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1. 1 Page 1 Approved However removing all the panels was only marginally better than having all of them there What we needed was our own custom panel on the dashboard to personally welcome the clients to their CMS Again we looked around for a plugin to do this but in the end decided to incorporate it into our White Label CMS plugin Most of our builds are actually websites rather than blogs so we prefer to remove all dashboard panels However if your client does have a blog attached to their site then you may consider it necessary to leave some panels on We have found from our own experience that the clients are really Improve Your Processes only interested in any comments left on Write a generic introduction which you their blog posts and that is clearly can reuse in the future with a simple visible on left navigation copy and paste The welcome panel we use also has a link to the clients Google analytics account giving them a better experience by having everything in the one place Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 7 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard Remove Unnecessary Menus One of the biggest problems we have with WordPress is that when you hand the site over to the client there are a lot of menu items even when they logged in as the Editor which are usually not relevant to the clients needs Clutter creates confusion In the White Label CMS we provide a solution for this With one click you2. A BETTER WORDPRESS FOR CLIENTS o VIDEOUSERMANUALS LG AT oT gd oR n ee OEE ee heist ODS E EN Eee ne OS ain aoe ROaEe eet cee tne Eee ert See eae aE ee 2 Setting Up Your Clients DaShboOard ccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 3 Raah LOGOS EEEE E A eases ce eB A E ET 4 Give Clients Editors Access Only x 5 0 s cie 0 ete oe yedad ead area 5 Removing All Panels From The Dashboard cccccceceeeeeeestneeeeeeeeeteeeenneeeeneees 5 Remove Unnecessary Me nuS ccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenesseeeeeeeeneee 7 Allow Client To Easily Edit Their Homepage eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenneeeeees 7 Use The New Menus Option In WordPress 3 c ccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteseeeeeeeenneeees 9 Group All Main Menu Sections Below The Dashboard scceeeeeeeseeeeeees 9 Moving WordPress Menu Positions cccccccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 12 Reasons For Grouping Important Menu Items c cceeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeteeeteeeaes 12 Issues You Should Be Aware Of cccccscceeeeesseeeeeeeeeeeeeseeaeeeeeeaaeeeeeesaeeeeneaes 12 How We Handle These ISSUCS sci pccceteestiececetcet ieee seceede nies techs dante arnieiex 12 OK How Can Make The Change Myself ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesneeeeeee 13 The Importance Of A Manual For Clients ccccccsssssssseeeeeeees 14 An Example Of How You Can Use The WordPress Manual Plugin 6 15
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5. can choose a CMS profile which best fits your clients needs and the unnecessary menus will be removed from the Editors user role If you were to choose the Website profile the navigation would look like this fat Dashboard ic Media E Pages This is far better for you client because there is less opportunity for confusion However you can make it an even better experience for you clients Allow Client To Easily Edit Their Homepage We have developed this solution over a long period of time and we are sure it will continue to evolve Most homepage editing solutions out there are based on having excerpts from existing posts or pages inserted into the homepage however in a lot of cases there are extra pieces of information you want to add which are specific to the homepage which don t fit with in a post or page If the client wanted to update their homepage it meant doing it in different places confusion usually reigned Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 8 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard Our solution was to develop an admin page that handles all elements of the homepage If you want to do this yourself there is a brilliant article here that explains how to set up an options page in WordPress We just adapted it to fit our needs ro Baby Hands cd J a Ae RaS Dashboard Homepage Options Settings Media Main Title The Main Title iL Pages fo Appearance Main Text This is some of the main text We feel that th
6. for the role of an Editor e You will provide a professional smoother handover to your clients e It is rebrandable so if makes your development company appear more professional e You can install it on all your clients websites The WordPress Manual Plugin is a powerful plugin but at the same time it is possible to customise it easily and through a config file and you can install it on your clients sites within seconds saving you time For more information on how to get the most out of the plugin jump forward to this section Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 7 WordPress Core Plugins WordPress Core Plugins The following are all plugins that we use on our standard installations As you probably know there are nearly always about 6 variations of a plugin to solve one issue and the ones we list below we think do their jobs particularly well e Plugin Central We always install the same plugins and it is laborious process of installing each one separately but with this plugin you can install them at the same time We have a text file on our intranet which contains a link to all the plugins we use and with one click they are installed Saving us between 10 15 minutes on each install All in One SEO Pack Perhaps the most famous and widely used plugin for WordPress We like it because it handles the canonical redirects and the easy ability to take control of your titles However canonicals are now built into Wo
