The Newbie Helper » wordpress plugins http://www.thenewbiehelper.com Internet Marketing Shouldn't Break The Bank Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:34:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Installing And Using WordPress Plugins http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/installing-and-using-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/installing-and-using-wordpress-plugins/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 20:31:53 +0000 Paul Forcey http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/?p=156 Three Videos In ONE day! I must have spent to long in the sun yesterday.

I have done a video already showing you how to upload wordpress plugins, how to set up semiologic reloaded and one on the general settings in WordPress This last video for today is more on what plugins I use and why, I do also talk about keeping a clean wordpress install being important.

In the video I touch on a plugin that is new to me – Meta Robot by Yoast – he is a very smart cookie and I like all of his plugins that I have had a chance to use so far – if you have time take a look at some of his other ones. http://yoast.com/wordpress/

Click on Image Video Will Start In New Screen

That is all for today, I have covered setting up WordPress initial settings, installing and tweaking a theme and this one talks about plugins.

If you have any questions on any of them please do drop me a comment and I will see what I can do on the next videos.

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A 404 error is what happens when someone comes to a page that isn’t there, maybe you renamed the page, maybe you deleted it, maybe when you were building links to your site you made a spelling mistake and the link goes to a page that isn’t there.

Don’t sit there shaking your head saying it can’t happen to you, I have seen more sites than you would ever believe that have 404 errors being returned. 404′s are bad as it is a waste of traffic, if people don’t find the page they want and are just taken to a blank page (the usual scenario) they can’t buy anything from you!

Luckily enough there are a couple of plugins available that make this all very easy. One will email you everytime there is a 404 problem on your site and the other allows you to do the redirect.

I have done a short video showing you just how easy they are to use and below the video I have put the links to the 2 plugins I use. I am sure there are others that do the same but these are the two I use.

Remember these two plugins are not mine so I can not offer support for them, I do use both of them though.

404 plugin

Redirect plugin

I hope you like the video, please do leave comments below so I can know someone other than my mum reads my stuff, Hi Mum!

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