When adding email forms to an automotive WordPress website, making sure that they make it into the CRM is important. The “standard” in the industry for passing emails into most CRM tools is ADF/XML. With a little tweaking you can set up any of your Gravity Forms to send in ADF format. The video will cover some of the basics and then I have included the ADF v1 document so that you can build your own. [Read more...]
August 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Build a page in WordPress for SEO
WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin
WordPress is known for being a great website platform for SEO. It is also known for having a lot of really cool plugins. In the video we will take a look at WordPress SEO by Yoast which is a great plugin that provides user input for the SEO elements on your pages or posts.
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August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Service appointment form with Gravity Forms
How to create and import forms with Gravity Forms
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July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
iFrame Embedder plugin to add iframe content on WordPress
Adding Factory Incentives to Your WordPress Site
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Iframing content is something that you want to avoid whenever possible on your site, especially with key content. However there are times that will require you to use the iframe technique. A few circumstances that come up on car dealer websites are factory incentives and service appointment schedulers.
This screen shot is what we will be adding to a WordPress site in the following video. Just about every manufacture has a similar page that is designed to be iframed into a car dealers website.
The following video will walk you through how to add iframe content on WordPress in the form of Toyota factory incentives to your site.
Xtime is another popular tool that gets framed into sites quite a bit. If you ever thought of having a site for just your service department, you could create one with WordPress and add a scheduler like Xtime using the iframe plugin. You can also build your own form using Gravity Forms as described in in this post;
If you are interested in a more technical review of this plugin please visit http://sterlinghamilton.com/2011/06/29/plugin-review-iframe-embedder/. Sterling’s reviews go over the basics of WordPress plugins and gives it a score.
April 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Adding a video plugin to WordPress easy as 1-2-3
WordPress as a “social” machine
One of the great features of WordPress is that “social” is built in. In addition to having blog roots there are thousands of plugins that you can add to extend the abilities of your site or micro-site. As more and more social and review applications are introduced like Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, SCVNGR, Yelp, etc., WordPress developers answer the call. This makes it possible to integrate social [Read more...]
October 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Embeding media into your WordPress site
Adding content easily is "The King"
“The King” of adding content easily – Insights plugin by Vladimir Prelovac
One of the great things about WordPress is the fact that it is super easy to embed content from outside sources. A couple of months ago I came across a plugin called “Insights” developed by Vladimir Prelovac that makes adding content even easier. Writing a good blog post or page takes time and step one is usually just a matter of throwing your thoughts onto to the screen. Having the ability to add media to your rough draft without ever leaving the editor is very cool. Insights adds a content search directly into the page/post editor in WordPress. Putting Flickr images, YouTube videos, Wikipedia articles, Google search, News, Blog search, books and the content of your own blog right where you can use it. Take a look at the video below to see how “Insights” works, I am sure that you will find it to be a valuable tool in content creation. [Read more...]