Sharebar – Must have WordPress plugins

Sharebar is a sidebar with buttons to the social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, Google +1 and more. It’s great for involving social signals to your website for SEO and more traffic. This is the first video of Must Have WordPress Plugins featuring the best WordPress plugins which I recommend everyone installs. Welcome to another video, on must have WordPress plugins. Today’s must have WordPress plugin is Sharebar. Sharebar adds a sidebar or a vertical box to the left side of a blog post and it adds the popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Digg. So when people are reading your post and they enjoy it, then they can click any of the social icons on the sidebar to increase your traffic. To install sharebar, from your dashboard you need to hover over plugins, click add new, in the search term area you then type ‘share’ and ‘bar’ then press search plugins. It should be the first one that comes up, so when you see it click install now. Click ok, and it will now start installing the plugin, when it’s finished installing the plugin just click activate and now when you hover over settings, you should see the sharebar icon. Here you can edit the plugin, add some buttons, it’s all up to you. Now, when I go back to my website, open up a post, you can now see the social icons as a sidebar down below. So as you can see its kind of missing Google plus. So, if I Google, ‘Google plus one code’, click the first link. I’m going to change the annotation to bubble

Using Ubuntu – Part 1: Intro, Interface, and Codecs

The first in a series of videos introducing Ubuntu 10.10 as a viable alternative as an everyday OS. In this part, I introduce the operating system, give some pointers on the interface, and how to get the system set up for sound/video and the web.

Top 5 – Open Source Utility Software

From a free antivirus to a sweet FTP – there are many ways to improve the performance of your computer for free! In this OS ALT I talk about some of the best open source utility software available today. Join the chat: bit.ly Get the Free Utility Software here: FileZilla – filezilla-project.org Clamtk / Clamav – clamtk.sourceforge.net Wireshark – www.wireshark.org Windirstat – sourceforge.net Kdirstat – launchpad.net Gparted – gparted.sourceforge.net

Creating a Landing Page inside your WordPress theme

I originally created this training video for one of my clients, it was used to train their IT department – I decided to upload it here because I figured there may be others out there that can benefit from this technique. In this video, I show how to create a landing page that can be customized and used for pages. I set up Multisite to show how the landing page can be used for each sub-site.

How to use WordPress Post Voting Plugin

Download Post Voting Plugin: premium.wpmudev.org This video shows how the plugin looks and works. Simple to install, and once activated, the default voting options are added to your posts. You can customize the location of the icons, their appearance and who can vote. Also in the WordPress Dashboard you can see the Post Voting Statistics, and there is a Top Rated Posts widget that you can use to display to the public. Gauge the popularity of your site’s content by letting your visitors or users vote on that content! Download Post Voting Plugin: premium.wpmudev.org