Here we are discussing the various types of content managements systems available to you. There are several others out there, but these four are the more popular ones with a pretty large public support.
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Content Management Systems
Feb17CMS Part I: Do you need a CMS?
Feb04First of all, what is a CMS, anyway?
CMS stands for content management system. It is a system used to support the development, management, distribution and publishing of content on your website. But is it CMS suitable for your website?
Like any system, CMS has its pros and cons. Let’s run them down before we come into conclusion if a CMS is for you.
Content Management Systems Pros & Cons
Top 10 Favorite WordPress Plugins
Oct26Whew! WordPress has made some great strides these past couple of years and GlobalSpex has been moving many new customers toward this content management and blog application lately. It’s free and very easy to install.
We’ve learned that there are some basic plugins that should be installed with each wordpress website. These are administrative plugins that make managing your wordpress a bit easier. Be careful as each WordPress website is unique and could have custom code or plugins that render some plugins useless.
Always test before using any plugin and BACKUP!
- All in One SEO Pack
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines. It allows you to create unique title, description, and keyword tags. Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs - cforms ii
cforms is a powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. - pageMash
Customize the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output. Great tool to quickly re-arrange your page menus. - Ultimate Google Analytics
Adds Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog without making changes to your template. The plugin can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links using the FREE Google analytics application. - WordPress Database Backup
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. Be sure to follow the instructions for security. - WP htaccess Control
provides an interface to add custom htaccess rules to the htaccess file generated by WordPress. It also includes an improved and much more stable version of Custom Author Permalink. - Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu
All admin links are shown in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. Makes moving to different pages easier. - Google XML Sitemaps
All admin links are shown in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. Makes moving to different pages easier. - Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. - WordPress Automatic Upgrade. WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org.
Add or Edit a Photo in WordPress
Sep28This tutorial reviews the process to add and edit a photo in your WordPress blog post or page. It doesn’t matter which you choose to add your photo to b/c the process is the same.
This tutorial reviews the following:
- Adding a photo or graphic.
- Editing the style of your graphic.
- Review of adding and editing alternate text.
- Adding a caption to your photo.
- Adding a margin (or padding) around your image.
- Adding a border around your image.
- Finding images that you’ve already uploaded.
Edit a WordPress Page
Sep28This is a tutorial describing how to make changes to your WordPress page.
40 Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks
Sep24Thanks to Hongkiat.com. This is a wonderful list for web designers and website owners. It helps compile all the neat tricks and design elements that a WordPress website can do beyond the standard install and configuration. If you are website owner and not sure what you would like your website to do, this list can help you explain to your designers, “see, just like they do here.”
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/
Remove the ‘Home’ Title on the Homepage
Jun03< ?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>< ?php } else{ ?>
< ?php the_title(); ?>< ?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'sandbox'),'','') ?>< ?php } ?>
Place this code in the Page.php of your WordPress template.
Look for the <h1> </h1> or <h2></h2> tags and PHP code calling for the Title.
Houston Racing Triathlon Club
May17The new Houston Racing Triathlon website went live! We are very excited and so was the group. The site is completely based on WordPress, a content management system (cms). This will allow the group to change webmasters without the new person having to have special software or skills.
Included were video tutorials that GlobalSpex prepared to help understand each section of the site and how to make changes. For example, the sponsors section section is shown in 2 place (the right column animated and the sponsor page with logos), a simple e-commerce tool, and widget that pulls event photos from Picasa.
Adding Camtasia Video to WordPress
Apr10Whew! After a couple of hours of searching, I finally figured out how to add my Camtasia 6 output to my WordPress blog.
- Download and install the Kimili plugin.
- Add the [
kml_flashembed movie="/path/to/video/video-file_controller.swf" height="250" width="400" fvars="csConfigFile=/path/to/video/video-file_config.xml" /] to my post or page.
Note: What I couldn’t understand was that you don’t call the myfile.mp4 file but the controller.swf file. This will embed your video and the controller.
