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Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever. One of the fastest and easiest ways to improve your WordPress blog is to activate a plugin.

Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever

Plugins are modules that extend the functionality of WordPress. There are thousands of developers who build plugins that anyone can use to improve the look, feel and functionality of their sites. There’s a plugin for everything. Most are free and can be implemented with little hassle. A Collection of Wordpress Tutorials, Tips and Themes. As far as CMSs go, WordPress is a phenomenon.

A Collection of Wordpress Tutorials, Tips and Themes

And rightly so. It is a very powerful blogging and CMS tool that can be used to create almost any possible type of web site that you could possibly dream of. Still as with everything involved with web design and development, you need to learn and understand WP to fully unleash its power. In this news edition we have collected the best WP tutorials, tips and themes, to help you with WordPress development. 36 Beautiful and “NEW” Free Wordpress Themes  Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type,Free Themes don’t have to be ugly, cluttered,and boring, Some Designers offer high quality WordPress Themes for free you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions. Here Dzineblog Presents 36 Best Stylish Free wordpress Themes Still, before using some of the themes, throw a glance at the license agreements Checkout the whole list they are presented in no particular order, Hope this collection would have something you like.

Here we go! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 10 Essential Plugins Every Modern Wordpress Site Should Have. Top 150 Social Marketing Blogs « eCairn’s Blog. The Future of Blogging Revealed - ReadWriteWeb. There has been a lot of talk lately about the changing face of the blogging landscape.

The Future of Blogging Revealed - ReadWriteWeb

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger asked if blogging has lost its relational focus; Scoble explained why tech blogging has failed you; and even though not everyone agreed with his every statement, there was a renewed commitment in the blogosphere to return to blogging about what excites instead of just writing about "Apple's newest gizmo or the peccadillos of tech personalities. " However, we're wondering if people even need to blog anymore...at least in the traditional sense. Once the main way to publish your own personal thoughts and opinions for the rest of the web to read, blogging started a movement that democratized the web. Everyone could be a publisher.

But now, blogging as everyone's preferred method of communication may be over. Lifestreaming? Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can R. Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net).

Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can R

That article got me thinking that people in many different industries probably hear many of the same objections to new, social media and online tools. ("It takes too much time, conversations online are insipid" etc.) I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. I surveyed my nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies. Below is that list; I hope you'll find it useful and leave comments helping to extend the conversation further. Last month we wrote about an initiative called The Working Group where people trying to bring about innovation in big companies. Ultimately, I'm not yet convinced myself that persuading anyone is the way to go.

Guy K The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing. Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing.

Guy K The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing

My default WordPress setup: 17 must-have plugins. WordPress is my favorite blogging platform and has been for a long time.

My default WordPress setup: 17 must-have plugins

Static Front Page Plugin For WordPress. In Software you will find the specific details of individual plugins/widgets for the Wordpress theme and how to use them. The main Semiologic package and Themes you will find in the Members area. On occasion several plugins may need to be used together, some other circumstance may be required for a plugin to function correctly or a concept may need to be more fully explained. In this case you may find a more general discussion in the Resources area. There may well be some duplication and overlap between the two areas (as, indeed, you will find this explanation in both). The Ad Manager plugin for WordPress allows you to manage advertisement space on your site. The Admin Menu plugin for WordPress makes key areas of the admin menu available from your site's front end when you're logged in.

The Article Uploader plugin for WordPress lets you upload your post and page content as files, and disable WordPress' text formatting features for individual entries. 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work. 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work. The strangest, easiest way to lose weight. « The myth of "keeping up" | Main | Which user's life have you changed today?

The strangest, easiest way to lose weight

» The strangest, easiest way to lose weight You have a legacy brain. We've talked about that a lot on this blog, and in my presentations. Your brain thinks you're still living in a cave. A big part of the learning theory we use in the Head First books is figuring out how to "trick" your brain into thinking that learning Java is as important as watching for tigers.

Besides caring about tigers-and-not-java--and the problems that creates when we're trying to pay attention, learn, and remember--our legacy brain does something else we all struggle with--it thinks you won't get much to eat all winter, so it better store it up while it can. Harness the Marketing Power of Blogs.

This newest web phenomenon can rank your site #1 in search engines, boost traffic and sales, and establish you as an expert in your industry.

Harness the Marketing Power of Blogs

I'm sure you've heard about one of the biggest things to hit the web in the last few years: blogging. A "blog" (derived from the term "web log") is basically just a website with two key differences: First, it's extremely easy to add information to it. A blog is like an online journal, so you just log in, type what happened today, post it, and you're done!