we are proudly presents our first free plugin: “ultimate author box”, download and enjoy!

Ultimate Author Box

Use this plugin to show more information about your blog authors.

More features:

- Display fancy author box on each post automatically

- Show your facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

- Style the author box by yourself

- Add your avatar to the author box

Install:

Unzip and upload folder to wp-content/plugins folder

Go to plugins and activate “Ultimate Author Box”

How to use it:

Go to setting - ultimate author box

Choose where to display your ultimate author box.

Style your box with the color picker.

Then go to your profile edit page:

Users – your profile (Extra profile information)

Here you can add or edit your:

Description,

Facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

And add an avatar.

DOWNLOAD

ENJOY!!!

This plugin adds social media counters to your blog posts from many services including Twitter, Facebook and Google +1. list of services so far:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google +1
• LinkedIn
• StumbleUpon

SETTINGS

• Where to display – pages / posts
• How to display – horizontal / vertical
• if vertical you can control the position in your page
• What to display – Facebook | Twitter | Google +1 | StumbleUpon | LinkedIn
• Style your counters – background and border colors

you can preview it here on the blog (on your left) and see the screenshots here.

Download

Sommerce Shop

url : http://themeforest.net/item/sommerce-shop-a-versatile-ecommerce-theme/542001

ShopMe – WordPress E-commerce Theme

url: http://wpbooks.net/shopme-wordpress-e-commerce-theme

Express Store Premium

url: http://themeforest.net/item/express-store-premium-ecommerce-wordpress-theme/300348

enVirashop

url: http://themeforest.net/item/envirashop-ecommerce-wordpress-theme/73265

Mazine WordPress Theme

url: http://themeforest.net/item/mazine-wordpress-theme-a-wp-ecommerce-theme/198602

WP FlexiShop

url: http://themeforest.net/item/wp-flexishop-a-versatile-wp-ecommerce-theme/137144

Viroshop

url: http://themeforest.net/item/viroshop-professional-ecommerce-theme/101867

acquisto

url: http://www.press75.com/themes/acquisto-theme-demo

eStore

url: http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/estore/

in its first version videos were created like posts but categorized under “Videos” category. Now we upgraded the theme to work with videos as Custom Post Type, one of the latest wordpress features, so posts are blog posts and videos can be created separately.

We added the options to create your own custom menu.

we fixed some css bugs and php problems.

we added theme options to the theme, you can upload your own logo.

wordpress 3.2.1 compatible.

php fixes – if no videos – no player will be shown

Google is trying to compete with facebook’s like button. they released a social button called +1 (plus one), when you want to show that you loved the article (somebody said “like”), you press on the +1 button and the counter adds one.

Now you can add +1 button to your wordpress website, we suggest to wait a few weeks to see if it’s not just a “buzz” but if you want to add it here are the steps:

1) go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html.

2) customize and choose the setting for your button.

3) copy the lines in the text area :

<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
<!– Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render –><g:plusone></g:plusone>

and add it to your post or insert to a page in your theme.

THAT’S IT!

the theme includes fancy carousel, widgets on the sidebar, six products promotions on the homepage, a custom menu and many more features.

download it for free now, from our partner website wpbooks.net.

DOWNLOAD HERE

I will try sharing with you the knowledge i acquired in the last weeks while trying to stop spam blogs and users in one of my blogs.

Captcha And Blocking Spam Plugins

WP-reCAPTCHA

Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection. WPMU Compatible.

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Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It’s simple and yet secure.

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SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible

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WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted. Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

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Animal Captcha

Captcha Animal protects your user registration and comments with a test of identifying two friendly animals.

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Block Spam By Math Reloaded

This plugin protects WordPress 3.x (single/multisite) registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding a simple math question to it (“what is 4+3 ?”). It also includes support for Buddypress. This is a proven approach to dramatically decrease your amount of spam.

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Sabre

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is the solution to stop definitely these robotized visitors!

this plugin has many features like:  Selection of the captcha’s complexity, Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists, Limited number of days for user confirmation, User must give an invitation code during registration and many more…

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Ban Specific Users Or Domains

htaccess support

## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 200.49.176.139
allow from all
</Limit>

you can also use a check to make sure they come from your domain

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.wpfeed.com. [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Ban email domains from user registration

you create a Registration Blacklist and  “Options” menu in the administration section you will find  a box called “Registration Blacklist”.

