http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com Web Design and Web Solutions for Small Businesses and Non-Profits Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:43:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Widget Logic is a great plugin that uses the  Wordpress conditional code to insert widgets on selected pages in your site. If you are adding contact information for a business or school and only want to have the information appear on selected pages, this is the answer. You can hard code ... http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com/2009/11/widget-logic-in-your-sidebar/ The sidebar appears on every page of your Wordpress site. Usually the themes have default widgets that appear in the sidebar. Once you add a new widget, t he default configuration changes. For example, if you drag a text widget into your sidebar, that is the only widget that will ... http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com/2009/11/adding-information-in-your-sidebar/ My last post discussed adding a slide show to the front page of your site using Next Gen Gallery.  You can also add a shopping cart to your site and Pay pal buttons to the pictures in your gallery, essentially creating an online store.  Take a look at Maestroartservicesintl.com where ... http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com/2009/11/next-gen-gallery-and-paypal-add-to-cart-button/ After installing the Next Gen Gallery Plugin, I wanted to use it to have a slide show on the front page of my site. The slide show can be seen at: http://www.parklandsd.org Upload the Next Gen gallery plugin to your plugin folder and activate it. Get the JW Image Rotator from: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-image-rotator/ . The ... http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com/2009/10/next-gen-gallery-slide-show/ Plugins are little snippets of code that add functionality to your site. Wordpress has a very generous community of supporters that create these plugins and there are several that help Wordpress function as a content management system. I am going to list the ones I found most useful. Widget Logic - ... http://www.mcqwebsolutions.com/2009/10/wordpress-plugins-for-content-management/