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Monday, December 30, 2013

Designing a simple wordpress site - Plugins

Open the web site we created ( explained in Introduction to Wordpress ) , and login to get access to the Admin area.
Step - 1 : Refer Designing a simple wordpress site -Theme
Step - 2 : Refer Designing a simple wordpress site - Pages

STEP - 3

Picture - 1

Go to the Admin page (Dash board) .
See the Admin options in the left side.

Now we are going to add Plugins .
Contact form is an Example of Plugin.We are going to add a contact form in the page "Contact us".


  • Select  Plugins --> Add new (Click Add New from the window)


Then we can see  ,


Search "Contact Form" .
Then we can see a number of plugins of "Contact Form" .


Select one Plugin from the list , and click "Details" .


It will show the version and ratings of the Plugins.(If the plugin is not support with your current wordpress version , it has to be avoided. Or , we can see a message sometimes as
"Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress." Avoid such plugins.

If everything is ok , select one contact form from the list and Click "Install Now" as given in the above picture.When we click "Install" , we can see;


Click "Activate Plugin ".After activating , we can see a new menu option "Contact Form" in the left side as shown below :


Or ,  select Plugins --> Installed plugins . Then we can see that ;


Click "Settings" , then , we can see


Copy the short form of the code as given in the above figure .
Now select our page "Contact us" , as explained before , select the "Text" mode and paste the code there.


Now click "Update" , and return to the site .Refresh it , then we can see,below the Google map , a contact form also added as given below :


Refer Designing a simple wordpress site - Widget also, because we are installing some more plugins there , in order to get some additional widgets.
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Next , we are going to Create/ Edit comment forms .
Click NEXT to understand about "Comment option" in a wordpress page.
Back to wordpress

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