Using facebook “like” and comments plugins? why don’t you show your top posts?

a plugin that scans your blog and collects likes, share and comments data about your blog. then you can show your top liked, commented and shared posts. including widgets.

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Installation

After downloading “Ultimate Facebook Stats”, extract the folder and upload “Ultimate Facebook Stats” folder to wp-content/plugins.

go to Plugins tab in the wordpress admin and activate “Ultimate Facebook Stats”.

Collect Information about your posts

you can have facebook stats for your posts in two ways:

1) let visitors visit your posts and slowly all your stats will be collected. (each visit to a post updates the facebook stats in the database)
2) scan manually all your posts by pressing the button below. this option can take some time depend on the amount of posts you have in your blog.

Widgets

there are 3 widgets comes with the plugin, Top Liked Posts, Top Shared Posts and Top Commented Posts. use them if you have widgetized sidebar

Use manually

if you want to insert the top posts manually to your theme, call this function:

ufs_show_top_posts(5, ‘like_count’, $showcounter = ‘yes’, $showurl = ‘yes’ )

parameters to pass:

1) How many posts to show

2) Which kind of top do you wish to display:

top likes – ‘like_count’

top shares – ‘share_count’

top comments – ‘commentsbox_count’

Examples

show top 5 liked posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP LIKED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'like_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 shared posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP SHARED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'share_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 commented posts (with counter and url)

lt;h2>TOP COMMENTED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'commentsbox_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

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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.

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ENJOY!!!

Popularity: 2% [?]

Recently Facebook released what they call social plugins, with these plugins you can easily integrate your blog or website with many Facebook features.
Wordpress programmers made the work for you and wrote excellent and simple plugins although if you know a bit of code you can always go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins and check the plugins by facebook, try it here :http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.

now if you want it the easy way, here are some of the best we found for you, actually for all your facebook connect purposes.

Facebook Comments

Facebook comments is a WordPress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.

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Facebook Comments for WordPress

This plugin integrates the Facebook commenting system right into your website. If a reader is logged into Facebook while viewing any comment-enabled page or post, they’ll be able to leave a comment using their Facebook profile. Non-Facebook users can post with a valid email address.

Features:

• Styles can all be customized to fit your site’s theme
• Number of comments displayed can be adjusted
• Option to post comments directly to a user’s Facebook profile page
• Comments can be included on pages only, posts only or both
• Comments can be shown in chronological order or with the most recent comments first
• Facebook comments can be attached to WordPress comments or inserted manually anywhere in your theme
• WordPress comments can be hidden on pages/posts where Facebook comments are enabled
• Like button can be hidden if required

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Like

Let your readers quickly share your content on Facebook with a simple click.

You can customize it in the Settings section:

• Access directly your Facebook Pages to manage them (see screenshot 2)
• Send updates to your Fans
• IFRAME or XFBML versions of the button
• Asynchronous or Synchronous loading of the Javascript
• Width/Height
• Layout (standard or button_count)
• Verb to display (Like or Recommend)
• Fonts
• Color Scheme (Light or Dark)
• Show thumbnails of Facebook profile pictures
• Align to the Left or Right of your posts
• Show at the top and/or bottom of posts
• Show/hide the button on pages/posts/home/search/archive.
• Margins (top, bottom, left, right)
• Complete support of the Open Graph protocol (http://opengraphprotocol.org)

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Facebook Like Box

If you have a page in Facebook about your blog and want to show the Facebook Like Box with the recent updates and fans.

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Sharecount for Facebook

Displays the number of times the current page has been shared on Facebook and allows visitors to share it themselves. Uses awe.sm for tracking and offers Google Analytics integration even without an awe.sm account. Pulls count and click data from Facebook as well as awe.sm.

Features:

• Display the number of shares and on hover the total number of clicks for those shares (displays Facebook logo when 0 shares)
• Large or small button
• Track the shares from the button using your awe.sm API Key or fbshare.me links
• Add Google Analytics parameters to fbshare.me links
• Configure the colors of the badge in the large button
• Disable the button on Pages

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Popularity: 16% [?]

sometime you need a plugin you can’t find free on the web, codecanyon.net is a very good place to find these [remium wordpress plugins, here are some of the best:

DDSliderWP – 11 Transitions – Slide Manager Panel

DDSliderWP features EVERYTHING that the jQuery plugin already offered PLUS a custom admin panel, with total management of slides.
Features:

• Slide manager – Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts.
• Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page
• Extremely user interactive panel – Tooltips on all fields and jQuery driven panels
• Over 11 different transitions
• Inline content support
• TimThumb integration
• ColorPicker included
• Access documentation directly from admin panel
• A whole lot more. Checkout screencast for an overview of the admin panel.

