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Selling Products on your Blog
WordPress Plugins If you want to sell digital products such as eBooks, templates, plugins etc. on your site then the WP e-Commerce plugin will do the job for you. On adding the plugin you get a new admin menu called Products. Under this you first need to set up your settings. The free version of the plugin will allow you to take payments by PayPal, Google Checkout or Chronopay. To get started with this plugin, you need to create your product groups. You can ...
Continue readingSimplePress & BBpress : Integrating forums with WordPress
WordPress Plugins There was not always a lot of options for any bloggers wanting to integrate a forum with WordPress. When WordPress was in its’ infancy there were a scattered set of forum plugins and bridges to other open source forums like phpBB or even paid scripts like invision board. Now there are solutions that WordPress users can be more comfortable with. In the search for the perfect forum solution for WordPress I have found two very equal ...
Continue readingWordPress plugins that help to build an interactive online community
WordPress Plugins WordPress is a fantastically versatile blogging platform. It is fully capable of not only providing everything you need in a blog, but can be pushed even further to provide everything you need in a website, CMS, social network and all-in-one convection oven. Okay, maybe that last one was pushing it. There are a lot of options available to you if you are looking to add some social media aspects to your WordPress blog or further extend the ...
Continue readingTwitter User WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins I am proud to announce the release of BloggingTips first WordPress Plugin. Thanks to everyone who previewed the plugin last week. Since then we have added a few more features A huge thank you to Sarah, who developed this plugin and worked hard on making sure the plugin was both practical and easy to use. Twitter User Twitter User is a simple plugin which adds an additional field to the authors profile in which they can add their twitter ...
Continue readingPlugin Preview
WordPress Plugins 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 to their posts with a message of their choice and they can also style the link the way ...
Continue readingPicasa Widgets and Plugins for your Blog
Design & Coding, WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue reading10 Admin Plugins for your site
WordPress Plugins 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 to see the theme working is a must, but obviously you don’t want the ...
Continue readingWP Greet Box: Say ‘Hi’ to Your Readers
WordPress, WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue readingAnti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins 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‘. The plugin ...
Continue readingShow Twitter Avatars In Your WordPress Comment Area
WordPress Plugins 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 ...
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