May 21st in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Many of us don’t allow user registrations on our websites for various reasons (mine’s are mainly for the security challenges we have had in the past). But if you do leave that option on the table for your visitors, you should make the process of registering for new accounts easier for your visitors. One way to do that is by letting them sign up with their Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ credentials. These social plugin for WordPress make that possible:
Simple Facebook Connect: Facebook is the most popular social network around these days. Millions of people have an account with those guys. With this plugin installed, your visitors get to log onto your website using their Facebook credentials. [click to continue…]
May 18th in Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . No matter how great your content is, some people may not have the time to read it in one try. Giving them a way to save your articles to read a later time would make their life a whole lot easier. These 3 plugins allow you to do just that:
Instapaper Read Later Links: this plugin allows you to display Read Later links next to each post on your blog. Pretty useful for Instapaper users. [click to continue…]
May 17th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Getting a lot of comments on your blog is a big deal. Not everyone gets to pull that off. So it never hurts to thank your first time commenters via e-mail to not only show your appreciation for their feedback but also remind them to come back to your blog for more discussions. Of course, you do not want to do this manually if you get a ton of comments every day. Plugins such as Thank Me Later make doing this a whole lot easier.
Thank Me Later lets you thank people who have commented on your website. The message you send people is highly customizable. In fact, you can queue up multiple templates, give them a probability number, and let the script do the rest. Of course, you can use your messages to ask your commenters to come back to your website for more or subscribe to your website.
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May 15th in Anti-Spam, Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Depending on the type of community you run online, you may not want your members to post profanity or abusive comments to your site. You can always watch out for those types of comments manually. Here are 3 profanity filter plugins that make the job much easier.
WP Content Filter: filters out profanity, abusive material, and other keywords of your choosing on your website. You can choose which parts of your website you want to filter and how the plugin should go about doing it.
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May 13th in WordPress Themes by Wordpress Jedi . In the past few years, we have covered plenty of colorful themes for WordPress. Premium WordPress designs are great for folks who do not want to mess with a whole lot of coding. But if you know your way around CSS and PHP, there is no reason you should not use clean/blank theme frameworks to come up with a design unique to your site. Interested? These 8 clean theme frameworks are must-see:
Headway: one of my favorite theme frameworks around. It has a powerful set of tools that make designing a site from scratch a piece of cake.
Thesis: we have used Thesis for many projects in the past. It is SEO friendly and highly customizable. It has a dedicated team behind it that keep bringing new features to it. [click to continue…]
May 11th in WordPress Themes by Wordpress Jedi . The Thesis theme for WordPress does not need any introduction. It is one of our favorite frameworks around and is being used by some of the most famous bloggers and web publishers on the internet. The Thesis Theme framework makes putting together sophisticated WordPress sites easier. You can always come up with a unique design for it from scratch. These 10 beautiful Thesis skins save you some time getting your site online:
Clip Cart: a stylish e-commerce child theme for Thesis or Genesis. It provides support for Cart66 WordPress plugin.
Easy Thesis: this offers 8 color schemes and 3 widget areas. It is social media friendly and has additional sets of options for you to play around with. [click to continue…]
How To: Thank Those Who Comment on Your WordPress Blog
Getting a lot of comments on your blog is a big deal. Not everyone gets to pull that off. So it never hurts to thank your first time commenters via e-mail to not only show your appreciation for their feedback but also remind them to come back to your blog for more discussions. Of course, you do not want to do this manually if you get a ton of comments every day. Plugins such as Thank Me Later make doing this a whole lot easier.
Thank Me Later lets you thank people who have commented on your website. The message you send people is highly customizable. In fact, you can queue up multiple templates, give them a probability number, and let the script do the rest. Of course, you can use your messages to ask your commenters to come back to your website for more or subscribe to your website.
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