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WordPress Wednesday – 12 Brand New & Useful WordPress Plugins

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 12 brand new and free plugins to help make your site stronger and more powerful from knowing what your klout score is, or creating quizzes inside your wordpress site,displaying the weather, allowing the front end users your themes inside your theme folder, hosting your wordpress media uploads on AWS and more great plugins below.

1. Klout Social Profile Widget

Klout Social Profile Widget

Klout Social Profile Widget will displays your Klout score together with you social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) on your WordPress Sidebar

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WordPress Wednesday – Top 10 Best WordPress Plugins from April 2013

Here’s once again is another monthly roundup of the very best free and paid for WordPress Plugins that have been released in April 2012.

It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your WordPress site, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it such as customising the wordpress dashboard, getting feedback from users,  private messaging users or having your ads responsive on your responsive wordpress blog or blocking botnets and those are just few types of plugins you’ll find below in Today’s WordPress Wednesday post.

1. DP Dashboard – $40

dp-dashboard

DP Dashboard is a plugin that lets you customise the WordPress dashboard to make it more appealing. I’ve personal bought it and love it and for just only $40 it worth every penny i’ve spent.

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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

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

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50+ New Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers For April 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 that give you a flexible & customisable tooltip, a plugin that check your content against accessibility guidelines, or a plugin that use HTML5 canvas to create some pretty awesome charts to name a few jQuery plugins that you will find below.

I’ve also included some apps for your apple devices and some apps for the web, to some awesome CSS resources, responsive frameworks, a site that check if your website is responsive. And to those lovers of WordPress I’ve included some themes and plugins both free and premium and finally I’ve also included some great design files that you can use.

JavaScript & jQuery

PowerTip

powertip

PowerTip features a very flexible design that is easy to customize, gives you a number of different ways to use the tooltips, has APIs for developers, and supports adding complex data to tooltips. It is being actively developed and maintained, and provides a very fluid user experience.

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WordPress Wednesday – 8 Great Audio Player Plugins

It’s goes without saying that playing music on your website is an automatically a huge turn off. But there are exceptions to this rule as you may if you are are a band that wants to embed, manage and player audio files in your site or wanting to develop a music repository site. Today’s WordPress Wednesday is just for you as you will find 4 free and 4 premium audio player plugins.

1. Fullwidth Audio Player – $16

Fullwidth Audio Player - WordPress plugin

This plugin allows to add a audio player at the top or bottom of the window. The audio player runs with the new HTML5 audio engine and if its not supported, it will use a Flash fallback. In other words it runs on all major browsers and mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android etc. You have also the possibility to add your playlists and tracks into a post or page.

This very helpful when you would like to create a music page, where the visitors can view all tracks and add them to the player by themself. You can add the player to all pages of your wp site or using shortcodes to make it visible for particular pages. Adjust all colors and other options for the player via a great tabbed admin.

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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

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.

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WordPress Wednesday – 10 Best & Free WordPress Plugins from February 2013

Here’s once again is another monthly roundup of the very best free WordPress Plugins that have been released in February 2012. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your WordPress site, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it such as a ‘advanced’ search form, improving SEO for images, help managing appointments and bookings, enhance your website by adding images from instagram, facebook, dribbble to name a few . I’ve also include a WordPress Plugin that help you boost your social SEO another one plugin that help you create a landing pages and plenty other WordPress plugins below.

Today’s WordPress Wednesday you’ll find the top 10 Best & Free WordPress Plugins from February 2013

1. Facetious

Facetious

Facetious lets you add a faceted – often called an ‘advanced’ – search form to your WordPress website. It comes with a ready-to-use sidebar widget, plus a number of implementation options for developers.

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

As web developers and web 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 that help with quickly mocking a design using minimal HTML markup, helping you check your spelling,  a JavaScript audio library. To some awesome web, desktop and mobile applications that helps with retaining relationships with your clients, hosting your email when Google apps isn’t enough for you, keeping track of your time and focusing on the task your have to do today.

But that is just half of it I’ve also included some great frameworks both responsive and non responsive, a  high velocity web framework for Java and Scala , premium and free WordPress plugins that help you build your own mobile site, rename your uploaded files on the fly, modifying the WordPress dashboard with a new skin to some great premium WordPress themes and last but not least some great free design files

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WordPress Wednesday – 8 Free Recently Released WordPress Plugins

When talking about WordPress, staying up to date with the latest things is a must and this rule also applies when talking about WordPress plugins too, considering the large number of new plugins that are launched on a daily basis.

Once again for today’s WordPress Wednesday post features 8 recently released WordPress plugins that are free and are from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory

1. MailChimp Importer

mailchimp-importer

The MailChimp Importer is a WordPress plugin that can automatically import your MailChimp newsletters as WordPress posts. By using the WP Cron functionality it will automatically go out at the interval you specify and download the text version of your newsletters for you. Through the settings you can set the author and categories that get assigned to the post.

If you don’t want to import the newsletters but show links to the archives we offer a shortcode to do that. By placing [ mailchimp ] anywhere in your post or page it will use the settings and grab your newsletters. You can also override the settings by adding attributes to your shortcode.

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WordPress Wednesday – 4 Best WordPress Plugins for Creating Invoices

Managing your finances as a freelancer or a business owner can be difficult at times, especially when it comes to getting paid for work you have done so it helps to have some sort of invoicing and tracking software in place.

There are many plugins and tools that been built around WordPress for a while that can make your business run more efficiently and for one such area is invoicing clients. Today’s WordPress Wednesday features 4 WordPress plugins that you can use for generating and managing invoices.

1. WP Invoice

WP-Invoice

WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.

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