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WordPress Fans:Your Email Management Plugins

author Topmaker | timestamp May 15, 2010 | categories 18 Comments

We all have our Ups and Downs when it comes to Email management, we are  overwhelmed by Spam, do not have enough time to reply to most of our messages and most of all: We do not know how to manage our EMail!

Here are Email Management Plugins (EMP’s) that will help you do some of the mundane tasks of keeping your Email going, gives you reports on how your Emails are performing and simplifies a lot of your WordPress blog administrator work:

HTML Emails

Author Description:

“Converts the default plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails…”

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Peter’s Collaboration E-mails

“Enhance the “Submit for Review” feature for Contributor users. This plugin enables automatic e-mails to the relevant users at the different post status transitions: when posts are pending; when they are approved or scheduled; and when their statuses are changed from “pending” back to “draft“.

Features:

  • When a Contributor user submits an article for review: The plugin e-mails a list of approvers of your choice, letting them know that there is a post ready for review, and giving them a link to edit the post.
  • When a post is approved: The original Contributor user gets an e-mail saying that their post has been approved and who it was approved by. If the post was directly published, the author is given a link to read the post as the whole world sees it. If the post is scheduled to be published, the author is informed of the time that their post will go live. When the post does go live, the author will get another e-mail informing him / her of that.
  • When a post’s status is changed back to “draft” from “pending”: The original Contributor user gets an e-mail saying that their post has been reverted back to a draft, along with a link to edit and re-submit the post.
  • When used with Peter’s Post Notes on WordPress 2.7 and higher, users can leave notes to accompany the e-mails for each step in the workflow…”

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Mini Mail Dashboard Widget

Author Description:

“Send and receive e-mail messages on the administration panel and optionally receive SMS messages containing the sender, subject and (part of) the text when new messages arrive…”

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SB Welcome Email Editor

Author Description:

“It simply adds a new admin page that has a few options for the welcome email and gives you a list of hooks to use in the text to make the email a little more personal…”

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Email Log

Author Description:

“Logs every email sent through WordPress. Compatiable with WPMU too. The logged emails will be stored in a separate table and can be viewed from the admin interface. While viewing the logs, the emails can be filtered or sorted based on the date, to address, subject etc…”

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Configure SMTP

Author Description:

“Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending e-mail via SSL/TLS (such as GMail). Use this plugin to customize the SMTP mailing system used by default by WordPress to handle outgoing e-mails. It offers you the ability to specify:

  • SMTP host name
  • SMTP port number
  • If SMTPAuth (authentication) should be used.
  • SMTP username
  • SMTP password
  • If the SMTP connection needs to occur over ssl or tls..”

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Filter Email Notifications

Author Description:

“A simple plugin that stops WordPress from sending you email notifications for comments that have been approved manually…”

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WP SimpleMail

Author Description:

“WP SimpleMail allows you to access an email account from your WordPress Dashboard. All it requires is that you have access to an IMAP compatible email account…”

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No Disposable Email

Author Description:

“This plugin prevent people from registering with a disposable email addresses like the ones provided by mailinator. It protects your most important asset, your registered user base, by preventing contamination by fake accounts. This plugin working principle is similar to spam blacklists…”

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Export emails

Author Description:

“Adds an export emails page that allows you to export the email list of your subscribers and the email list of all the people who left comments. That way you can use a more sophisticated mailing list or autoresponder system to communicate with the people interested in your website…”

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Commenter Emails

Author Description:

“Extract a listing of all commenter emails. Via the admin page added by the plugin, Comments -> Commenter Emails, the admin is presented with the following information:

  • A total count of all unique commenters to the blog.
  • A button to download the entire list of unique commenters’ email addresses in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
  • The entire list of unique commenters’ email addresses…”

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Mass Mail

Author Description:

Mass Mail is a very flexible plugin that helps bloggers to mass e-mails to users groups that he wants. You can configure the plugin to send mails to users that registered to your website, people that made a donation for you, people that subscribed to your blog or many other groups, there is no limit you should only configure the plugin.

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As you can see; some of those plugins requires a bit of knowledge about How  Email works, but you can start with the simple ones and work your way up,  and if you have a busy blog, you would be glad to use them!



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WordPress Fans:Your Social Media Plugins,Part II

author Topmaker | timestamp May 4, 2010 | categories 18 Comments

…. Continued from Part I

Although your single buttons and widgets for Social Media work fine; they tend to conflict with your WordPress theme at times and you end up with a mosiac of a post……the solution?

All In One Social Media Plugins!

They vary form the subtle such as Sociable and Tell-A-Friend; to the bold and well…Sexy as in SexyBookmarks. You can place them in your posts and pages or at your Sidebar without a need to play around with the code.

Here they are in no particular order:

All in one FaceBook Plugins for WordPress

Author Description:

“All in one FaceBook Plugins for WordPress including like button, Recommendations, Activity Feed, Like Box, Facepile, Live Stream, Comments, Login with Faces and will be continued with facebook…”

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AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Author Description:

“Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history…”

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SexyBookmarks

Author Description: “Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. Our sole aim was to stray away from the “in the box” thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers…”
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Sociable

Author Description:

“Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.”

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Tell-a-Friend Widget Plugin

 

Author Description:

“We think our Tell-a-Friend widget might be the best word-of-mouth marketing tool in existence. Tell-a-Friend makes it possible for your site visitors to share your content with their friends without directing them away from your site. Tell-a-Friend synchs with their IM, email in the context of the content they’re sharing without those tedious pop-up forms that require manual input.”

