Share This

This plug-in has many competitors but easily wins out on its customization abilities alone. Share This gives bloggers the ability to pick which social media sites they want ‘share’ buttons for and then provides them the tools for creating a custom-made buttons that they can tailor to fit the tone and theme of their blogs. Many new plugins are being made so that they can integrate with Share This, which only shows how valuable it is. 

Gregarious

A social bookmarking tool that integrates Digg, Share This, Reddit and Feedflare into one easily customized AJAX system. A healthy list of modules is included which requires you to do virtually no editing or speed configuration. 

I Love Social Bookmarking

This plug-in focuses on providing WordPress users with the ability to submit their blogs to social media services like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati and more. This is accomplished through a fairly simple yet exceedingly efficient drop-down list that uses SEO and XHMTL for optimal productivity. 

Social Metrics

Social Metrics allows WP users to keep tabs on how their blogs are doing externally on social media sites. This includes tracking the quality and quantity of shares on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, and others, the ability to filter these results, and sharing abilities using the ‘Social Metrics Dashboard’. The best part about this plug-in is that it does not burden your operating system—it offers low maintenance with simple, easy-to-understand settings. 

Sharebar

Add a customizable box that contains links and buttons for all the popular social media tools out there. Sharebar allows you to add your “share” code earlier in the process than any other plugin. 

Sociable

Yet another way to add an incredible array of social media buttons at the base of your content. 

Notable

Similar to Sociable in function, Notable attaches an icon bar which allows your readers to send your posts into the proper networking and bookmarking channels. 

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of social media plugins for WordPress and a great many of them can carry tremendous value for your blog. Check out the ones listed above to begin your search for the perfect package to make your WP blog shine above the others. 

While they have stayed the same but with expanding popularity and features, there is a third-party that creates a larger impact. That would be the creation and wide acceptance of personal devices with Internet capabilities. The most recent releases in the world of tablets are especially pressing, such as with the ever-loved iPad still selling like hotcakes.

Because of this, it is wise to make sure your own blog is made to be iPad (or any alternative) friendly. You would be surprised at the number of people who use an iPad to browse blogs, such as on train rides, flights, office waits, on breaks and during lunch. These tips can help you make sure your blog is prepared for tablet users:

Use Application Onswipe

With tablets becoming so popular, there have been companies that have teamed up to create applications that are designed to automatically adjust certain display settings and functions. Onswipe is one of those companies.

This plug-in works by adjusting things like screen size, position and other factors to allow for viewing on a touchscreen. It is coded within the blog itself so that tablet users won’t have to install anything to enjoy your content. But if you have WordPress, it is already included in the blog itself and fully activated.

Beyond making adjustments, Onswipe also makes it easier to save blogs; creates a gorgeous, full-page, magazine-like cover from the latest article; and makes sharing on social media sites a breeze.

Turn Your Blog Into an eBook

If your website is niche-specific it might be worth it to look into turning it into an electronic. The iPad and other tablets work as e-readers, which makes them perfect for PDFs and other files that work as ebooks. There are several ways that you can do this, such as just backing up files and then fixing them into the correct order yourself. But some programs will make it much easier.

Anthologize

If you are a WordPress user you will be able to take advantage of Anthologize, the most popular and extensive conversion tool on the web. It works as a plug-in, which is why it is unusable by anyone who goes through any other blog program or hosts independently. The format is easy to use: Just pull the content from your blogs through the plug-in, drag and drop it into the right order and then convert.

Zinepal

If you don’t have WordPress then you should check out Zinepal. It works by letting you connect through your blog and then select what stories you want to include in your file. All it requires is the URL of your blog, and it will let you easily sift through posts to find the ones you want, without having to cut and paste. You can then convert it into Kindle, PDS or ePub formats.

Use a Mobile-Friendly Theme

If you have WordPress you will be given several options for themes that have been made to make it easier for those who are using devices to browse. If you are through another source you can find others for your particular setup easily enough. But for WP users, here are three of the best:

WordPress Mobile Pack

This is a complete toolkit rather than just a theme, with a collection of plug-ins meant to properly customize your blog to be mobile compatible. It comes with a switcher that will suggest either computer or mobile settings, both standard and advanced themes, a mobile ad widget, a mobile admin panel, device adaption, custom colors, a barcode widget, auto listing and more. It’s also recently been updated to an improved person.

Wptouch

This plug-in was created for seamless blog adaption from a standard WP site to an iPhone or iPad application. It allows for a switch between the mobile theme or the standard computer theme based on the choice of the user while providing Ajax loading for all content. A paid version has a ton more features, colors and customizable options for the theme.

