Archive for the ‘WordPress Plugins’ Category
by Darnell Clayton on December 7th, 2010
When it comes to investing in your WordPress blog, there are many users who are willing to spend the cash in order to gain access to premium themes, quality hosting or (for the guru’s out there) a CDN service in order to ensure that your site loads quickly regardless of where your readers live.
However when it comes to WordPress plugins, many users not only expect that these remain free, but also demand that plugins be actively supported as well as compatible with the latest WordPress update.
Since the idea of spending money for plugins is probably a foreign (if not ridiculous) option to most WordPress lovers, here are a few points why you should always choose premium plugins over free (within reason of course). Read More
Categories: WordPress Plugins
Tags: plugins, Premium
by Dan Howard on December 2nd, 2010
A Premium Security Plugin for VaultPress users.
Security on your WordPress page is going to be pretty high – hopefully you’ll have a passion for blogging, or maybe even use a wide range of WordPress sites as client sites if you’re a designer or developer, so if you’re offering a service to someone, why not offer the best you can get for Security on the page.
Once included on your page, an initial scan sets a baseline for the files, and any changes to the 750+ core files are notified on the Security Tab of VaultPress. From here, you can then notify the VaultPress team, and they’ll give you help and assistance in locating and correcting the problem
More information about VaultPress new security plugin here or read Darnel’s review on The Blog Herald.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Plugins
Tags: plugins, vaultpress, wordpress, WordPress security
by Franky Branckaute on November 26th, 2010
This commercial plugin allows users who wish to sell ebooks in PDF format to easily add a ‘Licensed to [customer name]‘ footer to their ebooks in order to avoid file sharing of the ebook. PDFs can even be password protected automatically with the customer’s email address.
Priced at $39.95 this might be a great investment for anyone wishing to sell books.
The plugin offers integration with Paypal and WP eStore.
Check it out at Tips and Tricks HQ.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tools
Tags: Commercial Plugins, eBooks, Licensing, PDF, wordpress
by Dan Howard on November 25th, 2010
TikiPress is a small plug-in that was created for WordCamp, started in late 2009. As the coders themselves admitted it ‘wasn’t solid like a rock’, due to various time constraints and so on.
However, they are back, with a new version, which is now the ‘most advanced Ticketing Plugin available on WordPress’, combining eCommerce, with a complete marketing offer – so you can see offer early-bird and late-comer prices, sponsorship packages, merchandise and donations!
Features include:
- Collect payments for your event
- Set attendance limits / Ticket stock
- Collect attendee data on the Checkout Page via the TikiPress Survey Tool
- Collect Statistics about your event and monitor your ticket sales
- If a person buys more then 1 ticket (say 10 tickets), rather then completing 10 surveys for each Attendee, the buyer simply enters the email address for each additional Attendee. Each Attendee is then emailed a redemption coupon that they can use to complete / claim their ticket and enter their attendee date which is saved to their BuddyPress profile (awesome feature designed by Jeffry Ghazally & Jane Wells).
- Display an Attendee Page that integrates with Gravatars on your site. Simply add the Shortcode for an event to any WordPress page or post and it will create a page that looks like this example.
- TikiPress creates an Attendee stats page for administrators on an Event by Event basis.
- TikiPress creates an Attendee List PDF generator, this is new page accessible to Event Managers that they can use to create a list that they can use on the day to strike off Attendees as they arrive to your Event.
- TikiPress creates custom PDF badges and tickets for your event.
For more information, and screenshots of the plugin in use, have a look here
Categories: Linking, WordPress Plugins
Tags: BuddyPress, eCommerce, Events, Tikipress
by Dan Howard on November 25th, 2010
A great list of all available contact forms for WordPress.
Functional, attractive and working, these designs have it all – very important if you’re using a page for your business, or after a lot of feedback for an article or conversational piece. So instead of spending forever looking around at countless sites, I’m sure there’s something here for you!
There’s actually twelve plug-ins on this list, but since two are Premium, I’m sure that you don’t mind the difference. They’ll take usability and functionality to a whole other level.