7. into you being able to cut the costs of your overheads The following is our checklist for the creation of each of our development sites We do not pretend that there is a one size fits all formula for every web development company but this works well for us We use Basecamp to manage all our website projects and inside Basecamp we have a custom template which we use to manage the setup of each development site The steps we follow are Create a new subdomain Password protect the subdomain Install WordPress on subdomain Create Editor user account Upload VitaminSEO theme and activate the theme Install plugin central Install all plugins using plugin central Activate each plugin O N Se o eo Change permalinks to be category postname 9 Go to settings gt miscellaneous and uncheck organize uploads by month 10 Change title name in All in One SEO to website name 11 Go to White Label CMS 1 Add custom panel to dashboard with standard text 2 Set CMS profile to website 3 Enable Menus for editors 12 Go to WordPress File Monitor enter email address dashboard alert no Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L Q WordPress SEO Basics WordPress SEO Basics Given the vast number of great plugins out there for WordPress there is really no excuse not to include some basic SEO elements into your clients website You don t have to be an SEO expert to understand how it works in most cases it is just com
8. manual all in a wordoress plugain The plugin does a number of things very well and we recommend keeping the default settings for everything The plugin will create meta descriptions automatically and meta keywords from the tags It also gives you the option to change the page titles as well which we highly recommend you do Target the SEO page title to the keywords you want to rank for but use the post title to be more descriptive for your users This is a common technique used by news organisation This example is from the BBC website The headline title meant to lure the human reader Tulsa star The life and career of much loved 1960 s singer but the SEO title is Obituary Gene Pitney If you want to read more about this take a look at this 2006 article in the New York Times The advice is still relevant today Install the Robots Meta Plugin To Handle Redirects This plugin is very important if you are working on a redesign of a website It is a common mistake for inexperienced web developers to just redirect every old page to the new homepage This is not good SEO practice If possible each page should be redirected to the corresponding new page Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 L WordPress SEO Basics htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteCond HTTP_HOST Awawi L S INC RewriteRule AL S heto X1 1 Re 301 1 RewrteBase redirect 301 newborn preqnancy ectopic pregnancy pregnancy COMP icatsons
9. stick with them available in WordPress 3 As explained above we modified our White Label CMS plugin to allow us to make Appearance gt Menus appear in the menu system without letting the Editors change the theme Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L L Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard We explain how to position the menus in the next section of this report There are some technical reasons why you should not do this the main one being that if WordPress updates you may overwrite one of the existing sections However we are comfortable doing this and we think it provides our clients the best experience Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 2 Moving WordPress Menu Positions Moving WordPress Menu Positions It is not very well documented but it is possible to control the menu positions in WordPress We do this on our deployments for clients so the important elements of the CMS appear as close to the top as possible Reasons For Grouping Important Menu Items e If you don t do this then what usually happens is that your custom plugins usually appear at the bottom of the menu Intuitively this feels wrong to be constantly directing your clients to use elements at the bottom of the menu system e Grouping them together makes them easier to explain to your clients e Taking control of where elements go in the menu system allows you to make sure that the important menu items are available to clients who have the roll of
10. success nor are we responsible for any of your actions Any pricing mentioned in this book was determined to be accurate at the time of release However we have no control over the third party websites we may have mentioned so be sure to review their offerings if you decide to do business with them WordPress and its related trademarks are registered trademarks of Automattic Inc Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 3 0 Disclaimer This report is not affiliated with or sponsored by Automattic Inc or the WordPress Open Source project Rights Notice This report was created for owners of the WordPress Manual Plugin Owners of the plugin are hereby given the right to use this content to their own benefit or to give away the report to their customers subscriber list or anyone they think might benefit from it You do not however have the right to sell this report or make changes to it Copyright 2010 All rights reserved
