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34 WordPress Plugins You May Not Know-Worth a Look

Arshad Cini — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:19:06 +0000

Everyday new wordpress plugins and wordpress widgets are released or updated so it is very useful to check out the official WordPress website and of course some wordpress plugin forums.You can definetely find interesting,useful and updated plugins.The below wordpress plugins are not known much but i’m sure at least,few of them will be useful for your wordpress blog.

1.Wp-post-tips

This is a simple, lightweight plugin that adds tooltips to your ‘links’ widget using jQuery. The tooltips appear with a bubble image and the description of the link. please leave your comments if you have any suggestions for enhancement.

2.AutoTweet Highlights: With a TinyURL thats shows the page highlighted to ANY visitor

Anyone can make highlights on any part of your web page and automatically tweet them. (Auto includes a Tiny URL to your page with the highlights)
3.Simple Mail Address Encoder
Automatically encodes every e-mail address on posts, pages and sidebar widgets to prevent spam. Simply decodes any previously encoded e-mail address by just clicking the mail link.This plugin does not have any graphical user interface – just activate it in your WordPress backend and let it do its job.
The enduser behavior is the same as usual as if the mail address where not encoded. Clicking the mail address link forces a real-time decoding provided by JavaScript.

4.3D Wall FX

One of the most advanced 3D Wall on the web. Completely XML customizable, without using Flash. And it’s free!.You can integrate it in any website for free without even using Flash. Customizable width and height of the overall wall, up to 1680 x 1050 pixels. You can customize the number of columns and lines, items spacing, speed, radius and also the perspective and camera distance from wall. You can have different types of wall: flat, outside

5.Page Flip FX

You can integrate it in any website for free without even using Flash. It’s a fully skinnable and customizable page flipper with different shadow gradients, alpha and colors. It has a completely skinnable control bar through the skin.xml file. Supports SWFs and multiple types of images (JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF). You can have additional animated text with lots of animation and positioning properties and the text is CSS customizable. Slideshow can be enabled (auto flipping) with different page flipping types and durations. Flipping sounds can be optionally added through external mp3. You can enter in zoom mode or you can go to an URL when clicking on a page.

6.Authors Widget

Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors, with the number of posts, link to RSS feed next to their name, avatar. It is useful in a multi-author blog, where you want to have the list in the sidemenu. The widget can also display an “Author Cloud” if SEO Tag Cloud plugin is installed.

7.sidebarTabs

Each tab works as a container for any other widget WordPress. Thus, for example, you can create a tab for the last comments, one for recent posts, one for categories, and so on, for a given instance of the plugin (widget).

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8.Announcement and Vertical Scroll News

This plug-in will create a vertical scroll news or Announcement or flash News for your word press site, we can embed this in site sidebar.

9.Mingle

Turn your WordPress website into a Social Network comparable to Facebook or LinkedIn. Mingle makes it easy to create a social network for your family, church, business or even a premium membership site! Mingle uses your standard WordPress website and standard WordPress theme to create your Social Network instantly.

10.Subscribe Widget

Subscribe-Widget is a free wordpress plugin, which was designed to be used by all bloggers wishing to inform readers about specific information, in a fast and reliable way. This plug-in will create: rss2, comments rss, twitter and feedburner icons on your blog sidebar. These icons will in turn lead readers to your rss, twitter, feedburner and comments rss, accordingly, readers will then be able to find the latest news on your blog. If you want you can disable these icons one by one and only leave those which are needed.

11.Blog Protector – Protect Your Content
Blog Protector is a wordpress plugin which can Protect your valuable blog content as from getting copied.Many Bloggers simply copy-paste the content from your blog without giving credit to the original source.This plugin basically disable the text selection & right click which will make the bloggers difficult to copy the content.
Features
* Disable right click on your blog.

12.Google Reader Stats
This plugin adds the Google Reader Stats to your blog. GRS measures the likes count of each blog feed item on Google Reader and displays it on your blog . The GRS Widget enables readers to easily see the blog’s best content, with the highest overall likes on Google Reader.

13.Donations Widget
Accept donations from your readers via AlertPay, Moneybookers or PayPal. Plugin add a widget with payment forms. You can select which payment options to allow in the widget configuration page.

