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AI Engine: WordPress Plugin

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The AI Engine is a WordPress plugin developed by Jordy Meow. It enables users to integrate AI-powered functionality into their websites, providing a range of tools and features to enhance productivity and content creation.

Here are the key features and functionalities:

1. ChatGPT Integration: The plugin allows users to create their own AI-powered chatbot like ChatGPT. This chatbot can be tailored using various parameters and concepts, and its capabilities can be enhanced using finetuning and embeddings. Users can train their AI to better cater to their target audience using their website’s content and other pertinent information.

2. AI Copilot: In the WordPress editor, users can type a question and AI Copilot will offer many suggestions to help think and write quickly. It can be used to fix text, translate it, shorten or lengthen it, and find alternative words.

3. Content and Image Generation: Users can adjust the parameters to their preference, customize the prompts, and generate content and images. These parameters can be saved as templates for future use. The AI Playground feature also enables users to create their own custom use cases.

4. Internal API: The AI Engine offers its own internal API that can be utilized by various plugins. It can be used to suggest improved filenames for media files or to create accompanying text for social media posts.

5. OpenAI Integration: The AI Engine uses the API from OpenAI. It does not gather any information from users’ OpenAI account except for the number of tokens utilized. The data transmitted to the OpenAI servers primarily consists of the content of the users’ article and the context they specify.

The plugin also supports GPT-3, GPT-4, and GPT-4 32k models, and offers features like translation, correction, SEO, suggestions, WooCommerce product fields, and others. There are options for fullscreen, popup, and window modes for the chatbot. Users can train their AI to make it better at specific tasks, and there are moderation AI tools available. It also offers the ability to quickly brainstorm new titles and excerpts for posts, write WooCommerce product fields, and keep track of OpenAI usage with built-in statistics.

To use the AI Engine plugin, users need to create an account at OpenAI, create an API key and insert it into the plugin settings, and then they can start enjoying the features of AI Engine. However, users are responsible for managing the content made by the AI and handling any problems or misuse. The developer of AI Engine and related parties are not responsible for any issues or losses caused by using the plugin or AI-generated content.

The developer of the plugin hopes to see AI being used for good, enhancing productivity, empowering new voices to be heard, and saving time on tedious tasks.

The AI Engine WordPress plugin can be a powerful tool for online marketing and social media promotion.

Here are some ways it can be used:

1. **Content Creation**: The AI Engine plugin can generate fresh and engaging content for your website or blog posts, which is crucial for SEO and attracting visitors to your site. Having regular and high-quality content increases the chances of your website being ranked higher in search engine results, leading to more organic traffic.

2. **Social Media Posts**: The AI Engine can create accompanying text for social media posts. This can be useful when you are sharing posts on social media platforms and need to quickly create engaging captions or descriptions. The plugin can be used to automate this process, saving time and ensuring consistency in your social media messaging.

3. **Chatbot**: The plugin allows you to add a ChatGPT chatbot to your website, which can improve customer engagement. The chatbot can answer customer inquiries, provide product information, and even assist with the purchase process. This interactive tool can enhance the user experience on your website, potentially increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

4. **SEO Suggestions**: The plugin offers tools for SEO, which can assist in optimizing your content to improve its visibility on search engines. This can lead to increased organic traffic to your site, enhancing your online presence and potentially leading to more conversions.

5. **Product Descriptions**: If you’re running a WooCommerce store, the AI Engine plugin can be used to quickly write product fields. High-quality, unique product descriptions can improve SEO, provide valuable information to customers, and help drive sales.

6. **Brainstorming Ideas**: The AI Engine plugin can quickly brainstorm new titles and excerpts for your posts. This feature can be useful when you’re trying to come up with engaging content for your blog or social media posts.

7. **Data Analysis**: The plugin’s ability to track OpenAI usage with built-in statistics can provide useful insights into your AI usage patterns, which can be leveraged for improving your marketing strategy.

Remember that while the AI Engine plugin can be a powerful tool for online marketing and social media promotion, the content generated by the AI should be reviewed and managed carefully to ensure it aligns with your brand and marketing goals.

Contact Form 7 Plugin

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ok.. with over a million downloads – you know this is a good plugin. In fact, it’s the one I use on this site for the contact form.

It’s simple, quick, secure – and when you combine it with the Google ReCaptcha plugin it keeps out the bots and spammers: 

WordPress SEO by Yoast

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OK, so this is simply one of those plugins that needs to be installed. And that’s that.

Yoast – the guy behind the plugin (Joost De Valk) is a seriously smart SEO guy, along with a seriously smart team over at Yoast.com

As you’ll know, from reading this blog, SEO is very important for your business. This plugin is basically all you need – along with your social media accounts of course!

It’s actually just been updated, and there are some great changes. So I’ll run through what I do when I set a website up and install this plugin.

Video and article coming soon!

