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Find Your Tribe, Find Your Health?

Humans are a tribal species. We form alliances, align ourselves along ethnic, familial, religious, and cultural lines. Still, for the vast majority of people, “tribal” carries a negative connotation. Bitter partisan politics, ethnic genocides, religious wars, and the long history of bigotry make that connotation almost unavoidable. But I don’t think tribal in its true essence is all bad. The basic instinct to form and belong to groups is a simple fact of human physiology. It’s how we work, so we’d better make it work for us.

Remember, I err on the side of evolution. If human evolution has produced and maintained a characteristic or behavior, there’s probably a reason for it. And maybe that reason doesn’t make sense in the modern world. It gets distorted or magnified. Tribalism certainly can. But it can be equally detrimental to ignore that characteristic, to brush it off and discard it. We don’t have to perform hard physical labor to procure food anymore—but exercise is still vital for our health. My guess is the same holds true for our predilection toward tribalism. And it doesn’t have to look like you think it might….

Research shows that one kind of tribe—diehard sports fans— see physiological benefits when their teams compete, such as boosts to testosterone and increased empathy. Sports fans even have a higher-than-average sense of meaning in their lives, something many modern humans lack. Sure, you might say “pro sports don’t matter in the long run,” but who cares? The point is that sports fandom is a healthy, safe, and decidedly non-genocidal mode of tribalism that appears to confer health benefits to those who participate.

Imagine the potential benefits of leveraging your tribal leanings toward a truly healthy, meaningful endeavor?

CrossFit is the perfect example.

It doesn’t have to be CrossFit exactly, but one of those special kinds of gyms whose inhabitants aren’t headphone-wearing individuals doing their own thing, in their own world. CrossFit struck such a chord not only because it offered a great workout, but because it offered a tribe.

You didn’t just show up to a CrossFit box and “train back and biceps” with your headphones on. You and your tribe battled the clock, the iron, yourselves. You entered a place where motivation drips from the ceiling. Where a lot of the stuff I talked about in this article—having rules that remove decision-making from the equation, competing against others (and yourself), achieving intrinsic rewards—comes baked into the experience. Where you don’t have to muster the willpower to start and complete a workout because your tribe is there doing it and ushering you on to join in and give it your all. You get swept away by the pull of your CrossFit tribe—and you’re better off for it.

There’s actual research to back this up, not just conjecture.

A recent study found that CrossFit participants experience more intrinsic motivation related to group affiliation, personal challenge, and outright enjoyment of the activity—and that this experience can increase adherence compared to other types of resistance training.

In perhaps the only systematic review and meta-analysis of CrossFit research to date, researchers concluded that “CrossFit practice is associated with higher levels of community, satisfaction, and motivation.” They have a tribe and don’t want to let them down.

Fitness, in general, benefits from the tribal effect.

The solitary yogi doing impossible stretches with serene countenance as the sun rises is a romantic ideal, but who actually does that? Yoga isn’t exactly pleasant. It’s hard. It can hurt. It’s tough to get yourself motivated to do a full session at home. Get yourself in a legit yoga studio and suddenly you’re on the mat and it’s 98° and before you know it you’re downward dogging your way to nirvana.

Or the Tough Mudder/Mud Run/Spartan Race genre of extreme athletic event. Running barefoot across electrified barbed wire, plunging headfirst into a trough of mud and urine, getting frostbite, ruining your clothes, and paying a couple hundred bucks for the opportunity doesn’t sound very appealing on paper. But allow participants to form teams with their friends and compete against other teams, and the event sells out.

Don’t forget that some of the most traditional forms of fitness practice around—team sports—are entirely based on tribalism. You have a “team.” You’re competing against another group of individuals who’ve also coalesced around a similar concept of organization. You have uniforms, team colors, team slogans, special chants and cheers. You run plays, tactical maneuvers designed to overcome the defenses your opponents have laid out. You function as a unit. For the 60 minutes or so of game time, the tribe takes precedence over the individual. Joining an adult sports league might be a great way to add value, meaning, and fitness to your life.

Dietary affiliations are tribal, too. Primal is absolutely a tribe. Keto is a tribe. Vegetarianism and veganism are absolutely tribes.

This can easily go awry. If you get locked into the dogma of your particular dietary tribe, you may tune out dissenting evidence from other tribes, however valuable and applicable. That’s why I’ve always emphasized open mindedness and the importance of reading outside sources and maintaining the willingness to change your mind in the face of new information. That quality comes baked into the Primal way of living, eating, and thinking. It’s part of our “dogma.”

