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App Developer Academy Mindmap Released

By on April 4, 2013 in Uncategorized

New Training Announced Last Night…

Tuesday night, we announced a new training we are working on called App Developer Academy.

For some time now, I have been considering teaching other people how to create Facebook Apps like we have at Social Traffic Lab.

Some people think I am crazy for sharing this information, however I think it is a very good idea.

Almost 200 other members think so as well… we are really pleased with the interest we are seeing in this training.

Our Goal…

Our goal is to take our existing code repository, knowledge, and methods and distill it down into something anyone can use.

Initially, my goal was to create a tool that would allow you to select different components, push a button and generate an app.

That isn’t what App Developer Academy is.  Instead, this is an over the shoulder step by step lab teaching you how to code.

Now before you freak out, it isn’t really that complicated.

To simplify development, we are covering apps piece by piece and providing code you can copy and paste to create your own
app or expand on what we already created.

The Source Code…

We are including the source code for three of our existing apps.

  • Squeeze Page App
  • Vote Smash Viral Voting
  • Video Timebomb

These three apps cover a lot of ground and can easily transform into other apps you can imagine for yourself.

The Bigger Picture…

To help give you a bigger picture of what we have in mind, I have created a mindmap.

Click Here To Download The Mindmap

 

 

Day #4: Adding A Custom Post Footer To WordPress

By on January 11, 2013 in 30 Day Blog Challenge

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30 Day Blog Challenge | Day #4

 

In this video, Kevin Davis from Social Traffic Lab shares two plugins he is using in WordPress to add a custom footer to each of his blog posts to personalize the post, and add an author bio box.

 

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One of the keys to connecting with your audience on a blog is making it as personal as possible.  In the video above, Kevin walks through two plugins he is using to make each post on his blog more personal by including both an image signature, and a photo.

In this case, he is using two plugins to add the personalization to each of his blog posts.  By simply selecting the post footer he wants from the dropdown list, it is automatically inserted into the WordPress post without doing any additional formatting.

One of the plugins he uses is Social Author Bio.  This plugin not only adds an avatar photo, but also gives the ability to add a short bio along with a series of icons to connect to the various social networks the author belongs to.

As an additional benefit this plugin also allows the custom post footer to connect with Google+ to support Google Authorship by adding the rich snippets needed to expose the blog post author to Google.

Google Authorship is a great way to improve your readership by not only providing an indented search listing with your name and photo, but also linking to all of your blog posts and articles published under that authorship.

This gives readers and searchers the opportunity to not only find your current blog, but also posts you have made in the past whether or not they are on the same blog.

If you a doing guest blog posts on other blogs, this gives additional exposure for you and the other blogs.

The second plugin, Add Post Footer is the overall wrapper that adds both the signature line to the post and the Social Author Bio box.