September 1st in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . Many of you have already seen how Digg and Reddit.com work. These sites aggregate stories from around the web and let their visitors vote stories up and down. That makes it easier for their visitors to find stories that are worth reading, with the help of the community behind those sites. Adding a similar functionality to your own website wouldn’t hurt your cause. At the very least, you can help your visitors make their thoughts known about each and every post on your blog. If you spend enough of your time to make sure your posts are of high quality, you shouldn’t be too worried about the votes you get on your posts.
Vote It Up is a cool WordPress plugin that adds a 2 way voting system to WordPress. Your visitors can vote stories up and down. It provides you with the opportunity to modify its skins to change the look and feel of the buttons on your website.
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0 Comments August 18th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . Webmasters are constantly on the lookout for ways to increase traffic to their websites. One of the oldest and proven ways to do that is by submitting articles to top directories. These directories can not only bring you a good amount of traffic (if you play your cards right), some can give you Yes-Follow back-links, helping your search engine rankings too. EzineArticles is one of the most popular article directories around. It can get your articles a lot of action for a long period of time. EzineArticles WordPress plugin is a cool solution for those of you who want to submit your top blog posts to EzineArticles and keep track of their status too.
Once you install the plugin, EzineArticles’ box will be added to each of your posts. If you are a premium member, you can schedule your articles too. For free members, you can change the category, define tags, and tell EzineArticles where to grab your tags and article title from.
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0 Comments August 16th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . Have you ever wanted to give your visitors a chance to give your content a thumb up or thumb down? There are plenty of scripts out there that only focus on positive or negative votes but don’t provide both. LikeBot is a simple to implement solution that adds thumb up/down buttons to your blog posts and lets your visitors give your posts votes of confidence or show their dismay with them.
What’s nice about this de-centralized service is the fact that it does not require your visitors to sign in or register on your blog or anywhere else for that matter. They can just vote on your post whenever they feel like it without all the mentioned hassles. The service gives you the chance to change the style of your buttons, which is a nice feature.
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0 Comments August 12th in Free Plug-ins, Hack Prevention by Wordpress Jedi . WordPress is a great platform for blogs and portals. A ton of people use this platform to bring their content online and share it all with the world. Unfortunately, that means you are going to have to deal with hacks attacks more often than those who are using an obscure platform. While the WordPress community is vigilant and on the top of major attacks, it can’t stop them all. That’s why all WordPress webmasters should take time to secure their blog to reduce the chances of their blog being hacked. You can’t stop all attacks, but you can surely make life difficult for hackers.
Secure WordPress is one impressive plugin that takes care of those small little details on your blog and lets you focus on more complex measures. For starters, it gets rid of tool-tips and those little error messages that hackers look out for. It gets rid of WordPress version information as well.
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0 Comments July 27th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . If you have visited sites such as Mashable in the past, you have probably seen the floating social media button box that shows up on the left side of your screen and follows you even when you scroll down the pages on that blog. Of course, Mashable is not the only website that is using that strategy to get more love from its readers. It’s actually a brilliant strategy. It’s not so much in your face to distract you from what you are reading. At the same time, it’s right in front of your readers, giving the chance to Digg or tweet your posts easily.
If you know some AJAX (jQuery), you can easily write code to create your own floating social box. But I personally am a big fan of reusing codes and solutions that are already out. Digg Digg is one of the best social media plugins around with some unique abilities. It lets you add all kinds of social networking buttons to your website. You can change its behavior in the back to make your buttons float on your pages.
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0 Comments July 23rd in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . Foursquare is one of the most exciting local social networks around. It has turned exploring cities into a game and has given plenty of people the chance to find new places of service in their city and meet up with friends too. This social network gives businesses the chance to reward their loyal customers. In addition, it provides customers with the chance to share their experiences and tips about places with their friends. Foursquare may not be as popular as Twitter or Facebook at this point, but it is gaining momentum really fast. It’s a very fun network to be a part of and can encourage you to discover new places in your city.
If you are just getting started with Foursquare or want to share your adventures with your audience, you are going to need Foursquare Map for WordPress. It’s a straight-forward plugin that lets you share your check-ins on a map with the world. It does not require you to know any programming. All you need is a Foursquare account and some activity on that network.
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1 Comment July 13th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . There are plenty of bloggers out there who write new posts everyday. You can do that regardless of the niche you are involved in. But sometimes, you may have blog posts that are timeless. It never hurts to promote these posts and see how well they do on your front page. Maybe you have a weekly deal site and want to rotate your deals around to keep your site looking fresh without adding useless deals to accomplish the very same thing. That’s why OldPostSpinner plugin is so handy. It’s a cool script that lets you pick and choose the post that you want to promote and let the plugin take care of the rest.
Here is how this plugin works. You determine your criteria for the posts you want to get promoted and the plugin will randomly choose from posts that fit your requirements. If you don’t want to promote posts that are too old, you have got the option to take care of that. You don’t necessarily have to move your post to the first position on your blog. The plugin lets you define the exact position. If you want to let your visitors know that they are seeing an old post, you can add the appropriate text next to your date using this plugin.
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