11. that during the design process we could create a logo for the login and a logo for the header place them into the images directory of the active theme so when we activated the plugin everything would work straight away Give Clients Editors Access Only The vast majority of our clients are not specialists in IT and are really only interested in having a website that looks great and so presents a good image of the company They don t care if their plugins are up to date or the fact they can have links in their blog roll The less unnecessary options available to the client the less opportunities for confusion This is why we usually give our clients just the Editors login not the Admin login Removing All Panels From The Dashboard The lack of documentation and the cluttered dashboard was always the achilles heel of WordPress as a CMS It felt wrong to keep telling clients to ignore ea ee eee the dashboard A partial solution is cae rovided by WordPress itself You can p y Remove all panels from the simply remove the panels from the dashboard and add your own dashboard using the Screen Options welcome panel tab Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 6 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard Baby Hands agian as Mi Right Now MM Recent Comments MH Incoming Links W QuickPress WH Recent Draft Mi WordPress Development Blog Other WordPress New Screen Layout Dashboard Prof Right Now QuickPress 1 Post 1
12. 2 Overview Overview Throughout this report we offer you our tips on how to improve your processes and advice based on our experience Nothing is set in stone and we are constantly evolving our own processes but contained within this report is nearly 6 years of experience of using WordPress as a CMS for clients The purpose of this report is e To help you provide a better WordPress CMS for your clients e To help you improve you processes in setting up WordPress e To help you provide a more secure WordPress for your clients e To help you manage your clients questions more efficiently e To learn more about the WordPress menu system e To incorporate basic search engine optimisation strategies into you development process How to use the WordPress Manual Plugin more efficiently If you implement just a few of our recommendations we are sure you will provide a more professional CMS for your clients and will save your company time and money in the future by developing more efficient processes We would love to hear your feedback on this report and your methods and processes about how you set up WordPress for your clients Share your feedback on this report on this page Please submit any ideas on improvements to the WordPress Manual Plugin here Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 3 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard Our main aim initially was to provide WordPress instructions for clie
13. EO Basics Don t Be Lazy With Your ALT Texts In WordPress it is very easy just leave the default values in the image editor Take the extra 10 seconds to think about the keyword the page is trying to target and choose an appropriate description for the image Do not leave alt text like the one below Alignment None O Left O Center O Right Edit Image Title robots meta example Edit Image Caption Link URL None Current Link Link to Image Install The Google XML Sitemap Plugin Install the plugin for the client and it will automatically update when each new page is created We always set up Google Webmaster Tools for our clients and make sure the sitemap is verified in the webmaster tools This only takes a few minutes to do Add To The Update Services This is not a very well known feature in WordPress but there is a feature that pings aggregation sites every time you create a new page Unfortunately by default it only includes http rpc pingomatic com However we recommend you simply copy and paste this list of sites into Update Services box Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 3 WordPress SEO Basics Update Services When you publish a new post WordPress automatically notifies M URLs with line breaks General http rpc pingomatic com Writing Reading Discussion Media Permalinks Click here for a complete list of update services Digg If you are launching a website for
14. S plugin e Our own image for the Custom Ebook Image We point this to our main server Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 8 WordPress Manual Plugin We also modify the Custom Videos in the config php to include 2 videos The first video is about how to edit the homepage the second about how to use our page plugin We host these videos and thumbnails on our Amazon S3 account We use the photoshop thumbnail file we provided to make the thumbnails so our videos look consistent with the other videos The only other piece of customisation we do on the plugin that is not included in the document is make the plugin appear below the dashboard in the menu system We have explained above how to recreate this We highly recommend you watch this 2 minute video which shows you exactly how to do this Think of the time money you will save z deos lt Baby Hands WordPress ULIKT CEER ETTE E ALET R EEE com wp acmin admin phprpage video user manuals p Or admin Turbo Log Out Dashboard W Manual Homepage Hi welcome to your new website The following are some quick video tutorials which will help you get started If you want to SiteMap read the manual for some more in depth explanations on how your content management system works click here Introduction Videos ser Manua Homepage Options Settings Manua Option ae lt Gr Modia Links 7 Pages Editing The Homepage Using The Sitemap _J Commen
