WordPress
10 Plugins To Improve Your WordPress Blog Experience
WordPress is a blog publishing application that is used by millions of people worldwide. It started off as a mere platform for writing stuff, but now is a full fledged business tool, that has more than half of the world’s blogs depending on it. It offers many plugins and widgets that can be downloaded for making the blogs look attractive.
There is one problem here. These plugins affect the performance of our blogs. They make it slow by bloating the blogs. We need to make our blogs user-friendly so that many peoply can read it without having any problem.
TOP 10 Plugins for WordPress:
Many of us download free plugins for our site. But these make our site work slow thus less people visit our site and read blogs. Here are the top 10 wordpress plugins that you can download to your wordpress blog and let your readers enjoy reading blogs, without affecting the speed of the blog.
1) Light Box 2:
- This effective plugin helps in overlaying images by using Colorbox.
- You can view clear and large images without opening the picture on a new tab.
- You can also auto-lightbox all the images. Read More
Top 10 WordPress Plugins
WordPress, a very useful tool for blogging websites. It can be made more effective by using its plugins. Here I listed some important plugins for wordpress that make your work more easy.
1. Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms is a great plugin for managing online forms. It has some extremely useful features including conditional form fields that allow you to show or hide a field or entire sections of the form based on a value selected in another field. It is also possible to pre-populate form fields using querystring, shortcode, function or hooks. It also offers the facility to schedule forms by assigning a start date and end date for when your form is live on your site.
2. cformsII Form Plugin
cformsII is a free form management plugin that can be used to set up contact forms on your WordPress site. It does not require any stong knowledge of PHP or codes. You can easily build forms in the WordPress admin panel, navigate to the page or post where you want to use the form and there is a button in the WYSIWYG editor that you click and up pops a list of forms that you have made. Just choose your form and it gets inserted into your page. Update your page and you the form is live.
10 WordPress Plug-in for powering your Blogging Experience
In this blog post I will explain you that how you can use advance wordpress plug-in for powering your blogging.
Well the fact that we all know is that WordPress is best CMS for blogging, so if you have few technical skills to use the coding & R& D for trying new plug-ins, then you must read this blog post.
10 Plug-ins to power your blogging
Here I am explaining you few WordPress Plug-in. These are given below:
1. Wordbook
Using WordBook you are able to post your blog posts in to your Face Book Wall. These blog posts will be shown on the Boxes tab of your recent blog post.
2. Broken Link Checker
By the help of this plug-in you would know about the broken links of your blog. Using this plug-in you would be able to monitor links in your blog post, pages and other custom fields. It also gives notifications of redirected links.
How to configure Window live writer for WordPress blogs?
Windows live writer is an important tool that is used by almost every blogger for the purpose of blogging.
Step by Step Guide
Following is a step by step guide on how to configure windows live writer for your wordpress blog.
Step 1:
First of all you have to enable XML-RPC publishing option in your wordpress blog. You can find it under Writing> remote publishing.
Step 2:
Now you have to open Windows Live writer, then you have to click on Blogs and then click on Add blog account.
11 iphone apps for Web Designer
As a web designer you must be aware of the fact that things are changing at a fast pace. What is in high demand one day is not on the other. But there is one “new” technology that is growing bigger and bigger in popularity each and every day and that is the iPhone and its apps.
This development is appreciated by all as it can make our lives as web designers much easier than before. The list that I have provided below is just eleven good apps among thousands. You should feel free to comment with your favorite iPhone app for web designers.
WordPress
If you have a WordPress blog then this app is great and if you are not having any then you are suggested to get one now as it is an excellent way to showcase your work. With the WordPress iPhone app you are able to write posts, manage comments and upload pictures on the go. As many bloggers are well known of the fact that often your best ideas for articles come whilst on the move.
Download WORDPRESS for iPhone
Mint
Do you think it is difficult to stay in control of the accounting? If yes then you will probably like the Mint iPhone app.
How to Fix Fatal Error after upgrade to WordPress 2.8
If you are like many of us using some plug-ins like nofollow links in post or Google analytics(these are the plugin that use the is_site_admin() function).
You should be ready to be surprised to find that the is_site_admin() function is now obsolete. After a successful upgrade from wordpress 2.7, when you re-login to wordpress 2.8 you get following error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_site_admin() in ….
Top 10 Trust Building Graphics to Boost Traffic
No matter what you are selling online, the objective is to boost your conversion rate; a better conversion rate means bigger ROI (Return on investment) and that is what makes your day.
E-commerce is an increasingly expanding world, in which many studies and researches have been made of how to enlarge and expand this conversion rate with little or no trouble. One such way is to enhance/gain your customer’s trust. 
Consumers trusted graphics can often inspire trust, which in-turn can work wonders for your website. Some of these websites that people partner with are discussed below.
Increasing Returns With Trusted Sites
Returns may vary from site to site, but many of these sites claim that customers have increased from 5-30% and even more! I would also recommend you to test these graphics yourself and believe that they would help you increase potential customers.
Best Place For These Graphics/Logos.
