WordPress ecommerce plugin GetShopped
Get shopped is a wordpress plugin that allows you to make more money by adding e-commerce functionality to your site. This is a very good plugin and provides many options. The best part about this plugin is that it supports all the major online payment service provider like PayPal, Google checkout, express payments etc. This plugin provides you many more features that are:
Features Of GetShopped WordPress Plugin
Easy To Use: This plugin is very easy to use. It will make your online selling experience very good and saves you lot of time so that you can concentrate on your business.
Look And Feel: You can easily customize its look and feel to match up with your theme design.
Payment options: As earlier informed you that this plugin support all the major online payment service providers like paypal, Google checkout etc to make the payment processing more secure.
Search Engine Optimization: This is a very search engine friendly plugin. Developers of this plugin added all the tools to enhance your search engine rankings.
Communication: This plugin allows you to send emails to clients and also gives you the option to market your products on facebook.
There are many other options that GetShopped plugin provides. If you are looking to start an online store just install this plugin in your wordpress blog to turn it into money making e-commerce store.
Download: E-commerce Plugin GetShopped
License: license Free
MapPress WordPress Plugin to Show Google Maps In your Blog
Bloggers who blogs on local subjects will surely find this plugin very useful. This plugin will add an interactive map to wordpress editing screen. So while editing a post or page you just need to enter the address to show the map of that place.
MapPress plugin will automatically insert a good looking interactive map into your Blog. It will really going to help your Blog readers to find the directions and this is a good way for you to add more value into your content.
Installation And Usage:
MapPress plugin is very easy to install you just need to unzip MapPress plugin folder and then upload the plugin folder to wp-content > plugins folder using your favorite FTP client. After that you need to login to your wordpress admin panel and activate this plugin from “Plugins” menu.
In order to use this plugin you also need to enter the Google Maps API key under the MapPress settings panel that you can easily find under “settings menu”.
Download: MapPress WordPress Plugin
Thesis Open Hook plugin – Easy Way To Customize Thesis Theme
Thesis theme is the best premium wordpress theme available to us and the best part about this theme is that in order to customize it we don’t need to edit the template files. There are already many options available in thesis admin panel so that we can easily customize it. In 1.6 version of thesis theme they have given options to change the color of the theme. But, if you still want to customize thesis further then thesis open hook plugin come very handy to you.
Thesis open hook plugin gives you option to add HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and even PHP code anywhere in thesis your theme without modifying the template files. Thesis works on hooks and you can call particular hooks very easily to make changes using this plugin.
If you are not using thesis open Hook plugin, then you are editing custom.php and custom._fuction.php file in order to make any change in the theme. Thesis open hook plugin has a admin panel from where you can easily call any hook and add the code without editing your template.
Download: Thesis Open Hook plugin
WordPress Redirection Plugin To Manage 301 Redirects
WordPress redirection plugin is very useful plugin. It helps you to manage redirection and allows you to keep track of 404 errors in your blog. It comes very handy when you change the existing permalinks of your blog, or migrating your blogspot blog to wordpress. By establishing 301 redirect using this plugin ensures that you will not lose any traffic from search engines and your users will not see 404 errors.
Features of wordpress redirection plugin
- It will automatically add a 301 redirection when you change the URL of a post or permalinks.
- It allows you to manually add 301, 302, and 307 to your post.
- You don’t need to use Apache .htaccess in order to redirect your pages.
- It has a admin panel that will help you to easily configure this plugin according to your needs.
- It will also keep the track how many time a redirection has been used.
- It is also available in many other languages.
It is highly recommended that you install redirection plugin before making any changes to your permalinks structure to make sure you don’t loose any traffic.
Download: WordPress Redirection Plugin
Share This WordPress Plugin To Get More Traffic From Social Media Sites
These days social media is becoming a good source of getting traffic and most of the bloggers are completely dependent on social media sites for traffic rather than search engines. Social media traffic is not very targeted but, there is no doubt that it will give your blog more exposure and that will certainly help you to build the regular readership for your blog. So we cant just over look social media sites for getting traffic.