14.Visitor Maps and Who’s Online

Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who’s Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who’s Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed. Easy and Quick 4 step instal

15.Better Tag Cloud

This plugin makes the options for wp_tag_cloud() available to a tag cloud widget and a shortcode. This means that you can easily choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. See the wp_tag_cloud page for what the settings can do.Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. The plugin also adds a sensible CSS class to every tag.

16.Simple Twitter Widget

This widget lets you display your latest tweets on your blog. Various configuration options are available.

17.CubePoints

CubePoints is a point management system designed for WordPress blogs. Users can earn points by posting comments creating posts, or even by logging in on your site.
Encourage your users to comment on your posts by offering them points which could be used to purchase items / upgrades / etc. Users will be awarded a certain number of points for each comment they make. They can be awarded with ranks automatically when they reach certain points as well.

18.Samsarin PHP Widget
The text widget that comes with the wordpress does not allow you to include PHP code. This plugin adds a new widget called Samsarin PHP Widget, which will allow you to include PHP code, as well as plain text and HTML.
Features included:
* Add up to 25 Samsarin PHP Widgets to your sidebar.
* Add PHP code to both the widget title and the widget body.
* Reset allows you to easily revert the contents of a widget.
Warning: This widget provides great flexibility in customizing your sidebar. It achieves this by automatically evaluating any included PHP included in the title or the body of the widget. Care should be taken when including PHP code in the sidebar, as with anywhere else in the WordPress system.

19.Like-Button-Plugin-For-WordPress

This plugin adds a Like-Button after every post/page you choose (you can exclude some IDs. These exlucded IDs will have no Like-Button). The Like-Button-Widget includes a little Like-Button-Generator to make it easier for you to get a Like-Button to your sidebar. It also adds a Shortcode for your like-Button. It is also possible to choose the XFBML or the iframe-Button. You could also choose the position of your like-button within the post/page.

20.WP Widget Cache
A high-performance caching plugin for WordPress, and a plus for WP-Cache or WP Super Cache.If your site get a very high traffic, or your blog are hosted on a shared server, or Google crawl your site frequently, you do need cache. If you use widgets, you do need WP Widget Cache.

21.Bubblecast Video for WordPress
Embed video widget into your WordPress blog and you it will upload, record and embed video of your own or Youtube video into your blog posts in couple clicks. This video plugin lets you and your users embed video to your WordPress blog easily. When you’re editing your post you can click Bubblecast icon in Upload/Insert section, record or upload your video and have it embedded into the post immediately. Users can add video comments to your WordPress blog posts in the same way.

22.Smartlinker

Smartlinker is a toolbar on the WordPress TinyMCE editor that enables you to hyperlink words and phrases in your blog. Type word/phrase, select and right click to get a list of hyperlink.A word/phrase can be the name of a person, place or thing. The web pages are crawled from the world wide web.

23.Facebook Activity Feed Widget for WordPress

The FaceBook Activity Feed Widget for WordPress displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your web site based on feedback from Facebook users.
The activity feed displays stories both when users like content on your site and when users share content from your site back to Facebook.

24.Video Player FX

Probably the most advanced, flexible, customizable and easy to use audio/video player without using Flash.This high customizable video/audio player can be embedded in any website for free without any Flash knowledge. It can have an overall width and height up to 1680 x 1050 pixels and supports fullscreen mode. It has over 100 customizable properties which can be modified using just a settings.xml file. You can insert your own subtitles for videos, the text being easy customizable using a style.css file.

25.Dock Menu FX

Completely XML customizable, without using Flash.You can incorporate the Dock Menu in any website for free without even using Flash. The alignment may be horizontal and vertical, customizable min and max images width and height, configurable spacing. You can also choose from three expanding directions and have an optional auto scrolling and multiple scrolling properties and speeds. It can be resized to the extent of 1680 x 1050 pixels. The tooltip is HTML formatted. Lightbox can easily be integrated for this menu

26.WP SIMILE Timeline

This plugin integrates the SIMILE Timeline into WordPress and provides an option interface for the various timeline settings. Developed by SIMILE Labs, the Timeline is a web widget for visualizing temporal data.

27.Cover Flow FX

The Cover Flow FX can be embedded in any website for free without even using Flash and it can have an overall width and height up to 1680 x 1050 pixels. The Cover Flow uses the Papervision3D engine and has multiple plane and camera views. It supports all types of images (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG) which can have different sizes – they will be automatically adjusted to fit in the same height. It has an auto play function with external PNGs (customizable) for play/pause buttons. Optional scroll bar with multiple skins to choose from. Extensive configurations for tooltip and reflection.

