Automatic Follow-Up Email Plugin

This plugin allows you to send out ‘messages’ i.e. emails at predetermined times based on when the user signed up. It’s an autoresponder in a box!

About Actions and Emails

Each email you can schedule to send to users is called an action. You can schedule actions (emails) to be sent over a series of days after a person has created a new username or a new blog.

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Media Library Gallery

For travel websites that continually wrestle with how to arrange and display photos on blogs and websites, this plugin is the answer.

It couldn’t be simpler. Media Library Gallery automatically creates a gallery with images from every post. To include the gallery in a page, simply write in the post: [media-library-gallery nb=XX] where XX is the number of pictures for a page.

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• More information and installation instructions

Turn Out Mag

A modern design, with soothing colors. Pre-programmed for a flickr photo feed, featured posts, a slideshow gallery and Google Adsense.

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Equilibrium

If your site needs segmented categories and lots of structure, then this is a great theme. Easily customized and re-colored, with a lot of great thumbnailed graphics and room for interaction through RSS feeds and subscriptions.

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Purple Haze

This theme features lots of room for advertising, with a lot of style, too. Boxes for pull-quotes and graphics and a fixed right-navigation bar make this an interesting theme with lots of potential for travel writers and bloggers looking for something a little different.

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Red Carpet Magazine

This magazine style theme is perfect for travel writers covering destinations with theater or events. Based on the style of People Magazine, this theme is colorful and graphical.

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Feedsmith Feedburner

One of the best reasons to use WordPress is the ability to utilize the built in syndication capabilities. It frees the blogger/writer from the technological need to know how to create an RSS feed, or how to ping a service to get their content indexed. Using the right mix of technology it’s possible to get pages into directories and search engines in mere hours.

So, if the indexing of the content is the right hook, having interested people signup for all your future stuff would be the body blow. WordPress, by way of Feedburner, takes care of that, too.

FeedBurner, recently purchased by Google, takes the feed of your site (which is automatically generated by WordPress) and publishes it for you in a format ready to view on their igoogle.com home page, in the Google reader, and in the Google Alert system.

In other words, they do quite a lot of work for you. But it gets better. Built into Feedburner is the ability for your subscribers to receive an email every time you publish NEW content. Automatically – meaning you don’t have to do anything. Really. I’m not kidding. You can download the subscribers and Google doesn’t eat them for lunch or anything, either.

Which brings us to this plugin. Rather than try and hack the core RSS code to redirect the feed to Feedburner, this plugin hijacks – with your permission – the feed to point to your Feedburner account.

Installation

Download the plugin, then follow the instructions below to begin forwarding all WordPress feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed.

1. Copy the plugin file, FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php into your default WordPress plugin directory, wp-content/plugins/ .
2. Activate the plugin by logging into your WordPress administration area, clicking Plugins, then clicking Activate at the end of the “FeedBurner FeedSmith” row.
3. In the WordPress administration area, begin the configuration by clicking Options and then the FeedBurner FeedSmith sub-option.
4. Follow the links to create your FeedBurner feeds, or if they already exist, simply fill in their URLs in the boxes provided.Note: If you currently use the old, 2005-vintage version of the Ordered List FeedBurner plugin that generates a FeedBurner-specific URL (an example: www.yoursite.com/feedburner_838196/), that URL is no longer available or necessary. You will have to reset your FeedBurner feed’s Original Feed address to now use your standard blog feed address. Additionally, you should examine any .htaccess files that control access to your WordPress installation’s content and remove any existing references that forward or redirect your feeds, as these references will no longer be necessary.
5. Verify your URLs in the text entry fields, and click Save.

Now all of your WordPress feed traffic should be redirected to FeedBurner.

All In One SEO

SEO is the holy grail of all travel website endeavours. If you have the best graphics and content in the world it won’t matter if no one sees it, right?

The beauty of WordPress is that search engines – all of them – love it. Even Google. WordPress has a few very high-tech features that make it robust right after installation, but to get the edge you need All In One SEO

Once it’s installed, the settings couldn’t be simpler. It pre-installs re-writes for the title tags, so the search engines can read what the site is actually about. From the developer’s website:

• Titles
  The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else. You can leave a few words from your blog title to do some branding but don’t overdo. If your post titles don’t contain your most precious phrases you want to rank for then tweak them. Leave the post titles as it is but change the meta title.
• Descriptions
  Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate. If you don’t want to invest the time and write a description for every post at least let them be auto-generated. This vastly better than the usual “Share This … Posted on … under …” description that is often used. The preferred source for your post description is your post excerpt. Use this when you want to tweak your description.
• Keywords
  All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with Wordpress 2.3, the built-in tagging system. Using your categories is optional, the rest is auto-detected and used if there. WP 2.3.x tags are the preferred keyword source.
• Duplicate Content
  You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content.

Personally tested on more than 40 blogs over 4 years, I’ve been able to attain high ranking with very little effort using this plugin. I’ve tried several others, but this one is the gold standard as far as I’m concerned.

Ole Ole It’s Spain

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This two column theme features a slight shadow on the background, with a full image in the header. Great for a Southwestern theme site or blog.

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Amazing Beach

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This two column theme features a slight shadow on the background, with a full image in the header. Great for a Southwestern theme site or blog.

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