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:
This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of comment it.
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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.
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?
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:
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”,
From time to time you get projects demanding multilingual websites, even if you’re not a developer, you can you use these multilingual wordpress plugins to reach more visitors.
WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system. WPML helps it go the extra mile.
Features
While working on an online shop using wordpress there are several important decisions you need to take.
WP-Ecommerce Plugin on wordpress.org The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind. Perfect for:
you can download the plugin from here
WordPress eStore Plugin -
In a Nutshell… this plugin allows you to sell any form of digital products and services from your wordpress blog securely with complete automation. complete automation is that once you set it up the whole process (The buying and the delivering of the product without revealing the real URL of the product or redirecting the buyer to a web page) works on its own.
This week on one of my projects i needed a good Social Bookmarks Plugin to use at the end of the post. All the plugins i’ve used weren’t good enough. I needed it to be hidden and when i click on the word share it will appear, i need to display the plugin with a tag in the code and not automaticlly, and it has to include an email option, i’ve tried Sociable, Social Bookmarks and share it. all of them, great plugins but not answering all my demands. do you know any plugin has all the things i need? please comment here.
and now for the news:
some weekly plugins from weblogtoolscollection – http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/04/27/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-0427/
Participate in the Wordpress.org next version (wordpress 2.8) design here – Over 1600 votes so far on the design challenge. Have your say on the evolution of WordPress design: go vote! – http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/design-tweaks-vote/
Ever wanted to develop your own plugin – A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development – Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin. For this example, we’ll write a simple “tuts formatting” function that allows a blog editor to more easily format articles.
twitter.com – Everybody’s using it and everybody’s talking about it, it became one of the best ways to promote your blog, works or any other idea. twitter is also a great tool using with wordpress. here is a list of the top Twitter plugins and themes for wordpress.
Fresh Tweet: WordPress Theme Inspired By Twitter
Lately i had to develop a wap version for a website of one of my clients. on the way i bumped into some great plugins for mobile use. here’s a list of the top wordpress mobile plugins.
WordPress Mobile Plugin was developed to make your blog mobile friendly, bring you more mobile traffic and make you money on the mobile web!
More people than ever are surfing on mobile devices, making your blog work on mobiles is easy. It gives users a better experience and more reasons to return!
