KB Linker WordPress Plugin

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KB Linker is a plugin for WordPress that automatically assigns URLs to keywords or phrases that you specify in your WordPress KB Linker settings. When you create a post on your blog, you will then not need to explicitly assign a hyperlink to that phrase or keyword as KB Linker will do it for you automatically.

For example, in the settings you can point the phrase “KB Linker” to the website ‘http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/kb-linker/’

using the following syntax:

kb linker->http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/kb-linker/

If you then add a post to your blog containing the phrase “KB Linker” and publish the post, you will notice that the phrase now has a hyperlink.

This is a very handy plugin as you don’t have to explicitly create hyperlinks for common websites that you link to. It can also help with Search Engine Optimization with regards to ease of creating internal cross-references on your blog.

What can a website do for you?

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You can use a website to:

SELL

– sell products to anyone around the world, night or day and offer a choice of payment methods by having an online shop (eCommerce);

– receive feedback and comments from your users.

PROMOTE

– present vital company information to prospective clients such as business processes, pictures of your products, press releases, newsletters, bulletins and special reports;

– integrate with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook;

– advertise special offers;

SUPPORT

– provide answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ);

– provide technical documents for download;

– provide contact information;

– conduct online chat with clients and potential clients;

– Email anyone in the world using your company branded email address.

REDUCE COSTS

– save money on wages even though your business is running 24 hours, seven days a week;

– provide updated content (brochures, catalogues etc) without paying re-printing or postage costs;

– save costs on providing support;

– increase sales;

– be more efficient in your communication;

– reduce customer service and administrative costs;

– save costs on advertising – instead of paying for a large ad you can have a short ad and refer to your website;

– save on rent and other property costs while still having a shop.

If you would like a website, or would like to add some of these ideas to your existing website please visit www.abipo.com for more information.

WordPress 3 and Atahualpa Theme – Perfect Match?

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I love WordPress. Absolutely love it. A custom designed website offers maximum flexibility but WordPress has it’s place when you want to allow community interaction and you want to install lots of nifty plugins, widgets and other bits and pieces quickly that would otherwise take forever to write.

I recently installed WordPress 3 and the Atahualpa (I’m still not able to pronounce this properly) theme. There are millions of themes out there, so what made me choose Atahualpa?

1. It has been designed to promote Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is going to be something I will look at closely soon but lets  say that Atahualpa seems to support it well. There are lots of tags that can be enabled and I’m hopeful that BytesForAll have designed this in such a way that they work well with the search engines. Time will tell.

2. It is currently the most popular WordPress theme and has had almost 700,000 downloads at time of writing.

3. It is very, very customizable and has lots of options. In fact, some would describe Atahualpa as a framework more than a theme. It’s not too complex for a beginner either. You can just run with the basic settings and then customize as the need arises. BytesForAll have documented all the options on the actual web pages where you will make the changes and they are documented well. No need to open up a separate document and try and find the relevant description for the option you want to change.

4. Support is good. Any problems I have posted on the forum have been answered quickly by the moderators and there seems to be a healthy and lively community there.

The only real disadvantage with it is that it doesn’t look as pretty out of the box as some of the other themes. However, as it is easy to customize, you can make it look better with a little effort.