Grab & Save WordPress plugin allow you to use image from remote url and save into your own WordPress media library. By doing so, you never worried if the remote image was removed by its owner. This also save you steps to download the image to local computer and upload again to your own WordPress.

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Featured Image Column

This plugin has no options. It simply adds a column before the title (far left) in the admin posts panel thet show’s the posts featured image if it’s supported and/or exists.

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Color Admin Posts

Change the background colors of the post/page within the admin based on the current status : Draft, Pending, Published, Future, Private. The color change is achieved with a colopicker. After you install, go to settings –> Color Admin Posts and set your colors…

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Admin Post Navigation

This plugin adds “<< Previous” and “Next >>” links to the “Edit Post” admin page, if a previous and next post are present, respectively. The link titles (visible when hovering over the links) reveal the title of the previous/next post. The links link to the “Edit Post” admin page for the previous/next posts so that you may edit them.

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In the past, this kind of functionality has been abstracted from the WooFramework, and was only available within WooThemes themes and it wasn’t very friendly in terms of plugging & playing when switching between themes.  WooThemes ares bundling widgets and functionality from the themes and WooFramework to be more module like. You can install WooDojo in any other theme and then activate WooSidebars and more, this makes it easy to take some awesome Woo functionality around to other themes. Much more should be coming as we go!

The ethos behind WooDojo is to use/include only the functionality you need. For example, if you’d like to have a Tabs widget but don’t need to customize your sidebars, you’d install only the Tabs widget, thus keeping your installation as lean as possible.

The functionality that included in this plugin first release include:

• WooSidebars. Specify custom widget areas for any posts, pages, archives etc. on your site.
• Tabs. Include WooThemes elegant tabber widget in any widget space.
• Shortlinks. Add your URL shortener of choice & easily display shortened URL’s for all posts & pages.
• Custom Code. Easily add custom CSS to your site.
• Login Branding. Replace the default WordPress branding on the login screen with your own brand identity.
• Social Widgets. A collection of widgets to connect to your online social profiles

The big questions is in case I already use a WooTheme, Should I install the WooDojo plugin? Well, it won’t conflict with anything in the WooFramework. and as Woo claims, the functionality that is offered by the plugin will be phased out from framework in the future so you’ll need to install WooDojo plugin anyways in the future..

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Pinterest is a great way to drive traffic to e-commerce sites that sell arts, crafts, home decor, fashion or any other products that picture well… Pinterest is another reason encourage retailers to invest more in images as part of their Content To Commerce marketing strategy and to provide high quality images, it can make all the difference..

Working and understanding is intuative but I recommend reading 56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest (CopyBlogger) a great post that divides users to beginner, intermediate, and black-belt Pinterest users and gives some good tips & ideas that can help you start generating leads from Pinterest.

Ecommerce example - CoolWallArt profile on Pinterest

WordPress Plugin for Pinterest

Pinterest PinBoard Plugin

Pin It on Pinterest WordPress plugin

Dropbox is a simple yet, very powerful cloud file backup and sharing service. you can use it without any special knowledge of computers or internet. Dropbox helps in handling and sharing large files/documents. Dropbox provides 2GB storage for free and extra 250MB for every every friend you invite and register. If you are a heavy user and need more space, you can check out their premium plans.

After you create a Dropbox account, and install it on your computer, it will create a folder named Dropbox that its content will sync with their website and with others that you choose to share data with. Any file you save to the Dropbox folder on your computer, will automatically be in sync with all of your computers that have this application installed. Dropbox makes it super easy to share with others, super easy way to work with suppliers, freelancers or as a small network between your desktop, laptop and/or ipad.

If you just need to move one time large files that are more than the free 2GB that you get from Dropbox, use zeZebra, file transfer application with a great looking interface that lets you transfer large files in a simple and easy-to-use way. It enables you to send files of any size to any person. zeZebra doesn’t store your files on their servers, they don’t know what your files contain, and no one but you and your receivers (with your permission) can view them. It’s a closed circle between you and whoever you share your files or media with.

Example:

[ss_screenshot width='600' site='http://www.zorem.com/']

function wpr_snap($atts, $content = null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
"snap" => 'http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/',
"url" => 'http://www.internoetics.com',
"alt" => 'Image text',
"w" => '400', // width
"h" => '300' // height
), $atts));

$img = '<img src="' . $snap . '' . urlencode($url) . '?w=' . $w . '&h=' . $h . '" alt="' . $alt . '">';
return $img;
}
add_shortcode("snap", "wpr_snap");

Than add this to your theme code or to any post/page

[ss_screenshot width='600' site='http://www.zorem.com/']

For more detailed information check out:

I was working on a new WordPress e-commerce site build with Woocommerce (WooThemes) and I wanted to be able to add custom theme options for promotions, I wanted to add a shipping promo text and to use it in hooks to display on the site and to make it easier to update the promotion text in admin.

Open /includes/theme-options.php file. Inside you should add the following:

$options[] = array( "name" => "Promotion",
"type" => "heading",
"icon" => "layout");

$options[] = array( "name" => "Shipping Promotion",
"desc" => "Shipping Promotion text.",
"id" => $shortname."_sh_promo",
"std" => "",
"type" => "text");

Then you can use your option anywhere in the your theme files using:

$promo=get_option('woo_sh_promo');
$promo1='[sale]'.$promo.'[/sale]'

Rafflecopter allows you to moderate and export the enrtries to excel files and you can use it to integrate your giveaway leads. The tool does not integrate with Mailchimp (or other email marketing services) and this is something that could make it much better, You can state in your rules that when entering the contest that the user is automatically subscibes to the newsletter but it would be nicer to have it as a build with points incentive, but, the option to export email addresses (collected automatically) allows me to send follow up emails to all the participants, announcing the winner and trying to make them engage with other incentives.

Check out the giveaway from Rafflecopter HQ and maybe you will win an iPad2 or one of two Kindle Fires in ‘Rafflecopter Launch Party Giveaway’!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

How to regenerate image thumbnails with Regenerate Thumbnails plugin:

Most of the online shoppers will never buy your products or services online unless they are sure that their details are secured. The SSL certificate is the only way to secure your online transactions.  The tiny padlock in your browser’s web address bar. That padlock alerts your customers that you value the confidentiality of their data. Using an SSL certificate is essential if you wish to have a truly successful e-commerce website.

There are many SSL certificates available,  and you should choose the right SSL certificate for your business, I recomend to contact your Hosting Company, ask them which certificates they can install for you, usually they setup it for you  and it makes life easier.

TEST Your SSL!

After installing the SSL, delete your broswer cache and go into one of your secure pages and check the padlock alert, if it show a green sign secure info, Cool, you are done! If the padlock alerts show red sign, click on it to get a clue of the issues, usually it’s due to issues with the certificate, which can be verified from the following link: http://www.sslshopper.com/index.php?q=ssl-checker.html. if the certificate is ok, it probably means you have CSS/HTML/IMAGE that is being called to the page from non secure source, I would recommend entering your secured URL into the following site to find what is causing the issues: http://www.whynopadlock.com/

Quality Control allows users to create tickets, assign statuses, set priorities, milestones, categories, and tags. Other users can then interact with the tickets, updating their state, milestone, adding comments, and more. Setup one or multiple projects – each with custom user groups to limit access on different projects.

The themes comes with many build-in powerful features and the most important one is their seamless integration with WordPress Multi-site option to created multiple users/projects, you can easily spin off new projects and setup different user groups to control project access.

Don’t spend more time managing your projects with paper lists or excel spreadsheets!

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