Whatever dietary tribe you belong to, consider incorporating that feature into your ideology. I highly recommend it.

And if you’re interested specifically in becoming closer to the Primal tribe, there are plenty of ways.

The Facebook Groups

Facebook can be the place where you argue with friends and family about things that don’t even matter, or it can be the place where you find your Primal tribe.

There’s the Mark’s Daily Apple FB group, which is a general Primal group where you can discuss anything and everything related to Primal.

If you’re more into keto specifically, joining the Keto Reset FB group is a great place to find your keto tribe.

And you can also join the Primal Endurance FB group.

In all these groups, the beauty is that each member is a real person with a real name, and everyone is supportive. So rather than bother all the other people in your life with chatter about ideal sun exposure times and cauliflower carb counts and “180 minus age,” you can connect with people who get it, and get you.

Come To an Event

If you haven’t made it to a Paleo f(x), you have to do it. First of all, it’s in Austin, one of the best (and most paleo/Primal-friendly) cities in the country. The BBQ is out of this world, if nothing else. Second, it’s a meeting of the top thought leaders in ancestral health, both established and upcoming. Great place to hear about new ideas and new angles on old ones. Third, you’ll be with your people. Your tribe.

If you do go, come say hi, cause I’ll definitely be there.

Become a Primal Health Coach

The ultimate way to find a tribe is to become the leader of one and create your own. There’s no better path to leadership in the Primal arena than becoming a legitimate expert, someone who can help others build better lifestyles and construct diets and training regimens. It’s amazing how little most people understand about health, diet, and fitness. If you know what you’re talking about and throw yourself into the business of health and fitness, you’d be surprised at the incredible changes you can effect in your clients—and how close you’ll become with them.

How a tribe helped your quest for better health? Or are you looking for one? (Post-challenge is the perfect time to tap into supports that keep you going….) What does the perfect health tribe look like to you?

Thanks for reading, everyone. Take care!

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x-sapphire-flames-x-blog · 7 years

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The Best WordPress Plugins

To understand which are the best WordPress Plugins for your website you first need to understand what a Plug-ins are.

If you were a website developer some years ago you would need to be proficient at a number of coding languages in order to add functions to your website. If you think of something simple like adding a social button to your site like Twitter for example. The web developer would need to write a piece of code or a link to Twitter and add an image on all the pages.

With the introduction of WordPress and its many associated Plug-ins, this is no longer the case. All a developer or site builder needs to do now is search for a Plug-in and install it with the click of a button.

Why Do We Need WordPress Plugins?

We can’t truly understand why we need plugins until we’ve planned our site and understood what we want from our site. When we have a good idea of the functions on the site requires, we can begin to understand are the best WordPress Plugins for its needs.

What Do WordPress Plugins Do?

To understand WordPress Plugins, is to understand that there’s nothing they cannot do. WordPress.org is an open source project meaning anyone can produce any Plug-in they wish. This means for every problem with a WordPress website, there is a solution in the form of a Plug-in. Many plugins are used for data capture and SEO. We will take at look at some of the best SEO WordPress plugin shortly because it’s on the list.

Which WordPress Plugins Do I need?

The first thing to do here is please, please never have more than one Plugin doing the same job. If you do, only failure will follow.

Secondly, the Akismet anti-spam plugin which is by now the best know Plugin is no longer free, so I suggest using WP-spam shield or SI CAPTCHA anti-spam.

So What Are The Best WordPress Plugins, And Which Ones Do I Need?

For this WordPress Plugin tutorial, I am going to outline what I believe to be the minimum requirements to run WordPress website safely and successfully, starting with a list of WordPress plugins and a description of the function.

So, let’s get started with our list.

1. All in one SEO Pack

2. Google XML Sitemaps

3. Hide Title

4. Mail Subscribe List

5. Pretty Links

6. SEO Smart Links

7. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

8. Sociable

9. WP Fastest Cache

10. WP Spam shield

11. Table Maker

12. Contact Form 7 + Download Monitor + Email Before Download

Notice that number 12 contains 3 plugins which I want to talk about as a whole because these are used together in order to create a subscription before download function to your site.

