twenty Eleven theme installed.

If you read the WordPress tutorial on the Add New Post/Page Screens I published yesterday, the additional Screen Options available to you may have caught your eye.

These bad boys.

So let's remove the mystery and see what these features have to offer us.

Excerpt

By default, WordPress displays excerpts of your blog posts in reverse chronological order on your home page. These post excerpts are also displayed in various other places, like category archives, tag archives, date archives, and so on.

And again, by default, the first 55 words of any given post are used as the excerpt. Here's a screenshot of the most recent post on my blog:

Leaving Work Behind

As you can see, the content of the post is cut off mid-sentence. This is somewhat jarring, and there are far better ways to engage with your readers than an arbitrary 55 word post excerpt. That's right – I am critiquing my own blog – getting this matter sorted is on my list, I promise!

Fortunately, you have a couple of options to prevent WordPress' auto-excerpt mangling – one of which is covered by the Excerpt widget. I'll leave the description to the WordPress folk:

Excerpt

I'm not going to get into the SEO and conversion benefits of writing excerpts for your posts (although I will do in the near future, so stay tuned), but including excerpts of your posts are good for many reasons. For one, a custom-written synopsis of your post is far more useful to a reader than the first 55 words of your post.

The display of any excerpts that you write depends entirely upon the settings of your theme. Your theme decides if and when excerpts are displayed. For instance, the Twenty Eleven theme does not utilized post excerpts (although you can alter it to do so). However, WPMU's own custom theme does:

WPMU Post Excerpt

Send Trackbacks

A trackback is a communication method between blogs. In a nutshell, if you link to an external blog post, you can attempt to inform that blog post you have done so. If successful, a link to your post with a small excerpt will be displayed in the comments or trackbacks section of that blog post.

Something like this.

If you want to send a trackback to a blog post, you should look out for a link to a trackback URL on the post itself. Once you have it, just copy and paste it into the Send Trackbacks field and Publish/Update your post.

If there is no trackback URL, the blog probably does not support trackbacks.

You may have also heard of pingbacks. I am not going to get tied up in trying to explain the differences between trackbacks and pingbacks, as they are largely academic. What you do need to know is that all WordPress sites are set up by default to send and receive pingbacks automatically (although this can be changed in the settings). So no to be considered a spammer, you should not submit trackback URLs to WordPress sites, as the job has already been done for you.

Custom Fields

This widget allows to create custom meta-data fields which can then be utilized across your blog. This really isn't beginner's stuff, so I am going to skip over this.

If you would like to dive into the world of Custom Fields, check out this WordPress codex post for further guidance.

Discussion

The functionality of this widget is self-explanatory. Just uncheck the relevant box to disallow comments or trackbacks/pingbacks on the post you are currently working on, and vice versa.

You can turn comments and trackbacks/pingbacks off blog-wide in your general settings, but the above widget will only affect one post.

Comments

If you like to handle comments by blog post, this is one way of doing so. When the Comments widget is activated, you will be able to see and manage all comments for that post only.

Comments

Just hover over a comment and your options will appear:

Comments Management

Please note that comments are displayed in the date and time order in which they were left, which is probably not how they are displayed on the blog post itself.

Slug

I'm not entirely sure why this widget exists. It allows you to edit the slug (i.e. the part of the URL that describes what your post is about):

Slug

But that can already be easily achieved by Editing the permalink at the top of the screen:

There's a shiny gold star for anyone who understands the point of this widget. Beats me.

Author

We finish off with another straightforward widget that simply allows you to change the author of a post.

Say I wrote up some research notes for a post and saved them as a draft. My good friend Jon Badger then picked up the draft in order to convert my rough notes into a beautifully-worded post. WordPress would automatically assume that the post was written by me, so Jon would need to make the manual adjustment in the Author widget.

Author

That's all there is to it!

But There's More…

Depending on what themes and plugins you have installed, you may have many more Screen Options available to you than I have listed above. So what are your favorite Screen Options widgets, and how do you use them? Let us know in the comments section!

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