15. a client then the fasted way to get it indexed is by Digging it Google seems to love Digg and we have always been successful in getting sites indexed within hours rather than days Putting It All Together We recently identified that the keyword WordPress instructions for clients was a keyword we wanted out website to rank for So we used the above strategy to great effect We did the following e Rewrote the article to include the keywords we wanted to target e Optimised the IMG ALT tags e Made sure we linked to the post from the homepage e Used the All In One SEO plugin to write a special optimised title and meta description e Published the article so the all the update services were notified Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 A WordPress SEO Basics e We then tweeted the article e Then we Dugg the article e We submitted a video to youtube with optimised titles and keywords These were the results within 7 hours Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 5 WordPress SEO Basics Google wordpress instructions for clients Search Search the web pages from Australia Web F Show options Results 1 10 WordPress Instructions for clients KnowlT 24 Feb 2009 I ve been rather busy lately putting together a WordPress and BBPress site for Zen at Heart Because the site is heavily restricted needed knowit co nz 2009 02 wordpress instructions for clients Cached Weblog Cl
16. a phone call each time they have forgotten what you told them in training You could produce your own manual but we are sure you have gone through a similar process of constantly producing custom tutorials for clients and underestimating how long this all takes only to find that WordPress has updated its Ul and the manual is now out of date Our WordPress Manual Plugin sits perfectly in the WordPress menu system exactly where your client needs it It contains over 30 high quality professionally voiced videos that allow your clients to easily understand complex functionality of their CMS It also contains a 100 page online manual for clients who prefer to learn by reading Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 5 The Importance Of A Manual Every part of this plugin is customisable so you can rebrand the plugin to give your company a more professional looking handover You choose which videos you want to appearing If you want to show only videos about pages and images you can Learn more about out WordPress Manual Plugin here An Example Of How You Can Use The WordPress Manual Plugin This is an example of how to use our Video User Manuals plugin Later on in this report we will explain how to get the most out of the WordPress Manual Plugin amp Baby Hands New Post v ly editor Log Out ye OM Dac ip fat Dashboard EY Manual Homepage ee Hi Jackie Manual Videos welcome to your new website The followi
17. a web development company we much prefer using the official solution for the menu system as we know this will be supported in future release but we did not want to give our clients admin access The solution we came up with was modifying the White Label CMS plugin to give Editors access to the menus and widgets page without letting them change the theme Group All Main Menu Sections Below The Dashboard When we first started to develop our own plugins they would all sit at the bottom of the menu system Telling the client to always use the links at the bottom of the menu felt counter intuitive Normally the most important links are at the top Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 0 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard fat Dashboard Homepage Manual Videos User Manual Sh Media E Pages E Appearance For each website we setup we include these extra links underneath the dashboard e Editing the homepage e Viewing the video tutorials The client can usually run their CMS through those 2 links It makes sense for us to group them together at the top and we have had nothing but positive feedback from our clients ever since In the past we used to include a page navigation plugin similar to PageMash Improve Your Processes which we used to control how to the H iri Find your own way of standardizing Pages appeal MONCYVEI WE PIIG I0 your installations Choose your core use the WordPress Menus now plugins and
18. e most important thing about this page that it is easily customisable Each website requires something slightly different but we can simply add a couple more lines to the setup array and it will appear in the homepage options menu So adapting this for each client takes seconds rather than hours like it used to By providing an options page you give the client the ability to change the Improve Your Processes homepage but at the same time you Create your own flexible solution for the homepage that can be easily as well extended for future projects restrict what they can actually change We have used drag and drop solutions in the past for all clients to modify the homepage but 90 of them never used Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 9 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard them and the 10 that did usually ended up calling us because it did not behave the way they expected Advice Dont be afraid to say no to clients when they ask for extra functionality Sometime it is better cheaper for everyone if the developer comes in and makes the requested change rather than building in the functionality to make it possible if it is ever requested Use The New Menus Option In WordPress 3 With the coming of WordPress 3 developers now have a built in solution for managing pages finally However the Menus option is under the appearance section which contradicts what we said about giving clients editor only access As