28.AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Plugin to help people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history.

29.Mini Mail Dashboard Widget

Send and receive e-mail messages on the administration panel and optionally receive SMS messages containing the sender, subject and (part of) the text when new messages arrive.All e-mail is text based (HTML will be converted to text). However, it is possible to view HTML messages and to download attachments. Mail can be received by POP3 or IMAP and sent by PHP mail or SMTP. There is a simple address book for both e-mail addresses and phone numbers, which can optionally be populated by your WordPress users.

30.Share and Follow

Designed for average users to use, ideal for developers who want to save time, this plugin gives links to the most prominent Social Networking sites for sharing and following, presented in many different formats (widgets/shortcode/template tag/auto added). It offers the following features.

31.NextGen Cu3er Gallery

Nextgen Cu3er Gallery: A WordPress Plugin that allows you to use the amazing Cu3er Gallery viewer on your NextGen-Gallery(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) galleries.
In order to use the cu3er galery viewer on your blog, you need to be using the best WordPress gallery manager: NextGen Gallery.

32.Countdown FX

You can integrate it in any website for free without even using Flash. It’s a completely customizable flipping countdown clock. The general width and height and each item’s width and height can be easily modified. It can show/hide the days, hours, minutes and seconds and arrange them in any order. It has shadow properties available like distance, color, angle, alpha, blur with customizable font faces, colors and sizes.

33.Comment Rating Widget

This plugin is an add on to the Comment Rating plugin (version 2.9.0 or later). It displays ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar in formats of your design. The comment rating and images on display can be “Likes only”, “Dislikes only”, or Both. This is customizable by the “Value for comment_karma” option in Comment Rating.

34.CATS_JobSite

Adds job listings and allows visitors to search, register and apply to jobs on your WordPress site. Job applications can be customized and triggers can be added to perform actions based on applicant responses.

Totally Free PSD WordPress Template From DesignBeep

Arshad Cini — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:18:06 +0000

Today i was really bored and i decided to create a simple wordpress theme and i want to share the PSD file with you.Sorry but it is only a PSD because my cousin who is a coder is abroad and he is not able to come back because of Iceland Volcano Eruption.Okey i know it is not a professional but if you want you can use the PSD whereever and however you want.I mean it is totally FREE.You can change anything you like.

The icons i used are all free for Commercial Use.

Social Bookmark Icons

Arrow

I created 2 pages.One is the Homepage and the other one is the Single Post Page.

Homepage Screenshot

Single Post Screenshot

Download PSD

23 WordPress E-commerce Plugins To Set Up Online Store

Arshad Cini — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:38:23 +0000

In the last few years WordPress improves itself so much and every day and maybe every hour new plugins are being released for WordPress.When WordPress was first released it was hard to imagine to use wordpress platform as a shopping platform or selling anything from the blog but as you see below,many plugins are released for shopping,e-commerce solutions or even for donations.

Today i’ve collected 23 WordPress Plugins to set up an Online-Shopping and Ecommerce blog.Hope you like the list.

1. WP e-Commerce

The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.
WP e-Commerce makes it easy for you to accept payments online. WP e-Commerce integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and many other trusted payment processors.

2.Quick Shop

Quick Shop supports any WordPress that has the Sidebar Widgets installed, really. It adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, not to mention a TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products to your posts/pages.
Also, you will need to make your own CSS for this.

Features:

* Inventory listing tied in to TinyMCE
* Integrates automatically with CFormsII (and uses CFormsII API so you can edit it easily yourself)
* Full range of formatting for widget layout in Admin -> Options -> Quick Shop
* Shopping cart Widget
* Checkout page
* Ability to create different product options in a drop-down
* WordPress MU compatible

3.eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Including:

* Utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products
* Various methods available for listing products
* Products can have multiple options
* Upload downloadable products
* Basic Statistics
* Download sales data
* Various shipping options
* Admin has access to an Order handling section
* Automatic emails on successful purchase
* User configurable email templates.
* Configurable Out of Stock message.
* Basic Stock Control
* Google Base Data creation
* Uninstall available within the plugin
* Various discount options
* WPMU compatible.
* Merchant gateways:Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque!

