Plugins – Dennis J. Smith

5 Must Have WordPress Plugins for Marketers

April 29, 2018

I’ve been using WordPress for marketing myself, my courses and my businesses for 7+ years. Before that, I would hard code websites which I had done since the 90’s when living in Seattle. WordPress makes it so easy for anyone to run an online business. However, with so many plugins available, it can be hard finding the best plugin for your needs. I’ve put together this list of 5 WordPress Plugins I use for marketing my various WordPress website. Optin Monster Why do you need it? You need a plugin like Optin Monster to capture lead generation information from the visitor of your website. If you don’t you are missing out on converting those visitors into marketing opportunities. Did you know that 70% of those who visit your website will leave and never come back? Make sure you have a strong lead magnet to offer which makes it easier to get subscribers to opt-in to your list. Where can you get it? Optin Monster ThirstyAffiliates Why do you need it? Besides teaching online courses I run 2 websites to promote the courses of other instructors. Both websites Online Course Coupons and Free Course Daily run this plugin. It’s made affiliate marketing easy for me and I’m just running the most basic version. The plugin lets you cloak links which is important as a marketer because of the long links generated by affiliate marketing programs. I want something simple, clean and that looks like a normal URL and that’s what you get with ThirstyAffiliates. There are add-ons available to give this plugin even more functionality. Where can you get it? ThirstyAffiliates Sumo Why do you need it? I have been using the Sumo tools for a few years now on all my WordPress websites and also teach a course that covers the different tools. Sumo has practically every tool a marketer would want to have out of the gate with a new website. The Sumo tools are designed to grow your email list and grow traffic to your site. The folks at Sumo always have tons of great blog post to give you ways to grow your business. Where can you get it? Sumo Ninja Popups Why do you need it? Ninja Popups is another tool created to help you grow your email list by providing beautiful pop-up forms. Plus it’s available on Themeforest, which is one of my favorite sites for WordPress Themes and Plugins. There are tons of themes to pick from and you can drag and drop elements on the form to create the perfect look. Ninja Popups has A/B testing so you can find out which pop up perform the best on your site. It also is smart and knows when someone is intending to click out of your site and pops up to catch the visitors attention. There are a lot of features packed into this affordable plugin so check it out for yourself and see it in action. Where can you get it? CodeCanyon ConvertKit Why do you need it? Email marketing is at the heart of every successful online business. ConvertKit makes it easy to capture more leads and sell more products by easily embedding email capture forms anywhere. This plugin makes it a little bit easier for those of us using WordPress blogs, by automatically appending a lead capture form to any post or page. If you choose a default form on the settings page, that form will be embedded at the bottom of every post or page (in single view only) across your site. If you wish to turn off form embedding or select a different form for an individual post or page, you can do so within the ConvertKit meta box on the editing form. Finally, you can insert the default form into the middle of post or page content by using the [convertkit] shortcode. I’m giving away my highly rate ConvertKit email marketing course FREE so you can learn more about it and you can try ConvertKit for 14-days while you take the course! FREE CONVERTKIT COURSE TRY CONVERTKIT 14-DAY TRIAL I’ve been using ConvertKit for over 2 years now and it has generated thousands of dollars in revenue for me. Now is your chance to see what ConvertKit can do to help you grow your business. I used ConvertKit along with a Facebook Messenger Chatbot to grow my list by 60 subscribers in just 2 days. See how I did it here. Take the course FREE, subscribe to ConvertKit FREE for 14-days, complete the course and if you stick with ConvertKit I’ll give you 20-minutes of my time every 3-months on Skype to help you with you ConvertKit and email marketing questions. Where Can I Get It? CONVERTKIT WORDPRESS PLUGIN FREE CONVERTKIT COURSE TRY CONVERTKIT 14-DAY TRIAL

