Some Wordpress plugins and themes require you to supply a list of page ids. This brief video tutorial shows you how to get those IDs for a page or post.

Mary of ProVirtual Solutions suggested the Reveal IDs for WP-Admin plugin to help get the IDs .

There is plenty of advice online and success stories about large corporations using social media. If you are like me and are a small business owner, you likely don’t have a team of 100+ employees to go through all of the social media channels and monitor, tweet, post, etc. You could hire a social media company to help you with this if you are promoting a consumer product or service. Then again you could spend an hour a week promoting your business yourself. Either way, what does this mean for your website?
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Having built a few sites using Wordpress for a variety of different customers there are a few plugins that I keep using.

• Akismet- Does not stop all spam comments, but certainly cuts down on them.
• CForms – This is an amazing form builder and processor. The bloggers from delcious:days cook good code and good food. Download this from them directly rather than trying to install from within Wordpress.
• Events Manager – Both a calendar and an event registration system. For simple community and organizational events this is all you need. Even integrates with Google maps.
• ShareThis – A bit bulking on the amount of javascript code it produces, but a great way to encourage people to spread the word organically.

Wordpress can be used as a basic or advanced Content Management System (CMS) depending on how you set it up. In one particular case I setup Ron Christman Stone Masonry using Wordpress. Read on to see what plugins I installed and to view a brief guide on how to edit a Wordpress powered website.
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What do you do if the wordpress e-commerce (wp-ecommerce) buy now shortcode doesn’t work? In WP-ecommerce you can add a shortcode to allow customers to buy your product from any post or page by entering a shortcode like this:

[buy_now_button=3]

What if nothing displays?
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