Check out the list here.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Plugins
Tags: contact form, WordPress Plugins
by James Dunaway on November 22nd, 2010
We just created a new plugin for WordPress that we thought you would like:
This plug-in allows you to enter an alternate headline for every post on your blog. The headlines are then randomly alternated on your website until a certain number of “headline views” has been reached. At that point, a “winning” headline (as determined by the number of people that have clicked on each headline to date) is determined and that headline is shown going forward.
And it’s free!
Please check it out! We would love your feedback/a great review.
View the plugin on WordPress Extend or read the announcement post.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Plugins
Tags: headlines, plugins, titles, wordpress
by Jonathan Bailey on September 29th, 2010
Imagine sitting down to your computer one morning and opening up your blog. However, instead of finding your homepage your admin panel staring back at you, you instead see a bright red warning screen telling you that malware has been detected on the site and you are advised not to enter.
The realization quickly sinks in that, if you are seeing that error, so is everyone else trying to visit your site. You begin to hurry and try to figure out what happened but quickly realize that your site has been compromised and, if you’re even able to log in, you have a very big mess to clean up. Worst of all, when you’re done, you have to apply for reconsideration with Google and other security companies and then wait 12 hours or more for the warning to clear off.
It’s a painful process and, in the best of circumstances it can ruin an entire day and, in the worst, it can destroy an otherwise healthy site.
Still, it is an all-too-common occurrence on the Web. Bloggers learn too late that their sites are vulnerable and are left to clean up the mess an attacker leaves behind. That mess could be as simple as adding malware to the site, inserting spam links into the theme or defacing the site but in some extreme cases, it can go as far as to delete everything the blogger has done.
To help keep you, your visitors and your site safe(r) from hackers, you need to make sure your server is secure. Fortunately, it isn’t very complicated but failure to spend the time and energy today can be very costly tomorrow. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
Tags: Backups, blogging, Blogging Pitfalls, cracking, hacking, hardening, malware, Security, spam, wordpress
by Cassie Emelia on September 2nd, 2010
Is the title box always too small for your blog posts? Do you find yourself wishing you could add more details or catchy copy to your blog post titles? Are you tired of adding header tags to the subheadings you create for your blog posts? Or perhaps you just want subheadings that appear directly beneath the title of your live blog posts rather than at the top of the body copy?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, then the SubHeading WordPress plugin is for you!
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Categories: WordPress Plugins
Tags: subheading plugin, WordPress Plugins, wordpress seo plugins, wordpress subheading plugin
by Cassie Emelia on August 19th, 2010
If you want to grow your blog’s audience and you use WordPress.org as your blogging application, then you need to try the five WordPress plugins listed below. They’re easy to use, free, and can have a significant impact on the number of visitors to your blog.
The more great content people are exposed to on your blog, the higher the chances are that they’ll find something they like causing them to return to your blog again, share your content with their own online connections, and ultimately, drive additional traffic to your blog. YAARP is a great plugin for automatically including a list of related posts at the end of each of your blog posts. The Link Within widget is another alternative.
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Categories: WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
Tags: increase blog traffic, organic blog traffic, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
by Franky Branckaute on July 16th, 2010
For a long time the search function of WordPress has been the achilles heel of the publication platform and numerous plugins extending the WordPress search have been created and uploaded to WordPress Extend.
The team of IOIX Ukraine have developed a new WordPress plugin, SearchPlugins in collaboration with Splashpress Media, owner of this blog, to power the search function of your site, WordPress blog. After months of hard work we now are taking applications to our (closed) Beta program and will slowly roll out the new plugin, while we add more features to the functionality.
We are now taking applications to join the closed beta program and will on a regular basis add new Beta testers to the platform
To view results of the plugin just use the search functionality here at BloggingPro or check out the results for a search for blogging success here at BP. Read More
Categories: News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tools
Tags: IOIX, search, Search Plugin, Splashpress Media, WordPress Plugins
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