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WordPress features, customization, themes, and plugins discussed at the Marketing Technology blog

Social Metrics in your WordPress Dashboard

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Social Metrics Pro

Social Metrics Pro is a paid WordPress plugin that tracks tweets, likes, pins, +1s and more right from your WordPress dashboard! Features of Social Metrics Pro Track Social Signals You Care About – Dashboard to centrally monitor social activity across leading social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn. You choose which networks you wish to track. Colors to Indicate Relative Popularity – Social Metrics Pro sports Excel-like conditional formatting. Posts with highest number of shares show up green. Posts with low social media activity show up … Continue reading →

Migrate from CMS to CMS

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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CMS Migration

WordPress, Joomla, K2, Drupal, TYPO3, Blogger, Tumblr… have you ever needed to migrate from one site to the other? We have and it’s often torturous and requires a ton of manual effort. Not only that, but even once you have the content transferred, it often doesn’t deal with users, category and tag taxonomies, URL slugs, comments or images. In short, it’s always been a lot of work… until now. Alex Griffis, the CTO of MaxTradeIn (fantastic site for trading in your car), told me about CMS2CMS tonight. CMS2CMS has actually … Continue reading →

Don’t Blame WordPress

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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WordPress-broken

90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep, deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the founder of WordPress who largely deflects the attention on security issues with the CMS. While folks can change their administrative login from admin, the biggest benefit of WordPress has … Continue reading →

The Best Marketing Mobile Application! Version 3

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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mtb-iphone-v3

The incredible team at Postano has done it again, surpassing all of my expectations of a great mobile application with Version 3 of the Marketing Technology blog. I believe it’s the best Marketing iPhone App out there (Android coming)! First up is the very slick redesign that incorporates a Facebook-like left navigation. It makes it simple to scroll and select the category or media you’d like to navigate to – including our Podcasts, Videos and Events – while maximizing the viewport when reading a single article. It’s a beautiful and … Continue reading →

Create, Test and Increase Subscriptions With Beautiful Popups

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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pippity-settings

While many people don’t like popups, most visitors realize that the cost of free advice and content on a website may just be a simple popup asking you to subscribe. In the past, the code required to develop and design a popup wasn’t that difficult, but factoring in the ability to test each design made it a much more difficult implementation. Pippity is looking to solve this with a unique popup plugin that offers a ton of customization. Built in Popup and Popup Bar Design Directory Create your first popup … Continue reading →

WordPress.com? Here is why I would use it first.

Posted on by John Blue
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Why WordPress.com

WordPress is one of the major blogging platforms available and comes in two forms, WordPress.com and WordPress.org. First form, WordPress.com, is a commercial service that offers free and paid blogging tools (using WordPress of course) on the web. WordPress.com uses the software as a service model (a.k.a. SaS), maintaining the blogging software tools and taking care of things like security and content delivery (bandwidth, storage, etc.). The second form, WordPress.org, is the community that helps develop and maintain the open source version of the WordPress software. The whole of the … Continue reading →