A Magazine Style Plugin For Wordpress Posts
Admittedly, this plugin may be a bit frivolous since it’s just a simple plugin that adds a little special styling to your posts, and then again it might not be so meaningless. I have noticed that in the magazine and print world, this sort of technique is often used on the beginning of an article to draw your eye to the beginning paragraph or two where the author then has the opportunity to completely suck you into reading the whole article with that first descriptive paragraph.
I figure what we know as regular offline marketers have been perfecting their mind control craft since just after WWII according to what has become one of my favorite shows, Mad Men. And, they’ve spent billions by now on research and testing. So even though these offline sales people usually don’t know jack about Internet marketing to this day, they do know a lot about specific things like presentation and psychology and drawing people’s attention here or there to this or that bit of copy or whatever.
So, this plugin isn’t anything astounding, but I like to incorporate these kinds of things as I become aware of them. Also, this was a good way to teach myself, using a very simple idea, how to write plugins for Wordpress. Besides, it just looks cool.
You can get it in my new Wordpress plugins section here:
http://www.markdrussell.com/wordpress-plugins/
(Also works for Wordpress Pages.)
