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In this video we'll go behind the scenes to see all the plug ins I'm using at W.P. of course dot.com

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some plug ins are the premium plug ins that you'll be using as we create more Web sites in the sandbox

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in the upcoming chapters.

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Others are plug ins.

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I'm using to manage the Wordpress multi-site installation that powers the students sandbox.

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In this lesson you'll begin to see the possible applications for premium plug ins as well as Wordpress

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multi-site.

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Let's get started.

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Lets start by logging in at students dot W.P. of course dot com.

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If you're not already you can log in to the button at the upper right and use your own username and

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log in into your Wordpress dashboard at the student sandbox area.

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Go ahead and click plug ins and you can browse the plug ins with me.

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I'm just going to introduce a few of the premium plug ins in this list that we'll be using in the next

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few chapters.

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Building web sites and then will transfer over to the WPA dev area inside of the Administrator account

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WP of course dot com and I'll show you around some of the plugins I'm using to run this multi-site installation

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for you.

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First of all we've played with the contact form 7 plug in a little bit and I mentioned in one of the

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previous videos the contact form 7 pop up message plugin that I got from and Vado as one of their free

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promotional freebies on their code Kanyon brand at the enviro market will be playing with this in the

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next chapter as we go down.

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Custom presses another one from W PMU death and we'll be talking about that later in this video.

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These three Genesis extension plug ins are for the Genesis framework that we'll be using in the next

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few chapters inside the sandbox.

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All are free but only work when you're using the Genesis framework from Studio press.

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Google maps again from WPA.

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Udev is a premium maps plugin that offers some additional features on top of the one that we've been

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using in earlier videos.

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Layered pop ups I gave a tour of in one of the previous videos and again this is a pop up plug in that

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I've purchased from and Vado market as we scroll down.

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There's a couple of free plug ins here like regenerate thumbnails that will go over in future videos.

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You've experienced the soliloquy plug in and all of its add ons in the previous chapter and that's it

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for premium plug ins.

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For now I'll be adding more premium plug ins to this list.

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As the chorus grows and I build the content let me log out of the example site as a part of the student

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sandbox area and I'm going to go log in to the master super admin account at the WP dev course dot com

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and give you a small tour of how I'm using premium plug ins to run this multi-site installation.

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This looks very similar to your sandbox site dashboard but I've got of course a few other items that

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you don't have available over here.

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I'm using the code snippets plugin that I introduce to you in a previous chapter to manage some of the

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areas inside of the administration dashboard in the Wordpress multi-site installation.

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If I go up to the dashboard this is the WP at Dev course site itself but if I rollover this network

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admin drop down and then click dashboard.

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This is the network administration dashboard area for the entire multi-site network.

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Here you can see that I've got the branding plug in that I went in that I went over earlier with you

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guys and a few of the different items that I'm using within the branding plugin are visible in the tabs

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up here.

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I'm customizing the admin bar by adding a resources button and the WP 101 tutorial videos button up

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to the top left.

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Using the admin bar add on.

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I'm using the text change add on to the branding plug in and I've changed the word howdie the standard

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Howdy to hello up here at the top right.

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I've also changed the word blog within the entire admin area to the word site.

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In terms of images I have easily added an image to the top of the log in page as you can see over here.

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This is a custom image.

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I got the logo from WordPress dot org.

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They allow you to use the official logos from WordPress for any branding you might be doing.

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And I use that as an image inside of the multi-site Sarah.

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I'm not using it now but I'm able to use an admin message where I can place that in the administration

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area of all of the multi-site students sandbox sites.

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So if you ever see a message from me with a little green bar at the top I'm using this admin message

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add on to the branding plug in in order to deliver that message.

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I have eliminated the permalink menu down here.

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Under settings Permalink.

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For you as the student because I don't want you to be able to change the permalink around inside of

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your students sandbox in the CSSA tab.

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I don't have any custom styles for the admin but I could I could change the colors or brand this a little

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bit differently and use custom CSSA there.

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In terms of widgets I'm eliminating some of the widgets from the dashboard home page the at a glance

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and some other ones I'm a limiting activity the CEO posts and the quick drafts and the Wordpress news.

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That is a RSS feed from the Wordpress news repository.

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And finally I've added a link to the bottom that says hosting theme and plug in resources page it's

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the same link as this one.

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Up at the top but I figured I would place a link down there at the bottom that links to the resources

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page.

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You can see I've used the branding plugin from WPA udev pretty extensively to customize the Wordpress

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dashboard area of the student's sandbox sites.

