Today, I am going to share a very interesting plugin with you,  Are you sure is a wordpress plugin which is developed to avoid the accidental publishing. I found this plugin very useful because I have clicked accidentally the publish button instead of clicking the save button.

It has a very small size and you don’t need to do any thing accept uploading and activating this plugin since it don’t need any configuration. So, after activation this plugin whenever you will hit the publish button a small window will pop-up and says are you sure?

Download: Are you sure wordpress plugin

In this post I am going to share a very cool plugin with you. Hide admin panels plugin allows you to hide the option panels from a specific user of your wordpress blog.

Note: This plugin will only compatible with the wordpress blogs which are using the wordpress version greater than 2.7.1.

You can hide all the options that wordpress shows you on the left sidebar. But, do remember that it’s only an aesthetic effect. So, if the user of your wordpress blog has installed any extension that allows him to change the CSS then he can able to view the options.

Download: Hide admin panels

While browsing today for a wordpress theme, I have found a very nice wordpress theme and the best part about thistheme is that, it is free.

Pork and beans is a 2 column wordpress theme which has a very beautiful design. It is ireally a very good theme especially if you want to use large photos. This wordpess theme is also using JavaScript /jquery and has a rounded corner.

Poker and Beans wordpress theme will also resize the images automatically and present them in a very elegant manner to your blog readers. Below is the downloading link of the theme.

Download: pork and Beans

Effective calendar wordpress plugin for wordpress is simple but at the same time very effective plugin to display and manage events on your wordpress blog.

This plugin is very easy to use and you can easily customize it according to your requirements. It shows you the monthly views of the events. You can also repeat the events on the weekly, monthly and yearly basis. You can also display multiple events on the same day.

The best part about this plugin is that it gives you an easy to use admin panel from where you can configure this plugin. It also allows you to show the current and upcoming events on the sidebar of your wordpress blog.

Download: Effective calendar wordpress plugin

If you are looking a theme for your design blog then stop your search since smashingmagzine has just released a theme called DesignPile. The best part about this is theme is that it is free and has many features like premium theme.

DesignPile looks very good and gives you 3 color options. It also comes along with couple of jquery based goodies and you can use it on your private as well as commercial projects. Following are some of the features of DesignPile theme.

Features

• Admin panel for easy configuration
• Widget ready theme
• Custom homepage
• 3 color styles
• Ajax based contact form and many more

Download: DesignPile

Recently Google has launched a service called Google buzz that is a social utility presented inside the gmail. So if you are looking to share your posts with the users of Google buzz then there is a very easy way to do that. You just need to install the Google buzz button plugin into your wordpress blog and it will create a button of Google buzz that allows you and your blog readers to share the content of your blog. This plugin very easy to use and offers you the following feature.

Features

• One click installation of Google buzz button.
• It gives you the option to insert the Google buzz button before or after the post.
• It also gives you the option to insert the Google buzz button anywhere in your wordpress theme.

Download: Google Buzz Plugin

How often it happen with you that you change your wordpress theme? It seems that you can not get every thing that is required by you in a single theme. Also, if you even don’t know coding and designing then it will become very hard for you to change the design of your wordpress theme.

But, what if you are able to customize your wordpress Blog as efficiently as great bloggers who Blogs on the famous copyblogger.com as well as problogger.net? Yes, your Blog can easily look as professional as their Blog with the use of thesis theme. The thesis theme is one of the best themes available which is easy to customize.

The best part about thesis theme is that you don’t need to be a coder or designer to personalize its design. It offers you all the designing option from changing the number of the columns to the font style to color of the theme.

Thesis theme code is very well laid out and it is one of the best wordpress theme from the SEO perspective and probably this is the reason that the best bloggers in the blogsphere are using the thesis theme. So there is no good reason that you should not use thesis theme for your Blog.

Thesis happens to be the smartest WP theme that you could discover on the net. The Thesis theme is developed by DIYthemes. They’ve mainly developed this theme in order to get rid of all of the coding errors. Coding errors could end up being extremely expensive from search engine optimization perspective. The website coding is exactly what the Search engines Bot undergoes while crawling your Blog. A weak as well as damaged coding inside a free wordpress theme could turn out expensive for your Google search Result Positioning.

Thesis is also known as Do-it-Yourself theme, which means that you could pimp out almost every thing within its own admin panel without even touching a word of the code. The best part about thesis theme is that it gives all the search engine optimization option by default so that you don’t need to install any additional Plugin for SEO.

Thesis allows you to easily optimize the Meta tags like title and description of your Blog. This theme also gives you the option to fix the duplicate content issue within your Blog. It provides you many other options and this is the reason that all the bloggers who are serious about blogging is using thesis theme.Click Here to know more about its features.

Thesis theme will cost you $87 for personal license and you will also get the 30 days money back guarantee in case you don’t like the theme.

SEO slugs is a very useful plugin that will remove the stop words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ within the URLs of your Blog posts and pages.

For example if you publish a post or a page with a title:

“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”

Then the wordpress automatically make the URL of the above most like

/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings

But after activating this plugin it will remove all the stop words from the URL and make it more search engine friendly. So when you publish a post using the above title then it will assign the following URL to the post:

/immediately-higher-rankings

The best part about this plugin is that it also allows you to change the URL of the post in-case you don’t like the URL that this plugin has assigned to your post. But, you need to check it before publishing a post, just save the post and check its URL and if you like it just publish it or change it according to your requirement.

Download: SEO Slugs WordPress Plugin

Broken link checker plugin is a must have plugin for your Blog. This plugin will notify you if it found any broken link in your Blog. Links usually get broken due to page get deleted, change of subdirectory, site moved to new domain etc. It is very difficult for you to track which links are broken and it’s a very tedious process.

Broken link checker will check all the internal and outgoing links in your site to make sure your visitor would not see a 404 error. It is also a good search engine optimization practice to keep your Blog clean from 404 errors.

Features Of  Broken Link Checker Plugin

• It will check all your pages and posts in the background for all the broken links whenever you login into admin panel.
• It will check all the links that are not working and missing images.
• It will notify you on the dashboard if it detects any problem.
• This plugin also allows you to schedule the link checking according to your requirements.

Broken link checker is very easy to install and use. It has its on admin panel from where you can configure this plugin according to your requirements. So don’t annoy your visitors and search engines anymore with broken links, start using this plugin.

Download: Broken Link Checker wordpress Plugin

WP-cumulus is on the most popular wordpress plugin, it allows you to show sites tags and categories and in a flash movie that rotates in 3d format. It servers the same purpose of regular tag cloud but its more visually appealing and enhance the look and feel your Blog.

This plugin is very easy to install and you can easily configure this plugin under its admin panel. Following are some options that you can choose in order to use the WP-Cumulus wordpress plugin.

Usage Option

• You can create a post or a page and add a [WP-CUMULUS ] shortcode anywhere in the content to display the enhanced 3d tag cloud.

• If you want to add the 3d tag cloud in your sidebar or any other place of the theme then just add the following code where you want to show the tag cloud.

<?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?>

• WP-Cumulus also adds a widget in the widget section and you just need to add that widget into your theme to display the tag cloud. This widget also gives you many options to control the look and feel of the tag cloud to match up with your wordpress theme.

Download: WP-Cumulus Plugin