Google Plus One Button

The Goolge Plus One Button lets you embed the new google plus one button anywhere on your site. Unsure what the buttons for? Read about it here.
The plugins is very versatile, it lets you display it in the following from the settings panel:

• Display Google +1 button in the posts, pages, single posts or everywhere.
• Display Google +1 button above the post ['Top'], below the post ['Buttom'], both above and below ['Both'], or floating left side of post ['Left'].
• Display Google +1 button in four different sizes (Standard, small, medium and Tall)
• Display Google +1 button using template tag or shortcode [twg_gpo_button] at any desired position.

Subscribe to comments

The Subscribe to Comments Plugins is a great plugin that allows blog commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries.It is great for generating repeat visitors and reigniting conversation on old posts. It also has an inbuilt subscription manager allowing users to unsubscribe when they wish, change email address and block notifications.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

The WordPress SEO plugins by Yoast is one of the best SEO plugins available. It is crammed full of features and really handles all aspects of your On site optimization. You can change title, tags, meta description on a per post/page basis which ensure great flexibility. It can generate .xml sitemaps and handle permalink structure.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

The yet another related posts plugin allows you to link to other related posts at the end of other posts on your site. Using an algorithm, it automatically selects which ones are relevant. It’s useful because it increases the usability of your site – and encourages visitors to stay on the site and learn more about you. Its also simple to install and doesn’t require any changes to your wordpress template.

Redirection

The Redirection plugin is perfect for tying up lose ends on your wordpress site. It can detect 404 pages – that are bad for usability. And lets you implement
301 redirects without having to play around with .htaccess. It is a very useful plugin if you have a site that is constantly changing, or you are migrating from one domain to another.

WP DB-Manager

WP DB-Manager is a great plugin for managing your wordpress MySQL database. You can optimize it, back it up, repair it and a whole bunch of other things.It’s great for simple backups, and also great if you want to get down and dirty. You can also schedule backups to be emailed to you, which makes the all important backing up of your site simple.

Ultimate Follow Me

Sometimes the simplest plugins are the best, and that’s definitely the case with the Ultimate Follow Me plugin. It allows you to quickly and easily add your social profiles in a wordpress widget. You can also add your RSS feed link too. No uploading individual icons. Just install this plugin, type your profile URL’s in and it does the rest for you.

Duplicator

The Duplicator plugin makes it easy to take a full copy of your wordpress site from the wordpress admin dashboard. It is ideal if you are developing a wordpres site locally, and then want to push it onto the live web with ease.

WP Total Hacks

This plugin let’s you customize your wordpress core options. Here is a list of just some of the things you can do:

• Add a favicon.
• Change admin header logo.
• Change admin footer text.
• Change login logo.
• Deactivate selected meta boxes for Posts & Pages.
• Deactivate selected dashboard widgets.
• Remove unnecessary meta tags.
• Change default email address.
• Remove Update Notification for all users except Admin User.
• Delete default contact methods from user profile.
• Customize limit the number of allowed revisions.
• Disable auto save.

WordPress Editorial Calendar

Trying to get your blog organized? Want to stick to a more structured posting system rather than just as and when? Then the WordPress editorial calendar is for you.It’s perfect for organizing your blog, and knowing when posts are going live.
You can try the demo here

Think we’ve missed any? What are your some new favorite plugins?

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Cudazi Mono

Demo | Download

San Kloud

Demo | Download

Busby

Demo | Download
Idris

Demo | Download

The Blog

Demo | Download

Showcase

Demo | Download

Fytuts

Demo | Download

BonPress

Demo | Download

Hafniumicy

Demo | Download

Fliphoto

Demo | Download

Mozzie

Demo | Download

Firecrow

Demo | Download

Tantalumize

Demo | Download

Amphion Lite

Demo | Download

Fungus

Demo | Download

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Front Slider WordPress Plugin

This is a fancy Slideshow that enhances the overall appearance of your blog or website. With this Plugin you can add as many Featured Posts as you want. You can even label an image for each post. It shows the date of the post, excerpt, as well as time and the number of received comments for every post. You are allowed to customize the slide show as you want. For example you can modify the Slider Speed and its duration.

