10 Must Have WordPress Plugins Of 2012 Every Blogger Should Know About How can you wow your readers when they visit your blog, so that they never want to leave again? With over 900,000 new blogposts that are freshly published every day, the competition is fierce for each and every author. Yet, making your articles the ones that readers want to come back to check out isn’t so hard. For this post though, I want to focus on how you can greatly improve the number of shares and awesomeness of your blog, with some of the latest WordPress Plugins. Here are my top 10 picks for you, to increase Social Media sharing of your articles and blog performance: #1 Digg Digg – Powerful and simple social sharing buttons The first plugin I want to introduce is the well known Digg Digg sharing bar, which recently received a major face lift. Digg Digg makes it super easy to add a floating share bar to your blogpost, just like Mashable for example. Best part: Digg Digg also features the latest sharing button options such as Pinterest and Buffer. Author: Leo Widrich Co-Founder Buffer
Top 30 Google Plugins for WordPress Peanut butter and jelly. Bonnie and Clyde. Yin and yang. Horse and carriage. Some things just seem to naturally go together. If you run a WordPress site, then unless you’re running a very unusual site in a very unusual way, you probably have it connected to Google in one way or another. Whatever it is, if you stop and think about it, you’re probably connected. Below we’ll give you some more potential connections – 25 to be exact. If you know of other good ways, let us know in the comments. Info & Download The “Google Adsense” plugin, as you might imagine, lets you easily place Google adsense ads into your site. Info & Download The Google Analytics+ plugin is one of our own here at WPMU DEV. As our Analytics plugin is not free, we’ll go ahead and mention a free one here too: Google Analytics Dashboard for WP. Info & Download The Google App Engine for WordPress plugin is one of only two plugins official maintained by Google itself. Info & Download Info & Download Info & Download Info & Download 8.
How To Change Fonts in WordPress Existing Member Login Sign up for Triberr - It's Free Hello Welcome to Triberr. Learn More Tribes Tribemates Reach We couldn't locate any more posts. Member of BeardFace Fitness Jeep Super Syndicators Create a new book Scroll Top 10 WordPress Plugins of the Month — May 2013 Edition It’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride for WordPress over the past month or two, with stories of the botnet attack and compromises to two popular caching plugins emerging. But as far as I am concerned, the WordPress core is secure. It is up to you as the end user to ensure that you maintain your site so that it is safe against automated attacks. One particular weak spot for any WordPress installation is out of date plugins. And that’s one of the reasons why our Plugins of the Month series is so great — we only feature the most up-to-date plugins. 10. I am personally not a fan of attempting to prevent people from copying content on your site. Having said that, if you do want to protect your content then WP Content Copy Protection is a good option. Click here to download 9. I love lazy loading. Click here to download 8. You may have come across the likes of Hello Bar before and AddThis Welcome Bar does a similar job. Click here to download 7. Click here to download 6. Click here to download
75 Essential Social Media Resources You Need To Get Ahead When you're juggling different responsibilities and managing sites day-to-day, it can be quite difficult to find the time to research or improve your knowledge about a particular topic. There are a lot of resources out there, but figuring out which ones are worth reading and which ones are best to ignore can be tricky when you have a limited amount of time. So we decided to compile a quick list of resources you absolutely need if you want to get ahead, A lot of these resources will provide tips, tricks, advice, guides and thoughts that will have you thinking about social media in a different way. Covering the usual suspects (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.), the more advanced guides (SEO, blogging, viral) and everything else in-between, there's content here that will keep you busy for days, no matter what your priorities are. Facebook - The nine Facebook marketing tactics that will triple your fan base - The ultimate Facebook marketing cheat sheet Blogging Twitter Google & SEO YouTube & Viral
Google XML Sitemaps Use this plugin to greatly improve SEO to create special XML sitemaps which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your site. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. Supported since over 9 years and rated as the best WordPress plugin, it will do exactly what it’s supposed to do – providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines. If you like the plugin, feel free to rate it (on the right side of this page)! Related Links: License Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Translations The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the WordPress Codex for more information about activating the translation. Read all 2,059 reviews Contributors Arne Brachhold
25 Highly Useful WordPress Form Plugin Collection A WordPress form plugin can do wonders if you’re running an online business, portfolio or similar blog and are very dependent on user feedback. Users or visitors will need to be able to contact you in an easy way in order to either get in touch with you, sign up for newsletters and updates or to reach your customer service if they have anything to complain about. You usually get this kind of feedback through contact forms in WordPress giving you a lawful way to collect customer information for later usage like promotion, newsletters etc. In order to exploit the potential of getting this information, you need to install a WordPress form plugin. In this article, I present a mix of highly useful free and premium WordPress form plugins which surely will enhance both the user and administrator experience of using contact forms in WordPress. Advertisement Formidable Pro –MORE INFO Formidable Pro makes it dead simple to build any kind of form you want within seconds. Gravity Forms – MORE INFO
The Top-30 WordPress Plugins [Infographic] When it comes to functionality and performance, it’s hard to beat a WordPress website. But all that power doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of the plugins you select to solve problems and add features. The challenge, of course, is choosing the right ones. So I wanted to share this infographic that lays out 30 of WordPress’s most popular plugins: This infographic is courtesy of WordPress Templates and Designed by Technology Infographics Here it is again, grouped by category: Spam Checker Akismet Playing Nice with Google While you’re at it, check out these alternatives to Google Analytics Other Technical Functionality Connecting with Visitors Content Management Monetizing Your Site WP e-Commerce One word of warning: Too many plugins can slow down your site. Your turn Do you agree with this list? About Kathryn Aragon
10 Steps to WordPress Security Protection - The Web Mechanic Scripted websites/ blogs using WordPress are becoming more and more common. And as such they are becoming ever more tempting targets for hackers and trashers. It might be something as simple as putting a picture on your site that goes “phhpttttt!!! Wordpress.org does a great job of eliminating potential entryways into the WordPress code with frequent updates. What can you do? I have compiled a number of things that you can do proactively to help keep your WordpPress secure. Warning! That being said… we’ll start with the basic ones and get more complicated as we go on.