4. Live-Shopping

This widget enables you to display all relevant live shopping offers (guut, schutzgeld, preisbock, ibood) within your WordPress blog in one single widget. You can add the widget to your sidebar and customize its appearance as you like inside the boundaries of LiveShoppingWidgets presentation options.

5. YAK For WordPress

YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net).

Detailed installation and configuration instructions can be found by purchasing the YAK Handbook(http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/projects/yak-for-wordpress/handbook), but basic installation instructions can be found here(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yak-for-wordpress/installation/)

6.ArePayPal 1.7.3

Use “Are PayPal” WordPress plugin to monetize your wordpress blog’s content using PayPal.

With Are PayPal you can set post/page to contain hidden content, instead of the hidden text user is shown a message about the action he has to take to be able to see the content, content can be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered.

7.Paypal Shortcodes Plugin

This plugin allows to insert Paypal buttons in your posts or pages, just using a shortcode. This plugin don’t have a management panel at this time, I’ll code it later when I’ll be able to find out your desired options: you’ll need to edit paypal-shortcodes.php and follow the comments.

Currently supported:

* Add to cart
* View cart

8.WP Auctions

WP Auctions is a revolutionary plugin for WordPress which allows you to host auctions on your blog for ANYTHING you wish to sell, completely fee free!

Plugin Features

* Show your auctions in an elegant jQuery powered popup, or
* Place auctions in a post or page
* Auctions for registered users only
* Accept PayPal, wire transfers† or checks †
* Add a Shipping Price, Shipping To and Shipping From location
* Create, Manage and Edit as many auctions as you like
* Upload multiple images for each auction
* Sell items on “Buy It Now” basis
* Show 3rd party ads when there are no auctions
* RSS feed for your auctions
* Set your own currency (?)
* Get bid notifications via email
* Bidders get email notifications when they get outbid
* Winning bidders get email notification with payment instructions
* Accept bidder URL or use custom contact information
* Delete fraudulent bids
* Compatible with Google Adsense and any other CPC program

9.ArtPal

ArtPal is a free (GPL) WordPress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seemlessly integrate PayPal with their WordPress blogs so that they can sell their work online.

ArtPal’s most important features are:

* Easy PayPal integration – all you need to supply is your PayPal email address!
* Real-time sales updates – as soon as your item sells, ArtPal will disable it from being sold. You’ll never worry about your item selling twice!
* Professionally supported – businesses mean business. Digital Sublimity provides commercial support, so you can be rest assured that your critical application will stay up and running when you need it.

10.StorePress

StorePress is a premium WordPress theme, fully coded and packed with scripts that will allow you to transform your WordPress blog into a veritable e-commerce virtual store.

Demo

11.ShopperPress
ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart theme for WordPress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online.
Professionally designed and developed, ShopperPress is easy to use and comes with lots of changeable templates and shopping cart features.

Features
Customizable Designs Shipping, Tax and Coupons Built in!
CSV / DOMZ Import Features Paypal Ready! + more gateways
CSV / DOMZ Import Features CSV, Amazon Import Features
Widget Ready Widget Ready
Google Adsense / Advertising Zones Google Adsense / Advertising Zones
Google Analytics/Webmaster Ready! Google Analytics/Webmaster Ready!

Some Demos:

PHPurchase An E-Commerce Plugin For WordPress.One of the best plugin.

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See It In Action

The WordPress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate an online shop with a fully functional shopping cart interface into any WordPress website.

With the easy to use interface, you can set up your multiple products and categorize/organize them into multiple product categories. Add additional images to showcase your products so that users know what they are buying and add digital downloads to products if needed so that users can securely download paid files from your website.

13.Shopp

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

14.Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart lets you add an ‘Add to Cart’ button anywhere on your blog. This plugin also allows you to add the shopping cart anywhere in a post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to add or remove items. The payment is processed by PayPal.

15.FatFreeCart

Free Cart plugin is an extension of FatfreeCart. With FatFreeCart Plugin you do not have to generate or paste any code in CSS or HTML of WordPress theme. The plugin is designed to work within your WordPress post editor.

FatFreeCart Plugin allows you to add “Add to Cart” and “View Cart” buttons on your blog posts so that you can sell your products straight through your blog post. FatFreeCart plugin has all the features of FatFreeCart such as flawless integration with Paypal and Google Checkout, product variations, Shipping handling, and Sales Tax.