Online Learning Courses WordPress Plugin

Free Udemy Course Marketing WordPress Plugin For Udemy Instructors

October 14, 2016

I’m always looking for new ways to promote my own online courses in places other than Facebook Groups or other social media networks. It’s something that I always stress with other online instructors because a Facebook Group might not always be your ideal target audience. I run a group on Facebook “The Online Course Promotion Group: Featuring Udemy, Skillshare and more!” with over 4,000 members but it is hard to tell how many are instructors and how many are there looking for deals on online courses. This plugin is a must have tool if you are an online instructor with a WordPress website. You can download the free version of the plugin or upgrade to the Pro version which gives you more features including connection to your Udemy affiliate program account. Scroll down for more details. Online Learning Courses WordPress Plugin The Online Learning Courses plugin for WordPress allows you to display your Udemy courses on your WordPress website in several different formats including the format displayed above. It can be used to display courses in a post, a page or used in a widget. I use it on my personal site DennisJSmith.com and on OnlineCourseCoupons.com to display the courses of other instructors with the Udemy affiliate program (Available with Pro version). [convertkit form=4900669] You can download the free version of the plugin or upgrade to the Pro version which gives you more features including connection to your Udemy affiliate program account. Features This plugin allows you to display Udemy™ courses and lead your visitors directly to the course pages Display single courses by ID Search for courses by keyword (API keys required) Select between the following layouts: Standard Boxes, Grids & Lists Select between the following styles: Standard, Clean, Light & Dark Two separate widgets for single courses and searches Configuration page for more options Try out the online demo Regular updates and improvements: Go though the changelog Quickstart Examples Single courses: Keyword search: More features with the PRO version The PRO version extends this plugins exclusively with our affiliate link feature and many more: Affiliate Links Masked Links Click Tracking Custom Templates Details and upgrade can be found here. Credits This plugin is not official made or maintained by Udemy™. All data provided through the official Udemy™ API. Live Demo – DennisJSmith.com Live Dem0 – OnlineCourseCoupons.com

30 Popular WordPress Plugins – [INFOGRAPHIC]

June 11, 2013

Whether you are just getting started with WordPress or a seasoned professional it still can be a challenge finding the right plugin. There are over 25,000 plugins available for WordPress and not all of them are kept up-to-date. Here’s a list of 30 popular plugins for WordPress on this infographic I came across on Pinterest. Do you already use any of this? Have a favorite that isn’t listed? I currently use about 6 myself on this site and some of my other sites. This Infographic is Courtesy of WordPress Templates and Designed by Graphs

Amazon Releases Send To Kindle Plugin for WordPress

March 22, 2013

Send To Kindle Plugin for WordPress Amazon’s Send to Kindle Button lets readers save your blogs content to read later on their Kindle, at their convenience. Adding this button to your website opens it up to millions of Kindle customers that want to enjoy your content on their Kindle. Look for the “Send To Kindle” button on this website and enjoy the content on your Kindle anytime. The buttons code can be added to your website by going here or your WordPress website by downloading the plugin for your WordPress site. Features Readers can send posts to multiple Kindles at once. Posts can be saved in the cloud and accessed anytime, everywhere. Configure how the button will look and which page types it will appear on. Use the shortcode [sendtokindle] to place a Send to Kindle button anywhere.

WordPress CBPress Affiliate Internet Marketing Plugin

February 21, 2013

WordPress CBPress Affiliate Internet Marketing Plugin CBPress is a plugin for WordPress that allows internet marketers the ability to sell affiliate marketing products from Clickbank.com on their website. The plugin sells for $27 but one sell on Clickbank would pay for the plugin. The plugin allows you to import Clickbank products and then choose what you want to display on your website. Here on ILearnWP.com we use it for our WP Marketplace to display what we think are the best WordPress products on Clickbank. There are plenty of features and the plugin is easy to setup your own storefront. Check out the video for more information on CB Press.