Also, as a starting note, it’s always wise to run on as few plugins as possible due to the recourses these plugins use. Don’t start to panic, it’s just something to consider when you’re adding your plugins because the more you install, the more resources that will be used. This could end up affecting the efficiency of the site, such as loading speeds.

All In One SEO Pack.

The all in one SEO pack does what it says on the tin. One of the best SEO WordPress plugin ever! Essentially, it installs an interface that allows you to configure your site SEO, so the search engine can easily make sense of your content.

It includes all these options

*XML Sitemap support – submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO

*Google Analytics support

*Support for SEO on Custom Post Types

*Fine tune Page Navigational Links

*Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality

*ONLY free plugin to provide SEO Integration for e-Commerce sites, including WooCommerce

*Nonce Security built into All in One SEO Pack

*Support for CMS-style WordPress installations

*Automatically optimizes your titles for Google and other search engines

*Generates META tags automatically

*Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs

For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.

For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything to optimize your SEO

Google XML Sitemaps.

The Google XML sitemap plugin will generate an XML sitemap to help search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. This sitemap describes your site to the crawlers sent out by the search engines, meaning those search engines understand your pages and can serve these pages to people looking for your content.

The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages and custom URLs, and notifies all major search engines every time you create a new post or page.

This plugin has been around for 9 years and highly rated as a plugin providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines without slowing your site down. so clearly one of the best WordPress plugins in my view.

Hide Title.

This is a simple plugin that you will appreciate once you start creating pages and posts. If your page has the same name as you content title, then this will appear twice at the top of your page. What if you wanted you page name and content title to be the same but only show once at the top of the page. This plugin allows you to hide the page name to give you a single view.

Mail Subscribe List

If you plan to create a mailing list then a subscriber mailing list will be essential for you.

Visitors are allowed to enter their name and email address on your website and the details are stored and available to view and modify. The data capture can be added to your WordPress site as a widget or added to a page using a shortcut code.

Advanced features include 3rd party integration, mass emailing and double opt-in options to qualify your leads.

Clever coding means this plugin works with all email service providers as well as allowing the exportation of the mailing list. The customization is also impressive including all the following areas that can be displayed as you prefer.

“prepend” -> Adds a paragraph of text just inside the top of the form.

“showname” -> If true, this with show the name label and input field for capturing the users name.

“nametxt” -> Text that is displayed to the left of the name input field.

“nameholder” -> Text that is displayed inside the name input box as a place holder.

“emailtxt” -> Text that is displayed to the left of the email input field.

“emailholder” -> Text that is displayed inside the email input box as a place holder.

“showsubmit” -> If true, this with show the submit button, return required to submit form.

“submittxt” -> Text/value that will be displayed on the form submit button.

“jsthanks” -> If true, this will display a JavaScript Alert Thank You message instead of a paragraph above the form.

“thankyou” -> Thank you message that will be displayed when someone subscribes. (Will not show if blank)

The list of customization are longer than this article allows, but I think you get the idea of just how versatile this plugin really is.

Pretty Links.

Pretty Link, is a must have plugin for any affiliate marketer in order to protect their affiliate links, and also makes their readers feel better about navigating to product pages.

A typical affiliate link may look something like this.

mywebsite.com/?@=?00006454543/img-4988c?-8976756thef?-/hojbv599977ee444=0

As you can see it is not very attractive and some people do not want to click on such a link, but what if you could change that link to something like this

mywebsite.com/MyProductOffer

Instantly, it’s more friendly and more descriptive, and all you need to do was enter your original URL into Pretty Link and add the link name of your choice and click a button.

In addition to cleaning up your links and protecting potentially valuable affiliate links being stolen, Pretty Link can also track and report on the use of your links. Without a doubt one of the best WordPress plugins out there.

SEO Smart Links.

This is another amazing SEO WordPress plugin, helping you create internal links between your pages and posts, which in turns tells the search engine crawlers how important certain page are, and really helps with your SEO.

The SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages transparently.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam.

Whenever a reader leaves a comment on your post they will need to enter CAPTCHA anti-spam before submitting.

This is to prevent to spam attacks that that fill your comment intray within hours.

Features include:

*Configure from Admin panel

*Valid HTML

*Allows Trackbacks and Pingbacks.

*Setting to hide the CAPTCHA from logged in users and or admins

*Setting to show the CAPTCHA on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all.

Sociable.

Sociable gives you the option to add multiple social buttons to your site.

It is a feature-packed plugin allowing a degree of customization so you can select and customize features like text, color, and length in order to ensure visitors have a great Sociable Experience.