16.ShopTab eCommerce Cart

Sell more products by creating a shop tab on your Facebook fan or profile page that showcases products from your existing online store. Easily. Quickly. Inexpensively.

17.LockPress Plugin

Free WordPress plugin to charge your visitors for accessing blog posts and pages. With LockPress you can easily earn side income by selling
articles, your knowledge, your own products or MRR/PLR items (ebooks, software, etc) and even run a membership site. The possibilities are endless. You will get the payments directly to your PayPal account and you can set the flat or recurring fee items.

18.MiniCart WordPress Plugin

MiniCart will implement a mini-shopping-cart in your blog. You can add items from the admin side and embed the cart into posts. This can also be used as a donation plugin. By design, you can only show one item in a cart.

19.Ecwid Shopping Cart

Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It’s not a hosted solution like all other plugins in this list but SaaS. Ecwid Shopping Cart takes minutes to add to your site, supports drag-and-drop and AJAX. It features customizable e-mail notifications, order history, tracking payment and shipping status, support for PayPal, Google Checkout.

20.FireStorm Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin

The FireStorm Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to turn your WordPress website or Blog into a fully functional online store. The plugin is ideal for any corporate, small business or home based store. The administration is easy to use and loaded with features. It operates stand-alone which means it does not require blog posts for each product. This allows you to keep your blog separate from the store.

21.PayPal Donations

Adds a PayPal donation sidebar widget and shortcode to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the widget and shortcode options. There is also settings for currency, custom payment page style and the return page.

22.Premium WP-Invoice

WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.
Once an invoice is created from the WP admin section, an email with a brief description and a unique link is sent to your client. Clients follow the link to your blog’s special invoice page, view their invoice, and pay their bill using their credit card.

23.EasyPayPal WordPress Plugin

EasyPayPal is a WordPress plugin that allows you to make money from your WordPress site by collecting a payment from your users. When a new user creates a login on your site, they will be taken to PayPal to process their payment. When they return to your site, the next payment date will be updated based on a period that you define. After the next payment date, the user will attempt to login and they will be taken to PayPal to process their next payment.

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Giveaway:One-Year Membership From Elegant Themes

Arshad Cini — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:10:40 +0000

We all know ElegantThemes is one of the most popular theme provider in this business.The site is managed by Nick Roach a talented and professional web designer/WordPress developer.You can easily find a suitable theme for your existing or next project.There 30 great themes to choose from,all are designed perfectly and Nick provides a great support believe me.

What about the Giveaway?

-Nick Roach offered us to give one-year membership to our 2 lucky readers.

What is One-Year Membership?

You get unlimited access to all the themes for 1 year with support of course.(Each membership costs $19.95 per year)

Before announcing how to participate in this giveaway let’s have a look at some of the themes.

CherryTruffle Theme

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How To Participate?

All you have to do is comment and Follow Me Please tweeting this post.That’s all.(Until February 12th)

Don’t forget to leave your valid e-mail address please.The Winners will be selected randomly.

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The Giveaway Ends

Here are the results.Congratulations Tara and Dalibor Dimovski

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37 Cool WordPress Hacks And Tutorials You Should Try

Arshad Cini — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:28:31 +0000

You know WordPress comes with standart functions and we use many plugins or codes to give our blog a different look or functions.Of course we have to use these kind of plugins and hacks if we definetely need them.For a beginner the WordPress Codex is the best place to learn basic things but day by day as we improve ourselves in WordPress we look around for more functional codes.Today i want to share some WordPress Hacks and Tutorials which i’ve collected from many WordPress related blogs.I’m sure you will see many interesting hacks and will use them.

Notice:Don’t use them directly,i mean first back-up your database and files or just try in a test blog like me.So take no risk.If you need help about these hacks or tutorials just leave a comment in the original hack page.

1.How To Create A Beautiful Dropdown Blogroll Without Javascript

If you want to give a different look to your Dropdown Menu you can do it without Javascript.The result is really good.

2.Don’t Ignore Your WordPress Footer

Some blogger prefer using footers and not all the themes have footers.So if you want your blog with a footer follow these steps.

3.How To Make An UpComing Event List

If you write a few posts in the same day or if you want to publish some upcoming events from other blogs you can easily do this by this hack.Just try it.You will love it.