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IP Ban

Returns ‘Page Not Found’ 404 error message for IP’s visiting your blog specified in the IP Ban option on the Discussion Options page.

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Other Plugins And Soultions

Anti-Splog

to tell you the truth – wpmudev name their plugin – “The ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress”, well, not quit true. since buying anti-splog in 39 dollars, anti-splog succeeded in marking spam blogs as spam but not to block the registration. so maybe it is more comfortable to click on the plugin options and delete all spam blogs in one place, but the database is still spammed and manually i could do it my self (i already recognize the mail the spammers use). the other features like captcha and human tests i could find plugins myself without paying.

read more about the plugin – URL

BuddyPress Restrict Email Domains

This plugin enables restriction of email domains during user registration for a single (non-multisite) WordPress installation of BuddyPress

URL + use this link to enable the multisite – http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-added-banned-email-domain-check-to-multisite-buddypress-registration/#topic

Enable Akismet For all Sites

first of all activate akismet. then just open wp-config.php and add:

define(‘WPCOM_API_KEY’,'your-api-key’);

DONE!!!

have ideas for more plugins and solutions, comment here.

WP Better Emails

Adds a customizable good looking HTML template to all WP default plain/text emails and lets you set a custom sender name and email address.

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News Mailer

Simple plugin for mailing news or updates to members registered on the blog.

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Subscribe2

Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog

URL

MailPress

Style your html and plain text mails with dedicated themes and templates.

Double opt-in subscription.

Subscriptions to Comments, Newsletters/Post notifications and even to Mailing lists.

Newsletters/Post notifications on a per post, daily, weekly, monthly basis.

Optional : full control on all mails sent by WordPress.

URL

HTML Emails

Converts the default plain text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails.

URL

Newsletter

Newsletter is a plug-in to collect subscribers and send out newsletters.

URL

here is a new list, updated to our days with all the top wordpress video themes:

wopShow by wpfeed

wopShow is our new multimedia and videos theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts.

DOWNLOAD | DEMO

FREE

foxinni

DEMO | URL

wpTube

DEMO | URL

WTB Video WordPress Theme

DEMO | URL

cinematic

DEMO | URL

video

DEMO | URL

PREMIUM

SuperMassive

DEMO | URL

Vidley

DEMO | URL

VisualMedia Special FX

DEMO | URL

Wave

DEMO | URL

Evid theme by elegantthemes

eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on. This theme does not have a native video player, but it does include a custom video interface with added “blogger-related” functions. This theme is only for sites that plan to showcase videos within their post pages. I have test the theme with all the most popular video hosts, but I expect that it will work with any website that offers a flash embed code.

URL | DEMO

Movie site press

IT’S A MOVIE SITE SCRIPT THAT RUNS ON WORDPRESS.

URL | DEMO

here are some cool and very helpful hacks:

Use pagination instead of “Next” and “Previous” Page Links

replace the next and previous links at the bottom of the loop with real php pagination.

source: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/how-to-integrate-a-pagination-in-your-wordpress-theme

Remove <P> for paragraph from content, excerpt or comments

use remove_filter when the loop arrives to one of these parts:

add this to your theme file: functions.php

remove_filter (‘comment_text’, ‘wpautop’);

remove_filter (‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’);

remove_filter (‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’);

Use Custom page as home

Create a new page, go to setting -> reading ->

and for “Front page displays” choose “A static page” and choose a page for your home.

read more here: http://bloggingexperiment.com/archives/wordpress-page-as-home-page.php

Create Single Post Template

unlike for pages, posts doesn’t have the ability to have their own template if not using single-ID or single-SLUG.

we do have a plugin for that – Single Post Template

and much more here:

Some useful links:

Compilation of WordPress Hacks - http://wphacks.com/wordpress-hacks/

22 Mixed Quality WordPress Hacks – http://www.instantshift.com/2009/06/15/22-mixed-quality-wordpress-hacks/

40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks And Hacks – http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/

10 Killer WordPress Hacks – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/07/10-killer-wordpress-hacks/

63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats – http://speckyboy.com/2008/03/08/63-essential-wordpress-hacks-tutorials-help-files-and-cheats/