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WP-Membership Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin that helps you sell your content; you only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account. Don’t hesitate and purchase it today
You can easily select the posts you want to sell, manage the memberships you acquire and is fully integrated with Paypal. All you have to do is activate the plugin, setup your memberships and your Paypal account.
Features:

• * You don’t have to modify your template.
• * Paypal integration.
• * Premium posts only seen by active members.
• * Setup unlimited memberships.
• * A dashboard that shows your sales by month.
• * Manage your subscription.
• * Filter your subscriptions by Month and Memberships.
• * Subscriptions are paginated.
• * Easy setup.
• * Very well documented with plenty of images.
• * Works with WordPress 2.7 and above (also 3.0).

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Events Calendar Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

The Events Calendar Premium plugin for WordPress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

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Twitter Widget Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for WordPress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

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Extended Google Analytics for WordPress

It’s never been easier to add Google analytics and event tracking to your websites. This in combination with a campaing url generator tool makes a powerfull WordPress plugin to get the most out of Google Analytics.
Features:

Adds google analytics code
Auto link adsense to analytics
Auto event tracking for downloads, mailto and outbound links
Select wich file extensions to download track
Tool to generate campaign tracking links to use in newsletters and other campaigns

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Popularity: 21% [?]

almost any website needs a contact form placed inside a contact us page. I remember the days any we wrote a contact form for all websites, but of course wordpress has many solutions for the popular form, here are the best of them:

Contact Form 7

the most popular plugin for contact forms, on the plugin description they write, simple but flexible. that is so true.

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WP Contact Form

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.

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Enhanced WP Contact Form

Easy contact form, embed it in a post or page by writing the shortcode [wpcf].

Features:

• Spam protection.
• Shows referrer information for the person contacting you.
• Option for user to send himself a copy of the message.

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Tiny Contact Form

Use ‘[TINY-CONTACT-FORM]‘ within any post or page. Add the widget to your sidebar.

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Popularity: 20% [?]

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

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax.

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Comment Rating

If you’re tired of moderating readers’ comments on your blog, stop doing that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown. If you’re getting outrageous comments on your blog, don’t get too angry yet. Let’s see how many readers feel the same. You can do these tasks (and more) with the Comment Rating plugin.

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DS-Rating for WordPress

DS-Rating is a plugin for wordpress that gives you the ability to add a rating to posts, anywhere from 0 to 5 (including half steps). Note that this plugin does not allow users to rate posts when browsing a site – It is only set up to allow publishers or administrators to add ratings when creating or editing a post.

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WP Digg This

WP Digg This is a plugin that adds a Digg button, but with a twist. Instead of adding a Digg button to all your posts, WP Digg This plugin selectively adds the button only to posts you want.

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Popularity: 19% [?]

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.

User Photo

Allows a user to associate a profile photo with their account through their “Your Profile” page.

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Author Exposed

This plugin does the same thing as the the_author tag, displays the author name, only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the hidden layer(div) pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus gravatar photo (if author email is assigned with one).

Example here

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Posts by Author Plugin for WordPress

This plugin will show the last X posts by the current author either at the bottom of every post, or where you manually specify in each post. Using the built-in options page, you can choose the number of posts to show, set the header text, choose to show the post dates, select the format of the date, and choose whether or not to include the current post in the list. Other options have been added since the first release.

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Author Slug

This WordPress plugin lets you create custom permalinks for author pages.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

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

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/.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

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!!!

Wasabi Related Entries

This plugin will output a series of “related” entries based on keyword matching.

you can limit the results, include excerpt and decide the html tags before and after the related entries.

Similar Posts

This plugin displays a list of posts which are related or similar to the current post. excellent plugin with a great support.

WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.

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Hope you will find the plugin that fits you best. tell us what you think.

Popularity: 14% [?]

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?

after removing yourself all the hidden spam in your theme try installing this plugin also:

WordPress Exploit Scanner – This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.

Popularity: 10% [?]

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”,

WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:

/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings

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SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

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SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

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Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.

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Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

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And of course:

** All in One SEO Pack **

The most popular plugin every blog should have. Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines

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Popularity: 10% [?]