4.How to Use Pages In a Horizontal Navigation Bar

Some page navigations are in the side bar and if you want to use them horizantally just follow this hack.

5.How To Extend the User Contact Info In WordPress 2.9

I don’t know if you need this kind of hack but i wanted to put in the list.With this hack you extend the user contact info and add for example Twitter or Facebook contact infos.

6.How To Add Tabs To Your Blog Sidebar

If you don’t want your blog posts list or recent comments list vertically you can use this hack to make it as in the image.It is a really great tab style in your sidebar.

7.How To Create Rounded Corner Tab Menu Using CSS

This CSS hack gives a different look to your Tab Menu.If you want a rounded corner tab then you can do it as seen in the image.

8.How To Highlight The Category When On A Single Post

When the user clicks on a single post,the post’s category is highlighted with this hack.A really cool hack.I like it.

9.How to Highlight Author Comments In WordPress

When the author of the blog comments to any post then that comment box is highlighted and so your comment is easily separated from visitor’s comments.This is good if you answer your visitor’s comments so much.

10.How To Add ”Print This” Button In Your Posts

When you use this hack your visitors can print the post with one click.Interesting hack.Like it.

11.How To Modify Your WordPress RSS Feed

RSS Feed must be modified as well, otherwise it will display every post in each category.This hack is for excluding the categories in the feed.

12.How To Display Content In Multiple Columns

If you want to display posts in 2 columns then you can use this hack.It is a little bit hard hack but this will help while coding a wordpress theme.

13.How To Number Your Comments

This is a really cool hack.Ok,it is not a must but if you want to number the comments in any post as in the below image you can use this hack.

14.How To Display Your Feedburner Count In Full Text

Normally you can use the feedburner code to display the Feedburner counts i your blogs but i’m sure you see many blogs not using the original counter code but a unique counter like text.If you want to display the Feedburner counter in full text use this hack.

15.How To Add A Line Break Between Sidebar Widgets

If you want to separate your widgets by putting a line between them you can use this hack.

16.How to: Remove the [...] From The Excerpt

If you use Excerpt in your posts you see [...] instead of ”more” link.This hack removes the [...] from your posts.

17.How To Show Blog Content Only To Registered Users

To be honest i don’t know why and which kind of blog you use this hack but i just wanna put in the list.Interesting hack.

18.How To Build a Top Sliding Login Panel

If you use user subscription in your blog and if you want to have a different styled login page you can do it easily.This hack is just what you need for this.

19.How To Display Google Ads In Only First 3 Posts

You know Google Ads are displayed only 3 times in any page and if you show more than 3 posts in your blog then you know the ads are displayed in the first 3 posts and the rest is displayed in blank.In order to show only in the first 3 posts ,use this hack.

20.How To Display Categories In Two Columns

Mostly categories are displaed in one colum and if you have for example more than 6 categories you can use this hack to display the categories in 2 columns.

21.How To Display your WordPress Tags in a Drop-Down Menu

You can show your categories as a drop down menu but how about the Tags.Just use this hack to show your tags in drop down menu.

22.How To Detect The Visitor Browser Within WordPress

Do you want to see which browser your visitors use?then this hack is for you.

23.How To Insert Image By File Name

I use some images for icons in multiply posts and I got very sick of looking up image link, inserting it and linking properly every time.Typing shortcode is way faster and more flexible then pre-made snippets(an understanding comment by a visitor)

24.How To Include jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)

Sometimes people how to include jQuery in wordpress so this tutorial is great if you wanna use jQuery plugins in your blog.

25.How To Create Your Own 4 Column Blog Footer-Html and CSS Included

Great tutorial for creating a 4 column footer.You can do it however you wish.(colors,fonts)

26.How To Insert Author Bio On Each Post

In tha last few years many people write posts for other blogs and of course it is a good way to respect to the writer to insert the Author Bio below the post.You can do it easily with this tutorial

27.How To Show WordPress Post Attachments

If you want to show your attachments in your post you can use this hack.

28.How To Create a Custom Database Error Page in WordPress

If you ant to create your own custom database error page you can use this hack.

29.How To Make Expanding Code Box

Just take a look at the code page and you will understand what the hack is about.

