Add a Countdown Timer To WordPress with jQuery T Minus Countdown

Do you have a big product launch coming up? Maybe you are throwing a party and want to let people know how close it is. Whatever the case, you can use jQuery T Minus Countdown to add a cool looking countdown timer to your blog and promote your event more effectively. It is a sidebar widget plugin, and you won’t have to write a single line of code to get it to work on your website.

jQuery T Minus Countdown is easily customizable. You can change its title, description, end date, and everything in between. You can even add a link right above or below your counter to give your visitors the chance to check your event page.

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WP Missed Schedule: Fix Failed Scheduled Posts Error

I don’t know about you but I always schedule a few posts ahead of time just to have something to post in case something comes up. When you run a small business, you can never anticipate everything that could go wrong. If you do not have a few posts ready to go, you are taking a big risk. I schedule posts ahead of time and move them further forward when I have something new to write about. If something comes up, my scheduled posts get published without me having to do anything. Now that would be the perfect plan if things always went the way you want them to. In some cases, WordPress can fail to post your future posts at the time they are supposed to be published. One way to fix this is by reinstalling WordPress. Perhaps an easier way to get this done is by modifying your cron.php file (set your timeout to 3 or more). Don’t want to mess with any code? WP Missed Schedule has you covered.

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How To: Start a Persian Blog with WordPress

WordPress is not only a decent platform for English blogs, it can also be used for international websites , in some languages that are so different what we have gotten used to in this side of the world. Take Persian-world. It’s an awesome plugin that transform your WordPress website into a Farsi portal. Farsi (Persian) is close to Arabic in some ways, but it differs in many areas too. Persian World can be a life saver of a plugin for anyone interested in blogging in that language.

Persian World gets to work as soon as you activate it. You probably want to know some Persian before installing it. It not only allows you to post your content in Persian language, it supports Persian dates too. It does have fully customized Farsi widgets that you can add to your website to customize its look and feel further. (more…)

Create Enhanced WordPress RSS Widgets with Advanced RSS

RSS widgets are great ways to add dynamic content to your website and provide more value to your readers. WordPress already has a very decent RSS widget. But that does have its limitations. Thanks to Advanced RSS plugin, you won’t have to worry about those. It’s a highly customizable solution that lets you change the look and feel of RSS feeds on your website and change things around by playing around with XSL templates.

Advanced RSS Plugin does have 7 templates for you to take advantage of. These templates are designed to specifically work for certain feeds (e.g. Twitter feeds). You can always change these templates in your database to customize them further (unfortunately, I was not able to change these templates or create a new one from this plugin’s options page). (more…)

How To Add Lottery Results To WordPress

Have you ever wondered about winning the lottery results? A lot of people do. Without all those people, you wouldn’t see lottery drawings over millions of dollars. What does that mean for your website? Depending on the type of site you own, it may be beneficial for you to have a way for your visitors to check the latest lottery results right on your website. Lottery Results is a cool WordPress plugin that lets you add the latest lottery results to your website without writing a single line of code.

Getting this plugin to work is straight forward. All you have to do is add it to your widget areas and choose what you want to show up in those areas. You can choose results by state or game type. You also have 3 styles to choose from when it comes to displaying lottery numbers (more…)

Booking Calendar: Online Reservation System for WordPress

Many businesses have limited resources, which means sometimes they will have to limit the number of people they can service. The same applies to event managers. They are only going to have a certain number of spots for people. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add an online reservation service to your website and let your visitors know if you can actually provide them with the service they are looking for? Booking Calendar is a cool plugin that offers that and more.

Booking Calendar can be used for all kinds of situations. You can take advantage of it to schedule resources, manage your clients, keep on top of your event and people attending it, and even use it for your private practice as a doctor, a lawyer, or a freelancer. Your visitors can take advantage of this plugin to make appointment with you or reserve their place at your event. The booking calendars can be added to your posts or your sidebar. (more…)

Prepare WordPress for Winter with Snow, balloons and more

I don’t know about you, but we have had some of the worst winters ever in the northeast U.S. in the past couple of years. Not everyone in this area actually hates winter. If you happen to be into celebrating winter, you can always add a “snow effect” to your WordPress website with Snow, balloons and more. It is a fun way to bring something different to your blog and celebrate those snowy periods in your area. Once you install this plugin and choose the appropriate effects, you will see flakes, drops, and balloons moving all around your pages.

Snow, balloons and more has a ton of options that you can play with. For starters, you can pick and choose the objects that you want displayed moving around on your pages. You have balloons, leaves, snow flakes, and even Santa to choose from. You can always limit the number of objects on your pages. Picking too many objects is not wise as it’d be very distracting for your visitors.

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