19. ed 4 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard As a small business owner you should be looking to develop processes that are easy to replicate and will save you time and money This dashboard has evolved because we were constantly looking to improve on our process and provide a better user experience This is how and why we do it Custom Logos Which feels more personalised GY WorvPress ge BabyHands Lost your password Lost your password Now there are lots of plugins out there that will allow you to add your own logos to WordPress but we were looking for methi i n semetihig Ihat WaS Very simple _ Improve Your Processes Every plugin we investigated gave us Always place your logos in the image more functionality than we actually folder when you first start to develop the theme Then install the White needed We did not need to waste time Label CMS plugin changing anchor colours or background colours the current WordPress colour scheme is excellent So we built our own plugin the White Label CMS plugin Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 5 Setting Up Your Clients Dashboard We always modify the login and header logo to be the client s logo We also felt it was necessary from our own branding point of view to place our logo in the footer of the CMS and also provide a link to our website just as way of making sure the client would not forget us for any future projects they might have We wanted to make sure
20. editors editors can not view the setting panel Issues You Should Be Aware Of e If you do not have any custom plugins and rely on using WordPress plugins from other developers then if you update the plugin you will lose the change you made to the menu system e You cannot guarantee in future versions of WordPress where the built in menus will appear so you could potentially overwrite menus accidentally This is what happened when WordPress 3 was introduced because the dashboard menu changed item number How We Handle These Issues The plugins we use are either written by ourselves or are adaptations of other plugins We therefore control the updates of the plugin Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 3 Moving WordPress Menu Positions We test the plugins with each new version of WordPress before updating client s versions of WordPress So when WordPress 3 came along we were aware of the issue and made sure it was fixed before upgrading clients sites We give our clients Editor access so only we can update the WordPress version therefore we know if there is going to be a problem OK How Can I Make The Change Myself In the includes plugins php there is the well known function add_menu_page However in the codex what is not mentioned is that the last variable is the position of where the menu will appear in the menu order add_menu_page page title menu_title capability menu_slug function icon_
21. ient WordPress Codex You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Microsoft Word 2007 Post2Blog detailed WordPress instructions codex wordpress org Weblog_ Client Cached Similar Simple wordpress instructions for clients users Does anyone know somewhere that has simple instruction on how to post edit posts edit pages in wordpress l m looking for something to pass along to a www experts exchange com Web WordPress Q_24574596 html Cached Wordpress Instructions For Clients 7 min 7 hours ago videousermanuals com This videos shows you the best way to customise TEH Wordpress for your clients It includes how to modify the dashboard menu and www youtube com watch v nR78EOJgcxM Related videos 9 Plugins Your Clients Will Love For Their WordPress Website The Yet Another Related Posts Plugin has suggested these Posts for you too WordPress Instructions for clients A handy plugin Related Posts regator com p 9_plugins_your_clients_will_love_for_their Cached Wordpress Instructions For Clients 6 Mar 2010 We share with you the optimal installation of Wordpress to provide the clearest instructions for your clients digg com software Wordpress_Instructions_For_Clients Basic WordPress User Manual Needed FreelanceSwitch Forum 10 posts 5 authors have been building a fair number of sites in WordPress and my clients have never worked w
22. ith it before wanted a guide that was super easy in language forum freelanceswitch com topic php id 8144 Cached WP Instructions Plugin Sam Burdge 19 Feb 2008 Comment by WordPress Instructions for clients KnowiT Date February 24th 2009 at 3 28 am that makes it possible to keep those www samburdge co uk wordpress wp instructions plugin Cached Wordpress Instructions For Clients Wordpress Manual Plugin We share with you the optimal installation of Wordpress to provide the clearest instructions for your clients Including a customised dashboard menu www videousermanuals conv wordpress instructions for clients 7 hours ago Wordpress Instructions For Clients WordPress Slides and Videos Wordpress Instructions For Clients Author sliedevideo Filed under Videos Thursday Apr 15 2010 videousermanuals com This videos shows you the best way wpslide com wordpress instructions for clients 7 hours ago Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 6 WordPress SEO Basics Results within 48 hours Google wordpress instructions for clients Search Advanced Search Web F Show options Results 1 10 of about 319 1 Need WordPress Help Sponsor WPDude com I provide WordPress technical support services WordPress Instructions for clients KnowlT Feb 24 2009 I ve been rather busy lately putting together a WordPress and BBPress site for Zen at Heart Because the si