30.How To Redirect WordPress Individual Category Feeds to Feedburner via HTAccess

31.How To Make Valid and SEO Friendly E-mail Permalink Buttons

Permalinks are important for Seo and i learnt that it is also important in the e-mails.If a post is sent to an e-mail,the link of the post displays as you see in the bwlow image.Interesting hack.Gonna try it.

32.Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress

Some bloggers have speed problems so these tricks and hacks help you speed up your wordpress blog.

33.How To Create WordPress Hover Menu

If you want to make a hover menu as in the below this hack is just for your.Follow the steps,you can easily do it.

34.How To Customize Your 404 Error Page

When a typical web surfer finds your blog and is greeted with the lovely 404 page, they will most commonly just click the “Back” button on their browser and continue browsing through the other search results. If your 404 page is setup correctly, you can often retain that traffic by either offering something funny to grab the readers attention or by offering a variety of methods for them to find the post they are looking for.(From the source)

35.How To Replace Date Images To Your WordPress Post

If you want to display the post date in different style you can use this trick.I like it.

36.How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks

I don’t like when comments and trackbacks are mixed below the post.so if you want to separate them from each other you can use this hack.

37.How To Customize Your WordPress Login Page

If you use user registration in your blog you can give a different look to your login page with this trick.

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Where To Buy Premium WordPress Themes?.Top Providers Of The Theme Market

Arshad Cini — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:25:16 +0000

Remember those times when you start blogging using wordpress.We all first look around for free themes and maybe we tried and changed our themes dozens of times.At last we found a suitable theme but everyday we saw wonderful themes.Then some designers and coders put on the new premium themes on the market and we began to buy.Some companies grew up really fast and every month we saw great themes.The premium wordpress Theme market is getting larger and larger everyday.

Today i collected the leaders of this market.You can find more than 100 premium wordpress themes and as i said every month new themes come up.So please bookmark this post to give an eye to the leaders.

Hope you like the collection.If you know any other premium theme developers that i missed please leave a comment.But please donTt tell us the developers who only developed 1 or 2 premium themes.

WOO THEMES

Well,i think they must change their name as WoW Themes.One of the best theme provider in wordpress theme world.They have +50 themes for every blogger for every type.Magazine,portfolio,business,personal and more.Thank you guys for such great themes.

THEME FOREST

Themeforest is the largest marketpalce of its kind for CMS themes and site templates.Whenever you need wordpress template themeforest is one of the first place to look.
ThemeForest is an Envato Marketplace. At ThemeForest you can buy and sell HTML templates as well as themes for popular CMS products like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging from just $5 up to $40.

iTHEMES

iThemes is one of the leaders in producing high-quality premium WordPress themes for photographers, designers, and businesses.Especially if you want own a business blog there are really awesome business themes.Tank you guys.

SOLOSTREAM

Yes i use a SoloStream theme.One of the best function of solostream themes is the theme settings.You can set up almost everything from the theme settings section.There are really great and many features for SoloStream themes.Just believe me.There are 23 themes for now and great support.Again thank you for such great themes and support.Thank you guys

STUDIOPRESS

When i first start blogging i bought premium theme from Studio Press.I like the support and i think it is one the best.They have 14 great premium themes.Brian Gardner and his team do their best for theme world.Thank you guys.

WPZOOM

My cousin tried Wpzoom and still using the same theme.They have really good support.Their collection contains 15 themes and i read that it has been 1 year since they start developing themes.They already developed 2 new themes in 2010
Oh forgot to say.You can join the WPZoom customization team to improve WPZoom.Thank you guys.

ELEGANT THEMES

I think Elegant Themes is one of the cheapest theme provider in this business.You get unlimited access to all themes for only $19.95 and just have a look at the themes.Amazing professional themes there.Thank you Elegant Themes for making our eyes wide open.Thank you guys

GORILLA THEMES

Gorilla Themes is a project managed by Carlos Aguaron.One of my favourite theme provider.There are 13 themes andbelieve me perfect with color combinations.They have great forum support as my friend said and i think it will be very hard to choose one of them.One thing i have to mention.There are some deals for the themes.Dn’t forget to check them.Thank you guys.

TEMPLATIC

Templatic, Officially launched on 10th of December 2009 but before that they are know as Premium Themes in market which launched in March 2008.R. Bhavesh is the founder of Templatic from India.You can find wordpress themes for almost every niche.For now,you can buy 30 themes but Templatic grows really fast.Thank you guys.

