50+ New Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers For May 2013

As web designers, web developers and graphic designers we are constantly looking at for those new resources, tools and application that can help us increase our productivity while working on client or personal work.

Down below is a quick look at some the recently created resources that really deserve your attention — everything from some great JavaScript tools, jQuery plugins, Apps for your Desktop, Web & Mobile devices to some awesome items in HTML5, CSS, Prototyping, mobile development and including some frameworks. For those WordPress lovers I’ve also includes some themes and plugins and last but not lease i’ve added some design files such as icons and fonts.

JavaScript & jQuery Plugins

Packery

Packery is a JavaScript layout library that uses a bin-packing algorithm. This is a fancy way of saying “it fills empty gaps.” Packery layouts can be intelligently ordered or organically wild. Elements can be stamped in place, fit in an ideal spot, or dragged around.

WordPress Wednesday – 10 New Plugins From The WordPress.org Plugins Directory

WordPress is certainly one of the most feature best rich and user-friendly publishing platforms available today as it is because of the openness, extensibility and the widely open source community,but at the same time we want to improve our site overall and make it even stronger so for today’s WordPress Wednesday post features 10 new and free plugins to help make it stronger.

1. HC Custom WP-Admin URL

With this wordpress plugin you can reduce the possibility of your website been hacked or hijacked as you can change the wp-admin and wp-login.php to any of your choice as this will make it impossible for hackers to access your adminsitration login page.

So for example instead of having http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ and http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php you can have http://yourdomain.com/admin or http://yourdomain.com/banana

WordPress Wednesday – 18 Newest Plugins From The WordPress.org Plugins Directory

One of the best things about running any type of WordPress site is the endless list of plugins that can provide some new sort of enhanced functionality over the other to improve your site overall experience for the visitor.

Today’s WordPress features 18 of the newest WordPress Plugins that been developed and released within the WordPress.org Plugin Directory in this Month (March 2013)

1.  SDS Slider

Smooth Dynamic Slider adds a dynamic smooth content and images purposeful slideshow with customizable image height, width and slide intervals to any location of your post or page.

45 New Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers For March 2013

As web developers, web designers and graphic designers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time.

And here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from some great JavaScript & jQuery Plugins, Apps for your desktop, web or mobile to some awesome responsive frameworks, fonts and to those lovers of WordPress I’ve included some themes and plugins… But that’s is just the half of it, I’ve also included a couple of new content management systems.

JavaScript & jQuery Plugins

Maplace.js

Maplace.js helps you to embed Google Maps into your website, quickly create markers and controls menu for the locations on map. It requires jQuery and Google Maps API v3 so you need to have both in your page.

WordPress Wednesday – 8 New Plugins From The WordPress.org Plugin Directory

One of the best things about WordPress is its seemingly the endless list of plugins that all providing some sort of enhanced functionality over the other to improve the overall wordpress experience.

Dozens of new WordPress Plugins are released every single month, which means that anyone that has a wordpress powered website should constantly be on the lookout for these to ensure that their site is completely optimised and up-to-date.

Today’s WordPress Wednesday post featured 8 of the new wordpress plugins that you can find within the plugin directory of WordPress

1.  Kontrol Developer Kit

Kontrol – WordPress Developer Kit is an advanced WordPress plugin for developers. Create custom CMS sites quickly and easily using advanced custom fields, custom post types, custom taxonomies, admin menu editors, SEO and much more through an easy to use interface.

Ever wanted to just install just one WordPress plugin in order to whip out an awesome custom CMS or blog for a client quickly and easily? We know we did! This plugin is made by developers, for developers

WordPress Wednesday – 6 Of The Best WordPress Translation Plugins

By the regular questions that get asked within the WordPress community about content translation you’ll find many of you looking for the best way to translate your WordPress site into other languages.

Throughout the WordPress existence we see many translation plugins come and go but a few of them has stood the test of times. It’ takes a substantial effort to create a multilingual plugin and ensure it continues to work perfectly when WordPress releases new updates. This is the main reason why many plugins disappear from our “favourites” through out the years.

Today’s WordPress Wednesday post you’ll find 6 of the best WordPress translation plugins to translate your WordPress site.

1. Transposh WordPress Translation

Transposh adds best of breed translation support to wordpress, 66 languages are automatically translated and can be manually corrected with ease.

Transposh  Features:

• Support for any language – including RTL/LTR layouts
• Unique drag/drop interface for choosing viewable/translatable languages
• Multiple options for widget appearances – with pluggable widgets and multiple instances
• Translation of external plugins without a need for .po/.mo files
• Automatic translation mode for all content (including comments!)
• Use either Google Translate,MS Translate or Apertium backends – 66 languages supported!
• Automatic translation can be triggered on demand by the readers or on the server side
• RSS feeds are translated too
• Takes care of hidden elements, link tags, meta contents and titles
• Translated languages are searchable
• Buddypress integration

WordPress Wednesday – 8 Plugins To Help Make Your WordPress Site Responsive

You can easily turn your wordpress powered website into a responsive website using some great responsive plugins. To help you limit your search, Today’s wordpress wednesday post I’ve put together a small list of 8 WordPress responsive plugins to help you out. The list includes plugins for sliders, images, videos, layouts and more.

1.  Respond.js

Respond.js is a fast & lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries (for IE 6-8, and more).\

WordPress Wednesday – 10 Newest Plugins From The WordPress.org Plugins Directory

One of the best things about WordPress is its seemingly the endless list of plugins that all providing some sort of enhanced functionality over the other to improve the overall wordpress experience.

Dozens of new WordPress Plugins are released every single month, which means that anyone that has a wordpress powered website should constantly be on the lookout for these to ensure that their site is completely optimised and up-to-date. Today’s WordPress Wednesday post featured 10 of the newest wordpress plugins that you can find within the wordpress.org plugin directory

1.  Theme-Check

The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions.

The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.

WordPress Wednesday – 10 Newest WordPress Plugins

Today’s WordPress Wednesday post will be highlighting 10 of the newest WordPress Plugins that you might find very interesting. Some of these Plugins are for device detection or extending another wordpress plugin, some are just to enhance your wordpress powered site.

1. UK Cookie Consent

Simple plug-in to help compliance with the UK interpretation of the EU regulations regarding usage of website cookies. A user to your site is presented with a clear yet unobtrusive notification that the site is using cookies and may then acknowledge and dismiss the notification or click to find out more. The plug-in automatically creates a new page with pre-populated information on cookies and how to disable them, which you may further edit if you wish.

WordPress Wednesday – 10 Plugins To Help Clean Up Your WordPress Site

Any websites that use WordPress really benefits from a good clean up every once in a while as it keep it running fast and efficiently. Today’s WordPress Wednesday Post features 10 best plugins that will help you check, scan and backup various behind the scenes aspects of WordPress to keep everything in check

1. ManageWP Worker

ManageWP Worker plugin allows you to remotely manage your WordPress sites from one dashboard.

Main Features:

• Secure and fast solution for managing your WordPress sites
• One click upgrades for WordPress, plugin and themes across all your sites
• Schedule automatic backups of your websites (Amazon S3 and Dropbox supported)
• One click to access WP admin of any site
• Install WordPress, clone or migrate a website to another domain
• Bulk install themes and plugins to multiple sites at once
• Add sub-users (writers, staff..) to your account
• Bulk publish posts to multiple sites at once
• SEO Statistics, track your keyword rankings
• Uptime monitoring
• Much, much more…