GD Star Rating wordpress Plugin
I have already written a post about WP-post ratings plugin and now in this post I am going to share another plugin that is also used for adding a rating functionality into your wordpress Blog.
GD star rating plugin gives you option to add ratings in your posts, pages and comments. This plugin gives you many options to display the ratings. It also allows you to add a widget to show high ratings and similar statistic generated by this plugin.
It has many options and gives you almost every control so that you can customize it plugin according to your need. So if you want to add a rating system into your wordpress Blog then do try this plugin.
Download: GD Star Rating Plugin
Show Related Post In WordPress With Thumbnails
If you are looking to show related post in your wordpress theme with a photo then I am going to share a plugin in this post which allows you to add a related post with a thumbnail image.
Wp-Thumbie WordPress Plugin will allow you to display the thumbnail image in your related posts. This plugin is easy to use and it gives you many option so that you can configure it according to requirements.
Features of Wp-Thumbie WordPress Plugin
It will display the thumbnail image automatically at the end of posts/ feeds and you don’t even need to edit the template file to configure this plugin.
- You don’t need to use any custom fields to show the thumbnail image.
- You can easily set up the thumbnail image size to your posts.
- It allows you to exclude the pages from related posts list.
- It also gives you option to style the related post so that you can match the look and feel of related posts with your theme.
WP-Thumbie plugin gives you many more option and you can easily configure every aspects of this plugin very easily. So enhance the look and feel of your Blog by using this plugin.
Robots Meta wordpress plugin To Prevent The Indexing Issue
This is a very useful plugin that will enhance the on page SEO of your Blog. Robots Meta plugin allows you to control the Meta description of our wordpress Blog. This is a must have plugin to optimize your wordpress Blog for search engines and to resolve all the indexing issue.
Features Of Robots Meta Plugin
This plugin allows you to add the noindex, follow robots Meta tag in your post or pages to prevent their indexing in search engines, while still following the links on that page.
This plugin is very useful in order to prevent the duplicate content issue in your Blog. It allows you to add the noindex Meta tag to all you category, tag and archives pages.
This plugin will allows you to add the noindex tag to login, register and other admin pages to prevent their indexing in search engines.
Robots meta tag plugin also gives you the option to add the nodp and nodir robots meta tag so that search engine will not follow the Dmoz and yahoo directory description of your Blog.
It also allows you to give the option to add adSmding robots Meta tag into the head section of your feeds to prevent their indexing.
You can also prevent the indexing of your comments feeds.
You can easily edit the .htaccess and robots txt file within your wordpress admin panel.
Above are only some of the main features of robots Meta tag plugin. This plugin gives you many more features. So just install this plugin to use all features its and make your wordpress Blog more search engine optimized.
Download:Robots Meta wordpress plugin
WordPress PDA Plugin For Iphone and PDA Browsers
I have already written a post bout wordpress ultimate gamer’s pack plugins which optimize wordpress for gaming system like Nintendo Wii, DS-Lite and Sony PSP.
In this post I am going to share with you a plugin which will optimize your wordpress Blog for PDA and iphone browsers. This plugin is a very easy to use. It will automatically detect the browser and load the theme according to it. This plugin will come with a extra theme folder which will work like a normal theme.
This plugin is also very easy to install you just need to extract the plugin folder and upload it to wp-content > plugins folder using FTP.
After activating this plugin you would not be able to detects if its is working or not, until you will browse your Blog using the PDA or Iphone browsers.
Download: WordPress PDA Plugin
Free WordPress Theme For Your Company Site
In this post I am going to share Blue Rooster which is very beautiful wordpress theme that you can use for your company site. You can use this theme for your Blog as well but in my opinion this theme would be more appropriate for a company site.
Blue roster is two column theme which also have some other templates to turn your site into you CMS. Sidebar and footer is completely widgetized, you just need to add a widget to use them. Social buttons like twitter is already integrated in it them, so now you don’t need to install additional plugins to do that.
Blue Rooster also gives you the ability to use the thumbnail with the posts and to add a thumbnail you need to use the custom fields. You have to add the “image” in the custom field of your posts and it will automatically re-size the image.
Blue rooster has many more features, just download it and use all the benefits of a premium wordpress theme for free.
FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress Plugin
Feedsmith is a wordpress plugin that is developed by steve smith. This is a very useful plugin if you are using feedburner with your self hosted wordpress blog. feedsmith will detect all the ways to access your feeds automatically so that you can track each possible subscriber of your feeds. It will redirect all your old feeds to new feedburner feeds along with your comments feeds.
Installation
Just download feedsmit plugin and follow the instruction below in order to install this plugin.
- Just unzip the folder and upload the FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php file to wp-content > plugins.
- Open your wordpress admin panel and activate this plugin by going into plugins sections.
- Configure this plugin from its admin panel and you’re done.
Download: FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress Plugin
WP-Polls Plugin To Adds Ajax Poll System to Blog
Polls are good way to increase the interactivity with your blog readers. Polls are also help you to know your readers more. WP-Polls is a good plugin that allows you to add a poll in your blog. This is a very easy to use plugin which has many options so that you can easily customize it according to your requirements.
WP-Polls also supports a multiple selection of answers and you can also control the look and feel of this plugin. WP-Polls plugin allows you to modify its HTML and CSS files to match up with your blog design.
Download:WP-Polls WordPress Plugin
Author Exposed Plugin To Show Author Information
Author Exposed Plugin is a very useful wordpress plugin for Blogs which have many authors. This plugin allows you to show the author information in a elegant way. This will help your readers to know more about author.
In order to use this plugin you need to extract the plugin folder and upload it to “wp-content” > “Plugins” folder then you can active this plugin by going into “plugins” option.
You also need to place the following code where you to show the author link.
<?php if (function_exists('author_exposed')){author_exposed();} ?>
Download: Author Exposed Plugin
Automatic WordPress Backup A Must Have Plugin
I have recently added automatic wordpress backup plugin into my Blog and by far I am very happy with its performance. This is a must have plugin for your Blog. Taking a Blog backup is very important to avoid all the risk of losing your hard work.
This plugin is very easy to use and you can easily take the back up of your Blog. The best part about this plugin is that you can schedule the backup and It will automatically take the backup and upoad it to Amazon S3.
Features Of WordPress Automatic Database Plugin
- This plugin will take the backup of entire site including plugins, themes, and uploaded files with your Blog settings.
- You just need to configure this plugin once and then it will take the backup automatically.
- Very easy to use and configure.
- This plugin also allows you to take the backup manually.
Now don’t run under the risk of losing all your hard work, just install this plugin and schedule the backup of your Blog.
Download: Automatic WordPress Backup Plugin