PRESS 75

Press75 is one the most famous theme provider on the net.The team offers really professional themes.I’m sure they have great support.Just give an eye to their support forum.There are 12 themes for now and they are professional looking themes.Here is an advantage for you.Buy any three themes on Press75 and get two more for FREE. To take advantage of this discount package, use Discount Code “2FREE” after adding five themes to your Shopping cart.Thank you guys.

BLOGOHBLOG

Bob Jiwakacau (Founder) sold BlogohBlog to Jai in 2007 and the blog is getting bigger and bigger day by day.There are 11 premium themes.The prices start from $49 up to $79.You can also find some free themes.I like the mod blogger theme so much.Thank you Jai.

GABFIRE THEMES

If you want to start a new blog about news or magazine a gabfire theme is a really good solution for you.there are 8 premium mostly magazine style themes and i like the transcipt theme so much.Thank you guys for these wonderful themes.

THEME SHIFT

I found really fantastic themes in ThemeShift which is owned by Simon Rimkus.Simon speaks 3 languages so it is great for supporting.I check out the support forum and i think the support is good.There are 6 themes and i like the dezine theme so much.Thank you Simon.

WP NOW

There are 8 themes and i like the style and the colors so much.I advice you to look at the showcase and you will see great blogs using wpnow themes.I think these themes will also be my favourite themes.I like it so much.Thank you guys.

THEME GALAXY

The themes start from $24 and there 9 premium themes.Simple themes but these kind of themes are really effective for the bloggers.You can find businnes,magazine,professional and portfolio themes in Theme Galaxy.Thank you guys.

ALOHA THEMES

Aloha Themes is owned and operated by Bernadot Studios, LLC from the paradise of La Crosse, WI (USA). There are 10 themes in the collection and they are all colorful.I’m sure you can find one suitable for your blog.I like PoPLife themes so much.Looking so professional and great color combination.One thing i don’t like which is the box coming when you try to close the page.Thank you guys.

NATTY WP

NattyWp has 27 themes in ther collection for almost every niche.I can say it also one the cheapest provider and let me remind you:There is a special offer till February,30.You can buy a theme for $25.Thank you guys

ZIDALGO

I ike Zdalgo so much.There are 7 premium themes starting from $75 and the developer license is $249.The Playtime theme is awesome.Thank you guys.Looking forward for your new themes.

RICH WP

If you want to set up a business or corporate Web site, a blog, a photo gallery, an online portfolio or a full-blown magazine site, look no further. WordPress has evolved. Use the state-of-the art WordPress content management system (CMS) to easily build and maintain your presence on the Internet.Thank you guys.

STYLE WP

There are 8 good lookng themes and i especially i like the Mviemaker 2 theme.There is one thing interesting which you can get live support from the chat room.The themes are aldo cheap.You can buy a theme for just $33.Thank you guys.

33 Free,Creative And Unusual WordPress Themes

Arshad Cini — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:27:26 +0000

When it comes to the WordPress theme designing,some designers have no limit to imagine.Day by day the designing structure changes in wordpress themes and it is really hard to imagine what will happen in the next few years of WordPress Themes design.

Today i collect 33 creative and unusuallydesigned WordPress Themes.To be honest,these themes may not be relevant to every blog subject but all can be used for personal blogs which make your blog look unique.

Please feel free to comment for the most attractive theme.Hope yu enjoy the compilation.

1.Personal

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2.WCute

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1.Free Stock Images Plugin

2.Grand Flash Album Gallery

3.Kalooga

4.Page Flip Image Gallery

5.Cincopa Rich Multimedia Platform

6.Superb Slide Show Plugin

7.LightBox Plus Plugin

8.Dooodl

9.Sidebar Photoblog

10.Photobucket Widget

11.PhotoSmash Plugin

12.WP-Pretty Photo Plugin

13.NextGEN Gallery

14.WP-Simple Viewer

15.Dynamic Content Gallery

16.SlideZoom Plugin

17.Drop In Image Slideshow Gallery

18.Deviant Thumbs

19.WordPress Content Slide

20.WP-Cycle Plugin

21.Picasna WordPress Plugin

22.Flickr Tips

23.Misiek Photo Album

24.NASA Image Of The Day