PulseMaps Visitor Map: Visualize Your Visitors Location On WP

When I started blogging a few years ago, I never expected to get so many visitors from around the globe. After all, I could only write in half-English. The fact is people do visit blogs that are written in languages they may not be completely familiar with. Those of you who do get a lot of traffic from other countries may want to showcase that fact on your website. That’s what PulseMaps Visitor Map offers. It is a cool plugin that visualizes your visitors’ locations on the world map.

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5 Dropbox Backup Plugins for WordPress

Dropbox is one of the main backup storage services we use to keep a copy of our files and directories in the cloud. Adding your files and directories to Dropbox does not have to be a hassle. Here are 5 Dropbox backup plugins that can handle the job:

BackupBuddy: one of the most reliable backup plugins that we have tested. Since this is a premium plugin, you can expect the folks behind it to deliver timely updates. It lets you backup your entire WordPress database to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, and Dropbox. (more…)

4 Decent Anti SOPA Plugins for WordPress

SOPA is going to be finally defeated or so it seems. Pro SOPA companies and members of Congress are realizing that this legislation is not going to be very popular. It is not something that the people want even though piracy remains a big issue for many companies. SOPA is going to be shelved for the time being. But it could always make a comeback. You can always show your support for anti-SOPA efforts by using one of these plugins:

SOPA Blackout: one of the best anti-SOPA plugins for WordPress. It adds a customizable page to your website so you can join the blackout movement on January 18th.

Go Dark: another plugin you can use to oppose Internet censorship (SOPA and PIPA). You can use this to join the blackout movement on January 18th (if it goes on). It will return a 503 status code to avoid damaging your search engine rankings. (more…)

8 Cool Plugins for Managing Categories in WordPress

Playing around with categories in WordPress is not that difficult. As long as you know your way around your theme and WordPress functions, you won’t have a difficult time manipulating your categories. These 8 plugins make the process a bit easier:

AVH Extended Categories Widgets: adds 3 category widgets to WordPress. You can use this to display top and a group of categories in your sidebar. It enhances the default category widget and lets you exclude categories easily. (more…)

Enhance Your Real Estate Portal with Simple Real Estate Pack

Every year that goes by, people feel more comfortable with using the Internet to purchase things. We are not just talking about books and DVDs here. These days you can research and find a ton of useful information on cars, houses, and everything in between online. If you have set up a real estate site to connect with potential home buyers, there is no reason you should not add the tools your visitors can use to make better buying decisions. Simple Real Estate Pack contains an awesome set of real estate tools you can add to your WordPress website in a flash.

Simple Real Estate Pack comes with affordability, mortgage, and closing cost calculators to give your customers an idea whether they can afford the homes you are offering them. It also adds live mortgage rates to your website. Best of all, this is capable of adding market trends, school information, walk score, and other local information to your site. Many of its settings can be changed from its options page. (more…)

How To Test Drive Plugins on WordPress

Testing new themes and plugins on a live website can be very risky. You never know when things can breakdown and go wrong. You also do not want to disturb your visitors by deploying plugins before you have tested them out comprehensively. That’s where Plugin Test Drive comes into play. It is a powerful plugin that lets you test the plugins you would like to use on your site before making its features available to everyone. (more…)

How To Add An Expiration Date To WordPress Posts

Many of us run time-sensitive posts on our websites. Let’s say you are running a daily coupon site. You will have to clean up your expired deal posts on a daily basis to keep your website looking clean and professional. Doing this by hand can be quite challenging, especially if you are dealing with a significant number of posts. Post Expirator is a cool plugin that does the job automatically so you won’t have to.

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