If you want to showcase photos within your WordPress blog with maximum efficiency there is a way to achieve it easily. You don’t have to be a skilled web developer or buy expensive extra software, all you need to do is to make use of specially created WordPress plugins most of which are available even for free download. With their help you will be able to display your photos, organize them into galleries, use them within your blogs and pages and customize according to your own requirements. You can choose your own solution among numerous WordPress plugins available on the web and start sharing your photo galleries through your blog with simple clicks. To make it easier for you we have picked up 10 coolest WordPress photo galleries plugins, so browse the collection and find the tool that fits you best.
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10 Cool Photo Galleries Plugins
October 19th, 2010
10 WordPress Plugins For Social Networking
May 5th, 2010Contemporary web community provides us with such a huge number of facilities for communication by means of different social networking websites and services that there is hardly a webmaster who is not involved in any of them. The number of social media is growing attracting the users by diversity of features and advanced tools which may simplify your work on the web significantly as well as make it more vivid and interactive. But how to control all your social media activity not wasting much time and efforts on it? WordPress is ready to give you a helping hand.
Being the most powerful blogging platform WordPress maintains a great number of plugins and extensions which are developed to help you integrate your any online activity, particularly social networking one, with your WordPress-powered website. Moreover, promoting your blog posts via social bookmarking and linking to your profiles is rather important for the efficiency of your work. So we decided to present you 10 WordPress plugins for social networking which will help you promote your blog and follow your social media accounts with simple clicks saving your time. (more…)
10 Cool WordPress Photo Galleries Plugins For Photographers
April 22nd, 2010If you decided to create a photoblog on the basis of WordPress platform there will be nothing difficult for you to reach your goal. Nowadays WordPress provides photographers with a number of specially developed photo gallery plugins which help you create and manage your photo albums at ease. All of them possess specific features and may be used to enable specific options so you are free to choose your own solution which will fit you best. Today we have prepared you a compilation of 10 coolest WordPress photo gallery plugins to choose from.
1. Fotobook
If you are a Facebook member or even have multiple accounts on this famous social networking website this plugin will come in handy for sure. It provides you with an easy way of importing the photo albums from your Facebook account and using them within your WordPress website. It is distinguished by a number of advanced features which imply sidebar widgets, the ability to insert photos into posts, Ajax album management panel and much more.
Create A Photoblog With Wordpress Gallery Plugins
October 15th, 2009Some time ago we have already touched upon the topic of gallery plugins for WordPress which help you to turn your weblog into an impressive online portfolio and showcase your art skills in the best way. Today WPDaddy reviews another set of extensions that are developed for you to spice up your weblog by adding personal photo galleries to it.
Cincopa Content Gallery allows you to establish customizable image gallery, audio and video playlists and slideshows in your WordPress page. The plugin possesses automatic uploading and hosting, images resizing and videos transcoding options and is supported by iPhone. Cincopa Content Gallery helps you to manage your galleries easily and publish media to your blog wherever you are.
SuperSlider-Show is a plugin created for animated performance using Mootools 1.2 javascript to turn your photo gallery into a slideshow. This add-on possesses high configuration facilities, CSS based animations, theme based design and is able to create mini thumbnails automatically.
This plugin will be in a real value for you if you are a Flickr user as with its help you can display your Flickr photosets within your WordPress site. The plugin provides a simple template which can be edited according to your own preferences to make it match your website perfectly. The visitors of your WordPress blog are allowed to comment on your Flickr photos without moving to Flickr.com as this gallery plugin supports special commenting options.
Media Library Gallery plugin is distinguished by the option of creating gallery from the images that are attached to your blog posts. All you have to do is to install the plugin to your WordPress site, select a post or a page where you want the gallery to be included and the work is done. Besides, Media Library Gallery plugin is thickbox ready.
This plugin will come in handy if you want to turn your weblog into the full featured photo blog with minimum time and effort. Uploading and managing photos is extremely easily, and also self-learning EXIF filter is enabled which allows to select and make visible your camera tags.
So if you are eager to transform your WordPress blog into an advanced online photo gallery there is nothing difficult - just download and install one of the WordPress gallery plugins!
Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugin
October 8th, 2009If you own a blog you have undoubtedly stumbled upon the problem of spammers damaging your site and for sure have tried to find the most powerful solution to get rid of this problem. Spam is really annoying both for you and your visitors and requires immediate actions against it. This is where the AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin will come in handy.
The AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin for Wordpress is a tool which allows you to block spammers before they can do any harm. The system identifies the spammers by means of checking whether their IP addresses exist in such third parties as the Project Honey Pot, stopforumspam.com database or a local blacklist. Any IP’s and IP ranges can be added to the blacklist or whitelist if necessary. If you consider someone a spammer and want to add him to the local blacklist AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin allows you to do it simply by clicking a link contained in the received email. When a certain IP is blocked a visitor will see a special message explaining why the access was denied.
With AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin potential spammers can be blocked before any content is served and this feature possesses several advantages. First, it saves your bandwidth as well as CPU cycles which means that the spammer is checked and blocked at once before a Wordpress page is built. Secondly, this option will provide you with cleaner website statistics if you use some analytic tools to track the amount of readers which come to your weblog.
Another useful feature of the AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin implies IP Caching System which allows your website to receive more daily visits. The thing is that Stop Forum spam has a limit concerning API calls made every day - up to 5000 calls in total. So if you don’t use your local whitelist and blacklist your blog won’t be allowed to have more than 5000 visits per day. With IP Caching System this limit may be set to 5000 unique visits a day which is much more beneficial.