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Let's look at the WPA you dev dashboard plug in and it's settings panel here under the plugins tab.

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It first shows me which WBM udev plug ins I have installed and I have either an activator or deactivate

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button and a configure button here and I can also open a modal window if I click that to learn a little

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bit about the plug in and I can link over to the plug in directions and the description over at WBM

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you dev dot org.

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Of course you can see right here I'm using the dashboard plugin to manage my updates.

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And other information and organization of these plug ins ultimate branding is the one that I just went

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over.

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I'm using WPA devs backup plug in called snapshot pro and I use that time to set up periodic backups

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of all the sites in the student's sandbox as well as are my own sites within that which is the W.P.

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of course.

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And the students of course dot com site I have pop up pro activated for you guys to be able to go ahead

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and activate it individually which is one of the plug ins will be working with later.

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I've introduced the W PMU dev videos earlier in this course and I have that network activated so that

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is just live up here inside of your Wordpress dashboard market press is from W. PMU Dev and it's available

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inside of the plugins area on each of the students sites Google Maps.

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I just discussed ultimate.

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Facebook is a great Facebook connector plug in for social networking and social marketing through your

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web site and we'll be playing with that in the social networking chapter later in this course.

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Membership 2 is a premium plug in for making membership sites and you can see it has a whole lot of

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features for making exclusive membership content within your site and protecting that behind a paywall

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or an opt in while things like that are going to be playing with that pretty soon in the course I'm

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using new blog templates and in the background you don't see availability of this because I'm using

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this for the multi-site network.

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It means that when someone signs up for a new student's sandbox it loads.

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Whichever theme I have enabled with the content that's within that example Blug template or new site

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template.

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So when you first signed up you were able to have the parallax pro site activated within your students

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sandbox right away.

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Custom press is an excellent plugin that makes custom taxonomies like categories and like tags you can

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create custom post types and assign custom taxonomies.

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That means that if your client or if your site needs some different categories besides just the Blug

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categories if you need something like you're selling something like books or the client needs to list

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and organize their content in terms of another taxonomy like T-shirts or T-shirts sizes something like

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that.

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It's a very powerful plug in for creating new poster types and taxonomies

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pro sites is for multi-site so that you can sell additional access through your multi-site setup.

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And I'm not using it within W.P. of course dot com right now but it's possible that I may want to upgrade

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some of the student sites with some different you know unpaid areas that are only accessible to certain

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students.

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When you sign up.

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I for a student website I have this MailChimp sync plug in activated so that you get on the news and

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updates list so I can email the group whenever I need to.

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I'm using the multi-site privacy plug in to make sure that only administrators of their own sites can

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see the front end of their sites.

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Since this is a private student sandbox network I don't want any of the sites to be open to the Internet

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and gain extra traffic that we don't need.

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Multi-site theme manager is a way to organize the themes inside of your themes page and I may decide

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to use this in the future.

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Default theme is currently just in the background.

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It allows you to select a new default theme for new sites that are created on the network because I'm

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using the new blogs templates and I can get more granular control over what new sites look like.

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When people sign up for them I don't need to use this default theme temp plugin at this time.

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Pretty plug ins is a way to organize all the plug ins once we have more and more plug ins that are premium

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plug ins to play with within the student's sandbox sites.

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I'll probably organize them into categories using this great plug in I do allow you to set your own

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password when you create a site inside the student's sandbox area.

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And this this plugin allows me to do that.

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Also this plug in remove email verification allows you to get started right away and get logged right

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into your new site as soon as you sign up without having to open an email and verify your account.

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This one admin adds another way for me to communicate to the entire network with a block on top of your

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dashboard when you log in.

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If I ever need to and finally sign up code this is how I limit the sign ups to the students inside of

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this course only so that if you know the code that is current you can get yourself a site inside the

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student's sandbox.

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Below that though the WBM dev dashboard plugin allows me to see available plug ins that I don't have

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installed yet inside of my WPA udev membership and I'll just scroll quickly down through this list.

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You can see that there are a ton of premium plug ins that I have available to me with my WPA dev membership

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Well that about does it.

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Those are the premium plug ins that I'm using within the WPA udev student's sandbox area and you have

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access to a lot of them as we make different Web sites in the next few chapters.

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In this video we went over the list of premium plug ins you can use as you build your sites in the student's

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sandbox as a part of this course and we briefly went through the way I'm using premium plug ins to manage

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the Wordpress multi-site setup that powers the students sandbox itself in the next few chapters.

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We get into building some more sites in the student's sandbox creating them using premium themes and

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plug ins together to make some outstanding Web sites