23. mon sense and actually improves the usability of the website Permalink Structure The following recommendation is based on you setting up your clients CMS so that is uses pages and page parents in order to implement the site structure Set your permalink structure to category postname This allows you to structure your clients website better which helps with search engine optimisation This structure also works well if the website has a blog as well If it does all you need to do is set up a category called Blog and the blog homepage will be blog All posts should be tagged with either the category Blog or a sub category Make sure you set the default category to Blog When you create new pages try and keep the slug as short as possible and use the keywords you want to target By default WordPress will take your whole page title as the slug which is not always the best option Install The All In One SEO Plugin Make sure you modify the Home Title and the Home Description Google has always claimed that meta keywords are not part of its algorithm but it is still part of other search engines algorithms so it does not harm to have them there Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 O WordPress SEO Basics e Tithe Wordpress Manual Plugin Video Tutorials For Your Clients A comprehensive video and online manual that developers can give t their clients Featuring over 30 high quality videos and a 100 page
24. ng are some quick video tutorials which will help you get started If you want to read the manual for some more in depth explanations on how your content management system works click here User Manua Introduction Videos 35 Media EE Pages Homepage Options Settings Eg Appearance Main Title gt website k Main Text You need money and you wan Editing The Homepage Using The Sitema Wordpress Video Tutorials Getting Started E Add New Page Ent ssesesos If you wo eeeeeeee Type you e lm Right Now amp Dashboard ane TS 5i ia There are a couple of important things to note Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 6 The Importance Of A Manual e The client has a comprehensive video and written manual accessible from the dashboard e We have created 2 generic videos that cover how to use the homepage and the sitemap which are specific to the way we build websites e We have adapted the plugin so it contains these videos in the config file so no modifications are needed to the plugin it is just a case of installing it and everything will appear correctly This saves valuable time Advantages Of Using The WordPress Manual Plugin e We update the videos and manuals each time WordPress is updated think of the time this will save you e It is part of your clients website so is easily accessible e It is a comprehensive manual which covers every aspect of WordPress
25. nts by providing a great experience for our clients using their WordPress CMS We realised that first impressions really count So this is why our current site deployments have a heavily customised dashboard that looks like ro Baby Hands New Post z editor Log Out G Dashboard Dashboard Homepage Welcome To Your New Website Manual Hi Jackie Sh Media This the the dashboard of your new website Here you will me find quick a s of aias W Pages Video Tutorials If you are the site p Eal Appearan the manual in order to understand how the si e0 Appearance Menus Editing Your Homepage If you want to edit the different sections on your homepage Add or Edit Pages If you want to add edit move pages on your website View your Statistics This will take to your Google Analytics account Y VitaminSEO _ Ss We hope you have noticed the following things about this dashboard e We customise the header and footer logo e We remove all the panels from the dashboard and add in our own welcome panel which is personalised for the client e The welcome panel contains links to the important areas in the CMS e We have removed all the menus that are not relevant to our clients needs no more explaining what the links menu means e We have a complete video tutorial suite accessible where the client needs it most in the actual CMS e We give our clients Editor only access Copyright 2010 All rights reserv
26. nuals on Twitter Wordpress User Manual Finally a comprehensive video and online manual that Wordpress Instructions For Clients How to hand over a CMS to clients twitter com VUManuals Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 7 WordPress Manual Plugin How To Get The Most Out Of The WordPress Manual Plugin This article is meant for power users of the WordPress Manual Plugin You do not have to modify the config php file as there is an options page that is built into the manual and all changes can be made there However for companies who do lots of deployments of websites for clients this process will save you even more time There is a video that runs through this whole process that can be found here Customisation Using The Config php It was only due to popular demand and the ability to easily update the plugin that we actually added an options page to the plugin We don t actually use it ourselves because we really value our own time We have one master copy of the plugin that sits on our intranet We have already made the following changes in the config php file e Our serial code e Show Blogging Videos is set to false We do not always give our clients blogging functionality e Our custom logo URL which appears above the videos e Our logo in the custom plugin heading logo We point it to the themes images directory and use the same image as the custom footer logo from our White Label CM
