2. Make Your Site Do More: Using Plugins

3. If you can think of it, there’s probably a plugin that does it* * And we probably already have it installed.

4. A Few Of Our Favorites From the back… Mail SMTP wpDirAuth Akismet and WP Zero Spam Black Studio Touch Dropdown Menu Google Analyticator User Role Editor Private! and Private Only Sidebar Login My Custom CSS WPtouch Pro To the front Social media widgets Advanced YouTube, Custom Field and Featured Page Widgets Contact Form 7 Events Made Easy Google Maps Search Everything Shutter Reloaded Subscribe by Email Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

5. What We’ll Cover Events Calendar An Image Gallery A More Advanced Image Gallery Forms for contacts, information, applications Social Media Integration

6. How To Do It Click Activate But wait, that’s not all. – Read about it. Click on the link to the plugin page – Look at the screenshots – Make sure you configure it! Look at the settings Apply the widget and configure it, too.

7. New Stuff

8. http://blogs.shu.edu/wordpress201/wp-admin

9. Let’s Experiment Make an events calendar – Activate Events Made Easy – Look at the settings page – Add a location – Add a new category – Create a new event – Preview the home page, then the calendar page

10. “Events Made Easy” Find your new menu and do some basic set-up…

11. Add A Location Create a Location using the “Locations” link in the left column

12. Leverage Categories

13. Your Big Event

14. Warning

15. Add The Widget*

16. Put It On The Menu*

17. Admire Your Work

19. An Image Gallery Built-in tools let you do some things Powerful plugins let you do more.

20. Using the WordPress Gallery Tool Group your images into blocks of thumbnails Each leads to a larger version Captions Basic functionality Do it from within a post or page Use the Add Media button

24. NextGEN Gallery NOT MULTISITE COMPATIBLE! But it works great on individual sites. A fairly complex plugin with lots of features and customizations. Gather images into galleries Gather galleries into albums Different views

25. Creating a NextGEN Gallery

26. Working With A Gallery

27. A Basic Gallery View

28. Slideshow View

29. Working With Albums When have more than one Gallery, you can comyou bine them into Albums.

30. Manage Albums Name and create a new album Drag-and-Drop galleries or other albums

31. Using Your Galleries and Albums Look for the green button on your edit screen The popup window lets you do anything:

32. Adding an Album

33. And there you are.

34. Contact Us Gather information File uploads Storage Activate the “Contact Form 7” plugin Start to build your form

38. Include Your Form on a Page

40. Social Media For following, – Invite your blog readers to follow or like your Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. page Sharing, – Make it easy for people to share your stories on social media sites Integrating – Including social media content within your blog

41. Including a Twitter feed Using the Twitter Widget Pro plugin. Pull Content In

42. Set up API keys You’ll need to log into the Twitter Developer section to do this. Instructions are included on the other tabs More details are available at blogs.shu.edu

43. Configure the Widget Add it to the widget area of your choosing Account name Title Specifications and options

44. Advanced Twitter Feed Integration Uses full API credentials, which can be tricky to set up Avatars, additional links, more options

45. Recent Facebook Posts

46. Tumblr, RSS, YouTube, Flickr Feeds

47. Push Content Out Microblog Poster WP Twitter Autopost

48. Set Up The Ones You Like

49. Sharing Is Good Clockwise from top left Share Buttons by AddToAny Social Sharing Toolkit Facebook, Twitter & Google+ Social Widgets Monarch

50. Social Sharing Toolkit Can add icons for 26 different social media presences Build Followers

51. Other Widgets EP Social Widget Theme Support Accurax Social Media Widget Subscribe by Email Monarch

52. What Makes A Great Site? Useful Interesting Timely Google Facebook YouTube Yahoo! Baidu Wikipedia Windows Live Amazon.com Tencent QQ Twitter

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