Add useful Facebook comments to your WordPress Website
Lets face it getting people to comment can be a challenge especially with all the many hurdles they face just to place a comment you know what I am talking about such as the ever favorite ReCaptcha which 7 out of 10 time you cannot read and have to reload until you finally get one you can read or those simple question such as what is the colour of the sky? An even then once you place the answer something goes wrong and it does not accept it and then those times when you go through all that get the response wrong and it wipe out that wonderful 2 paragraph though you just tried to post… There has been an option for some time to allow comments via Facebook but it had many issues the biggest of which was you lose all the SEO value provided by those comments and they stayed on Facebook and you lost out…
Well now you can avoid all that in one simple step by allowing your visitors to leave comments on your WordPress website using their most used social program Facebook wit his great plugin. The problems with using facebook for comments have been overcome in this plugins as it takes those comments down from facebook and places them into your database before displaying them on your site as well as taking all comments on your site and moving them up to Facebook.
Create useful Facebook Comments on your site with:
The plugin you want here is called:
SEO Facebook Comment 1.4.5.1
This plugin is fantastic in how it handles Facebook comments on both your website and on facebook, it even keeps the nice threaded look for you. Installing it is a breeze and I walk you though that below.
You can even keep your old commenting system & comments on the site if you like or remove them completely.
Installing this plugin take a few min but if you follow along it will be done in not time:
First: Go to your admin dashboard and under the plugins menu click on add new then search for SEO Facebook Comment
Now you need to install it and then activate it…. The look for a new menu item in the left called SEO facebook and click on it.. Once open you will get this area…
Here they have a convenient link for you to go to and create your Facebook App but in case you miss it here it is again…. https://www.plulz.com/how-to-create-a-facebook-app Make sure you are logged into the facebook account you want to create this app for… I will not duplicate their instructions as they are pretty comprehensive and simple… But if you like to go off on your own here is the link to facebook developers to create the app.. https://developers.facebook.com/apps
Once you have created the app which take all of about 5 min even if you have not yet registered as a developer then you need to locate the specific user ID for the Facebook page you want to share comments with.. Again they have a convient link to locate your ID but incase you miss it here is is again … https://www.plulz.com/how-to-get-my-facebook-user-id or again if you want to head off on your own head here to get your Facebook user ID https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
Once all this is completed then you need to set a couple simple steps such as what width you want the comment box to be and the auto approve and if you want to hide the default commenting system or not.. Once that is done simply look at any post on your site to see how it look and you’re all done.
So now you can enjoy having your visitors who use Facebook make simple comments on your site and you still get all the SEO benefits and more..
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Create a Slick Clean Login for Your WordPress Website
So you have a membership site and want to get more users but when people hit your website they are faced with yet another place to create an account and remember yet another login. So you need an easy solution to customize your WordPress Login to make it simple for your users to access your website.
Also as most people have discovered with WordPress the login page has a something to be desired and even more so if you have a membership site and allow people to create an account. It has limitations and it is one more place people have to remember a password.
Well there are a couple of great things you can do to make that login look slick and match your website design as well as allow them to create their account with any of their favorite social media accounts such as Facebook or twitter.
First you will need these two great plugins, Social Login for WordPress and Custom Login Lite links below.. These two plugins make a marked improvement to your WordPress login and make life easy to your users so much so that more will register and more will come back since it is one less thing for them to remember.
Customize WordPress Login with these plugins:
Start with Social Login, Social Sharing & Social Commenting, with User Profile Data 3.1
This plugin makes the process of logging in very easy and allow your visitor to login with their favorites such as facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Linkedin and more. It not only logs them into your site but also captures their email and other information and adds it to your database and creates an account on your website for them. This is useful in case you run your own email campaigns you still get the benefit of adding them to your list so you can continue to stay in contact with them and help keep them active on your website.
You do need to head on over to https://www.loginradius.com and setup your account to use this plugin, but you can aslo add multiple ebsites there to manage and allow access to. They even make the process of getting setup as easy as possible with complete instructions on how to setup the plugin so it works well with your website.
Now you will want to go from this login look……..
To this login look…
Or simple
To accomplish this you need the following plugin:
Custom Login 1.0.4
This plugin allows you the ability to change that bland simple login provided by WordPress to something that matches your websites style. It allows for multiple settings such as background colours, custom graphics for the header and background and if you’re into CSS & HTML you can add your own customizations via both to make a truly unique login screen for your website.
So with both of these plugins you can step in front of others with an easier to access website and a look that matches so that your website is unified for the whole user experience.
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Plugins covered this episode: WP Clean Fix, Private Facebook, Share and Get it, Easy Digital Downloads, WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite 1.27, List Sub-Categories.
A report back on the caching plugin, DB Cache Reloaded Fix found that it conflicts with event espresso causing it not to carry forward pricing.
Shout Outs:
Shoutout from Marcus to Mark Fail, the developer of PremiumPress (premiumpress.com). Mark has a great set of WordPress themes, and really helped me out with a banner customization issue for one of my sites, https://hostingpromocode.com Thanks Mark!
