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WordPress Client Login Plugin
The Electric Studio Client Plugin is a WordPress plugin for creating a password protected client area on your website. You can add clients to groups, and give them access to their area only.
It’s available from the WordPress plugin repository. To install, please just search for it in your WordPress admin interface and install like any other plugin.
This plugin allows you to do the following things:
- Add users of role ‘Client’
- Groups Clients together
- Restricted content to a user or group
- Add custom fields to Clients.
WordPress Download Counter Plugin
The WordPress Download Counter from Electric Studio plugin allows you to keep count of which files are being downloaded from your site.
Need to keep track of what files are downloaded the most form your WordPress website? This plugin integrates seamlessly with WordPress.
WordPress Auto Post Expire Plugin
The free WordPress Auto Post Expire from Electric Studio plugin allows you to set a expiry date on a post. At the set date, the post will change status into a draft and no longer display on your site.
The administration panel for this plugin that allows you to choose which post type (including custom post types) you would like to the plugin to be available on.
The Auto Post Expire plugin is great when you have posts about events, offers or other time sensitive information that needs to be automatically removed from your website.
You can download the plugin at the official WordPress site.
WordPress Flickr Mosaic Plugin
Electric Studio are proud to have released another WordPress Plugin, the Flickr Mosaic.
This new plugin pulls in the latest images from your Flickr RSS feed, and then shows the thumbnails as a mosaic. You can place this function either in the sidebar or anywhere in your template file you wish to show it.
Three simple steps to get the best out of WordPress and SEO
If being found on Google, Bing and other search engines is a priority, and it usually is, then WordPress is fantastic straight out of the box. It only needs a few tweaks to the settings, a couple of plug-ins and a few checks to become truly incredible for search engine optimisation (SEO). Here’s a few tips from us at Electric Studio.
1. Getting the core settings rights
When you install WordPress for the first time, there are a few things you should do to ensure a smooth ride up the rankings.
1.1. Activate permalinks
Permalinks take advantage of a server function called mod rewrite to convert your URL’s to a human readable structure based on a hierarchical structure for pages, or a date, category and tag based structure for posts. Without it the URL’s will show a PHP search string like ?p=6 rather than /parent/child/grandchild which is much more user friendly and better for SEO. You activate permalinks under Settings > Permalinks. We usually choose the Months and Name option.
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