SlideDeck WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP

This plugin provides a superior user experience. It removes any information overload so that the visitors can also enjoy the quick, funny and beautiful slider on your website. You can fully customize the SlideDeck with CSS in the WordPress plugin so that it perfectly matches with your website’s design. This slide show is designed in a way that it helps to boost your search engine ranks. Thus you website is not only getting a professional look but this plugin is also helping you to get more traffic from search engines as well.

WP Slideshow Gallery

WP Slideshow Gallery is another slideshow Plugin that offers easy configuration. You do not have to be an expert in programming to install this JavaScript powered slideshow gallery in your website. To embed a slideshow gallery into any of your WordPress post you need to use the slideshow short code. It doesn’t require any parameters to show the current post or page gallery images.

Frontpage-Slideshow for WordPress

The most advantageous part of using this plugin is that it has got no number restrictions and therefore you can attach plenty of slides in this slide box. Just install the Plugin and configure it as per your requirement. This Plugin allows automatic inclusion on front page or short code any where you prefer.

Smooth Slider

Download this WordPress Plugin for free. This Plugin helps to mark a post as featured posts on a website and then generate a slideshow with the featured posts which can be placed anywhere in your blog or website. This slide show can be optimized fully and it is very much search engine friendly as well. Moreover you can customize the slideshow to match the template by changing HTML coding and also take the help of the Javascript and CSS to get the desired result.

PHOTOSPACE 2

The photospace gallery plugin allows you to upload multiple images at once , easily order images via drag and drop and start slideshow automatically and may more features.

Portfolio Slideshow

Easily insert a slideshow via shortcode powered by simple jQuery + cycle powered slideshow.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin with a slideshow option.

GPP Slideshow

Create a minimalist image slideshows using the new gallery post type or using wordpress’ built in [gallery] shortcode on posts and page. Very useful and clean interface.

WP Nivo Slider

Based on jQuery Nivo Slider creates autoplay slide show of post thumbnails in your posts and can configured for a particular category of your wordpress post.

Which plugin is your favorite wordpress slideshow plugin?

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WordPress

You can copy following snippet lines into your wordpress theme file (index.php or single.php). If you want use a horizontal list to arrange them. The twitter link also includes wordpress shorturl for convenience.

<!-- Delicious -->
<a title="Share this on del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php echo get_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>"> Share this on del.icio.us </a>
<!-- Digg -->
<a title="Submit to Digg" href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php echo get_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>"> Share this on del.icio.us </a>
<!-- Reddit -->
<a title="Share this on Reddit" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php echo get_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">Share this on Reddit</a>
<!-- Facebook -->
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink();?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>">Share on Facebook</a>
<!-- StumbleUpon -->
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>">Share on StumbleUpon</a>
<!-- Twitter -->
<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php the_title(); ?> - <?php echo get_bloginfo('url') ?>?p=<?php the_ID(); ?>@yourusername">Tweet This</a>
<!-- Float-->
<a title="Float it" href="http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>" target="_blank">Float it</a>
<!-- Bump -->
<a title="Bump it" href="http://designbump.com/node/add/drigg/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>" target="_blank">Bump It </a>

HTML (For any website)

If just have a HTML website and still want your readers to share your website you can use the following.

<!-- Delicious -->
<a title="Share this on del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://yourwebsite.com&title=Your Ttitle"> Boorkmak on del.icio.us </a>
<!-- Digg -->
<a title="Submit to Digg" href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3A//yourwebsite.com/&amp;title=Your%3Website%Name"> Post on Digg </a>
<!-- Reddit -->
<a title="Share this on Reddit" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://iamkawsar.com&title=Your Website Name">Post on on Reddit</a>
<!-- Facebook -->
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://yourwebsite.com">Share on Facebook</a>
<!-- StumbleUpon -->
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://yourwebsite.com&title=Your website Name">Share on StumbleUpon</a>
<!-- Twitter -->
<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Check out this Awesome Site - http://yourwebsite.com @yourusername">Tweet This</a>

There you have it. Where do think is the best place on your website to put these social media links ?