Comprehensive Google Map Plugin A simple and intuitive, yet elegant and fully documented Google map plugin that installs as a widget and a short code. No limited plugin editions or limited functionality! This is the full version of this free and premium plugin, which comes packed with useful features: Compatible with jQuery tabs! No more poorly rendered map on your site! 10 Nonblog WordPress-Powered Sites That Spur Creativity When you think of WordPress, you probably think of blogs – which makes sense, as it is first and foremost a blogging platform and the most popular online. It is rare to come across an official or professional blog that isn’t hosted on WP these days, thanks to its heavy feature list and the free or low-cost options. But did you know that other sites that aren’t blogs are also commonly powered by WordPress? In fact, you have probably come across dozens and not even known it. Here are 10 amazing and creative websites that have been sneakily powered by WP, which are sure to inspire you: 6Wunderkinder Nice and simple, this website uses the space often utilized by a blog’s front page and uniquely presents its own version in the form of a professional website. Eye Bridge This fun designer’s site has a cool, custom layout that has a vintage look to much of the imagery. Michelle Macedo Here we see how both a blog and a website layout can be melded together to form a single template. Racket Who Is Leon
Are these the best WordPress plugins? WordPress developers always have a list of WordPress plugins they wouldn't be without. Here's a selection that Julie McNamee keeps seeing in the developer forums (and many she's used herself). Have you used any of them? Secure your site Avoid the heartache and hassle that will inevitably result from your website being hacked, by installing a security plugin. One security plugin I've used on quite a few sites and isn't very resource-intensive is WordFence It's very simple to set up and looks after your site nicely, repairing infected files if you've been hacked and scanning plugins and content for malware. Better WP Security was a much recommended plugin for this job, although if you see Mike's comment below and another from Steve Bolton on Google+ (thanks both) it has been causing a few problems recently - clashing with existing plugins. Then it will ask if you'd like to allow the plugin to change WordPress core files. Now you'll be given a report on how secure your site is looking.
14 Twitter directories to find new friends | Webware Digg.com founder Kevin Rose is at it again with a Twitter directory called WeFollow . And although it's capturing much of the limelight right now, it's not the only service of its kind. In fact, there are quite a few sites that let you search for other users or see who the top users are on Twitter. The standouts TwitterCounter. TwitterHolic. WeFollow. The rest Just Tweet It. MediaOnTwitter. Social Brand Index. TrackingTwitter. TweeterTags. Twellow. Twibs. TwitterLinkUp. TwitterVision. I went to the site and was mesmerized by the tweets flashing on-screen from as close as New York (my home) all the way to Japan. Twubble. WhoShouldIFollow. MapPress Easy Google Maps MapPress adds an interactive map to the wordpress editing screens. When editing a post or page just enter any addresses you'd like to map. The plugin will automatically insert a great-looking interactive map into your blog. Your readers can get directions right in your blog and you can even create custom HTML for the map markers (including pictures, links, etc.)! For even more features, try the MapPress Pro Version Key Features MapPress is based on the latest Google maps API v3WordPress MultiSite compatibleCustom post types are supportedEasily create maps right in the standard post edit and page edit screensAdd markers for any address, place or latitude/longitude location, or drag markers where you want themCreate custom text and HTML for the markers, including photos, links, etc.Street view supportedReaders can get driving, walking and bicycling directions right in your blog. Pro Version Features Home Page | Documentation | FAQ | Support