Sometimes you find yourself in need for maps in your blog. here’s a list of the top wordpress and google maps plugins:
Google Maps for WordPress
This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to or from the location, show or hide the zoom/pan controls, show/hide map type (street view, satellite, etc), activate zoom using mouse wheel, and more. PHP5 Required.
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XML Google Maps
This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
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This week google released its newest and very exciting feature – Google Buzz. it took several days and the new plugin for google buzz is here:
How to Install Google Buzz Button
- Download Google Buzz Button Wordpress Plugin
- Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
- Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
- Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.
Usage of Google Buzz Button Plugin
On Google Buzz Button plugin settings panel, you can change the location of button. For example, you can place the button after or before the content of the post or page.
1. If you have selected ‘Manual Insertion’ from the Google Buzz Button settings page, then insert the below code in the Wordpress Loop wherever you want
if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}
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On the last two months we’ve been working on a huge wordpress website, soon i will be able to share it with you, it’s an old website, written in asp.net and one of the main targets was to transfer the CMS to wordpress while saving all the features from the old website. the main features were classifieds area, articles, not a complex but different registration from the one we familiar with in wordpress.
After two months I can honestly say, each problem had a plugin to solve it. here is a list of the main plugins i used so far:
my first choice to handle the classifieds area on the website was to use Another Wordpress Classifieds Plugin, it turned out to be an excellent choice, very easy to manage and lots of features.
I had to add some extra fields to the user registration and some of the authors, i did it using the awesome plugin Cimy User Extra Fields, the option “can only be modified by admin” is very important if you want to add some hidden fields to the user. and to solve the captcha fields which Cimy User extra fields doesn’t have i used WP-reCAPTCHA.
I had to allow the users to login with their email and not UserName as wordpress always ask, for this i found Email-Login it lets the users login with username and email too. and just to make all the login / register pages more pleasant and well designed i used InsiteLogin.
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From time to time you need an ads section to your website, or maybe a client is asking you to design him classifieds area, here are the top available Plugins And Themes:
This plugin is designed to allow you to add a classifieds ad section to your blog. You can use it to add pretty much any type of classified ads service that can run under a simplified structure taking some basic information from the user.
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Filed Under (Installation, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 30-10-2009
One of the best ways to let your users say their opinion except from the comments area is by rating systems in your blog. here are the best plugins we found:
I Like This
This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of comment it.
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WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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GD Star Rating
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Filed Under (Installation, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 07-10-2009
from time to time you want more than just the name of the author to display in your new theme. here is a list of the best authors related plugins for Wordpress.
Allows a user to associate a profile photo with their account through their “Your Profile” page.
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Filed Under (Installation, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 08-09-2009
One of the great tricks to keep traffic in site and lower the bounce rate on CMS and Blogs platform is the related posts / articles at the end of the content. here are some great wordpress plugins that will do that job.
LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. looks very neat and professional and works smooth as well. you can see it in action on the bottom of every post here on our website and also here: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/intelligenttravel/.
gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site, features: templating (you can customize yourself the way it will display the results, disallow certain tags or categories and much more. very recommended!!! Read the rest of this entry »
Lately i found a real problem on one of my blogs, i’ve noticed that Google Analytics shows traffic to this website (not the one you are in) after visitors searched for adult content. done a little research and found at the bottom of the footer some links to spam content and some hidden spam links in the theme.
What To Search?
so how can you find out if your blog has some hidden spam links or even not hidden. first, scan your blog for some links that was planted in the theme originally and that you didn’t remove them by yourself. if you find such links just remove them with your favorite theme editor. (or ask for help here, we would love to help you).
after scanning “manually” right click somewhere on the blog and view the source of the page, now look for style="display: none;", or something similar. move all the unwanted hidden links inside your source.
What Else To do?
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Filed Under (How To, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 24-06-2009
Every blogger and developers should know that immediately after installing wordpress activating some SEO plugins is necessary.
Wordpress by itself already doing 50% of the SEO work a website should have or do, most of the themes are very well coded, the system is very popular for its tags and categories and google tend to really like it. the rest is on you. Here’s a list of the top SEO plugins for Wordpress:
SEO Slugs
The SEO Slugs Wordpress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:
“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”,
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Display status in your blog became very useful when you write often and want to update your readers what you do and where you are.
here are some great Status Bar plugins to add to your blog:
mystatus
This one is the easiest one to use, simply lets you add a status, divided to two parts, title (bold) and a text. great!!!
This plugin allows you to create a number of fields specifying your current status and easily insert them into your templates.
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wp_twptter
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