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48. Configuring Your Plugins

· 6 Comments · OWM month 2

Now that your plugins are uploaded you are going to need to set them up so they will work best for you and your site, that’s what we are going to do today.



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  • 1 Jay Hurwitz // Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Hi again ladies

    I am a bit concerned that what I copied and pasted into the last comment may not be clear.

    In connection withwhat you wrote below

    “Now let’s click on the settings link toward the bottom of the left hand side of your page. When you click on the settings links it will open up a drop down menu and all of your activated plugins that have settings will be there.”

    when I click on settings, a drop down menu of all my plugins does not appear. The drop down menu that does appear is this

    general
    writing
    reading
    discussion
    media
    privacy
    permalinks
    miscellaneous

    I hope that this makes it a little easier for you to help me.

  • 2 Jackie and Andrea // Nov 30, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Hi Jay -

    It sounds like you don’t have it activated yet?

    Check the plugins list first:
    http://screencast.com/t/MDY3ZDVlY

    And “activate” it - then look to the settings list for a link to manage the details.

    See if that helps :)

    Andrea

  • 3 Gary Materra // May 17, 2010 at 12:21 am

    My site says “All in One SEO Pack must be configured. Go to the admin page to enable and configure the plugin. WordPress now has a canonical URL feature, however, we recommend using the AIOSE advanced canonical URLs functionality we have had for the past year.”
    I don’t know what all that means, but it sounds like configuring this plugin has changed. I see the same places to put in title, description and keywords. Canonical URLs has been checked by default, as has Rewrite Titles. I don’t see any place where the AIOSE is mentioned. Is there anything more I should know? Thanks!

  • 4 Gary Materra // May 17, 2010 at 12:29 am

    Also, the wordpress code for akismet, is that going to be the same for every campaign? Or do I create a new account at wordpress and get a new code for each new campaign? Thanks!

  • 5 Jackie and Andrea // May 17, 2010 at 4:56 am

    Hi Gary -

    I’ll let Jackie weigh in here on the All in One plugin - near as I’ve seen the only change in configuring it is that they make you decide whether to donate to it or not. Once you’ve indicated that at the top - you can save and proceed same as usual.

    For Akismet - you only need one Wordpress.com account. Then you can use that across any self-hosted blog you create.

    Andrea :)

  • 6 Jackie and Andrea // May 17, 2010 at 7:38 am

    I leave it in the default settings. The people creating the plugin know what they are doing, so I just leave the settings in the default they have set. Canonical … has something to do with not counting the same content in more than one place ~ like in categories, archives, etc.

    Jackie