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Live Demo | Hulk

Let’s look at some of the features

• Google Fonts integrated
• WordPress 3.0 Features integrated – Custom Menu, Custom Background
• Page with Full Width
• Threaded Comments
• Plugin Support : WP-PageNavi and flickrRSS
• Cross Browser Tested ( Internet Explorer 8.0, Firefox 3.6, Chrome and Safari Latest version)

Threaded Comments

Page with no sidebar

If you find any quirks and error in the theme, please report it back so we can fix it.

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Security is a vital step to take because data on your server can be surely be exploited if hackers can easily tap into the loopholes found in your code. The following practices and plugins will provide you with the sense of security you need for your site’s safety and your server’s continuity.

Security Practices

WordPress 3.1 fixes a lot of errors and bugs that may cause your site to crash if hackers manage to get access to your files.  Through covering these holes in security, you should understand how to keep your site secure enough in order for it to run smoothly and safely without any errors.

1.  Security of Your Password
Make sure to set a password that will be hard to crack because obviously, if it’s easy to guess then you might as well say goodbye to your site.  Never use the surprisingly common “123456″ type of passwords.  If you are in doubt on how strong your password is, you can use sites such as  Password Meter to test its strength.  Also, never store your password anywhere else where other people can have access to it.
2.  WordPress and Plugins Updated
Make sure that you are using the latest version WordPress  (3.1 to this date).  The newest versions have the most recent updates to help ensure that your site is free from any bugs or loopholes in the code that allow hackers in.  Also, make sure you back up your site, check for updates, download them and then install them to secure your site better.

3.  File Permission Setting
If you leave your file permissions at 777, then anyone can access your files.  Although some plugins may require this change, make sure to bring back your files to 755 (for directories) or 644 (for files) to secure your site.

Plugins to Consider

1.  WordPress Database Backup
This database plugin will keep your blog secure as you are able to back up your files periodically.  This is especially needed if your site files become compromised.  It is always safe to keep a copy around so you can surely restore your site in a matter of minutes.

2.  WordPress AntiVirus
Like your computer, you may need the right preventive measures for your site just the same. With this anti-virus program, you can protect your files from hackers and provide yourself with the convenience of a safe server at that.

3.  WP Security Scan
This security scan, compatible for WordPress versions 2.5 and up, checks your WordPress site for any vulnerability that may compromise it’s security.  This includes password management, file permission checking and database security.

4.   Secure WordPress
This plugin performs tasks such as error information removal from the login page along with other security measures to prevent any trails to be left while you surf.  With compatibility for WordPress versions 2.6 up to the recent version, you can surely protect your site from hackers by clearing sensitive directories and other files prone to hackers.

5.  Admin SSL

Encrypting your site’s code by secure measures is important in your data’s safety.  Admin SSL is an effective plugin that makes sure your site’s code is safe with Private or Shared SSL encryption.  This will make your admin area, log in page, posts and whatever you desire secured free from external tampering.

With these practices and plugins to consider, it’s a must to develop your WordPress site’s security, especially if you are hosted on a dedicated server where security measures are in your hands.  With the growing issue of hackers and other security problems, you should be aware on the means of making sure your site is safe, especially when you use the WordPress platform.

With your plans on securing effective server management, always engage in proper security practices and plugin updates.  This will not only keep your site fully functional, but it will also prevent it from any external exploits that can happen.  After all, being secure should always be kept as a high priority for any site.

Is there any special measure you take when it comes to your blogs’ security?

