10 WordPress Plugins That Can Make a Huge Difference to Your Blog
WordPress is the most popular blogging software in the world because of its open source capabilities. Anyone can program a plugin for WordPress, so there are thousands of options out there for any budding blogger. The list has been culled, and here are ten of the best WordPress plugins that can make a huge difference to your blog.
This is a great solution to interlink your blog posts, getting the most out of your SEO. SEO Smart Links will automatically take the keywords and phrases on your blog and link them to the relevant categories and tags. Increasing the number of links within your blog has a chance to boost your page ranking and page views.
Keep your readers informed with a link to subscribe to comments on your posts. Readers are notified by email about further entries to a post, enticing them to return to your page and respond to the response. Commenters have plenty of options available to them: they can block the notifications, unsubscribe to posts, and even change the email address to which they are notified.
Top Commentators creates a widget in your sidebar to show who is commenting the most on your blog. There are options and customizations for this plugin that make it even easier to use.
Mingle WordPress changes your WordPress blog into a social water water cooler. The plugin allows for Profile Pages, Friending, Friend Activity Pages and a Full Member Directory. Instead of having ‘just a blog,’ you can develop a full blown community with this plugin.
ShopperPress: Online Store WordPress Theme With 23 Awesome Design Options
For the last couple of months, I have share a lot of WordPress themes for online store as base on my observation, WordPress themes developers have started to develop more WordPress themes which outside the scope of magazine/blog styling to focus on more advanced WordPress themes such as online store, portfolio site, micro-blogging and Q&A site like Yahoo! Answers.
For example, WooThemes start to develop few WordPress themes such as Retreat and Cinch that will make your WordPress blog works like Tumblr which will come with iPhone app to make it easier for you to update your blog and share what is happening around you straight away.
And for ShopperPress which comes with the $79 price tag, has developed a really good WordPress theme for online store which I think the best among other online store WordPress themes. It is because Shopperpress is jam-packed with great features and comes with 23 great templates that come for free.
Among features that you will fall in love are:
- Sales Analysis & Tracking – You can view newly placed orders and exporting sales & customer data for use in a spreadsheet or QuickBooks.
- Inventory and Promotions - ShopperPress includes full inventory control, order management for viewing newly placed orders, “Out of Stock” Messages and discount coupon codes for gift certificates. It has also built in price variable options such as “buy 1 get 1 free” and a fixed cost mark-up on the entire store prices.
- Security – ShopperPress is a secure online system that supports hundreds of extra security plugins for WordPress as well as HTTPS/SSL secure page.
For today post, I would like to share 14 Shopper templates which have the best look from all 23 templates which are available for you to choose from.
Camera shopper is a very popular shopping cart theme for selling electronic products online such as TV’s and cameras.
This theme is popular among the animal lovers, this shopping cart theme is ideal for selling all sort of animal and pet products online.
30 Awesome ThemeForest Themes That Will Kick Your WordPress Theme’s Ass!
I am pretty sure that most of us have heard about ThemeForest as it is the biggest marketplace for website templates and CMS themes especially for WordPress. There are actually 610 WordPress themes for you to choose from at extremely reasonable price ($40 at most) for the quality that you will get.
However, one thing that you probably don’t know is ThemeForest is the first place you should visit if you are looking for WordPress themes that out of ordinary and have new features that most of WordPress theme developers don’t offer.
Need proofs?
One of the examples is the usage of CU3BER. At the moment, there is no other premium WordPress developers have used such great and awesome 3D slider tool except those in ThemeForest marketplace. Most of them still ‘stuck’ with the boring 2D slider.
Another example is ThemeForest is the first place where WordPress Theme with ‘one-page’ concept first introduced which I love so much. In case you have no idea what is the ‘one-page’ concept, you can check out the Shape Shifter and SOFA theme below. From these WordPress themes, you will get the idea on what is the ‘one-page’ concept is all about.
So, for this post, I would like to share with you top 30 WordPress Themes from ThemeForest from the 610 WordPress themes collection which I regard as the best among the best. I am actually impressed how great and well-built these themes. I am sure you will too.
Enjoy!
Hyperion
Hyperion is clean and stylish WordPress theme well suited for any business, portfolio, blogger, or anyone needing a beautiful website.
Minimalista
Minimalista is an Ajax WordPress theme, best suited for a professional and minimalist portfolio. It comes with 6 colors skins, and one custom file to put easily your own colour.
39 Awesome Fonts for Your Eye-Popping Logo Design
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Its very important to design a logo that attractive enough as it is among the elements that will appear first before our blogs are fully loaded. Without logo that is attractive enough, we will not able give great first impression to our blog readers.
Previously, there is post about tips on how you can make effective blog logo. You should read it as it is important for you to know the important elements of high impact WordPress logo before you start to design one. In case you have missed it, below is the link to that particular post.
The Secret Elements of High Impact WordPress Blog Logo
Typography: Secret of Eye-Popping Logo Design
Among popular approach designing WordPress logo is simply through typography technique i.e. art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The best example which I can give use is this site. With this approach, the idea behind the logo can be delivered straight to the point and have high impact on the visitors of our WordPress blog.
To help you to design your own eye-popping logo, below are awesome fonts which you can add into your font collection and use in designing your own blog logo.
Gadolinium Round
Red October Stencil
FreeFoont
Flux Architect
Know How Awesome Your Blog Looks On Ipad with iPad Peek
I am sure that most of us know about the new iPad that has just been launched recently. Looks cool right? But have you ever wondered how will our WordPress blog looks when it is being browsed through iPad?
Will it looks like in the iPod touch or iPhone?
For those who are interested to know, there is actually website that will let you know the rough idea of how your WordPress blog will look in iPad. I have checked mine, it is still looking great while in horizontal and also vertical position 
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By the way, the site is called iPad Peek.
The sole purpose of this site is simply to give the ‘peek’ on how will your blog will look in iPad. There are no advertisement banners or even about page which make I love the site. However, do keep in mind that this site is not functioning exactly like iPad as there is no Flash for iPad. So, to get closer ‘iPad’s experience’, I would suggest you to disable Flash in your internet browser.
Below screen cast will show you how well the site is being built to give the rough idea on how will your WordPress blog looks on iPad.
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