Mashable Social Box WordPress Plugin

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Mashable is one of the most popular blogs on the internet. One of the things I always liked about their layout is the social box they have in their sidebar. Even though it’s not in-your-face, it somehow manages to get my attention every time I drop in to see what’s new. Elegant yet effective. If [...]

Build Astonishing Image Gallery For WordPress With Mac Dock Photo Gallery

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I use a WordPress blogging platform. The main reasons I chose WordPress is its ease of access, good security and automatic up-gradation feature. I keep thinking of bettering my blog in order to cater my audience need in all aspects. My carving has led to many enhancements and has succeeded mending the desired functionality with [...]

WordPress Q&A

The WordPress community is massive, with thousands of plugins and themes, which allows almost unlimited options for bloggers. Unfortunately this also means that we will all run into various WordPress related problems as we test out new setups. For that we have the WordPress forums and expert Q&A sites, where sometimes you might have to [...]

WordPress Mingle Plugins List

Mingle is a WordPress plugin which allows you to turn any WordPress powered blog into a fully-functioning social network, without any coding. Mingle is a very popular plugin with more than 65 000 downloads. This lead to the creation of WordPress plugins specifically meant to enhance and extend the capabilities of your Mingle powered community. [...]

Change WordPress Admin and Other Usernames

It’s always a good thing to not make your admin username “admin” as that is the first thing hackers and malware bots will try. Many of us still make this mistake anyway, as it’s easy to remember when you have twenty different blogs. But there will come a time, and it can never be soon [...]

Add Google +1 Button to your WordPress blog

Google recently announced to launch of their +1 or Recommendations Button for English searches on Google.com. This button will appear in organic search engine results and can also be placed on your blog or blog posts.  Google describes this new service as: The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should [...]

Top 5 WordPress Security Plugins 2011

As more and more people start using WordPress more and more people attempt to exploit WordPress operated blogs. These attacks can happen via XSS, CSRF, Base64_encode and SQL Injection hacking attempts, where some will break your site and some simply redirect or point visitors to different locations. That’s why WordPress security has become prominent if [...]

The WordPress Digg

A new project was recently launched called the WordPress News Network or WPNN for short. This is a user-driven social bookmarking and voting system for WordPress News and the latest Themes and Plugins. The service provide WordPress users with the option of submitting and voting on the latest in the WordPress world. The aim is to [...]

Free WordPress Classifieds Plugin

I recently posted about the Free WordPress Classifieds Theme. One problem with using the WordPress Classifieds theme is exactly that, it’s a theme. If you need to use a different layout, you have to change the theme styling which can be time-consuming and requires some WordPress expertise. Below is a freee WordPress classifieds plugin known [...]