This is a free Plug-in with over 1.5 million downloads so far which is a testament to its abilities and popularity as one of the best WordPress plugins

WP Fastest Cache.

Every time a web page is opened by a user, both the server the website it’s on, and the computer viewing the website utilizes resources such as CPU, Memory. When pages are rendered, PHP and MySQL are used on the server taking up precious resources. The more users or visitors the more resources used

This plugin helps the process along by creating static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress site, meaning fewer resources are used and load times are reduced.

The setup is simple. You don’t need to modify the .htacces file. It will be modified automatically.

WP Spamshield.

This is WordPress anti-spam protection with NO CAPTCHAs to challenge visitors, working instead, silently in the background.

Most spam hitting a site originates from bots sent out by the spammers, but there’s still quite a lot sent by real humans too. This plugin works like a firewall to ensure that your commenters are in fact, human, but also that those humans aren’t spamming you.

It’s a powerful and user-friendly WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam & registration spam.

Table Maker.

This is a very simple Plugin to use that helps you to create different comparison tables. It has functions which allow you to use plugins to create different types of tables, comparison, TOP, specification tables, etc.

Features:

• Responsive option (stacks)

• Predefined icons

• Rows or Cols lines

• Option to mark first column for specification labels

• Option to add labels and featured row and cols

• Works with shortcodes

• Option to add subheaders

• Option to choose color of header

• Great and simple design

• Option to upload and use images

• Optional center aligning

• Export tables to XML. Import ones from XML/CSV

Contact Form 7 + Download Monitor + Email Before Download

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is another simple plugin that allows you to add a contact form to a page or post with a Short Code. You can create multiple contact forms that can be customized with simple markup. Should you wish to use it, the plugin also supports CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Download Monitor

If you want to offer downloadable file this plugin is for you. Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and downloading so you can insert download links into post and pages.

Email Before Download

Presents your readers with a form where they submit information, such as name and email address before allowing them to download a file. This integrates with the Contact Form 7 and Download Monitor plugins, allowing you to create any form you like and manage your file downloads.

Not only that, you can also export the list of users that downloaded files and create your contact/leads list.

FINAL THOUGHTS

WordPress Websites with WordPress Plugins are now the de facto route to website ownership for millions of individuals and small companies alike. The versatility and ease of creating the sites and adding functionality for free and without knowledge or experience of coding means owning and running a money making websites is now truly democratic.

Now, anyone with an idea and the dedication can create and run an online business.

Add to this, the ability to install SEO and mobile friendly themes and it makes WordPress websites the only viable option for those on a budget and limited experience.

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baburaja97-blog · 8 years

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All New WordPress Plugins for Bloggers

To understand which are the best WordPress Plugins for your website you first need to understand what a Plug-ins are.

With the introduction of WordPress and its many associated Plug-ins, this is no longer the case. All a developer or site builder needs to do now is the search for a Plug-in and install it with the click of a button.

Why Do We Need WordPress Plugins?

What Do WordPress Plugins Do?

To understand WordPress Plugins is to understand that there’s nothing they cannot do. WordPress.org is an open source project meaning anyone can produce any Plug-in they wish. This means for every problem with a WordPress website, there is a solution in the form of a Plug-in. Many plugins are used for data capture and SEO. We will take at look at some of the best SEO WordPress plugin shortly because it’s on the list.

Which WordPress Plugins Do I need?

The first thing to do here is please, please never have more than one Plugin doing the same job. If you do, the only failure will follow.

Secondly, the Akismet anti-spam plugin which is now the best know Plugin is no longer free, so I suggest using WP-spam shield or SI CAPTCHA anti-spam.

So What Are The Best WordPress Plugins, And Which Ones Do I Need?

So, let’s get started with our list.

1. All in one SEO Pack

2. Google XML Sitemaps

3. Hide Title

4. Mail Subscribe List

5. Pretty Links

6. SEO Smart Links

7. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

8. Sociable

9. WP Fastest Cache

10. WP-Spam shield

11. Table Maker

12. Contact Form 7 + Download Monitor + Email Before Download

Notice that number 12 contains 3 plugins which I want to talk about as a whole because these are used together in order to create a subscription before download function to your site.

All In One SEO Pack.