News Press

For those who are looking to create a news portal, this plug-in creates a news-specific theme for devices. It is incredible professional looking and clean, with easy-to-navigate sections that are just the right size for tablet users. The loading time is great for information-heavy blogs, and it is customizable. It supports threaded comments and is completely widget ready.

That is all pretty great. But that doesn’t mean it will immediately be what it was you were hoping for. In fact, you might be disappointed to see that you can’t generate the look you want with what WordPress has on file as standard.

The good news is that WP is more than just customizable through the actual program. It is also ripe for easily installed plug-ins that tailor-make your features list and give you more control over your theme and effects. They are free, functional and usually updated on a regular basis, as well.

If you are hoping for a little more than the basic fare, check out these excellent plug-ins for typography upgrades.

1. TTFTitles

If you like to use TrueType, you will love this plug-in. It allows you to easily replace any headers with images from that format. If you have used Image Headlines, you will already be familiar with this program. It was a rework of the original, and the same basic interface was used.

2. Drop Caps

A drop cap is a capital letter at the beginning of a page, chapter or article that is larger than the rest of the font, usually in bold or with a layered font. This is done for various publications, such as printed books or newspapers. It is a professional standard and can really give your blog a more sophisticated look. This plug-in lets you put in the drop cap on any post.

3. Censortive

This is another plug-in meant to get you around censorship laws in countries that are sensitive to stringent obscenity or anti-activism/information laws. You can select what words you want to be converted into images, and it keeps them from showing up in searches. However, you will still be able to use the rest of the posts for drawing traffic or directing people to your site, since the entire post isn’t converted.

4. Simple Pull Quote

I have always rather liked the look of pull quotes on media websites, such as BBC News. It is when you select a quotation from a source in the story and put a box of the text, larger than the rest, on one side of the screen. Magazines also use this method of highlighting certain portions. Simple Pull Quote lets you create both the quote box itself and the layout of the post around it without breaking the lining.

5. TextImage

This plug-in is somewhat controversial, but helpful. It works by converting the entire post of text into a PNG image. This makes it unreadable by search engines and bots, which are designed to find buzz words and report back to their source on the content. While this can be used for nefarious purposes, it can also be a matter of privacy or even security. For example, if you have a PNG converted post, it won’t come up in searches from countries that block Internet content, for example, in China or Iran.

6. WP Typography

This is becoming a popular plug-in for people who like more control over their blog fonts. It has a huge catalog of features, such as spacing control, CSS hooks for character styles and various fonts available for use. It is a little advanced, but easy to work once you get the basics down.

7. WP Super Edit

One of the easiest ways to provide editing options for text, this plug-in creates two whole new rows of options to let you generate effects, characters, fonts and layouts. You can also add in formatting tables and customize it.

8. Real WYSIWYG Plugin

The name may look like someone smashed his or her face into the keyboard on accident, but the plug-in is great. It is another full editing application that gives you more typography options than the kitchen sink. But you can see the end result in a preview in the actual post as you type, so you can check the lines and breaks, as well as the look, before you save or publish.

9. Post Typographer

This plug-in works more like a macro, automatically making typography changes in your posts as you go. For example, it changes hyphens without spaces to en dashes and hyphens with spaces to em dashes.

Do you have a plug-in we didn’t mention? Let us know in the comments!

Here are the 5 WordPress mobile plugins to setup a mobile theme for iphone and mobile devices.

1. Mobify

Mobify a free service doesn’t require to invest in additional IT resources. It’s an HTML5 solution that optimizes the website, so the user gets a mobile experience. Download the Mobify plugin for wordpress.

2. WPTouch

WPTouch is a mobile plugin/theme for your WordPress site. It automatically converts your WordPress blog or site into a mobile theme for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Palm OS and Samsung touch. There is also a pro version of this plugin which includes 200+ great new features over the free version with powerful options. If you can invest little bit the PRO version is best.

3. Mofuse

Mofuse has a free Wodpress plugin to convert your blog into mobile friendly for various mobile devices. You can download the Mofuse Wodpress plugin and it makes your blog mobile friendly.

4. WPTap

Both free and paid versions of WPTap are available. It is a WordPress specialist in developing mobile themes/plugins that can instantly convert your WordPress site into web-application experience when viewed from iPhone, iPod Touch, touch-based Blackberry, and Android smartphones.

5. MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on different mobile devices, with the ability to use customized themes.

1. bbPress

bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.

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2. Simple:Press

Simple:Press – the feature rich, completely integrated and fully scalable forum plugin for WordPress.

