Software by tag 'plugin'

9 Useful WordPress Poll And Rating Plugins

March 1st, 2010 in Wordpress | View Comments

Polls are very useful way to get in touch with your readers. Polls can be used to get your readers’ opinion and even new article idea.

There are various websites that let you setup your own polls. Once you insert the given code, you will be able to start using the polls immediately. PollDaddy is one of the great free online polls and serveys.

However, if you are a person who not really familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS or JavaScript, inserting these codes will probably takes the whole day. Furthermore, you probably don’t have all the features for a free account,or you probably just want a really simple rating feature.

If you are a WordPress user, then you are lucky. There are a lot of useful WordPress poll and rating plugins where you can download and use freely. Here, we share 9 useful WordPress poll and rating plugins with our readers.

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18 Useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins

January 27th, 2010 in Wordpress | View Comments

Contact Form is one of the most important page for all websites. If you are running an e-commerce website, you need a contact form so that your potential buyers can reach you to get more information. Even if you run a personal blog, you will also need a contact form so that bloggers from same niche or advertisers can contact you easily.

There are some great online form providers such as Wufoo and FormSpring. These services allow you to create contact forms, survey forms and registrations form easily without knowing much about web programming languages.

If you are using WordPress, then you can use WordPress plugins to build your contact form easily. However, there are a lot of Contact Form Plugins in WordPress Plugin Repository. Some of the plugins are rather too old, not able to support the latest version of WordPress or just having too little features.

So, we decided to gather 18 Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins that will suit everyone needs. These plugins are tested by us and support WordPress 2.9.1.

Updates: We have a full review for GravityForms. We did a deep explain for its features. Please proceed to the review if you want to know more about GravityForms WordPress contact form plugin.

1. cformsII

cforms is a highly customizable Ajax driven contact form plugin. It lets you to create multi page forms or multiple forms on one page easily. They are few more cool features such as Role Manager support, Tell-A-Friend, Fully localization, Backup and Restore. Antispam is also supported by using CAPTCHA or Q&A.
cformsII

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10 Essential WordPress Plugins For New WordPress Installation

October 4th, 2009 in Wordpress | View Comments

WordPress has a lot of powerful plugins that will add extra functionality to your blog. There are more than 6k plugins available in WordPress Plugin Directory when this article is written.

Different WordPress plugins surf their own purposes, and installing too many plugins will slow down your system and increase the loading time. So, how should we choose the necessary plugins for our blog? Most of the new WordPress users will ask this question.

In this article, we will list down 10 essential WordPress plugins for a new blog. These are common plugins that will help you to secure your WordPress blog, fight spam, and increase your search engine ranking.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a powerful anti spam plugin for WordPress. It comes with your WordPress installation, but you need to register at WordPress.com in order to get your unique API key and activate the plugin. Some WordPress users choose to review the spams, because sometimes Akismet will incorrectly marks a legitimate comment as spam.
Akismet

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9 Useful jQuery Calendar And Date Picker Plugins For Web Designers

September 20th, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | View Comments

Event calendars and date pickers are really useful plugins for web applications. WordPress does have a date picker, which allow bloggers to schedule the article.

I am a big fan of jQuery, so i always use jQuery Calendar plugins to accomplish my tasks when the clients asked me to implement an event caldendar for them. In this article, i would like to share 9 really useful jQuery Event Calendar and Date Picker plugins that every web designers and developers should know.

1. FullCalendar

FullCalendar is a famous jQuery calendar plugin which offers features like drag-and-drop, integration with Google Calendar and able to fetch events through JSON. Designers can easily customize the look and feel of the calendar, while developers can utilize the exposed hooks for user-triggered events.
FullCalendar

2. Astonishing iCal-like Calendar

This is a tutorial which uses both jQuery and CSS to build an iPhone styled calendar application. The author also implement the Coda-like effect for the popup event.
Astonishing iCal-like Calendar
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WordPress Anti Spam: 12 Great WordPress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam

September 10th, 2009 in Wordpress | View Comments

There are thousands of spammers flood your blog everyday, and spam comments is a serious problem for all bloggers. Everyday, we need to go through the comments and read them to make sure these comments are not spam. These spam comments not only waste our time, but also the internet bandwidth.

