If you’re using Pic-Time’s Blogs feature to create blog posts from your galleries and embed them into your website, the Pic-Time Connect plugin will help ensure those images are better indexed by search engines. This improves your SEO and makes your work more discoverable online.
What does the Plugin do?
The Plugin adds all embedded assets (photos, GIFs, slideshows, etc.) to the parent website's sitemap.xml, which can potentially improve SEO, so we recommend adding it.
What do I need to do?
Simply install the plugin to your website, and that’s it! There are two ways to install the WordPress plugin, depending on how your website is set up. Both options are detailed below.
Option 1: Installing on a Self-Hosted WordPress Site
If you self-host a website using WordPress.org:
1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard, and go to Plugins > Add Plugin.
2. Search for Pic-Time Connect and select it.
3. Click Install and activate.
4. You’ll then see Pic-Time Connect in your list of Installed Plugins and will be automatically activated. If it’s not, simply click to reactivate the plugin.
And that’s it! The plugin is now connected to your website.
Option 2: Installing on other Platforms built on WordPress
If your website is not self-hosted and runs on a platform built on WordPress (For example, StyleCloud, WordPress.com, or Showit) follow the steps below.
Please Note: Installing a custom plugin is dependent on your particular platform’s offerings and may differ depending on subscription tiers. For example, at the time of writing Wordpress.com only supports plugin installation on the Business plan and higher. Showit only allows custom plugins on their highest subscription tier.
1. First download the plugin. Click here to view the Pic-Time Connect plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory and click on the Download button to download the plugin .zip file.
2. Then, log in to your WordPress dashboard, and go to Plugins > Add Plugin.
3. Click the Upload button.
4. Drag and drop or click to select the downloaded plugin .zip file.
5. You’ll then see Pic-Time Connect in your list of Installed Plugins and will be automatically activated. If it’s not, simply click to reactivate the plugin.
And that’s it! The plugin is now connected to your website.
Reactivate Plugin
If needed, you can deactivate and reactivate your plugin under Plugins > Installed Plugins. Locate Pic-Time Connect and click to Activate. For example, if you uploaded and installed the plugin yourself, you may need to click to activate it.
Love the plugin but don't see it for your website platform? Don't worry! We have plans to implement this for other platforms in the future.