WordPress Easy Blogging Plugin

Easy Blogging

Easy blogging is a revolutionary new WordPress / WPMU admin interface that makes using WordPress… easy! Integrates with the Easy Blogging Wizard and Easy Blogging Tooltips.

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One of the biggest challenges faced by WordPress Multisite and WPMU site owners is that the default interface can be a bit too complex for younger, older and novice users.

Easy blogging solves that by providing your users with the option of a much simpler interface that will completely demystify the WordPress dashboard.

Swtiching between interfaces is as simple as clicking on the ‘Activate Easy Mode’ at the top of their dashboard or by clicking on ‘EXIT EASY MODE’ from their sidebar menu.

Activate easy mode

Exit easy mode

Best of all Easy Blogging has been designed to work well with our Pro Sites plugin providing a premium themes section! Grab this plugin to make blogging much easier and more enjoyable for your users and watch you membership grow!

Easy Blogging Premium Themes

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To Install:

1. Download the plugin file
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3. Upload the /easyblogging/ folder and all its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4. Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it site-by-site in Plugins in the site admin dashboard (say if you wanted to make it a Supporter premium plugin), or visitNetwork Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

That’s it! No configuration necessary!

How It Works

1. Users just need to click on ‘Activate Easy Mode’ at the top of their blog dashboards to access the easy blogging admin interface.

Activate easy mode

2. Changing back to the standard WordPress interface is as simple as clicking on ‘EXIT EASY MODE’

Exit easy mode

To customize it

In your admin area, go to Easy Blogging to customize options such as the option to show a Logout link or the option as to whether users enter Easy Mode by default.

Easy Blogging Options

You can also select from a number of included themes.

Select a theme

Easy Blogging Wizard

To enable and create a wizard guide, go to Easy Blogging > Easy Blogging Wizard and tick Yes for the Enable Wizard option.

You can then create your own wizard steps by selecting a URL type, entering a URL, Title and Help text, then pressing Save Changes.

Easy Blogging Wizard

Once your wizard step is created, you’ll be able to drag and drop it where you want to in the wizard process, and you can also Edit or Delete the step.

As an example, here’s an illustration of one way you can setup a Wizard step that gives users information about their Dashboard.

Easy Blogging Wizard Step example