If you want to see IP’s stored in the database you should check the statistics. In case your site is busy and has a great number of unique visitors you can make use of the “Days to keep in cache” option to control this amount. Once a day the IP’s older than a day you set in the admin panel of the AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin will be removed from the database.
AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin has a certain order of checking the visiting IP’s if you enable the special feature. The plugin is also fully compatible with other anti-spam Wordpress extensions and there is no necessity to remove previous plugins you have installed. So take care of your Wordpress blog protection and don’t neglect using special tools to block spammers which attack your site.
Simple Trackback Validation Plugin
October 5th, 2009Any blog you have launched requires not only the readers attention but should also receive huge traffic flow in order to become competitive and profitable source. In this case you need to make use of some powerful link building strategy or find the right tool which will help you to derive traffic to your weblog. One of the most efficient link building facilities built in Wordpress platform is trackback option - the tool for achieving any of your backlinking goals.
Trackback is quite a useful option for intensifying communication between the authors of different weblogs and its mechanism in Wordpress is simple. If the user finds some interesting article within your blog and wants to refer to it in his own source you will receive a notification as soon as the article will be posted if the trackback option is enabled. At the same time you will see an extract of the article in your blog comments/trackback section. Thus trackback will remain in the comment form and no matter whether the comments box is do follow or not there will appear a link leading users to the page it represents. As a blog owner you may decide if you want to accept any trackback or mark it as spam which usually happens when you receive links from auto RSS feeds blog. Anyway you can always check whether the content from the source you receive trackback is veritable or not.
In order to manage the trackbacks within your Wordpress blog you will have to install special add-on like Simple Trackback Validation Plugin which will easily test all the received trackbacks to prevent spamming in the most effective way. When your blog receives trackback the plugin checks whether the sender’s IP address is identical to the IP of the web server to which the URL leads. This technique promises to disclose and prevent the 99% of the spam trackbacks.
Simple Trackback Validation Plugin opens the page represented by the trackback URL and in case there is no link to your weblog marks it as spam. It also stops those bloggers who send trackbacks promoting their products or services without links to the posts. Besides, Simple Track Validation Plugin allows you to choose between different actions you can apply to the spam trackbacks. You can either delete them from the database, place to moderation or mark as spam - it is all up to you.
So if you want to make the most out of the link building for your weblog popularity and success trackback is an excellent option which can be easily enabled with Simple Trackback Validation Plugin for Wordpress.
Plugins to Display Related Posts
September 11th, 2009Have you ever thought where your visitors go after they read you article? They are most likely leaving to other websites. To change this and increase your page views give your visitors a list of related posts at your weblog. There are few ways to do display related posts in WordPress, the hard way is to change the code. I won’t describe it here. Lets focus on WordPress plugins that will do the task in the most easy and time saving manner.
WordPress Related Posts
This nice plugin will generated related posts via WordPress tags and add them to your feed. Very easy to operate plugin.
Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARP)
This is a more advanced plugin. It will give you a list of posts and pages related to your current entry. You have an opportunity to choose which posts will not be displayed by marking certain tags or categories as disallowed.
This is a very good WordPress widget that displays your related posts with photo thumbnails.
Wordpress plugin: Related Posts
This WordPress plugin features the easy customization of the way your related posts are displayed, a single click add and remove relations and no need to add any PHP tags in your template files. The related posts will be displayed automatically at the end of each new entry of yours.
If you’d like to display related posts from a curtain category read this tutorial carefully.
Well, do you display related posts at your WordPress blogs?
WP Plugins Worth Checking Out
September 1st, 2009
Trying my best to be your one-stop WordPress solution I give you dozens of useful plugins every week. Today I’m going to show you my recent findings that I believe are worth your attention.
If you’d like to encourage conversation on your blog this is the best plugin. Among the features are user accounts and reputations, comment voting, comment threading and reply-by-email.
* Gengo
This is a very good plugin for multi-language blogging. Unlimited number of translations and summaries is allowed for any post. There are template tags provided to display the language info.
Very curious plugin that allows your visitors to highlight any part of your page in color and post the highlight to any social website.
* Advanced Blogroll
This WordPress widget will display your bookmarks the way you want. You can divide your bookmarks in categories, add as many widgets as you want and arrange them the way you need them to be.
* InfoLink
This great plugin will let you link words from your blog entries to Wikipedia or any website searched by Google.
* Fidgetr
This WordPress widget will display latest photos from your Flickr photostream in the most attractive way. The widget is very easy to setup and is compatible with the majority of WP themes.
* Welcome To Your Data
This plugin will make it very easy to check all your stats within your WordPress admin panel.
Have you come across good WordPress plugins recently?
Essential Plugins for Your WordPress CMS
August 27th, 2009
Using WordPress to build a CMS website, not a blog, requires to enable some extra features. The WordPress plugins presented below will help you reach the goal and help you easily create a WordPress based CMS website.
* Page Link Manager
This plugin will install a simple menu to allow you to choose which pages you’d like to be included into your main navigation menu. Very useful thing when you use pages instead of posts.
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Adsence Plugins for WordPress
August 25th, 2009
I’m pretty sure most of you use or plan to use Google AdSense ads for making money at your WordPress weblogs. Thus I’ve collected a number of useful AdSence plugins you might be interested in.
AdSence is an ad serving application that is run by Google Inc. It gives you an opportunity to make money with text, image, and video advertisements that are suitable for your blog content. Thus you provide your visitors with the useful information related to your blog content they came for.
* Easy AdSenser
This is a great plugin that provides you with the most features you may need regarding AdSence. One of the greatest features this plugin has is the ability to remember AdSense code and options by theme, thus you can use multiple themes.
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