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I am happy to announce that we are launching our first WordPress plugin in the next week or two. The plugin is called ‘Twitter User’ and was developed by Sarah, our resident WordPress Guru!

Twitter User

The plugin adds an additional field to a users profile in which they can add their twitter username. The user can then add this link automatically …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on March 25th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Picasa Widgets and Plugins for your Blog

Second to Flickr, Google owned Picasa is probably the most used photo-sharing service online. Blogger users in particular make great use of Picasa since all image uploads are hosted on their Picasa accounts.

When researching the possibilities of developing a Picasa photostream widget, I realized that widgets to display Picasa photos are actually few and far between (especially when compared to the huge variety of widgets and plugins available for Flickr).

For those who …

Written by Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 and filed under Design & Coding, WordPress Plugins
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10 Admin Plugins for your site

Are you starting up a new site or just looking to enhance your existing site? If so, here are my 10 top Admin plugins that are worth a look at.

Theme Test Drive

Adding a new theme to your site is never a simple case of upload and switch to it. You need to be able to make a few modifications, add in additional code for plugins or your own preferred functions. Being able …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on March 8th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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WP Greet Box: Say ‘Hi’ to Your Readers

One of the most difficult problems bloggers face is turning visitors into long-time subscribers. With “bounce rates” for most blogs being traditionally much higher than other kinds of sites (by some estimates well over 70%) and visitor retention is a very tough challenge, especially for for new bloggers that have yet to really build their audience.

To make matters more complicated, with social media, there is an almost unlimited supply of bookmarking, social news, search engine and other sites that one find your site through and all of their needs are different. A visitor that comes from Twitter, for example, is likely interested in different things than one who comes from Google.

So how you do welcome all of these visitors and get them to stick around on your site or at least follow your RSS feed (or other service)? WP Greet Box may be the solution.

On the surface, it’s a simple plugin that displays a welcome message to new visitors. However, its features and depth make it far more powerful than most of your visitors will likely realize.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 and filed under WordPress, WordPress Plugins
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Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin

A few months ago I asked readers what they thought about ad blockers, in particular the popular adblock script. Blocking advertisements is a subject that still divides web users although a large percentage of webmasters dislike their visitors using them because their ad revenue drops. If you are in the latter category then you may be interested in a new plugin from Thaya Kareeson called ‘Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin‘.

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 16th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Show Twitter Avatars In Your Wordpress Comment Area

Smashing Magazine released a new plugin last week which shows a commenters Twitter avatar in the comment area. There are still a lot of blog commenters who haven’t signed up with Gravatar many of these people may use Twitter so in effect, this plugin reduces the number of ‘default avatars’ showing in your comment area.

The plugin features :

Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address.
If …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 14th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Taking WordPress Widgets To The Next Level

On November 6th 2008, I published a review on Performancing.com about a cool WordPress plugin called Slayer’s Custom Widgets. This plugin was cool because it was one of the first I’ve seen that enabled users to assign Widgets to certain locations on a WordPress powered blog. Fast forward to today and there is another plugin with the same idea but …

Written by Jeff Chandler from Jeffro 2pt0
Posted on December 26th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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