Aug 31

This is a guest post by Srikanth. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

Due to the advances in mobile technology, now a days almost all the mobile phones are equipped with Internet surfing capabilities. As a consequence, more and more people are accessing websites via their mobile phones every day, creating the need for webmasters to adapt their websites to these visitors.

Below we cover 10 mobile plugins for WordPress that can be used to make your website mobile friendly.

1. WordPress Mobile Edition

Developed by Crowd Favorite, this plugin has got a clean user interface that is designed for mobile devices. When a person visits your site from a mobile browser, it automatically detects the browser and loads the mobile version of your site. You can edit the list of mobile browsers in the settings page. This plugin enables particular theme to load on a specific mobile browser or device for example iPhone, Windows Mobile, Opera Mini web browser and other mobile web browsers.

2. WordPressMobile.mobi

One of the most popular mobile WordPress plugins, with thousands of downloads. This WordPress plugin makes your blog more mobile friendly, reducing the load time on mobile browsers and configuring your pages properly.

3. WordPress Mobile Pack

Another WordPress plugin for mobile browsers. It has got mobile recognition, device adaptation and it is widget ready. With the mobile recognition and device adaptation feature, it automatically re-sizes the images, split the articles or post into multiple pages such that your web page looks just fine on any of the mobile phones. It has a mobile admin panel so the admin of the site can easily manage it. Mobile ad widget allows mobile ads or mobile Adsense to be displayed on the mobile version of the web pages.

4. MobilePress

You can set this plugin to display a specific theme for a specific device model or mobile browsers like the iPhone, Opera Mini, etc., such that your blog displays according to the device capability. This plugin also allows the WordPress theme developers to develop their own mobile themes for WordPress blogs.

5. Mobile Admin

This WordPress plugin enables you to access admin user interface on mobile devices in a users friendly manner. This plugin is especially developed for the browsers on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices and it supports most of the other mobile browsers at basic level. Mobile Admin supports most of the basic WordPress admin features like editing posts with auto-save feature, tagging support, comment moderation, and more.

6. Mobilize

This WordPress plugin, once installed, will detect any mobiles phone having access to your site and it will redirect it to the Mippin server. Mippin will then rearrange your web page and its contents to suit the cell phone type. For example, if your website has images, then Mippin will re-size the images to fit the mobile screen and videos are converted to 3gp format such that users can have a comfortable and quick access to your site.

7. WPhone Admin Plug-in

This plugin will allow you to manage your WordPress install using a mobile browser. It has two mobile admin interfaces, one is for use on the iPhone/iPod Touch and other devices which supports full JavaScript and features CSS AJAX and sliding menus. And another is Lite version to use on phones that do not support JavaScript. It will automatically switch between the rich and lite versions based on the browser you use.

8. Mowser

Mowser is a service that lets your WordPress blog to be viewed more comfortably and quickly on a mobile browser or on any other mobile device. This plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your WordPress based blog using a mobile phone and it will redirect to the optimized mobile version of your blog.

9. Wetomo WordPress to Mobile

Wetomo plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your URL from a mobile phone. Wetomo will act as a proxy between you and the user, modifying your blog to suit the handset of the user such that your blog looks great on any of the mobile browsers.

10. WP viewMobile

This plugin is designed to make your WordPress blog mobile internet ready. It will detect when a user is accessing your blog via a mobile phone. It automatically sends a template which is optimized for mobile devices. It tries to re-size the images in your blog to suite the mobile phone or else it removes them completely if the mobile browser does not support images, such that your users can access your blog without any problem.

Srikanth is the author of the Tech Inspiration blog, where he writes about gadgets and technology tips.

Aug 31

There are many reasons why people often decide to point their existing blogs to new domain names. Perhaps the existing domain name doesn’t sound attractive. Or, maybe domain name doesn’t fit the topic. Another reason could be that the domain name is a personal name and doesn’t allow the blog to gain a higher level.

Whatever the reason may be, redirecting an existing blog to point to a new domain name can be done. Doing so can be a little tricky though. That is why I put together this list of articles that can help teach you how to do it quickly, and as painlessly as possible.