Graphics should be placed in areas with high visibility. Many users place McAfee secure logo at the top corner of their website, along with the other trusted logos. VeriSign, PayPal verified and other order related logo’s are usually put near BUY NOW buttons or at the footer of webpage. The point to remember here is that these Logo’s should be prominent and visible.
1. McAfee Secure
“McAfee Secure” logo placed in your website restores consumers trust. Daily network perimeter and web application scanning to help ensure your site is protected against threats. They also have a PCI certification service and you get to display their logo. This is a must have for any medium to large business enterprise. McAfee Website
2. VeriSign Secured
Another giant in e-commerce industry is the “VeriSign”, which provides Security (SSL Certificates). If you having one, then it will allow you to display the well known VeriSign Secured Seal. Visit VeriSign Website
3. BBB (Better Business Bureau) Seal
Another well known entity is the Better Business Bureau. Displaying BBB logo notifies customers that you are determined to resolve any complaints and meet BBB quality standards. Getting a BBB seal is not easy, but it’s worth a try, if you are serious about your business. Visit BBB
Top 5 WordPress Virtual Appliance Downloads
There are number of virtual appliances available for some one who is deep into wordpress blogging and developing plug-ins and themes. The main benefit of these wordpress virtual appliance are they help you easily get straight to development on one the most popular blogging tools. You focus on what you are best at in the sandbox created by these appliances. that is developing themes and plugins for WordPress.
Leaving the detail of creating development sandbox to LAMP professionals is a great time saver. IMHO these people are really heroes as they are creating great “time savers” for rest of the world. I should make it clear that these are not official wordpress appliance but you can download then with trust as they are from very respectable sources.
What are the benefits of using WordPress virtual appliance?
- It saves time, money and resources.
- Easy deployment.
- Experiment.
- Small memory footprint.
- Free.
- Convenient.
Live Chat On This Blog is Available
With addition of the new widgets in sidebar, Live Chat is now available at all my blogs. When ever I am online, you can see my status right here on the blog. you can click one the white balloon on right to reach me when I am signed in to Google. While the bigger chat box below the ‘Recent Tabs’ will let you chat live with me on MSN. you don’t need to have Gtalk or MSN. the web versions are already loaded.
I’m not so sure. if Live Chat will actually will work on blogs like mine or not. I just thought it is a clever idea to include these widgets so people can contact me when I am online. It probably is a better mode of communication with my existing readers. On the flip side is that all chats are lost, once they are done. I can definitely save them on my IM (highly unlikely, I know). Now This is a a new problem: IM conversations generally have a poor signal-to-noise ratio, making it virtually impossible for subsequent readers to find the information they’re looking for. Oh, and don’t get me started on the spam problem. The other potential pitfalls are perm linking and search. The benefit of comments is that they can be perm inked – they become mini-blogs of their own The other advantage of a permanent record is that it turns up in search results – I often find the information I’m looking for in blog comments. If there is no perm link structure for live chat and the chats aren’t stored on the originating blog, all these advantages are lost.
I may be pushing live chat to its edge but I really want to know the people who visit my blogs. It is very personal and I have every right to engage people visiting my street in any manner I deem fit. period. lol
I think I will give it a shot for a week or two and see the results. Two things can happen, Either I will be over whelmed by the visitors constantly nudging me with PMs or People will just simple ignore these widgets and just pass by silently. I am betting on the second one, while Paul is standing next to me and he thinks I have made a mistake of my life.. let’s see whose prediction comes true.
I wanted to add a section on how to implement live chat on your blog but I think It would be more interesting if you ask me through chat to help you with that 
I am waiting folks..
Have a nice day!
How to Optimize Your Internet Connection to Get 100 % Bandwidth
Most of Internet connections are working below capacity. A simple bandwidth test would reveal that your own Internet connection is working well below its capacity. some times below 60% of the bandwidth is utilized. Below are some of the tricks I have collected that may help you get most juice out of your internet connection.
Increase bandwidth by tweaking QoS in Windows XP Pro
The following tweak applies only to Windows XP Professional edition. The default system behavior is that all 100% bandwidth is available, however, if there is a running application that indicates to the OS it needs to send high priority/real time data, then as long as it has the socket open, Windows XP will restrict “best effort†traffic to 80% of the bandwidth so that high priority traffic can be accommodated. Basically, applications can make this request to the operating system for QoS support using the QoS application programming interfaces (APIs) in Windows and this only applies if a specific app is requesting QoS.
If you’d like to change how much bandwidth is reserved for QoS (the default is 20% of the total bandwidth), do the following:
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Make sure you’re logged in as “Administrator” (not just any account with admin privileges).
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Navigate to START>Run and type: gpedit.msc
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Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler
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In the right window, double-click the limit reservable bandwidth setting
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On the setting tab, check the enabled setting.
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Where it says “Bandwidth limit %”, change it to read 0 (or whatever percentage you want to reserve for high priority QoS data)
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Click OK, close gpedit.msc
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Under START > My Computer > My Network Connections > View Network Connections, right-click on your connection and under Properties (where it lists your protocols), make sure QOS Packet Scheduler is enabled.