In order to get more exposure from social media sites like digg, twitter, stumbleupon etc you need to give your users a option that will allow them to share your content on social media sites. Providing this option is very easy if, you are blogging on wordpress platform. There are several plugins available that will help you to add this option in your wordpress blog. I have also mentioned about the sociable plugin in one of my post but, in this post I am going to talk about share this plugin. You can use share this plugin as an alternative to sociable plugin.
Share this plugin looks very good and has very elegant look. In order to use this plugin properly, you need to create an account on sharethis.com . This might look lot of work to you but it does not take much time as the developers of this plugin have done a good job explaining everything about this plugin that you need to know in order to activate and configure this plugin.
Download: Share This WordPress Plugin
WordPress Database Manager Plugin An Essential plugin
WordPress Database Manager is the most essential wordpress plugin. This plugin is allows you to take the database backup of your wordpress blog. Make sure that you install this plugin to take the backup of your wordpress blog. It always necessary to have a backup of your blog so that you will not lose all your work, if any reason you had lost the data of your blog.
WordPress database manager plugin is very easy to install but it may be difficult for you to configure this plugin as it requires some of the file moving and you also need to permit the access to some files and folders.
The best part of this plugin is that it will run a schedule backup for your blog every 24 hour to make sure that you will have the latest backup of your blog. I highly recommend this plugin and if you are not using any plugin to take the back of your wordpress blog or not even doing it manually then you should install this plugin instantly to take the backup of your blog .
Download: WordPress Database Manager Plugin
WordPress Sociable Plugin To Get More Traffic From Social Media Sites
If you are looking to get more traffic from social media sites like digg and you are not using any plugin to allow your blog readers to easily spread your content to all the social media channels then it is high time that you will install a sociable wordpress plugin to gain more exposure and traffic.
Sociable is a very effective wordpress plugin that is similar to share this plugin. It will add social media sites icon at the end of every post so that those readers who like your post can easily spread the word about it on social media sites.
This plugin will really help you to get more exposure from social media sites . As you know these days social media is becoming a very good source of getting traffic. So just install sociable plugin into your blog s in order to get more traffic.
The best part about this plugin is that you can easily change the icons of social media sites icon to match with the look and feel of your blog. Also, it gives you the option to choose the sites you want to display. It also has a very easy to use admin panel from where you can configure sociable plugin according to your needs.
Download: WordPress Sociable Plugin
Best WordPress Plugin To Rotate Ads On Your Blog
I found this plugin very useful, Adrotate wordpress plugin will rotate ads on your blog and you can easily configure this plugin from its admin panel. You can easily mange ads and create ads group for different size of ads . This plugin makes it easy for your to show random ads on your blog. Following are some more features of this plugin.:
AdRotate WordPress Plugin Features
- As you know you can rotate different ads in your blog to give every advertisement equal exposure.
- It has a admin panel from where you can easily configure this plugin
- It allows you to track the number of the clicks. This will help you to know which ads are performing better for you.
- It allows you to deactivate any ad from the admin panel
- You can easily preview banners on edit
- It also has widgets to show ads on the sidebar
There are many other features that adroate plugin is providing. It also comes with a user manual so that you will not have any problem in using this plugin.In order to use this plugin you need to add a shortcode that will looks similar to the following shortcode.
<?php echo adrotate_banner('1'); ?>
I would also suggest you to read its user manual properly in order to take out maximum benefit from this plugin.
Download: AdRotate WordPress Plugin
Greet Box WordPress plugin for Greeting Visitors
Greet box is a wordpress plugin that allows you to greet you your blog readers when they come to your blog. The best part about this plugin is that it automatically detects the source of the visitor and display a custom message that you can easily configure from its admin panel.
This plugin will surely enhance the experience of your blog readers.The another best thing about this plugin is that it allows you to add a custom message to greet your blog visitors.
You can show a different message to a visitor that come from twitter and a different message to a visitor that come from Google. You can also decide the placement of this plugin and it is very easy to install and configure. So start greeting your blog visitors using this plugin and build a relationship with them.
Download: Greet Box WordPress Plugin