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13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.
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Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Subscribe2 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.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.
You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers
As a designer, all of us are continuously searching for effective inspiration because getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
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21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For Wordpress
Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need if you are searching for your photoblog.
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PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme
PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme was build specially for photographers. Right from the main page visitor will see photographer shots. On the photo page image pan is used, so if the image is extra large user will drag it to view every pixel. Your blog visitors can also press control and drag photo to zoom the image.
AutoFocus is a Wordpress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.
Grain Theme for WordPress is a fixed-width photoblog theme for WordPress 2.3+. To use it you have to additionally install the Yapb plugin; Recommended versions are 1.9 or newer. Grain comes with an administrative backend and relies heavily on CSS for it’s styling. It uses a mosaic style overview page, has archives, can display exif data, browse to random photos etc.
Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc.
Wordpress Theme - Photo Blog is a simple Wordpress theme. No widget and fix width. Huh! Important here it’s simple, clean and easy to modify.
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio.
The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization
Fotolog WP theme for photoblog is suitable for those who have huge interest in photography but have no specific template to showcase their high quality photos with wide dimension. It has 1 column, showing 1 photo for each page and showing maximum 800px width photo on main page (can be modified). Previous photo and next photo link on top and bottom of each page, this will help for better/faster navigation.
PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress uses the jQuery JavaScript-Framework, which has been included with the standard WordPress installation since version 2.1. The plugin uses the standard JS that is part of WordPress, meaning that it does not need to be installed separately. The decision to use jQuery was made on account of its very small file size (20KB)
Free Photo Gallery is a perfect theme for those photo bloggers who want to display bigger sized images. The simple web page has links to other pages like About and other images and comment section below the image.
Reflection is a simple, clean and elegant theme for running your photoblog using WordPress.
Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme
Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme is ajax content sliderDark style, online portfolio premium wordpress theme.
Grace is a stylish, minimalistic photoblog theme for WordPress. Grace’s muted color scheme and big frame puts your photos right at the center of the blog making colors seem even more vibrant and beautifully complementing those in black and white.
iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. The main features of the theme consists Fixed width, Fully widget compatible, Built-in EXIF support etc.
Ascari is a very simple theme so it is perfect for portfolios of any kind. This will also post a coming soon image if you don’t post a image yourself to keep the theme looking professional.
Spotless is a Wordpress Theme designed specifically to be used for Photoblogs. This is valid XHTML and CSS wordpress them. This is the most simplest free wordpress photoblog theme of its kind.
Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.
WP Pix Free Theme is not just another WordPress theme, it’s more to it than meet the eye — it’s a real photoblog/portfolio.
Photo-Biyori is a simple yet beautiful wordpress theme that can generate thumbnail automatically. This is widget ready theme with default picture size 500px.
Viewport Free Wordpress ThemeÂ
Viewport Free Wordpress Theme is a 1 column grey photoblog Wordpress Theme. This is very beautiful theme having attractive navigational structure for images.
Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools
As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools that are free and absolutely useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
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TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application, currently in public beta, that looks to capture the abundance of social media and display it in a unique columned user interface. This is a realtime application that allows users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck currently integrates services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and now Facebook.
twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too.It displays notifications for new messages and can also shorten long URLs. You can record a video on Seesmic, and share it on twitter immediately and much more…
Twitterfeed is a free service that will automatically tweet any post directly via your rss feed on twitter that you publish on your blog.
Tweetburner is the webservice that lets you shorten URLs, post them to Twitter and follow statistics about them. Simply, Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, and search. It also focused on easy to use. It has very clean user interface, very fast response and scrolling.
TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account. TwitterGadget is completely AJAX based, meaning, at the user-specified refresh interval, only the status update content is refreshed in-line, on the gadget page. This means reduced bandwidth utilization between you and Twitter.com, while providing for a more user-friendly experience.
HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success. HootSuite lets you manage your entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface.
