Amazon Plugins for Creating Affiliate Store in WordPress

Just my notes for Amazon Affiliate Linking Plugins for WordPress.

Plugins that I looked at. See My Details Notes Further Down.

AmaLinks Pro – $67 Annual
AAWP – €49 Annual
WZone/WooZone – $49 w/Future updates – 6 months support/buy more
EasyAzon – $47 Pro Looks like flat cost – Has free version
AzonPress – $39 Annual
AAPro – $29 w/Future updates – 6 months support/buy more
APO – $21 w/Future updates – 6 months support/buy more

A WordPress plugin is not required to use Amazon’s Associate program, Amazon does provide affiliate links, banners and such, but the plugins are often faster, easer, and look better. Continue reading

WP Pro Advertising System Plugin – My Own Tutorial

There are many great plugins to manage advertising, I decided to try WP Pro Advertising System because I wanted the ability to place ads on multiple websites, including WordPress sites and sites that I had created with Dreamweaver. WP Pro Advertising System has Post Tags (short code), Template Tags, and iFrame Tags. For simple rotation ads there are other options and for banner ad management there are other options, but this plugin seems to do it all (with optional add-on plugins).

That said, I am just learning to use this WP Pro Advertising System plugin and I have not found the documentation to be totally helpful. There is a Video Tutorial available, and it covers the basics, but it leans more towards using the plugin with the optional selling-banner ads plugin, and to begin with I only want to place and manage affiliate ad code. So I am making notes as I go along, to help myself and to hopefully help others with using WP Pro Advertising System.

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How to Move Your Website With All-in-one WP Migration – Plugin For WordPress

How to Migrate Your Website With All-in-one WP Migration – Plugin For WordPress

To move a WordPress website, there are two ways, the macho manual way or the easier way, use a plugin. LOL

There are several reasons to need to migrate a WordPress website. You may need to move a website from one hosting service to another, or if you are working on your own computer, you might have the need to move a website up to a hosting service, and if you are working on a site as a sub-domain during development you would need to move the site to its new home when it is finished.

Using a plugin such as All-in-one WP Migration you can easily move a website, well maybe with a few hitches if you are not a pro. LOL Migrating your website is not hard, but it is time consuming, and there is plenty of room for minor errors that can cause you hours of frustration. Continue reading

Advertising Plugins to Monetize a WordPress Website!

Advertising Plugins to Help Monetize a WordPress Website.

Most people who have a website would like to earn some income with their website. It might be from selling products directly from their website or another way is by placing 3rd party ads on the website. Below are a list of WordPress plugins to help manage banner ads, text ads, and affiliate ads.  Continue reading

Best WordPress Plugins & Themes to Create a Directory or Membership List Website

Directory & Membership List Plugins & Themes for WordPress

When talking about WordPress plugins, there are two types of memberships, membership directory lists or membership areas.

This article is about creating membership lists or directory websites such as directories of groups of businesses like local restaurants or national directory of hotels, or yellow pages style business listings, and club roosters and organizational membership lists.

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Best Ecommerce Shopping Carts

You have merchandise you want to sell in your own online store. Sounds easy enough, but looking for an ecommerce shopping cart software program is confusing to say the least.

Opinions in discussion forums and the reviews of ecommerce software programs are as mixed as the programs available. Even if you hire someone to design and set up an online store for you, you are still the one that is going to have to be using the program to manage your online store. So which shopping cart software is best for you?

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Creating a Web Site – How to Decide Between: Dreamweaver, WordPress & Joomla

I have spent more hours than I wish to admit researching and comparing the best ways to create a website. I have narrowed it down to three options (programs) depending on what kind of site that I want to create: Dreamweaver – WordPress – Joomla.

Programs, such as WordPress and Joomla, that are used to create web sites that can store and retrieve data, are called CMS programs (Content Management System). Dreamweaver is normally used to create good HTML static websites, although with programing knowledge it can do other things. Continue reading

Create an Alumni Website for Your High School or College

I recently had an interest in seeing what software or programs were available for creating a school alumni website. Ah, a new bone to chew, I go off on tangents of learning when someone tosses me something new to investigate. I discovered that there are many directory/list/membership type programs available, but I found there are also some programs that are more specifically written for alumni organizations. These are my findings, and I have added a list of alumni/membership programs below. Continue reading