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Not quite done. ..Yet!



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WordPress Fans:How to load your theme faster,Update

author Topmaker | timestamp January 8, 2010 | categories 6 Comments

One important factor in the new and improved Google criteria for web sites ranking is : Faster Page Loading Time. The time between the click on your site link on some page (including Google Search results) or a web address window on some browser and the Done! Remark on the browser taskbar. Those precious seconds that you are working hard to make smaller and smaller!

You’ve probably read this post:

WordPress Fans: How to load your theme faster

Took my advice to heart and made the necessary changes; but now what?  You would ask:

  • How do I test my page load time in Real-Time?
  • How fast would my theme load on my readers PC, what if they have not-so-fast web connections?

The answer is: Full Page load test tool at Pingdom.com!

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A Free,  simple: Enter your URL here!  And you get a detailed second by second graph on how your WordPress blog is loading in Real-Time and where are those weak spots that are dragging your Page Load Time down into ( and I saw it happen)… Gasp…half minutes!

This test will open your eyes and make you see your blog in a new prospective. Starting from your Style Sheet and your HTML and not ending with those lovely images that you have on your blog or that widget that is living in your sidebar, almost everything is there, with a brief legend that shows:

 

 

• Total loading time: in seconds, the smaller the better, there, I said it again! • Total objects: in KB, Aim for less • External objects: in KB, Less is better. • (X)HTML: in KB, your page code. • RSS/XML: if you are displaying Any feed from another web site or blog.  • CSS: SyleSheet count in KB, some Plugin stylesheets are included here. • Scripts: in KB, including External Java Scripts, , try to combine them if possible. • Images: in KB, should be the largest portion of Load Time; Optimize them for less KB’s. • Plugins count • And even Redirected links!

You will see a Measurement Bar with: Yellow, Green and Blue sections:

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• Yellow  is Pingdom.com part of the test. • Green is connection time and it is up to your web hosting server and how fast it is, • Blue is your main focus because it measures the time between loading of the first byte in your page and the last,  needless to say:  If that blue section is long; you have a candidate to work on.   As for the Red notes: Those are to draw your attention to entry(s) that are hurting your Page Load Time and a sign for you to slash or at least find a work-around them, and finally Timed out note means you really have to work on that entry!

So if you are still working on improving your readers experience when they visit your blog, Shave those seconds away and keep testing till you see them get smaller and smaller; your readers will appreciate it and will be back for seconds…visits that is!



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WordPress Meets Marketing:Affiliate Tools Plugins

author Topmaker | timestamp December 19, 2009 | categories 4 Comments

As Internet Marketing grow everyday and the figures for Online Shopping sales climbs into billions of dollars; the marketing and sales processes had to work harder to catch up and they became more in demand. For WordPress those processes come in the shape of plugins!

WordPress Affiliates Tools Plugins is a growing collection of plugins that provide help for any blogger who wants to market and promote products Physical or Digital by inserting Affiliate Links and ads throughout his/her WordPress blog.  they range from the simple to the expert level.

The key features I was looking for when researching affiliate Tools Plugins were:

  • Control: More options to control Where, How many and How your affiliates links will show in your blog.
  • Tracking: Robust reports about how your affiliate marketing efforts are doing;  preferably in real-time.
  • Compatiability: With WordPress plugins and other forms of advertisment such as Google AdSense.
  • Support: Quality and response time.

Those are some of those plugins that made it:

WPMarketer Plugin

Author Description

“WPMarketer is a powerful suite of tools that extend the WordPress platform, enabling you to manage and track all of your online marketing and advertising efforts directly from your WordPress admin panel. “

Features:

  • Build a Performance Marketing category and link hierarchy using HTML text, HTML image and JavaScript “Link Types”
  • Easily add any kind of link or Ad to your WordPress posts and pages from Adsense to HTML or JavaScript Affiliate links/ads/banners, etc.
  • Auto Link or insert our simple tags in your posts and pages
  • Build your own “In Links”, which lets you auto link keywords on your posts and pages to earn money
  • Affiliate Link masking/cloaking option with “pretty” internal URLs feature
  • Follow/Nofollow option for text and image links
  • Google Adwords conversion tracking
  • Link/Ad click tracking
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MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate

Author Description

“What makes MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate so powerful? Not only it keeps track of all your affilaite links and helps you manage them, it offers you a smart range of features full of ease and flexibility in use and control.”

Features:

  •  A link that looks original and distinct.
  •  Manage Links by Groups.
  •  Convert ordinary keywords into money making affiliate links.
  •  Avoid commission theft.
  •  Insert Affiliate Links Directly.
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WP Affiliate Pro

Author Description

“Instantly Identify, Manage & Track Your Highest Performing Affiliate Links Over Your Entire WordPress Blog In no time at all. Make it easy to insert blended, highly effective affiliate links all over your blogs.”

Features:

  • Earn more by promoting your high paying links more than the lesser paying ones.
  • advanced tracking reports.
  • control how many affiliate links you want on each page of your blog.
  • Add 1000′s of affiliate links straight into your blog content with no editing and no HTML knowledge. customize the color and style of your affiliate links.
  • Dynamic link rendering
  • Integrates seamlessly into any blog
  • compatible with AdSense and other forms of contextual advertising
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Needless to say that there are more Affiiate Tools Plugins out there; but they are Product or Vendor specific for Amazon, EBay…etc, and they are a snap to find if you searched for” Affiliates “ in your Add New feature on your WordPress Plugins dashborad!



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