It includes all these options

*XML Sitemap support – submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO

*Google Analytics support

*Support for SEO on Custom Post Types

*Fine tune Page Navigational Links

*Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality

*ONLY free plugin to provide SEO Integration for e-Commerce sites, including WooCommerce

*Nonce Security built into All in One SEO Pack

*Support for CMS-style WordPress installations

*Automatically optimizes your titles for Google and other search engines

*Generates META tags automatically

*Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs

For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.

For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything to optimize your SEO

Google XML Sitemaps.

The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages and custom URLs, and notifies all major search engines every time you create a new post or page.

Hide Title.

This is a simple plugin that you will appreciate once you start creating pages and posts. If your page has the same name as you content title, then this will appear twice at the top of your page. What if you wanted your page name and content title to be the same but only show once at the top of the page. This plugin allows you to hide the page name to give you a single view.

Mail Subscribe List

If you plan to create a mailing list then a subscriber mailing list will be essential for you.

Advanced features include 3rd party integration, mass emailing and double opt-in options to qualify your leads.

“prepend” -> Adds a paragraph of text just inside the top of the form.

“show name” -> If true, this with a show the name label and the input field for capturing the users’ name.

“name text” -> Text that is displayed to the left of the name input field.

“name holder” -> Text that is displayed inside the name input box as a placeholder.

“email text” -> Text that is displayed to the left of the email input field.

“email holder” -> Text that is displayed inside the email input box as a placeholder.

“show submit” -> If true, this with a show the submit button, return required to submit a form.

“submitted” -> Text/value that will be displayed on the form submit button.

“thank’s” -> If true, this will display a JavaScript Alert Thank You message instead of a paragraph above the form.

“thankyou” -> Thank you for the message that will be displayed when someone subscribes. (Will not show if blank)

The list of customization are longer than this article allows, but I think you get the idea of just how versatile this plugin really is.

Pretty Links.

Pretty Link, is a must have the plugin for any affiliate marketer in order to protect their affiliate links, and also makes their readers feel better about navigating to product pages.

As you can see it is not very attractive and some people do not want to click on such a link, but what if you could change that link to something like this

mywebsite.com/MyProductOffer

Instantly, it’s more friendly and more descriptive, and all you need to do was enter your original URL into Pretty Link and add the link name of your choice and click a button.

SEO Smart Links.

This is another amazing SEO WordPress plugin, helping you create internal links to your pages and posts, which in turns tells the search engine crawlers how important certain page are, and really helps with your SEO.

The SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages transparently.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam.

Whenever a reader leaves a comment on your post they will need to enter CAPTCHA anti-spam before submitting.

This is to prevent to spam attacks that that fill your comment intray within hours.

Features include:

*Configure from Admin panel

*Valid HTML

*Allows Trackbacks and Pingbacks.

*Setting to hide the CAPTCHA from logged in users and or admins

*Setting to show the CAPTCHA on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all.

Sociable.

Sociable gives you the option to add multiple social buttons to your site.

It is a feature-packed plugin allowing a degree of customization so you can select and customize features like text, color, and length in order to ensure visitors have a great Sociable Experience.

This is a free Plug-in with over 1.5 million downloads so far which is a testament to its abilities and popularity as one of the best WordPress plugins

WP Fastest Cache.

This plugin helps the process along by creating static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress site, meaning fewer resources are used and load times are reduced.

The setup is simple. You don’t need to modify the .htacces file. It will be modified automatically.

WP Spamshield.

This is WordPress anti-spam protection with NO CAPTCHAs to challenge visitors, working instead, silently in the background.

It’s a powerful and user-friendly WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam & registration spam.

Table Maker.

Features:

• Responsive option (stacks)

• Predefined icons

• Rows or Cols lines

• Option to mark the first column for specification labels

• Option to add labels and featured row and cols

• Works with shortcodes

• Option to add subheaders

• Option to choose color of header

• Great and simple design

• Option to upload and use images

• Optional center aligning

• Export tables to XML. Import ones from XML/CSV

Contact Form 7 + Download Monitor + Email Before Download

Contact Form 7

Download Monitor

If you want to offer downloadable file this plugin is for you. Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and downloading so you can insert download links into post and pages.

Email Before Download

Not only that, you can also export the list of users that downloaded files and create your contact/leads the list.

FINAL THOUGHTS

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hopefulphantomwonderland-blog · 8 years

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New Post has been published on Pagedesignweb

New Post has been published on http://pagedesignweb.com/the-best-wordpress-plugins/