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Sylvester Stallone

Groublogpon – The Serious Blog of Groupon

The Official Star Wars Blog

Foursquare Blog

Flickr Blog

CBS New York

Old Spice Blog

Framework – from the Los Angeles Times

Twitter Media

National Geographic Magazine Netherlands

Obvious there are numerous amount sites using wordpress. You can checkout full list of website built with wordpress here

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Content for Members only Without Plugin

If there are certain content on your site you wanted to show only to the registered member, you can do so by use the following code in your theme. Whatever goes between is_user_logged_in will be seen by only members.

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>
				// Content for Logged in user
	<?php } else {?>
		// Content for everyone else
<?php }?>

Show WordPress Login Form Anywhere and Customize It

If you want include wordpress login form anywhere in your theme, which is mentioned in this post you can do so by using following function:

<?php wp_login_form(); ?>

However, it does not give you option to customize the login form, because it just directly pulls default wordpress login form. What if you want show something like this?

Here is code to do that. Paste the following code wherever you want the form to show up.

// WordPress Login Form
<?php if (!(current_user_can('level_0'))){ ?>
<h3>Member Login</h3>
<form action="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-login.php" method="post">
 <table width='100%' cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
     <tr>
       <td>
         <label><?php _e( 'Username' ) ?></label>
         <input type="text" name="log" class="input" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(stripslashes($user_login)); ?>" />
           </td>
        <td>
          <label><?php _e( 'Password' ) ?></label>
          <input type="password" name="pwd" class="input" value="" />
        </td>
       </tr>
      <tr>
      	<td colspan="2"><?php do_action('login_form'); ?>
      	</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
		<td>
         	<a  href="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword', 'login') ?>" title="<?php _e('Password Lost and Found') ?>"><?php _e('Forgot Password?') ?></a>
         </td>
          <td>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Log In" class="button" />
            <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="http://<?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?>" />
           </td>
                </tr>
 </table>
</form>
<?php } else { ?>
<!-- When User logged in Show the follwing info -->
<h2>Logout</h2>
<?php get_currentuserinfo();?>
Welcome Back &nbsp<?php echo($current_user->user_login . " ");?><br />
<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])); ?>">Logout</a><br />
<a href="<?php echo get_admin_url(); ?>">Admin?</a><!-- If you are admin goes to admin dashboard -->
<?php }?>

You can add a CSS div tag to style it. The advantage of using this login form you can almost create a mini dashboard for members by using get_currentuserinfo() function and show any information about the user.

• Function Reference/wp login form
• Function Reference/get currentuserinfo
• Add a login form on your WordPress Theme

Custom WordPress Menu for Members

Like content you can create custom wordpress  (3.0 only) menu for members.  Let’s register the menu first. Go to your theme function file (functions.php) . Use the following code to register the menus.

	register_nav_menus( array(
		'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'twentyten' ),
		'visitor' => __( 'Visitor Navigation', 'twentyten' ),
		'footer' => __( 'Footer Navigation', 'twentyten' ),

	) );

Now,  put following code where you want your menu to show up, most probably  inside the header.php file.

<?php
	if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	   wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) );
	} else {
	    wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'visitor' ) );
};?>

Now you need to actually create the menu on wordpress backhand . The “Menus” setting should be under Appearance tab. Create a menu with the name main and visitor. On both menu add whatever you want to show. For example: if you want a page to show up only when user looged, add it in the main menu . Look at the following image.

Here is live example of how this works.

You can also create a dynamic footer menu using the same method.

1. Function Reference/wp nav menu

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Live Demo | M&M Theme

Lets look at some of the features

• Custom Theme Option
• Custom Logo
• Social Media ( Facebook, Twitter, Skype)
• Google Fonts integrated
• WordPress 3.0 Features integrated – Custom Menu, Custom Background
• Plugin Support : WP-PageNavi and flickrRSS
• Cross Browser Tested ( Internet Explorer 8.0, Firefox 3.6, Chrome and Safari Latest version)
• jQuery functions and CSS3 Properties

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Screenshots

Theme Options Page

A Page with full width.

