Congratulations , you have reached the Expertise Plugin expertise page. Your resident experts are:
By posting a question in this expertise area the experts will be notified through email and they'll be here to answer your request as soon as possible. All we ask in return is that if you have a website yourself, even though it may be tiny, that you put a link to our site on your own site.
Should you like the site anyway and do you want to put a link to our site on your site you can use the following code:
<a href="http://wordpress.3dn.nl" title="3DN TechBlog">3DN TechBlog</a>
Expertise Plugin
The Expertise Plugin for WordPress is a friendly way for blog maintainers to offer their expertise on any subject to blog readers.
Requirements
Personally I think that people should at least take a second to sign up on the site before posting an expertise request. I’m hoping and encouraging on my own site that only serious requests get posted by people with real issues. So on my own site I installed the ‘Member Access‘ plugin. This excellent plugin allows page authors to make their pages readable only by members. I set up a general expertise area that doesn’t require a login but which explains why we want you to sign up before accessing an expertise area. This is a top level page in WordPress, I’ve made all the other expertise pages a child page of this Expertise page.
The Expertise page on the Expertise plugin itself does not require you to sign up. However, the Expertise plugin tries to determine who you are when you’re looking at an Expertise page and if it knows who you are it will check to see if you’re an expert or not. If you’re not it will show an orange button giving you the opportunity to become an expert. If you are currently registered as an expert you will see a button that allows you to opt-out of being an expert. This functionality will be non-existent if you have not signed up.
Installation
As the Expertise plugin is still in development you need to get your copy from my Trac server. After you downloaded the zip file, unzip it in your WordPress plugin directory, go to your plugin administration and activate the plugin. Download latest development code.
Under the settings field you will now find the ‘Expertise’ link. There’s three tabs in the admin screen.
General Settings
Here you can configure whether Expertise will send email to experts on a new post or not. Typically you would not send email on a frequently visited expertise page. If you don’t like the little credit link you can make it go away from here.
Mail Settings
Here you can configure the mail settings. I’ve tried relaying through Gmail’s SMTP server with ‘Use SMTP Auth -> Yes’, ‘Port 587′, ‘SMTP Security -> TLS’. Please keep in mind that the SMTP inputs get disabled when you choose the Sendmail mail method.
Comments Settings
If you use Disqus for comments you can enable new message checking on Disqus here. If you’re using the regular WordPress comments simply select WordPress here. The Disqus comment system stores comments on the Disqus server but also synchronizes them to the local WordPress database. This synchronization happens only after a reload of the page so when somebody posts an expertise request on an infrequently visited expertise area and leaves the site without reloading the page, the request could go unnoticed by the WordPress comment API for a while. If Disqus is selected here, the plugin makes sure that the WordPress database is synchronized with Disqus’ database before processing all expertise requests.