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3. Tal.ki Embeddable Forums

Tal.ki Embeddable Forums are the easiest way to add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog.

Download

4. Wp2BB

Wp2BB integrates your WordPress blog and your phpBB forum. It automatically creates new topics in the forum for every new post in your blog.

Download

5. Zingiri Forum

Zingiri Forum is a plugin that integrates the powerfull myBB bulletin board software with WordPress. It brings one of the most powerfull free forum softwares in reach of WordPress users.

Download

6. Mingle Forum

Mingle Forum allows you to easily and quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog.

Download

1. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

This is the plugin i am using and many other top blogs like Smashing Magazine are using to highlight codes in posts. It allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript package by Alex Gorbatchev to do the highlighting and supports all of the package’s parameters via shortcode attributes.

Download

2. File Inliner Plugin

This wordpress plugin displays the content of a file in a post. The content of the file (called a “snippet”) is put in a

block.

Download

3. WP-SynHighlight

WP-SynHighlight is a WordPress plugin that allows easy syntax highlighting of source code you post in your blog. It works much like any other BBCode tag. It highlights everything you put between codesyntax BB code tags

Download

4. FV Code Highlighter

This plugin supports the highlighting of PHP, HTML, CSS and XML. The default tag-highlighter color scheme uses the same colors Adobe’s Dreamweaver is using.

Download

5. Google Syntax Highlighter

This plugin easily integrates the Google Syntax Highlighter into WordPress.

Download

6. CodeColorer

CodeColorer is the plugin which allows you to insert code snippets into the post with nice syntax highlighting.

Download

1. Theme Switcher

Allow users to switch which theme they use on your WordPress, WordPress MU, or BuddyPress site. Includes a widget for easily putting the theme-switcher as a list or dropdown in your sidebar.

Download

2. Theme Switch and Preview

The plugin is great for theme development as you can tweak the template online without breaking stuff for visitors.

Download

3. Theme Test Drive

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.

Download

4. User Switching

This plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. You’ll be instantly logged out and logged in as your desired user.

Download

5. Maintenance Mode Plugin

This plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

Download

6. WordPress Theme Demo Plugin

This plugin was designed to help web designers easily demo their WordPress themes.

Download

7. Raw HTML

This plugin lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. One way to use it is to wrap a part of your post in special tags (below) to prevent WordPress from converting newlines to HTML paragraphs, escaping apostrophes and so on.

Download

8. TDO Mini Forms

This plugin can add themed custom posting and editing forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to contribute.

Download

In this post i have listed top 10 wordpress security plugins to secure your blog from hackers.

List of WordPress Security Plugins

1. Invisible Defender

Invisible Defender is a WordPress plugin, which protects registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding two extra fields hidden by CSS. This approach gave me 100% anti-spam protection on one of my sites.

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2. AskApache Password Protect

AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well.

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3. Secure WordPress

This plugins helps to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.

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4. WordPress Database Backup

WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

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5. WP Security Scan

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. It scans your blog and checks passwords, file permissions, database security and WP version hiding.

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6. WordPress File Monitor

Monitors your WordPress installation for added/deleted/changed files. When a change is detected an email alert can be sent to a specified address.

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7. Force SSL

For those will an SSL certificate, this plugin forces an HTTPS connection for security purposes. Force SSL simply redirects requests made via regular old http to requests for trusty new https, and that’s about it.

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8. Admin SSL

This WordPress security plugin protects wordpress login and admin pages, supports all SSL setups and encrypt cookie contents.

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9. Replace WP-Version

Security your WordPress-Installation and eliminate or replace your wp-version and database-version on easy way with a small plugin.

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10. WP-dephorm

wp-dephorm protects your users from the prying eyes of phorm. This is achieved by setting a cookie to opt out of the phorm information mining. Your blog viewers will not have there information stored and used in marketing campaigns whilst viewing your site.

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Hope these WordPress security plugins will help you in shielding your web site or blog from hackers and stay safe. Do comment and let us know if you found any of this plugin helpful.

Today i have collected 15 most important wordpress plugins to help you fight spam. These plugins will help you by blocking spam bots to comment on your blog, by blocking trackback spams and to prevent spam harvesters from collecting email address from your posts.

1. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Download Akismet Plugin

2. TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter

A simple pre-filter to weed out the most obvious comment spam (about 90% of all spam).

Download Tan Tan Plugin

3. AVH First Defense Against Spam

The AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com.