40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of March which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
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Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
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45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
The proper selection of typography in a design can set the appropriate theme and mood that the designer is going for. In this collection, you’ll find 45 first-class fonts uses in Modern Design Trends.
Logo Design & Branding Trends 2009
In this collection, you will find the logo design and branding trends in 2009.
In this post, you will find Web design trends for 2009 like recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.
More Web Design Trends For 2009
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In this article you will take a logo at the logos of over 50 popular airlines for your inspiration.
This is an interesting and useful review of 20 websites from big corporation to small portfolio sites who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability.
In this post, you will see how photo galleries, design studios, art-connected websites, music bands personal pages tend to have elements of grunge and vintage, collages and sketches.
Logo Design Trends 2009 - Showcase
This collection is a showcase of logo designs in different category with current trends to get you inspired.
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In this article, you’ll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as part of the design.
40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design
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In this post, you will take a look at 50 websites in which texture has been applied to the design to improve it in some way. The websites are categorized according to how the texture is used.
33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs
Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today listing down 33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more sites that are simple and beautiful which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
I will appreciate if you can spread the word via Digg, Stumbleupon and other social media websites, Thank you.
Get Discovered and Make Money Online With BloggersBase
What is it?
BloggersBase is a content discovery platform for both bloggers and readers, in the form of an online citizen-journalism magazine.
How does it work?
Each topic on BloggersBase is a multi-authored blog based on constant competition. Registering is FREE and allows you to compete, giving you a chance to get discovered and win money prizes.
What’s in it for me?
As a blogger, writer and journalist:
- Easily submit any content of your choice - create new posts, take ones you’ve already published elsewhere, or redirect an RSS feed from your personal blog.
- Get instant exposure to targeted readers, and drive more traffic to your own blog.
- Monetize on your talent - BloggersBase awards each week $500 worth of prizes.
As a reader and consumer of UGC:
- Get quality content that’s right for you on the topic of your choice - read just one blog on your topic of interest, co-authored by top bloggers.
- If you want - reign supreme! Rate content submitted by bloggers on everything from professionalism through presentation to value. The algorithms at BloggersBase measure your expertise - the more accurately you rate, the higher your influence becomes in deciding which content makes it to the top!
Tell me more - why BloggersBase, what’s the pain?
There’s an overflow of user generated content on the Web - It is becoming harder and harder to sift through the vast amount of user-generated online content to find quality material. Moreover, if you’re an emerging blogger, this clutter also prevents you from getting discovered and reaching your audience.
Ok, so what’s your solution?
A competition-based discovery platform that rewards talented bloggers and brings readers professional, relevant and quality content on the Web, personalized according to their social connections and preferences.
Walk me through it.
As a blogger, not only can you take advantage of the unique opportunity to reach a targeted reader base instantly and receive ratings and critique from your readers, you can monetize on your talent as well in weekly competitions. At the end of each week the most acclaimed bloggers in each category earn the honor of co-authoring the main (surface) blog for their topic, resulting in respect and exposure, as well as cash and special prizes.
To do that, you must first register for free and submit a contender post to the blog of your choice. We call such contender posts “Nuggets” and in fact they are submitted under the surface, in the blog’s “Goldmine”. The Goldmine and Nuggets are still visible and accessible to all our users, which read, watch and rate your posts. At the end of each week, the most highly rated Nuggets promote their bloggers to the high visible surface. Now you have the chance to publish as many posts as you like and get a lot of exposure, as well as get a chance to win money prizes and continue co-authoring the surface blog. The top blogger on the surface blog wins $40, while the runner up gets $10 each week. However, if you are among the lower rated bloggers, you might have to return to the Goldmine and compete again for your place in the spotlight.
What else are you offering?
If you refer other quality bloggers to BloggersBase, you can increase your profit further when they are awarded prizes as well. Invite your friends to join by sending them a special invitation email, or by placing our banners on your site and we’ll remember you helped us grow: Each time one of “your” bloggers wins a prize, you’ll get the same prize too! Normally this will hold for up to 3 wins per blogger, but as a special promotion - sign up now and get up to 10 wins per blogger your refer!
