September 5th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . There are plenty of plugins that let your visitors vote on your posts. A positive or negative vote is quite vague and does not give you information on how your visitors actually feel about your posts. That’s where “emoting” comes into play. Instead of asking visitors to give posts a thumb-up or down, you can ask them to tell you how they feel after reading your posts. Emo Vote is just the plugin for that. It lets you define custom fields and gathers useful information from your visitors.
You are in control of what emotions you want your fields to show. Your visitors can get up to 5 options when it comes to choosing the emotion they feel after reading your posts. If people feel too bored or OK about your posts, you may have some work to do.
Once you have installed the plugin, you want to add the appropriate code right before your comment template (or anywhere else you want it to show up):
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Continue Reading September 3rd in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . There are plenty of job board themes that you can take advantage of to start a fully-fledged job listing website with WordPress. Sometimes you do not want to start a whole new job board site but want to have a job board next to your blog on the same domain. Job Manager is just the plugin for the job. It’s a free and powerful job board plugin that lets you integrate a job board with your blog and manage your job board’s settings from your WordPress back-end.
Job Manager is a complete solution that lets you ad jobs, manage your job listings, and keep track of applications that you receive. Job Manager can support multiple job boards (using categories). Job fields can be optimized to fit all kinds of positions. Job Manager’s templates can be customized to give you the look and feel that you desire.
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Continue Reading 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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Continue Reading 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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Continue Reading 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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Continue Reading 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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Continue Reading 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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