SEO Guide: How to Properly Move Domains – Published on Aug. 6th, 2009 by Danny Dover of SEOmoz.com. This is a mini-guide aimed at giving people straightforward steps towards moving a domain name while being conscious of SEO. Danny does warn that moving domains can have a negative impact on search engine rankings. He advises that certain steps are followed to minimize adverse affects.

Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps! – Published on Feb. 14th, 2008 by Joost de Valk. This is an excellent article that guides you towards moving your WordPress blog in only ten steps. This article to date has received over 100 comments.

How To: Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Domain – Published on Oct. 20th, 2008 by Kyle Eslick. This is one of my personal favorites. Kyle has a great way of writing and explaining things. Especially when it comes to step by step instructions. While this tutorial isn’t summed up in ten steps or published as a mini-guide, it will, however, give you very detailed explanations of the steps needed to move your blog to a new domain name.

Ultimately, my advice to anyone wanting to move their blog to a new domain name is to read all three articles provided above. Most people want to move their blog to a new domain name because its been determined as being the best thing to do for the health of the blog. You can easily limit the level of adversity with this process and actually come out of the deal gaining some immediate positives. Good luck and if you have any comments or questions, please use the comment form below.

Aug 31

Version 1.2.7 of Platinum SEO plugin has been released and the plugin now lets you specify meta keywords and meta description for wordpress Category and Tag pages.These meta tags are especially useful when you choose to index Wordpress Categories and Wordpress tags.

This Wordpress SEO plugin provides the option “Use NoIndex for categories”, to prevent categories from being indexed by the search engines. This option helped you in two ways:

  • Ability to avoid duplicate content issues
  • Ability to control the page rank to flow to more important pages on your site (i.e. individual posts), than the category pages

However, recent changes in Google Search Engine algorithms, have limited your ability to control the flow of Page Rank to the pages you desire. Most wordpress bloggers would like to list Categories on the sidebars or as menus (at the top).Some even prefer to use breadcrumbs for their posts, which automatically adds a link to category pages.it as a TOC i.e. Table Of Contents in wordpress. This is nothing but very similar to Table Of Contents in a word document, which provides navigational links to various sections in the Word document.

Thus, every wordpress user links to Category pages on his site/blog. Adding a nofollow to such links or a meta NoIndex tag to the wordpress category pages by choosing the option “Use NoIndex for categories”, does not prevent leakage (wastage) of PR juice flowing to such category pages. Hence, it is better to index your category pages.

But then, how would you avoid duplicate content issues? Category pages could become duplicates only in the circumstances explained in the article here on Wordpress SEO options (Refer the explanation under “Use NoIndex for categories”). But, such issues can occur very rarely and you can easily avoid it. For example, it can occur only in a scenario where you continue to make posts under the same category.This can be avoided by making posts under different categories, rather than making posts under the same category, sequentially.

Platinum SEO plugin now makes it even more easier by providing you the option to add meta description and meta keywords tag to the head section of your category pages.

How to add meta description and meta keywords to Wordpress Categories?

  • Navigate to Posts –> Categories on your wordpress dashboard.
Wordpress Categories
  • Edit each of the categories and add a description about the category.
Edit Wordpress Category
  • Specify the description by enclosing a PSP specific description tag ([descrption][/descrption]) like shown below

Example: (The description can be of any number of characters)

[description]This category will contain all posts on Wordpress, wordpress SEO [/description]
Wordpress Category Description
  • Specify the keywords for each of the categories, by enclosing a PSP specific keywords tag ([keywords][/keywords]) like shown in the above picture.

Example:

[keywords]Wordpress, wordpress SEO, wordpress SEO Plugin [/keywords]

That is all!!! Platinum SEO Plugin will automatically add the meta description and meta keywords tag to the head section of your wordpress category pages.

If needed, You can even display the description, on your category pages, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s Category page.

<?php do_action('get_psp_category_description'); ?>

You can even list the keywords, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s Category page:

<?php do_action('get_psp_category_keywords'); ?>

Platinum SEO plugin provides all the above options for tag pages as well (similar to cateogry pages) i.e. you can add a desciption and keywords tag to tag pages by Navigating to Posts –> Post Tags on your wordpress dashboard and editing each of the tags.

If needed, You can even display the description, on your tag pages, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s tag page. (But this will work only in wordpress 2.8 or above).

