WordPress Tip of the Day #0025

Title: Creating an About Us Page

Creating an about us page is extremely important and practical, it’s somewhere that people go to see who is behind what they are reading, to know if they should keep coming back and just how serious it is.

Often times it’s also what people use to describe you or your company to others, and when people ask you what you or your company does, you can send them to the about page.

A great place to learn what should be included in your about page is a post over at ProBlogger.net called “Add an About Page to Your Blog“.

Another great article about these types of pages is over at Smashing Magazine, it’s more for inspiration as it’s a gallery type post titled “Best Practices For Effective Design Of About me Pages“.

WordPress Website of the Day #0025

Title: WP Beginner

Address: http://www.wpbeginner.com

WordPress Relationship: Uses WordPress, About WordPress

Click here to visit this website!

About the website:

WPBeginner is a WordPress resource site which was founded by Syed Balkhi in July 2009. WPBeginner is a subsidiary of Uzzz Productions. The main goal of this site is to provide quality tips, tricks, hacks, and other resources for the WordPress community. Because most other WordPress sites are maintained by developers, there was a lack of focus on beginners. Here at WPBeginner, we try to explain each tutorial thoroughly, so users of all levels can understand it. We provide support for tutorials and tips that we have shared on this site, via email and/or through comments.

We answer any WordPress questions that beginners may have via social media networks, and emails. WPBeginner is a community based site therefore most articles are requested by our users. If you do not find something on our site, use the Suggestion form and write to us. If you are interested in contributing to the community, then we welcome you to write for us.

There is a misconception that WordPress is only for blogs. WordPress is a publishing platform which can function as a robust CMS as well. Another goal of this site is to attract other users to get started with WordPress. If you are not convinced that WordPress is the best solution for you, then you must check out our article: why you should use WordPress.

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0025

Title: TweetMeme Retweet Button

Author: TweetMeme

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

The TweetMeme Retweet button is the defacto standard in retweeting – used by some of the biggest websites in the world including Techcrunch.com, PerezHilton.com, Break.com, CNET.com, Wired, Time Magazine and hundreds of other massive brands, in total it is installed on over 100,000 websites around the globe.

“The Tweetmeme button is a fantastic way for our readers to engage with our stories and signals which posts are a hit with the Twitter community. The button has been a valuable addition to our site and consistently drives reader engagement.” Pete Cashmore, Mashable.com

Easily allows your blog post or page to be retweeted. It provides a live count of how many times your post/page has been retweeted throughout Twitter.

New

• Hashtag support (which are automatically taken from your post tags)
• Ability to control the length of the tweets

Features

• Live count of tweets from Twitter
• Allows you to change the source which you retweet, E.g. “RT @yourname “
• Easily installation and customisation
• Quicker loading times for the buttons
• Better integration, allowing custom titles, hashtags and URL shortner
• Removes the default “RT @tweetmeme”
• Ability to control the length of the tweets (through the new spaces parameter)
• Integrates with WordPress MU