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Category: Site Design and Functionality

  • Simple I-Paper Plugin

    Simpler iPaper Embed WordPress Plugin Want to share a PDF or PPT document with your readers without having to send an attachment via email? The Simpler iPaper plugin is an effective way to add a document to your blog posts or pages. You … Continue reading →

  • Widget Context

    The Widget Context WordPress plugin provides extra control over sidebar widgets. It is really useful for selectively displaying certain widgets in the sidebar on only specific pages. This is helpful for drawing the focus to content on your content pages and filling the sidebar with social media on the blog page. Though it works well…

  • Subscription Options

      The Subscription Options plug-in is available to all Commons members from the dashboard of their blogs (just click on “Plugins” in the left-hand menu and search for “subscription options”). The plugin will help you create icons like this, which … Continue reading →

  • How to Add New Users to a Site

    A site can be configured to have one or many contributors, and WordPress allows granularity in the permissions users are assigned. Listed below are roles and their permissions: Administrator – has access to all the administrative duties Editor – can … Continue reading →

  • WIKI INC

    Using the WordPress plug-in “WIKI INC” you can include wiki content in your blog post or page. After installing, on your post or page edit screen, scroll down to the Wiki Inc section and fill in the wiki site (must be MediaWiki sites like Wikipedia) and the name of the wiki page Continue reading →

  • WordPress Tutorials & Links

    WPCandy tutorials – WPCandy has many useful tutorials that provide tips on configuring your blog. FLOSS – general how-to manual for WordPress (in TWIKI format) WordPress.org – Here you will find complete documentation for WordPress, including available plug-ins and themes … Continue reading →

  • How to Detect and Avoid Spam

    Introduction Authors love to get feedback from those who read their posts, but how can they ensure that the comments are genuine? Spammers comment on site posts to get their URLs posted on legitimate sites, and increase their Google rankings. … Continue reading →

  • WordPress Plugins

    WordPress uses plugins to extend the core functionality of sites. There are over ten thousand plugins which have been developed by the WordPress Community. The Commons provides access to a curated subset of this these plugins. These plugins are installed … Continue reading →

  • WordPress Themes

    Themes control the look and feel of your WordPress site.  When you first create a site, you pick a site template and that template controls which theme is automatically activated. No matter what template you choose, you can still change … Continue reading →