You can even list the keywords, by adding the following piece of code to your theme’s tag page:

Enjoy using Platinum SEO plugin!!! Don’t miss to check out Chennai Central plugin that will help you save bandwidth. The next version of Chennai Central, will also help you to keep track of visits by Google or Yahoo or Bing (including any other that you may configure) search engine spiders on your posts and pages.

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Aug 30

A beautiful 3 columns wordpress theme Strawberry-MAG

Theme Demo | Theme Download

Theme Features
Featured Post
Widgets Ready
Easy Theme Installation
Sidebar youtube video
Compatible with wordpress 2.84V and previous versions

Aug 30

About

Sometimes you need to display the number of downloads of your plugin or theme hosted by wordpress, Wordpress Extend Download Stat can retrieve it for you. The retrieved data will be stored in your local server and you decide when it should re-synchronize the data.

Features

  • Retrieve download statistics, download URL and more by just one click
  • It stores the statistics data in your local server
  • Auto synchronize the outdated data in the background using Ajax
  • Manage the plugin’s behaviour and saved data at Plugin Option page
  • You can create custom format at plugin option page and use it for output
  • To make it easier, you can use media button to add downlaod stat to post (see screenshot : Media Button)

What can Wordpress Extend Download Stat retrieve?

  • Name of item
  • Latest version number
  • URL to download the latest version
  • Type of item (plugin or theme)
  • Date of last update of the theme/plugin files
  • Number of downloads today
  • Number of downloads on yesterday
  • Number of downloads since last week
  • Total number of downloads

Example of Usage

Retrieve the total number of downloads and download link for Wordpress Theme Demo Bar Plugin

Wordpress Theme Demo Bar - 1,159 downloads

Retrieve the number of downloads today for All-in-One SEO Pack Plugin and display it inline

Wow. All-in-One SEO Pack got 4,095 downloads today.

Using Shortcode

  • To output download stat in blog post, use shortcode Shortcode for wordpress extend download stat plugin in your post content / excerpt.
  • To make it easier, you can use the media button (see screenshot for more info) and follow the steps given.

To understand more about the shortcode Shortcode for wordpress extend download stat plugin and examples:

1. Get Single Info only

Use attribute ‘get’

Valid values of attribute ‘get’ :
All tags available are the valid values of attribute ‘get’. However, you can only use one tag at once. (without curly bracket of course)

Example:

  • Get total number of downloads
  • Get number of downloads since last week
  • Get URL to download the latest version

You can use media button to make the whole process a lot easier.

2. Formatted Output – return output based on format id

use attribute ‘format’

you can create and save a new format at plugin option page

Default format is : <a href=”{url}”>{name}</a> has been downloaded {total} times in total

Example:

  • Display using default format (you don’t have to specify the format id)
  • Display using format id 1

You can use media button to make the whole process a lot easier.

3. Auto wrap output content with HTML paragraph <p> tag

use attribute ‘autop’

by default autop is set to true, which means it automatically wrap the output content with <p> tags

To display the content inline, use autop=”false”

Example:

Using Template Tag Functions

Read this page for more info

Screenshots

Plugin Options Page

Add downlaod stat to post easily using media buttons

Installation

  • Download the plugin package
  • Extract and upload the “wordpress-extend-download-stat” folder to your-wordpress-directory/wp-content/plugins/
  • Activate the plugin and its ready

Frequently Asked Questions

I can’t add new data
You need to use the URL to the statistics page, not to the main page. First of all, check whether the URL you type is the URL to the statistics page (it ends with /stats/). For example, URL to my wordpress theme demo bar plugin is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-theme-demo-bar/ and I should use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-theme-demo-bar/stats/.

How to display content inline?
Add autop=”false” to the shortcode.

Download the Latest Version

Wordpress Extend Download Stat - 83 downloads

Change Log

Version 1.1
- Added template tags function wpeds_output()
- Added error message for invalid shortcode
- Fixed a small mistake in auto resync-ing the data
- Added more definitions for outdated data (for you to run auto sync more frequently)

Version 1.0
- First version of Wordpress Extend Download Stat

Aug 19

Today, twitter is one of the most extremely popular service across the web, many blog owner, magazines and companies are using it to communicate with their audiences and customers. If you think visitors on your blog are arriving from twitter, then you should implement a plugin that implement Twitter avatar in your blogs comment section.

