First Steps – Activating Site Resources
Your free site is built with loads of tools and resources. You can activate things like a visitor forum, include a map to your office, provide access to online margin and profit calculators, contact forms, videos, or even have your own email marketing campaign!
All of these resources and more come free with your website. To use them, all you have to do is activate the plugin that turns them on and fill in the settings.
For example, let’s say you wanted to add a contact form to your site. You have a great plugin called “Fast And Secure Contact Form.” It has all kinds of settings you can play with, which make it very, very, flexible.
To activate it, click on the “Plugins” link in your sidebar menu, and then click on “Installed” to see the full list of plugins that are already installed on your site. Locate the Fast And Secure Contact Form plugin in the list and click on “Activate.”
Once you have activated the contact form, you’ll find that a new item has been added under the “Settings” link in your sidebar menu. It will be listed as “SI Contact Form.” Now, don’t ask me why Mike has never made the names the same, but it still works. Matter of fact, if you like it, there is a “Donation” button on the settings page. A gift of $5 or so is about average for the guys that create these things, so, if you’re of a mind, click and give. It’s not required, but it’s nice.
After you’ve gotten to the settings page, one of the first things you’ll want to do is set the email address for where you want the contact form sent. If you leave it as is, it may wind up coming to me, and that could be embarrassing to both of us.
Play around with the settings, and when you think you’ve gotten them where you want them, save them, copy the “shortcode” and paste it in the page or post where you want the form to show up. Feel free to create a new page or post. After all, what’s an Angstrom unit for if you can’t use it to create all the pages you want.
Ave the page or post and preview it.
If you get a contact form showing up, so far, so good. Fill it out and send yourself a message. See how it works. If you didn’t get one, or if you don’t get the email, check your settings, change them some, and try, try again.
After all, Mr. Angstrom doesn’t mind how many units go flowing through the ether.
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