27. rdPress 3 and it was very interesting to hear Matt Cutts say in a recent episode of the WordPress Community Podcast that he does not now recommend using the plugin as WordPress now has most of the features you need baked in Robots Meta handling redirects is vital particularly if you are preforming and update for a client Being able to view edit the robots txt and htaccess files from inside WordPress make life a lot easier Extended KSES We are increasingly using Google Forms in order to allow clients to collect data directly into spreadsheets and this plugin allows you to embed iframes into the editor White Label CMS For all the reasons listed above Google XML Sitemap Now that sitemaps are now used by all search engines this is vital to ensure you have a better understanding of how your site is getting spidered This plugin has a multitude of options the defaults options are normally sufficient Video User Manuals Of course you need a user manual for your client Ultimate Google Analytics We setup Google Analytics for every client and we like this plugin because it is very simple to use and it has the option to stop logging if you are logged in as the admin Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 8 WordPress CMS Setup Checklist WordPress CMS Setup Checklist Running a successful business is all about processes and checklists Becoming efficient at things allows you to save time which translates
28. te is heavily restricted needed knowit co nz 2009 02 wordpress instructions for clients Cached Wordpress Instructions For Clients Wordpress Manual Plugin We share with you the optimal installation of Wordpress to provide the clearest instructions for your clients Including a customised dashboard menu www videousermanuals com blog wordpress instructions for clients Cached Wordpress Manual Plugin Video Tutorials For Your Clients Acomprehensive video and online manual that developers can give to their clients Featuring over 30 high quality videos and a 100 page manual all ina www videousermanuals com Cached E Show more results from www videousermanuals com Video results for wordpress instructions for clients Wordpress Instructions For Rebrand and Customise the Clients WordPress Video user 7 min Apr 14 2010 li 50 sec Apr 8 2010 www youtube com nn www youtube com Weblog Client WordPress Codex You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Microsoft Word 2007 Post2Blog detailed WordPress instructions codex wordpress org Weblog_ Client Cached Similar Simple wordpress instructions for clients users Does anyone know somewhere that has simple instruction on how to post edit posts edit pages in wordpress l m looking for something to pass along to a www experts exchange com Web WordPress Q_24574596 html Cached Troy Dean VUMa
29. ts Wordpress Video Tutorials Appearance Gering paned Tey dt r zyl A Je E Aad Na Page Er P a amp i 2 42 3 47 Que sop 2 Copyright 2010 All rights reserved 2 Disclaimer Disclaimer The information contained in this report contains the opinions of the author as of the date of this publication Because the Internet moves at warp speed the author reserves the right to alter update his opinion in the future This report has been provided for informational purposes only While every attempt has been made to ensure it s accuracy neither the author nor his affiliates partners assume any responsibility for errors inaccuracies or omissions After all they re only human The author isn t a legal professional nor does he claim to be If you need any legal business or accounting advice you should seek the guidance of a professional in your area While the information contained in this report has been proven to work for the author he makes no specific guarantees in regards to the outcome you ll experience Why you ask Well solid information is great and all but it doesn t do any good if it just stays stuck in your head In order for this information to work you must take action Your level of success will largely depend on the time you devote to the information presented and the amount of action you take Since these factors will vary from individual to individual we cannot guarantee your
30. url position NULL Simply by modifying your plugins add_menu_page you can move the position For example to make our Homepage plugin appear directly below the dashboard we did this add_menu_page Homepage Homepage vitaminseo homepage admin php vseoha_admin wp content plugins vitaminseo logo png 3 The existing WordPress menus are as follows e WordPress 2 9 dashboard 0 first seperator 4 Posts 5 e WordPress 3 dashboard 2 first seperator 4 Posts 5 The solution which works on both version of WordPress is to start at 3 and work upwards using 3 1 or 3 2 etc Copyright 2010 All rights reserved L 4 The Importance Of A Manual The Importance Of A Manual For Clients Imagine you bought a 4000 Television The person who sold it to you gives you a 30 minute overview of how it works and sends you off with no manual but a phone number that if you were to ring would cost you 99 per hour How would you feel Your client is expecting a manual from you for their new website Why Well because every other significant investment they make for their business they expect to have something they can fall back upon if they get into trouble Do you really think 2 hours quick training ea bon ker eTe Peeve Oo rer over a coffee with the client is enough What happens if the person you trained leaves the business Do you really want to have
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