Wordpress 3.0 Features

The image drop shadow will work for image as big as 900 pixels. By default the theme does not have a favicon, but if you want to have one just upload the favicon link already added in the header. You can just just upload your favicon in the theme folder.
Wordpress Pagination will only show if you install the plugin, otherwise it will show default Previous and Next post.

Not Perfect

This theme is not perfect, you might find many quirks and error in the theme. Please report it back so we can fix it.

Credits

• This theme built on Refuled theme Frame work
• Custom Options page is created by different tutorials on the web. Credits for that included in the function.php page
• The wordpress community

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Troubleshooting jQuery

Let’s start from the top. I did not realize many people also had the same problem until I googled about it. Is jQuery not working with your wordpress theme? There could be several reasons. First, make sure your calling your jQuery the right way, as Jeff Star point out here, which is :

<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>

Put this code right before your wp_head. What this code is, it is calling for the jQuery that is included in your wp-includes folder. The benefit of calling jQuery like this, you do not have to update jQuery every time and you are not calling same file twice. What if your jQuery is not still working? My jQuery was not still working either. I put a test function to check it, the test function work but other scripts were not working . After googling for a while I found out , after updating to wordpress version 2.9, you have to call jQuery in a different way.  You have to replace every “$” with jQuery . Here is an example:

This seemed to fix my jQuery problem. All my scripts were working after this. I faced this problem after updating to worpdress 2.9. Before that all the scripts were working. Regardless you should call wordpress with wp_enqueue_script. Also, to make your site faster,  here is an old tip. Include all your scripts right before the wp_footer, because if you include them in the header they must load before the body and sidebar can load.

WordPress 2.9 features

There has been already so many post about wordpress 2.9 features  such as global undo,  included image editor and more. One feature I would like to mention is the_post_image() features. Before we would usually add thumbnails for the post with custom fields hacks. As WordPress Enginner mentions,  now we can add the support for thumbnail in our theme by adding this:

<?php the_post_image('medium');?>
the_post_image(); // without parameter -> Thumbnail
the_post_image('thumbnail'); // Thumbnail
the_post_image('medium'); // Medium resolution

When you upload any image and you want to set it as thumbnail you should see an option to set it as thumbnail . What if you want a custom size , you can do it so by following

<?php the_post_thumbnail(array( 200,200 ), array( 'class' => 'alignleft' ));?>

If you want to more customization head over to Webbbzone’s and  Kremalicious post for details.

Adding Sidebar Tabs

I mentioned in a previous post how you can add sidebar tabs to your wordpress theme. Up until recently, here at Desizn Tech I was using sidebarTabs . As far as I know, that is only the plugin for tabbed sidebar and there is some tabbed widgets. The problem with that plugin and other Tabbed widgets sometimes plugin do not play nice with each other and some of them do not work. Moreover, you cannot add anything custom. I was looking around the web to see if there already something pre-made for wordpress already. However, I could not find one. That is why I decided to make something that works with wordpress . The original script is from a Nettuts tutorial by Dan Harper. I am just porting it to wordpress. This script uses jQuery UI Tabs. The current effect is ‘”toggle”, you can change it to whatever you prefer. If you want to add this to your website, you would just have to upload the files to your wordpress theme folder. Makes sure jQuery is called and add the following  files in your header:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/sidebar_style.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/jquery-ui-personalized-1.5.2.packed.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/sidebar_tab.js"></script>

An then just include this in your theme sidebar :

<?php include ('sidebar_tabs.php') ?>

By default it shows your 5 popular posts, categories, tags. You can also change that to what you want to show. For example:

List pages:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
Display Archive By Month:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12'); ?>

You can also call a plugin to show whatever you want it to show. If you want to style it differently reference to tabs_style.css and style to however you want. You can see a preview of the sidebar working on Desizn Tech’s sidebar.

If you find any bugs or have suggestions please add it in the comments

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