Eat, Pray, WordPress Designer Love…in that order. Maybe add some desk calisthenics in there. No, but seriously I wanna talk to you today about some of my secrets I use as a WordPress designer, and how I go about doing some of the little things I do. Sometimes I forget the simple things people want to do to their WordPress site, so hi ho cheerio let’s go.

#1 Adding social icons to your sidebar
Go download some social icons, 2 places I use: Iconsmysitemyway, and Iconspedia. *Tip: when downloading your icons, it is best to go ahead and download the size you are wanting to use, and download all in the same size so it saves you some time.

#2 Go to your WordPress dashboard, and go to the Media tab on the left, and select Add New.

#3 Click Select Files

#4 Browse your computers file and select the icons *Tip: To add more than 1 social icons at once make sure all icons are in the folder and hold shift+click icon and you can select more than one at once

#5 Click Show

#6 Copy File url

#7 Go to Appearance>Widgets *Tip: press Control+click to open this in a new tab so you still have those other file urls open in a separate tab

#8 In Widgets, select a text widget, drag and drop it into the sidebar

#9 Add the .html <a href=”http://yourlinklocation.com”><img src=”filerul”></a> *Tip: the href is where you want your social icon to link to and the img src is the path you just copied so you can paste it in there

#10 Save it, and go view your sidebar

#11 Rinse, wash, repeat and add each social icon, one right after another in your sidebar, and it will appear right next to one another. Like so: <a href=”http://yourlinklocation.com”><img src=”filerul”></a> <a href=”http://yourlinklocation.com”><img src=”filerul”></a> <a href=”http://yourlinklocation.com”><img src=”filerul”></a>

#12 This also applyies to ANY image you would like to appear in your sidebar, if you don’t want it linked just don’t use the ahref,

Thanks for joining me in my WordPress Designer Secrets Revealed- How to add social media icons to sidebar

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In this tutorial I am going to show you how to add cool floating social icons to your Thesis 1.7 site for WordPress.

I used Trasy’s site as my example. Below is the video, and below the video is the code to copy and paste into your custom_functions and custom_css.

Copy and paste this code for the cool floating social icons into your Custom Functions ( the pink is where you should type in your own information:

/* SAVE THIS IN CUSTOM_FUNCTIONS.PHP FILE */
add_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'sitewide_feedback_buttons');

/**************************************************************************/
/* FLOATING SOCIAL PROFILES ON SIDE OF SITE  */
/***************************************************************************/
function sitewide_feedback_buttons() { ?>
    <div id="feedback">
        <a href="http://www.twitter.com/yourusername" id="twitter" target="_blank" title="Follow @twitterid on Twitter">Follow @yourtwitterid on Twitter</a>
        <a href="http://www.facebook.com/yourusername" id="rss" target="_blank" title="Check out Your Name Facebook Page">Check out Your Name Facebook Page</a>
        <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/contact" id="email" title="Contact Your Name by Email">Contact Your Name by Email</a>
        <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/yourusername" id="linkin" title="View Your Name LinkedIn Profile" target="_blank">View Your Name LinkedIn Profile</a>
        <a href="http://www.youtube.com/yourusername" id="skype" title="Watch my Videos on YouTube" target="_blank">Watch my Videos on YouTube</a>
    </div>
<?php }

Copy and paste this code for the cool floating social icons into your Custom CSS( the pink is where you type in your own image path)( If you would like to change where the image floats you can change top:10% to top:20% to move it down, you can put any % you want to give it the position you want:

/* SAVE THIS IN CUSTOM.CSS FILE */
.custom #feedback {background: transparent; width: 3.2em; position: fixed; top: 10%; left: 0.55%;}
.custom #feedback a {display: block; text-indent: -9999px; height: 3.2em;}
.custom #feedback #twitter {background: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourimage.png')}
.custom #feedback #rss {background: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourimage.png')}
.custom #feedback #email {background: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/contact-new.png')}
.custom #feedback #linkin {background: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/linkedin.png')}
.custom #feedback #skype {background: url('http://www.yourdomain.com/images/youtube.png')}

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Firefox add-ons are little mini-programs for your Firefox browser, kind of like plugins for a WordPress website. They help you do all sorts of fabulous things, like inspecting .css and php elements and changing them in the browser before actually coding it into your site. How cool is that!?

The firefox add-ons that I am sharing with you today are:

1. Firebug -The most popular and powerful web development tool

• Inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time
• Use the most advanced JavaScript debugger available for any browser
• Accurately analyze network usage and performance
• Extend Firebug and add features to make Firebug even more powerful
• Get the information you need to get it done with Firebug.

2. Colorzilla-Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Palette Viewer and other colorful goodies for your Firefox

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I tried out the internet explorer tab, but I thought it kind of sucked and was inaccurate :p

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I get about 1 inquiry about someone wanting to know what they can do to optimize their website. I’ll reply with one answer…are you ready? WordPress!

Then the next statement I hear is, “But Rachael I already spent a lot of money on this site are you really telling me I can’t use it?” Sorry folks, sadly but truly that static .html site really isn’t going to give you the results you deserve. Why? You may ask. Every time you make a blog post you are adding an additional page to your site. Google deems a valuable site 25 pages or more. So, while you may have stuffed your pages full of terms you “think Google likes” you really aren’t scoring major points. Your home, contact, and about us pages aren’t enough to pump your site full of valuable content or what I like to call the “pixie dust” of you keyword ranking tools.

On the other side of that is when you make your pages each page is specifically designated for the term you are trying to rank for, not 20 or 30 terms on one page which looks “extra special” in the eyes of Mr. Matt Cutts the Google SEO God.

Below is an example of Terry Thrower’s website. His “theme keyword” as I like to call it is “handyman az” We use it on the homepage, blog category, and also as a post, SEE! in 3 different pages all centered around that 1 phrase, He also has about 40 other niche phrases, but I just created this site for him last month, so give it some time.

#7 after 1 month!

So, if you are interested in learning more about converting to WordPress please contact me.

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I see it everywhere. The headings on craigslist read ” WordPress Designer” on the computer services tab. Seems like a lot of old static website designers have just jumped on the next money making bandwagon. I don’t blame them. It isn’t their fault, but what about the client? Is it really fair to claim you are something you are not, especially when you are charging a good chunk of money for that service.The main point of using WordPress is for SEO and social media. I talked to my dad the other day, and he said he went to a tweet up and someone was talking about Social Media. A crowd member asked, “How long have you been researching Social Media”? The presenter replied, “3 months”. Now, I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust my “baby” ( my business) with someone who has only been a Worpress Designer for 3 months! Are you kidding me? So I wanted to show you what you need to look for when trying to find a WordPress Designer.

What to look for when getting a good WordPress Designer implementing SEO

• Do they have any proof?

• Can they type in a word and have it appear?

• Do they have screen shots of actual results?

• What plugins are they using?

• Are they going to show you reports of keyphrases after they implement them.

• Do they have any testimonials?

• What tools are they using for keyword research?

• How long will what they do last?

Below are some results of my best blogger Darolyn Wall with Woodridge Custom Builders.

She has had such great results with her blog, and we started 2 months ago,

She listened to exactly what I said, and is now ranking for over 100 phrases all on the first and second page of Google.

Here are her results below. This was screen shot was taken on November 4th at 12:30 a.m. The right column shows the position in Google. 1-10 is the first page of Google.

Wordpress Designer Ranking1

Wordpress Designer Ranking2

Wordpress Designer Ranking5

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