Today, we are going to look into 12 great WordPress anti spam plugins, which will save your time by blocking spam bots to comment on your blog, prevent them from stealing email address from your articles, and help you fight against these spam bots.

1. Akismet

Akismet is the most popular anti spam plugin for WordPress. In order to use Akismet, you have to register an account at WordPress.com and get the API key. When new comment come to your blog, Akismet will check the comment through the web service to determine if it is spam. Suspected comments will be marked as spam and users can go through them later.

2. AVH First Defense Against Spam

This plugin has a different approach to check spam. When visitors come to your blog, this plugin will first check their IPs, to see whether these IPs exist in the database served by stopforumspam.com, the Project Honey Pot or a local blacklist. By this way, the spammer can be blocked before the content of your site is served.

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15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation

September 6th, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | View Comments

Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table.

But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.

1. DataTables

DataTables is very powerful jQuery plugin which offer a lot of features. For example, you can have on-the-fly filtering, ajax auto-loading of data, pagination, sorting columns, highlight sorted columns, extensive plug-in support, themeable by CSS or jQuery UI ThemeRoller and also a complete documentation.
jQuery DataTables plugin

2. uiTableFilter

uiTableFilter is a jQuery plugin for filtering table rows. The author shows a detailed example on how to implement the filter function for your table together with the plugin.
jQuery uiTableFilter

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15 jQuery Plugins To Create A User Friendly Tooltip

June 22nd, 2009 in Javascript, Resources | View Comments

Tooltip is a good way to show extra information when user hovers the cursor over an element. The “hover box” will appear when the mouse hover in, and disappear when the mouse hover out.

If the tooltip is being used appropriately, it can improve our site’s user friendly level, and also save us a lot of spaces. Today, we are going to see 15 jQuery plugins to create an user friendly tooltip.

1. qTip

qTip is an advance tooltip plugin which provides tonnes of features like rounded corners and speech bubble tips.
qtip

2. jQuery Tools/Tooltips

This tooltip plugin can contains any HTML element such as links, table, forms, and images. Implementing this plugin is very easy. The default effects are sliceup and toogle. However, you can easily build your own effects.
jquery-tools-tooltips
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35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers

June 20th, 2009 in Resources, Tools | View Comments

Firefox is a very popular browser especially among web designers. There are more than 70% of WDB’s readers are using Firefox. There are few reasons which make Firefox so popular compare to others and obviously its plugins had contributed a lot for that.

Today, we are going to look into 35 useful Firefox extensions for both web designers and web developers. You are not required to install all extensions, as this will cause your Firefox slow and lag. Without talking much, let’s look into these extensions.

1. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
firebug

2. Window Resizer

The Browser Window Resizer is useful for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see what a web page looks like in all of the standard resolution sizes. Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.
window-resizer

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10 WordPress Plugins That Will Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

June 2nd, 2009 in SEO, Wordpress | View Comments

A good search engine ranking will generates more organic traffic to your site.If you are using WordPress, don’t worry. WordPress already did the hard part for you. But, there are some SEO features that aren’t implemented in WordPress core. You can easily archeive these features by installing plugins.

It is totally up to you that how much plugins you need to install in order to get a better search engine ranking. But try to keep the amount to minimum so that you won’t crash your server. Today, we are going to look into 10 WordPress plugins that will increase your search engine ranking.

1. All in One SEO Pack

This plugin enables certain modifications to your WordPress blog to achieve Search Engine Optimization. For example, you can customize your post title, post description and post tags for individual post. Furthermore, this plugin also has features such as auto generates Cononical URLS for your entire WordPress site and select index/noindex for various archives pages.

2. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitors links in your site and list out links that don’t work or any missing images. The reason why this plugin is essential is because you may write an article and link to www.domain.com. This link may goes down in future and become dead ends for search engine. By using this plugin, you can get notifications immediately and remove these dead ends.

3. Google XML Sitemaps Generator

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. A sitemap will help search engine spiders to crawl your content. The generated sitemap also supported by other search engine such as Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com.
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