Timely All-In-One Event Calendar – WordPress Plugin Video Series

January 17, 2013

Timely is an all-in-one event calendar plugin for WordPress. It is currently free and offers a lot of functionality for those looking to add a calendar to their website. In this video I cover information on what the plugin looks like once installed and the back end features available through the WordPress Dashboard. Are there other calendar plugins you have used? Please leave a comment and let other know what you think about Timely. This video was recorded in December of 2012 and Time.ly is still free for the Standard Version 1.9 and there is a pro version 1.9 available for just $75. [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]

7 Solid Plugins For Creating Custom Forms With WordPress

November 13, 2012

A forms plugin with an easy-to-use interface can make the creation of custom forms virtually painless. Whereas form creation used to require HTML coding experience, now just about anybody can set up even the most complex, multi-part forms. The forms we’ve selected here are some of the major players that support powerful custom form builders within the WordPress dashboard. Gravity Forms You can’t talk about WordPress form building plugins without mentioning Gravity Forms. An all-time favorite plugin of WordPress professionals, Gravity Forms goes far beyond your simple contact form. The plugin has tons of free and commercial add-ons that make nearly anything possible, including the ability to create subscriptions, directories, polls, invoices with Freshbooks, integrations with MailChimp, aWeber, Constant Contact and much more. Ninja Forms The lite version of Ninja Forms is available in the WordPress plugin repository and includes an easy-to-use form builder, customized field options, entry management and tons of hooks for developers. Users who upgrade to Pro will be able to implement file uploads, front-end posts submissions, multi-part forms and the ability to save users’ progress. Subscribers receive excellent support with all requests answered within 12 hours or less. Formidable Forms Formidable Forms is another plugin that comes in both a lite and a pro version. Users can easily create forms with a simple drag-and-drop interface. It includes advanced capabilities for users to create posts, pages, and custom posts types with your forms, as well as the ability to manage and edit them from the front-end of your site. Formidable also integrates with reCAPTCHA and Akismet for Spam control. Breezing Forms Breezing Forms is a newer plugin that is unique in that there is no lite version. It boasts a surprising number of robust features for free, including multipage forms, powerful conditional fields without need for Javascript, AJAX file uploads with progress bars, and lots more. Breezing Forms has many of the features that you might normally expect from an enterprise-class forms building plugin. Use it to create simple contact forms, feedback forms, surveys, payment forms, calculations or complex forms. Form Maker Form Maker is available in a free version from the wordpress.org repository and also a commercial version. This plugin allows you to customize the colors, fonts, submit buttons and the size of the form elements. It also allows for custom CSS and Javascript. The form creator is integrated with the standard WordPress editor. The commercial version allows for unlimited fields and offers integration with Google Maps API. Contact Form Manager The Contact Form Manager has a broad appeal and has been downloaded more than 55,000 times with mostly 5 star ratings. It allows you to create multiple custom forms and place them on your site using shortcodes. The plugin includes the ability to send an auto-reply as well as redirect the user upon form submission. It supports all of the most common form elements, has built-in spam protection and essentially includes everything you might want in a simple webform. Visual Form Builder Visual Form Builder is a plugin designed to make the form creation process quick and easy so that the user has no need to edit any PHP, CSS, or HTML. You can add form fields with one click and reorder them via drag and drop. It includes a logic-based anti-SPAM system, confirmations messages that you can customize, the ability to manage form entries in the WordPress dashboard and multiple field layout options. One cool feature of the Visual Form Builder is the ability to duplicate forms with one click. You can also embed multiple forms on posts and pages. The plugin also has quite an extensive FAQ section for troubleshooting and customizing. Check it out and download it for free on WordPress.org. Source: WPMU

WordPress › WordPress Move « WordPress Plugins

April 14, 2012

WordPress Move is a migration assistant for WordPress that is capable of changing the domain name in use and/or migrating your installation to another server either as is or based on your choices. In addition to these, you can use WordPress Move to transfer your database or create backups of your installation. For further information on using the plugin, please refer to the documentation provided with the plugin. via WordPress › WordPress Move « WordPress Plugins.

WordPress Plugins 101– [INFOGRAPHIC]

February 15, 2012

Plugins add extended functionality to your WordPress blog or website. There are thousands of them available and many are free. Below are some of the more popular plugins when getting started with WordPress or you can visit the Plugin Directory and search accordingly. What are some of your favorites? Leave a comment below and let others know which WordPress plugins you think are best or worst.

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