Enfold WordPress Theme

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This beautiful theme is one of the first ones I bought. The author, Kreisi, is exceptionally talented – and claims this is the “user-friendliest WordPress theme ever made”! – I agree with him. Very flexible! One of the most popular themes on Themeforest.

I probably have 3 or four personal websites using this theme. The code is very well written, which counts for the page load times – all factors in optimising your website.

Here’s a quick look at the admin panel – but I’d recommend checking out the full demo on Themeforest

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Gravity Forms

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Gravity Forms for WordPress

GravityForms are probably one of the most known, and respected forms plugin providers. As a testament to that, I have had a paid membership for GravityForms since 2010.

The only thing I can say in terms of what to watch for – is that GravityForms to WordPress forms is like ‘Microsoft Word’ to word processors – they can do everything! However, sometimes we just need a simple text editor.

If your needs are simple, I also recommend Contact Form 7 – and I’ll do a quick demo and write up on that soon.

But if you want super flexible forms, conditional logic, subscriptions, addons payments, membership… GravityForms is for you..

Check out the GravityForms website to see the full list of amazing features in this excellent plugin.

BackupBuddy by iThemes

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Backupbuddy WordPress Plugin

In terms of backups and disaster recovery, this is probably the best plugin I’ve used, not only for regular backups, scheduled offsite backups, but also site transfers and migrations.

I install it on every client website without exception.

It also comes with a malware checking facility.

It’s one of those plugins that just gets installed, no questions. It’s also one of those plugins, which once in a rare moment, you are soooo glad you installed!

Video and article coming soon!

WordPress Themes by StudioPress

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StudioPress WordPress Themes

When it comes to making your website look nice, there’s really only one or two places to know about. StudioPress is one of those places. Dedicated to high quality WordPress themes, exceptional support.

I always think it’s a little understated, sending someone to look at their themes, because although they all look great, with just a little bit of tweaking you can change the look and feel quite radically – giving you so many choices.

You’ll notice that this site uses a Genesis Theme (Genesis is the framework created by StudioPress). It’s one of many themes.

Perhaps what’s most helpful, is the quick setup guides, and the amazing community which has answers to every question you could possible think of – helping you get setup quickly and easily.

I promise to do a walk-through video along with an in depth article on using Genesis from StudioPress.

In the meantime, go and checkout their WordPress themes and testimonials.

Domain Names by NameCheap

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NameCheap Domain Names

For many years, I used GoDaddy. I’d also tried many others, but kept coming back to GoDaddy.

However – recently I’m finding that NameCheap are my preferred choice. Partly because they’re great on domain pricing, and they have a very smooth purchase process. But mainly, because they offer privacy protection (which they call WhoisGuard) and SSL at unbeatable prices.

Domain privacy (WhoisGuard) means that your contact information used when you register the domain isn’t made public – because those pesky spam robots harvest those public email addresses and send you rubbish, as well as sell the email addresses to spam lists..

And SSL is becoming more important these days, if you want any form of security for sensitive information – and of course, it’s critical for any payment information.

NameCheap also do hosting of course, but I still recommend SiteGround for that.

More details coming soon, on what domain names to choose when thinking of marketing and seo.

Private Browsing with HideMyAss

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HideMyAss Proxy and VPN Software

This is a great utility, for keeping on top of the information that is gathered about you – mostly without you knowing!

It allows anonymous browsing, by using either proxies or a VPN connection. As you can imagine, there are a number of benefits – some more innocent than others..

One of the things I like, is that it allows you to wander around the internet, without all these cookies and advertising tracking following you.

It also allows you to access websites in other countries, that you might not normally be able to access. And on the potentially less innocent side – it let’s you access many websites that have been blocked for various reasons by different ISP’s.

Mostly, I like to simply be in control – and not have people collecting all sorts of information about me without me knowing.

Video and in depth article coming soon!

Using ‘Staging’ for Backup

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My preferred host is SiteGround. For a number of good reasons. I’ve explained it more in another post, but one of the lesser known features of SiteGround hosting is the ‘staging’ system they provide.

This basically lets you make a copy of your website – and work on it separately from your live site, by clicking a button!

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Once you’ve created the staging copy, you’ve basically got a full copy/backup to play around with.

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This is very useful and can be used in two ways:

  1. Make a copy of your live site – then make the changes on the copy. If it goes wrong, it’s ok because it’s the test site. Once it works well, ‘push’ the copy up to the live site.
  2. Make a copy of your live site – then make the changes on your live site. If it works ok, fine. If it breaks, then use the copy to overwrite the live site and put it back into a working state.

Of course – looking at those two options – you can see why ‘staging’ is a great idea. You can work on a copy to make sure it’s ok, before it affects your live site.

This is just a post about using staging as a way of backing up and restoring – there’s another SiteGround post about actual hosting, and why I recommend them most.