What Salesforce.com CRM web service gives you typically is some code that you can use with contact forms. It has a hidden tracking code that is used for tracking when the form is filled out. This is a little bit easier though with one or more available plugins.

WordPress to Lead for Salesforce CRM is a free plugin in the official WordPress repository by Joost de Valk that works well:

But guess what – WordPress also integrates with the ever popular “Gravity Forms“! Here’s a post from 2011 on integrating WordPress and Salesforce CRM with Gravity forms.

If you want a tutorial on how to integrate WordPress and Salesforce using other contact forms such as Contact Form 7 (CF7), cforms, or others – just read this readwriteweb tutorial for help with that.

Here are the ones we like…

The Original Contact Form 7, now downloaded over 3.6 million times:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension: allows pre-population of fields, like autofilling a URL, product number, custom fields, post info, shortcode values, and all kinds of other things.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/

Contact Form 7 to Database Extension: easily allows you to save Contact Form 7 submissions in your database for review later, in addition to sending you email. A great way to archive entries and save a copy in case there’s a problem with emails.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/

Contact Form 7 Campaign Monitor Addon: allows you to submit subscribers to a Campaign Monitor account.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-campaignmonitor-addon/

Contact Form 7 Customfield in mail: this addon lets you use a custom field, so you can have different forms with different email addresses, send custom field values in the emails, etc.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-customfield-in-mail/

Contact Form 7 Widget: creates a widget for sidebars you can add a Contact Form 7 form to, which you can style, etc.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-widget/

Deregister Contact Form 7: this plugin removes all the scripts and styling from loading on your site (in case you included all the styling in your theme).

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/deregister-contact-form-7/

Contact Form 7 Module: easily add hidden fields to your Contact 7 Forms. A great feature of this addon is that you can add hidden values ot form like post_title, post_category, post_url. This is great if you have embedded the same form on multiple pages, and when the submissions come in – you have no idea what page it was submitted from. In these cases, the hidden value can tell you.:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-modules/

ShootQ for Contact Form 7: adds ShootQ integration, which is photography studio management software:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shootq-wordpress-contact-form-7-integration/

CF Shopping Cart: this addon allows Contact Form 7 forms to be transformed into a shopping cart:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cf-shopping-cart/

Sweet Captcha: a really cool captcha for Contact Form 7:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sweetcaptcha-revolutionary-free-captcha-service/

Web Directory WordPress plugin: this plugin takes WordPress links and creates a web directory with them. You can integrate it with Contact Form 7 so that the contact form is the submission form for the directory to add new links. The live demo to see what the directory looks like is here: http://www.codestuff.com/links

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kih-web-directory-wordpress-plugin/

The best WordPress premium themes that I have ever used are at “Elegant Themes“.

I see a lot of premium theme reviews for WordPress that just show the themes, and then throw out the affiliate link. I want to tell you that not only do I personally recommend Elegant Themes, our corporate site JTPratt Media RUNS on an Elegant Theme.

I’m going to go a step further than a personal recommendation – I’m going to give you specific reasons why Elegant Themes are the best WordPress premium theme bargain I’ve found online in many years:

Reason #1: It’s only $39.95 per YEAR for unlimited use of their themes on all their web sites

Reason #2: It’s only $89.95 ONE TIME (not by the year) for a developers license to use ALL their themes on ALL your clients sites

Reason #3: All themes have a multi-screen admin “control panel” to customize EVERYTHING without knowing ANY code at all

Reason #4: All the themes they have are STUNNING

Reason #5: They add new themes all the time (at no additional cost)

Reason #6: Support is FREE in the support forums, and nearly all questions are answered quickly

Reason #7: They have themes for specific uses, news, magazine, business, business card, video, e-commerce, high fashion, real estate, blogging, mobile apps, gaming, cooking, art, resumes, gaming, corporate, small business, and MUCH more.

Most themes are in multiple colors schemes and EXTREMEMLY customizable! I’ve used hundreds (maybe thousands) of themes, and I have developers on staff that build custom WordPress themes for clients every day. And yet, I STILL choose to use Elegant Themes whenever I can – and one of the main reasons is the “ePanel” that is there in theme admin.

Here’s a screenshot:

Elegant Themes has the most advanced WordPress Premium theme admin inside this “ePanel” I’ve ever seen. Without changing any code at all, you can (in seconds):

• Change the color scheme
• Change the navigation
• Change featured content
• Change Ad Management
• Change SEO options
• Change meta info
• and more…

If that wasn’t enough for you, if you’re into making money – their extremely generous 50% affiliate commission can make you a LOT of money if you review their site too. I personally stand behind the themes myself (because I use them), but they sell themselves. You can make some pretty good bank just by signing up for the affiliate program and handing out the link on twitter, Facebook, and a blog review or too.

Do yourself a favor and visit Elegant Themes, for some of the best polished and most professional WordPress themes you’ve ever seen (and the most affordable).

So, most web sites stick to the same core fonts:

• Arial
• Times New Roman
• Georgia
• Verdana

The only way around this (in the past) has been one of these methods:

• Use Flash to embed and display the text
• Use a plugin that creates images on the fly for text
• Manually create images yourself and use them in place of text
• Use one of many javascript “font embedding” kits

Google came out with a service this year called “Google fonts”. By embedding a small script in your site, you can use any of their fonts on your site – and everyone can see them (without having to have the font on their system)! To make matters easier, there’s a WordPress Google Fonts Plugin that you can install to take care of everything for you.

