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Make Your WordPress Blog Mobile Ready
WordPress Plugins According to WordPress, based on visits to wordpress.com where they host blogs, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month. With mobile traffic growing, how your site renders on mobile devices is becoming more important. Fortunately, some new WordPress plugins are making it possible to maintain your current custom theme while also serving up a mobile focused theme to your mobile visitors. Before you add ...
Continue readingPlugins for Nerds
WordPress Plugins Plugins for nerds, well English and writing nerds that is. Anything you can do to spice up your blog should be included on your page. Why? You should have a variety of plugins for your site because people enjoy the little things they can discover. Does this mean that readers just want to know the nitty-gritty of what you’re doing? No. It simply means that readers like to know what you’re doing or any type of information that you can ...
Continue readingGravity Forms – Premium WordPress Form Plugin
WordPress Plugins RocketGenius have just launched a fantastic form plugin for WordPress called Gravity Forms. It allows you to easily create, manage and embed forms into your WordPress powered blog. Here is a full list of the plugins features: Easily Embed a Form into Posts & Pages Create Autoresponder Emails to Users Integrate with Other Plugins Using Hooks View Entry Summaries from the WordPress Dashboard Visually Create Forms with Our Sleek Editor Prevent ...
Continue reading3 New Interesting WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugins I was browsing around the WordPress Plugin Directory today and came across a few interesting new plugins which I thought I would share with you all. Hope you enjoy the list Restricted Site Access Jacob M Goldman from C Murray Consulting has developed a WordPress plugin which helps you set up a secure private blog. Restricted Site Access is a WordPress plug-in that allows you to restrict access to logged in users and a set of IP addresses with ...
Continue readingWordPress.com Gravatar Widget
WordPress Plugins WordPress.com have added a great new widget which lets you easily add an about me box to the side of your WordPress.com blog. The widget is called Gravatar Widget because it displays the users Gravatar image and puts it in the about box. Many themes come with a standard About Me area which can be edited via the sidebar.php template however a widget is much more preferable as it allows you to switch between themes more easily (i.e. without having ...
Continue readingProtect Your WordPress Blog From Password Hackers With Login Lockdown
WordPress Plugins Bad Neighbourhood released a nice little WordPress plugin today called Login Lockdown The plugin was designed to stop hackers from gaining access to your blog via trial and error, something which is quite common with WordPress blogs since most people use the default username login ‘admin’. The plugin lets you set a number of retries to login into your blog. If the user doesn’t enter the correct details they are locked out for a ...
Continue readingWordPress Plugin Business Model
WordPress Plugins WordPress is without doubt the best blogging platform in my opinion. There are 3 good reasons for this : Frequent updates and developments from the creators Automattic, a large theme repository and a large plugin repository. Documentation aside, WordPress doesn’t really give support to users, which you can’t really complain about since it is a free product. Though their forum is full of bloggers helping each other, whether it is with ...
Continue readingServing post ratings in your blog
WordPress Plugins Certain uses for WordPress, such as a showcase or gallery site might call for a user rating system. You may also want to implement one in your blog just to see how you improve over time and how it affects your user’s experience. A popular plugin for serving up star ratings to your visitors is WP-Post Ratings. Its easy to display the rating form with a function, and you can customize the rating images in a variety of colours and styles. ...
Continue readingWhat makes a WordPress Plugin Great
WordPress Plugins One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for developers to add to the product. This concept is a key reason for the huge and constantly growing universe of WordPress plugins. In talking to WordPress users I’ve discovered that almost universally folks are pleased with the plugins they use. However, there are plugins that work and then there are plugins ...
Continue reading7 Twitter plugins for WordPress
WordPress Plugins Every blogger and their mother has a Twitter profile these days. Twitter has almost gotten bigger than The Beatles. Twitter is one of the only social networking sites that has broken major news stories, and this has caused even the mainstream media to pay attention. There is no better time to latch on and take advantage of all that Twitter has to offer your blog. The WordPress development community has clearly caught on to this and we are seeing ...
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