There’s also much more - we have a lively community, which is easily accessible and allows better interaction among bloggers and readers. You can customize it, favoring some of the bloggers more than others as well as respecting the opinions of our raters. In the near future you’ll be able to use our personalization options to view BloggersBase in a unique manner for you, based on your preferences and community.
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43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc To Discover The Best Of The Web In February
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Insiprations etc. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of February which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. In this post, we are listing down 31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier that are free and absolutely useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
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Twtpoll is a simple survey/poll twitter app. Enter your question there! Then share your poll on Twitter, Facebook or via email.
Mr. Tweet helps you easily build meaningful relationships by looking through your network and tweets.
TwitterFriends helps to find out the hidden network of Twitter contacts that are really relevant for you. You can also visualize the network of your relevant contacts and their contacts.
Twitter Grader measures the power of a profile. In simple words, you can measure the power and authority of your twitter profile using this service.
Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post.
Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, making this info available in a variety of useful views.
A Phweet is a shortURL that makes conversations and conference calls possible between Twitter friends and across other social networks. Let your friends know you are talking. Invite them to join in. No numbers, no new profiles. Simple, just start Phweet talking.
Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the “get happy” button, and you’ll find out how happy your Tweets are.
You can get hourly, daily trends on hot terms, people and urls ‘retweet’ed on Twitter via retweetradar.
TweetCube allows you to share files on Twitter. Simple as that. Blast out your images, videos, music and more with just a couple of clicks, and your files are automatically posted on Twitter. The maximum file size you can upload is 10mb.
EasyTweets is an online marketing tool to promote and grow your business by leveraging the power of microblogging. You can use it to post to and switch between multiple Twitter accounts in seconds, check replies, and track new followers.
TweetStats can graph your Twitter Stats including Tweets per hour, Tweets per month, Tweet timeline, Reply statistics.
You can send an e-mail to your secret TwitterMail address. The body of the message will be published in your Twitter Profile. If a friend send you a post on twitter (by using @yourusername) it will send it to your email address.
HelloTxt lets you update your status and read your friends’ status across all main microblogging and social networks all at once.
One of the unique service that helps you to gift wrapped your tweets and send to your family, friends etc. This is really good to wish on any events or occasion to anyone in more fun way.
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. On Twitturly, people “vote” for a URL. The more votes it gets the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page and as the votes increase it gets displayed higher up the home page.
SecretTweet was created to allow Twitter users to share secrets anonymously.
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release. You can tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements.
TwitterCounter is a service for Bloggers, Social networkers and other well connected individuals to communicate and track the number of followers they have on Twitter.
Twits Near Me is very simple but interesting service that shows you what people near you are saying on twitter.
Twitbin is a firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar. Send messages, receive messages, share links, and more from Twitbin, the best twitter addon for firefox out there.
Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.
A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. You must have a location and an image defined to appear on the public feed.
Twessenger is a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger. When enabled, Twessenger automatically updates your Messenger Personal Message at regular intervals to reflect your latest Twitter tweet.
Twitsay is just a simple service which lets you send 10 seconds of voicemessages to your Twitter account. Your data will be encrypted and stored in our database and is used to send your voicemessage to Twitter only.
You can schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you’re asleep. You can send automated thank you notes to new followers, and automatically follow new followers, if you choose to do so.
Twitterfeed is a free service that will automatically tweet any post directly via your rss feed on twitter that you publish on your blog.
This will help you see what discussions are current, and how interest in specific topics changes over time. You can search all of Twitter, but sort the results by the people who get retweeted the most.
Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 characters just isn’t enough. With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link to what you said will automatically be posted to your Twitter account.
My Tweeple is a great way to manage all of my Twitter people in one place. You can easily see who are you following and who’s following you. With a simple click, You can follow, unfollow, or block people, and these changes instantly update Twitter.
Tweetburner is the webservice that lets you shorten URLs, post them to Twitter and follow statistics about them. Simply, Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