In the image above, you can see the plugin options (click for large view). You can choose any of the currently available google fonts (more are added all the time), and then you can assign it to particular elements. You can assign for example headline fonts in “font 1 options”, and then paragraphs in “font 2 options”, etc. If for some reason that changes don’t take, then you can just enter the proper CSS code right there in the plugin setup screen for each font (as in the example).

In the image above (click for full view) you can see the fonts in action on a web site – here we’re using “Crimson Text” for the headings and page text. I installed and configured the plugin for a client – visit French Furniture: Vintage Revival if you want to check it out live.

If you’re not a do-it-yourselfer and need your blog customized – visit our corporate site: JTPratt Media

It does the job well, for exactly what you would expect. You enter the testimonials, and then you can display them in a full “testimonials” page, or a sidebar widget (click image for full size view):

here’s the screen where you enter testimonials in your wordpress dashboard admin:

The screen is setup for client name, company, web site, short and long description, image, and sort order. The funny thing about it is, you might think because of the labels, that all you could use this plugin for would be is testimonials on a business web site.

Guess what, you don’t have to use all the fields! And you can put whatever you want in them. Use this plugin just as easily for random quotes, featured products, affiliate links, etc.

This means that for each (Yahoo, bing, google) you have to go through a “verification process”, to ensure you are the actual owner. That means you either have to edit your theme and add some meta tag code, or upload an HTML file for each search engine. What a PITA if you ask me.

I’ve recommended the Robots Meta plugin for a long time, where you can administer your htaccess files, robots.txt, and also your search engine registrations – all in one plugin.

If you don’t need all those features, just use the All in One Webmaster plugin to manage all 3 search engine registrations.

The related post plugin I’ve used the longest, and that seems to have the least amount of overhead, never breaks, and has nearly no conflicts at all is Aizatto’s Related Posts.

The Yet Another Related Posts plugin is also highly rated, and has been downloaded thousands of times.

Sometimes you don’t want just related posts, you might want to also look at the WordPress Popular Posts Plugin.

Custom Post Relationships Plugin
This plugin is nice because you can actually choose which related posts are displayed. If you need this kind of functionality it works great, but it doesn’t display related posts automatically (you have to manually add the code to your theme), and you have to manually choose the posts.

Leave it to my old friend the WordPress Codex to help me out in my time of need! I found that the place I should have been looking all along was my very own WordPress dashboard!

Check it out:

I you click all 10 posts at once and then “edit” you get th hidden menu in the image above. If you can’t see it all, click it for full view. Then, you can do whatever you want to all 10 posts at once!

Nifty!

It’s easier than you think, in your WordPress dashboard just go to “Settings->Writing” and scroll to the bottom.

It’ll look like this:

You’ve probably seen that 100 times before and either didn’t think it was useful, or didn’t know how to set it up. Basically, what you need to do is setup an email account just to use for posting to your wordpress site. Most web hosting accounts let you setup quite a few emails, and you need to create one that nobody will ever see or use but you. In other words, instead of setting the traditional “bob@mycoolsite.com”, setup something like “LKBHJTD@mycoolsite.com”. The reason for the strange name is that anyone that has this email address will be able to post to your site, but you’re not going to give it out to anybody – so that won’t matter.

Once you’ve setup the email account, get the setup instructions from your web host and find out the mail server and port number. Then enter those, along with your new username and password in the appropriate fields, and save to update. The only other option you have is “wordpress category”, and I advise you maybe setup something like “mobile news”, or assign a similar existing category.

Now the funny thing about WordPress is that, in the dashboard – other than the fields in the image above, no instructions exist on how to use this mysterious “blog posts via email” feature in WordPress. NONE at all. Of course, this information does exist in the wordpress codex, and it says that you have to setup some kind of “trigger”. Basically – you gave wordpress login details to “check for email” just like an email program would. Once it gets the lastest email (to create posts with), it’s even smart enough to delete the messages (like an email program does). But, it’s not setup to automatically “check email” at regular intervals.

The file that “checks mail” is yoursite.com/wp-mail.php. That’s right – it’s existed all this time in your root directory as a core function of wordpress – and you probably didn’t even know what it did. You have a few choices on how to “check mail” with this file. You could setup a cron job to run it at your own specified intervals. You could manually bring up the file in a browser and call it that way to check mail. But if you’re on a cell phone – that’s just a pain.

A much better way (in my opinion) is to just place this code in your footer.php:

<iframe src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php” name=”mailiframe” width=”0″ height=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” title=”"></iframe>

Now, every time a page loads on your site – WordPress checks for mail. That’s pretty much it, you just have to remember that you can’t use pictures and the posts will be just text. You can always go back at a later date and add images, tags, or whatever. If you still need more information, consult the official Post to your blog using email page in the WordPress codex.

This is a pretty easy solution to solve, just use the “bulk delete” WordPress plugin.

Here’s a screenshot:

Just select what you want to delete, and whether you want it to go to “trash” or be permanently deleted. You can also delete by category or by tags.

Another worthy mention by the same plugin developer is Bulk Move. Easily move bunches of posts from one category to another with ease.