The top website and online marketing links of the week. If you have multiple brick-and-mortar locations, a really useful feature you can add to your WordPress site is a store locator – a map showing pins for each of your locations. Clicking on a pin opens up address and other info about that location. Here’s a small roundup of 5 top store locator plugins. I’ve used Store Locator on a few sites, pretty easy to use, but these other plugins also look promising. And speaking of WordPress plugins, here’s a big review of the single best plugin across many categories…. Continue Reading
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Adding Simple User Reviews to Your WordPress Website
Need to add some very simple reviews to your website – like reviews for a service or product, or even testimonials – but are not using a shopping cart that will make it easy for you? You can create a form for visitors to add reviews or testimonials and display them throughout your site – no coding required! This tutorial uses no coding – just the popular Gravity Forms plugin (a commercial one, but the best forms plugin you can buy IMO) and a custom post type plugin. I’ll walk you through the process step by step, showing you how to… Continue Reading
CSU Environmental Learning Center
The Colorado State University Environmental Learning Center came to Red Kite looking for help with a few things: A website that was standalone, not lost amid the larger site run by Warner College; A way to accept online payment for registration and membership without going off-site; A site where they could have their own unique look and feel (again, different than the department); A way to have a large number of forms more easily managed; A place where staff could view staff-only info; And most importantly, a site they could edit and add to themselves. We obliged. The new ELC… Continue Reading