Listener Feedback / Audio Clips
Clip from David Dell in Australia with a question about importing lots of audio clips to a WordPress installation. https://dd3.tv
World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts:
WP CleanFix is a management tool for for check, repair, fix and optimize your WordPress blog. The Ajax interface allow to manage all status in one only page! Remember: This software is free. You don’t need to donate money to support it. Just talk about it.
FEATURES
CleanFix Tools
Extends HTML Editor: fontname, size, color, extra tags
Remove Frontend admin bar
Database Tables optimization
Check/Remove for unused UserMeta
Check/Remove for Post Revision and Trash
Check/Remove Auto Draft Posts
Check/Remove Edit Post Lock
Check/Remove for unused Post Meta
And more…….
What I say:
Pretty nice once you find the new menu link under the main dashboard menu.. There really needs to be some consistency on how plugin menus are created. It show you all the places on your site that need to be cleaned up and with the click of a button it does just that it even optimizes your database for you. You can even go to the advanced and adjust your html editor size and font use and limit your excerpt length. All in all pretty decent it even has a find and replace feature for post and page content.
Rating 5 Dragons:
What they say: Share&Get it ! automatically provides you with either Facebook fans or Twitter followers in return for downloadable files. Once you’ve installed Share&Get it ! on your WordPress website, your number of visitors will dramatically increase in no time. To obtain such great results, you only need to copy/paste the shortcodes you get when setting up the buttons.
Those buttons enable you to share any type of content from music, photos, videos, wallpapers to Ebooks, software, tutorials, icons, Web resources and so much more.
It’s now time for you to do the maths: One download = One new Facebook fan or One new Twitter follower
Easy translation made possible
Share&Get it ! is a piece of cake to translate! Our built-in files help you get the job done.
What I say:
It is pretty straightforward to setup and get a button created it even works quite nicely. I am only concerned about one thing they run it through their website when connecting it wih twitter and probably facebook since I only tested twitter. Due to that I had to mark it down.
Rating 4 Dragons
From the new this week
WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite 1.27
What They Say: WP Gift Certificate Reloaded Lite is a plugin which allows you to manage and sell printable gift certificates on your website. You can sell them to your visitors, and accept payments via PayPal. It’s easy, install the plugin and open new feature for your customers!
How the plugin works?
FRONT END
The visitor view part of the plugin consists of simple form where your visitors can purchase gift certificates.
Front end workflow. Let’ imagine that I sell gift certificate for visiting museum, and you are the visitor who purchases the certificate.
You fill up the form and click “Continue” button. Then system asks you to confirm your action.
You click “Confirm” button and being redirected to PayPal, where you can pay for certificate(s).
After successfull payment you receive e-mail (it is sent to your PayPal e-mail address) which contains link to printable gift certificate.
You click this link and see printable gift certificate(s), see below:
You print this certificate and bring it to ticket booth of my museum.
I scan QR Code and being redirected to certificate page where I can see certificate details and manage it. (For example, I can see transaction details and mark certificates as redeemed).
Then I allow you to visit museum. This is just particular situation how the plugin might be used. You can use it for selling any gift certificates. Unlimited possibilities.
If you require more features/functions, please visit the website for more information.
What I Say:
Damn it actually works with no effort what else can I say just what I was looking for.
Rating 5 Dragons
Private Facebook is a simple plugin for allowing a certain list of persons by their Facebook account. Users can ask for permissions to read the blog, then you’d have to approve them so they can read it.
Marcus’ Take: This is a really cool start to a plugin that I’d like to see expanded. Easy to set up but a bit difficult to get all your FB friends connected to it.
This plugin is very much still in beta. Use on production sites is not yet recommended
Selling digital downloads is something that not a single one of the large WordPress ecommerce plugins has ever gotten really right. This plugin aims to fix that. Instead of focusing on providing every single feature under the sun, Easy Digital Downloads trys to provide only the ones that you really need. It aims to make selling digital downloads through WordPress easy, and complete.
As this plugin is still in beta, it is strongly encouraged that you submit your feedback and bug reports to the project’s Git Hub page.
Features of the plugin include:
A cart system for purchasing multiple downloads at once
A complete promotional code system
Many payment gateways. PayPal and Manual are included by default with Stripe, PayPal Pro, PayPal Express, and others available as add-ons (once the plugin is out of beta)
Complete payment history
User purchase history and ability to redownload files
Multiple files per downloadable product
Customizable purchase receipts
Earnings and sales charts
Marcus’ Take: Excellent start to something that I’m looking forward to using in the future. If you are looking for a digital download solution, you’ll want to give this one a look.
some of the music provided tonight is from Mevio’s Music Alley. Check it out at ‘music.mevio.com https://music.mevio.com
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So you have a membership site and want to get more users but when people hit your website they are faced with yet another place to create an account and remember yet another login. So you need an easy solution to customize your WordPress Login to make it simple for your users to access your website.
