Popularity: 3% [?]

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!

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We are very happy to release our latest wp e-commerce theme, designed and developed to work with the newest plugin version, 3.8 and above.

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

Popularity: 4% [?]

From time to time you get stuck with a wordpress problem, either you are a wordpress developer or wordpress user, it doesn’t matter, you’ll need help with questions and problems you have.

if you are a wordpress expert, these places are good to earn some reputation and some of them can earn you some dollars too.

WP Questions

a place for askers to get quick help and experts to earn some money. the moto of the site:

When I am facing a tight deadline, I do not want to spend 4 hours looking up information on Google – I’d rather just pay someone to tell me the answer.

Create Your Account Here

WordPress Forums

the official place to get help from the community. there’s a variety of resources to help you get the most out of WordPress. Your first stop should be the documentation, where you’ll find information on everything from installing WordPress for the first time to creating your own themes and plugins.

WordPress Answers

the very popular help site stackexchange.com brought you this wordpress help site.

This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site forWordPress developers and administrators. It’s 100% free, no registration required.

WordPress Help

WordPressHelp.org is an eirenicon llc website dedicated to providing information on the effective use of WordPress and WordPress-related technologies.We support a community of users interested in innovating and implementing.

Just Answer

When you have programming questions, ask a programmer. And for customized answers to your programming questions ASAP, ask a programmer here on JustAnswer.

Popularity: 2% [?]

After quite a long delay at last the new version of wordpress is here. 3.1.

Admin Bar – contains various links to useful admin screens. By default, the admin bar is displayed when a user is logged in and visiting the site and is not displayed in admin screens for single blog installs. For multisite installs, the admin bar is displayed both when visiting the site and in the admin screens.

Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion.

Post Formats – meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Read more in the article Post Formats. It’s about time to say, why not just add a new feature of post template like with pages.

Network Admin – move Super Admin menus and related pages out of the regular admin and into a new Network Admin screen.

List-type Admin Screens – sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination.

Exporter/Importer Overhaul – many under the hood changes including adding author information, better handling for taxonomies and terms, and proper support for navigation menus.

Custom Content Type Improvements – allows developers to generate archive pages, and have better menu and capability controls. Read more in the article Post Types.

Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme – puts the focus more squarely on your content.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Our website wpfeed.com was hacked yesterday, we fixed the problem and now we’re back again.

Our New Website
We published a new website, http://wpbooks.net, the website is intended to be the main reserve for WordPress Books, a very important and useful for wordpress developers and users.

We are about to review books and link to them for more reviews, hope we will cover all WordPress books.

enjoy

wpfeed.com

Popularity: 4% [?]

No need to introduce Akismet for you, the leading anti spam plugin for comments. the problem starts when you host a multisite website. you need to stop splogs, those spam blogs, stop spam registrations and enable akismet for all users and blogs, so they won’t need to enter the API code.

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.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Sometimes wordpress email capabilities is just not enough for your needs, this is the exact scenario where you need a good plugin to resolve your problem. here are some excellent Email plugins for wordpress:

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

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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.

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HTML Emails

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

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Newsletter

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

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Popularity: 9% [?]

We have a very popular post called “List Of All WordPress Video Themes“, which is a list of the top wordpress video themes, this post was written two years ago. since then there were lots of changes in the wordpress core and a whole lots of new themes came around.

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

Popularity: 9% [?]

One of the main requests you get as a developer from clients is to have a mailing list options on their website.

there are many options to create a mailing list.

you can let subscribers sign for a mail every time a post is published Subscribe2 does, provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

you can also use a local program that runs on your client’s computer, let’s say you download something like 1st mass mailer, than you can let the client to import the new subscribers into a mailing list. (it’s the less comfortable way to do it).

and you can use the online tools for mailing list, most of them are very good, but they cost money. we really like mailchimp.

of course there are many great free and premium wordpress plugins for newsletter and mailing list, here are some of them:

Automatic Newsletter

This plugin will send a newsletter to everyone on your email list. You can specify how many recent posts it will send in the newsletter options under settings.

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Simple Newsletter Plugin

This plugin is a simple newsletter plugin. It can show opt-in form, save opt-in email and name, and send emails to your opt-in list. It also have import and export email data ability.

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Newsletter

This plug-in lets you collect subscribers on your blog with a single or double opt-in subscription process. Double opt-in means the user has to confirm a subscription following simple standard instructions sent to him via email.

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there is also a PRO version of this plugin, her:

http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter-pro

MailChimp WordPress Plugin

The MailChimp WordPress plugin allows you to quickly and easily add your MailChimp signup form as a widget on your WordPress 2.3 or higher blog. See it in action on our own MailChimp Blog.

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*** try them all and find the one you like.

ENJOY

Popularity: 12% [?]