Download AVH First Defense Spam Plugin

4. Delete Spam Daily

This plugin schedules a daily event using wp_cron that deletes all comments marked “spam” in the database, then optimizes the database.

Download Delete Daily Spam Plugin

5. Project Honey Pot WordPress Plugin

This plugin automatically scatters invisible links to Project Honey Pot spam traps throughout your wordpress blog to help catch and stop spammers.

Download Project Honey Pot WordPress Plugin

6. Defensio Anti-Spam

Defensio is an advanced spam filtering web service that learns and adapts to your behaviors and those of your readers.

Download Defensio Anti-Spam Plugin

7. Simple Trackback Validation Plugin

Simple Trackback Validation Plugin for WordPress 2.x performs simple but very effective tests on all incoming trackbacks in order to stop trackback spam.

Download Simple Trackback Validation Plugin

8. WP-Hashcash

WP Hashcash is an antispam plugin that eradicates comment spam on WordPress blogs. It works because your visitors must use obfuscated javascript to submit a proof-of-work that indicates they opened your website in a web browser, not a robot.

Download WP-Hashcash Plugin

9. 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.

Download Simple CAPTCHA Plugin

10. Math Comment Spam Protection

Math Comment Spam Protection asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot.

Download Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin

11. WP Spam Hitman

WP Spam Hitman is based on set of rules and concept of hitpoint. With right set of rules and hitpoint level you can eliminate most or even all of the spam on you blog.

Download WP-Spam-Hitman Plugin

12. Email Protect

Automatically changes email address is posts, pages, and comments into safe alternatives (such as an image) to prevent spam harvesters from collecting them.

Download Email Protect Plugin

13. Raven’s Antispam

Raven’s antispam is a WordPress plugin, powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam.

Download Raven’s Antispam Plugin

14. Bad Behavior

Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

Download Bad Behavior Plugin

15. Antispam Collateral Condolences

This plugin will notify commenters when their comments are caught as spam or put in the moderation queue.

Download Antispam Collateral Condolences Plugin

I have compiled 20 tutorials for developers to know how to develop wordpress plugin.

1. WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

Here it is, a video guide to creating your first WordPress plugin (in under 5 minutes!).

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

2. Writing a Plugin

WordPress Plugins allow easy modification, customization, and enhancement to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the core programming of WordPress, you can add functionality with WordPress Plugins.

Writing a Plugin

3. How to Write a WordPress Plugin – Introduction

For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. WordPress Plugins allow those with little to no programming skills to extend the functionality of their blog.

How to Write a WordPress Plugin - Introduction

4. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial will describe the implementation of a WordPress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your WordPress site.

Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

5. Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

This tutorial will guide you through every step of building a simple, widgetized WordPress plugin with settings.

Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

6. 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.

Plugin Crash Course

7. WordPress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

A short video tutorial on wordpress plugin development.

Wordpress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

8. WordPress Plugin Tutorial – Hello World

Learning to develop a WordPress plugin can be both fun and rewarding. In this Tutorial we will go over how to make a simple Hello World plugin that you can create.

9. The Ultimate Guide to Building a WordPress Plugin

There are often plugins created for basic extended functionality, but what happens when you can’t find the perfect plugin for your needs? It might be easier to just create the plugin yourself.

10. How to Make a Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugin

In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, you will learn to create your first functional WordPress plugin and learn how to interact with the WordPress API (this is the WordPress interface to PHP) on the way.

11. WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

Nice video tutorial on plugin development.

WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

12. Tips to Speed Up WordPress Plugin Development

Anyone can create useful WordPress plugins without being a hacker.

13. Seven Reasons to Write a WordPress Plugin

Listed below are seven reasons why a WordPress user should consider writing a WordPress plugin.

14. WordPress Plugin Actions

An example of an action would be that you want a execute some code after a user has published a post or left a comment.

15. WordPress Plugin Filters

WordPress filters allow to you modify virtually any kind of text displayed and are extremely powerful.

16. Constructing a WordPress Plugin Admin Panel

This tutorial will go into what it takes to successfully create an admin panel for your plugin.

17. Constructing a WordPress Plugin User’s Panel

This tutorial will go over the steps to add in your own User’s Administration Panel.

18. Using JavaScript and CSS with your WordPress Plugin

This portion of the series will cover how to load JavaScript and CSS files for your plugin.

19. Using AJAX with your WordPress Plugin

This post will show you how to use AJAX with your WordPress plugin.

20. Releasing and Promoting Your WordPress Plugin

After you have finished writing your awesome WordPress plugin, there are a few things to consider before releasing and promoting your WordPress plugin.