Features:
1. Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address.
2. If user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it first tries to load user’s gravatar. If user doesn’t have a gravatar, it loads a default image. This is an optional setting.
3. You can set a 2-pixel border to the images (you choose the color).
4. You can choose the size: we suggest 24, 48 or 72 pixels.
5. You can set an image other than the default one to load if a user doesn’t have a Twitter account or a gravatar.
6. It builds a valid image for you (with alt and title attributes, etc.) based on user details.
7. Allows you to add a class to the image, so you can style it later.

The Plugin has been developed by Ricardo Sousa and can be downloaded from following link:

Download the Twittar Wordpress Plugin

Aug 19

We all know how important it is to write quality content to attract visitors to our blog.
But often the visits are significantly reduced, as our content is only for a limited audience due to the language in which the blog is written.

Of course, if our blog is in English, it may achieve a good number of visitors and potential readers. But what if our content is in a language other than English?
Or what if we want to target a non-English speaking country as well?


To ensure that the content of the blog is accessible and readable by people of many nationalities, all the pages should be translated into other languages, especially English.

Obviously not everybody has the time, opportunity or money to translate the content in other languages. In this case we can use some good tools and plugins. Ads by Google

In particular, there is a plugin for the translation of Wordpress blogs that stands out: it is called Transposh Global Translator.

This plugin allows your blog to be translated by your readers in-context.
Completely free, it also makes possible to modify some wrong translations the software may generate. In addition, this plugin is very fast (it uses APC cache when available) and allows you to set up SEO friendly URLs and have your content available in all languages via search engines.
It also provides a widget to show small flags linked to each language and it translates everything on your blog, even the comments.

The creator of Transposh Global Translator, Ofer Wald, provides an amazing customer service and he’s available to help you fix any problem if some occurs.

Aug 19

Tech Stop is quality and professional designed free premium WordPress theme. Suitable for any niche, especially for tech and electronics sites. Theme Options at admin panel.. Features: * Admin Options * Featured Video * 125×125 pixels adbox ready (easy editable from admin options) * 728×90 pixels Header Banner ready (easy editable from admin options) * Three columns * Gravatar on Comments * Compatible with latest WordPress versions * Widgets Ready * SEO Optimized * Fixed width * Logo .PSD file and font files are included in theme folder. * Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari Admin Options Features: * Featured Video * Logo image * Twitter * Header 728×90 pixels banner code * 125×125 pixels banners * Sidebar Ads/Banners * Header and Footer script codes

Tech Stop

Aug 08

SEO Design Solutions is proud to offer yet another convenient SEO module for adding another tier of on page SEO to any WordPress 2.7 - 2.8.2  installation.

New Slug Optimizer Module In-URL Optimization for SEO Ultimate Version 0.9

SEO Ultimate 0.9 features the new “Slug Optimizer” module that optimizes the URL slugs of your WordPress posts and pages.

The slug of a post or page is the portion of its URL that’s based on its title. Out-of-the-box, Slug Optimizer works behind-the-scenes to remove common words from the slugs of new posts/pages.

This increases the in-URL keyword potency of your new posts and pages because there will be fewer words competing for relevance in your permalinks.

Unlike other plugins, Slug Optimizer lets you customize which words are removed without having to edit the plugin’s code.

Slug Optimizer also lets you edit the automatically-optimized slug if you decide you want to re-add a removed word.

Version 0.9 also includes several bugfixes and multiple improvements. It also includes next-generation integrated documentation, with a new, plain-English “Overview” help tab for each module, making this release the easiest-to-use SEO Ultimate rendition ever.

You can download SEO Ultimate from WordPress or from our Plugin information page.

Stay tuned for future releases of SEO Ultimate from SEO Design Solutions as we have scheduled periodic releases with new features to enhance the powerful framework this plugin.

Aug 08

Smartpress Magazine, 2 columns, Adsense Ready, Magazine style free wordpress theme

Features:

  • Tested on Latest Wordpress version
  • 2 columns
  • Widget ready
  • Fixed Width
  • Cross browser compatible with IE, FF, Opera, Flock & Safari

Demo | Download

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