Gravity Forms: Ultimate Form Plugin for WordPress

There are plenty of free form plugins that let you do all kinds of things on WordPress. Whether you are interested in creating a contact or squeeze page, there is a WordPress plugin out there for you. Gravity Forms is not your average plugin. First, it’s a premium plugin, so it’s designed for those who want to display complex forms on WordPress. It supports all kinds of elements (almost anything you can think of) on your forms and gives you an easy way to enhance your posts.

Gravity Forms enables you to add drop-downs, check-boxes, multiple-choice, and text elements to your fields. It also supports address, time, and even file upload elements. It really depends on what you want to do with your form. This plugin supports conditional forms. Dynamic field population is supported as well.

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90 Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress

One of the best ways to drive traffic to a WordPress website and build a more solid community around it is by taking advantage of social media. There are plenty of social bookmarking and social networking websites available for WordPress webmasters to take advantage of. In order to do that, you are going to have to make your website more social media friendly. That’s where WordPress social media plugins come into play. There are a ton of them around and let you add all kinds of services to your WordPress website quickly.

Mastering the art of social media is not that easy but social plugins can help make the process much easier. The below list contains some of the steps you should take to take advantage of all these social sites and 90 social plugins you can use to get these steps done.

Share Your Social Media Profiles on WordPress

What a better way to get people to connect with you on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn other than displaying your profiles on your website. These plugins let you share your social media profiles with the world.

• DandyID Services: DandyID is a wonderful service that lets you manage all your online identities from one place. This plugin integrates this service into your website.
• Social Media Page: a cool plugin that adds your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice. Just enter your username, and you are all set.
• Social Profilr: adds your social media profiles to your sidebar. Lets you choose the right size for your social media buttons too.
• Social Media Widget: another cool plugin that adds links to your social media profiles to your website. Has some cool buttons.
• PeoplePond: PeoplePond is a powerful identity management solution for social media junkies. With this plugin, you can retrieve your profile and display it on your blog.

Integrate Social Bookmarking Tools Into WordPress

If you have killer content on your website, there is no reason not to ask your visitors to help you promote it all. Of course, you need to make the process easier by adding social bookmarking buttons to your website. These plugins do just that:

• Sexy Bookmarks: lets you add social bookmarking buttons to your blog. These buttons are quite attractive.
• Fixed Social Buttons: adds colorful and attractive social buttons at a fixed position on your blog. You can optimize its behavior too.
• Cute Profiles: another cool plugin that displays your favorite bookmarking services at a fixed position on your blog.
• WP Greet Box: adds a greet box to your WordPress site that you can use to promote your social media presences. This plugin determines from where people are coming to your website and lets you customize your message for them based on that information.
• Share This: a pretty standard plugin that adds 50+ social media buttons to your blog.
• Sociable: you can provide your readers with 99 different social bookmarking buttons to help spread the word about your posts.
• Add To Any: adds Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 other services to your website.
• Sharebar: adds a dynamic vertical box to the left of every one of your blog posts containing links/buttons to popular social networking sites. Similar to what the guys at Mashable are doing.
• Digg Digg: a very complete plugin that lets you add social bookmarking buttons to your posts, pages, and categories. It can be used to display a floating box on your site as well.
• Cmin.us Social Bookmarks: a very flexible plugin that is not only dynamic but makes the submission jobs easier for your visitors. Automatically shortens your URLs and let them submit your pages to bookmarking sites in a flash. (more…)

Export Your WordPress Posts with Bookmark Export Plugin

So you want to upload your blog posts to some of those popular social bookmarking services? Many of those sites give you the ability to import your favorite pages without having to enter each entry by hand. That means you can do the same with your blog posts. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a big fan of submitting my very own posts to sites such as Delicious. I’d rather have others do it if they list my posts. But it never hurts to submit some of your top posts at first to get your feet wet. Thanks to Bookmark Export Plugin, you can export all your posts (or a selection of them) with a click of a button.

Not all social bookmarking sites are created equal. They all don’t accept the same kinds of files. With this plugin, you can choose from various separators available. So you should be able to get the right type of file for your bookmarking service. You also have the option to choose a date range for your posts and even include pages in your exported file.

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How To: Add Broken Link Report Function To WordPress

Those of you who surf on the Internet for hours each day have probably seen those top sites who rely on their visitors to identify broken links. No matter how careful you are with your links and content, things change quickly on the web. So you never know when your today’s working link could become a broken link. Worst of all, it’s not easy at all to find out about those links unless you rely on your visitors. That’s why all bloggers should implement “Broken Link Report” functionality on their blogs. That’s where GD Broken Report comes handy. It’s a very simple to use and powerful plugin for WordPress that gives your visitors an easy way to inform you about broken links on your website.

It’s always possible to implement this functionality by hand. But why do that when someone has gone through the trouble of implementing it for you in form of a WordPress plugin. GD Broken Report, adds a small link under each post, which your visitors can click on to report any broken link to you. There is no need for them to type anything else to get the job done. So it’s simple to use and fast.

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5 Best Google Buzz WordPress Plugins

So you want to take advantage of Google Buzz to expand your blog and reach out to more people? Google Buzz may be new, but if you wait till it becomes old news, you are not going to get any edge over your competitors. How can you get the most out of Google Buzz? There are various ways to do just that. You can use Google Buzz to get your content in front of more people. You can also bring your Google Buzz content to your blog. If you want to keep things simple, you can just install a Google Buzz button on your WordPress blog and let your visitors do the job. Whatever the case, there is a plugin out there for you.

If you are looking to get the most out of Google Buzz on your WordPress blog, here are 5 Buzz WordPress plugins you should try:

WP Google-buzz: one powerful WordPress plugin that enables you to add “buzz it” button to your blog. Has 11 buttons to choose from. You can no follow the links as well.

Google Buzz ER: a very simple to use plugin that lets you bring your Google Buzz posts to your blog. You can show them on your sidebar or anywhere you prefer. You can customize it easily as well. (more…)

3 Cool SMS Plugins For WordPress

So you want to take your WordPress blog to the next level and give people yet another way to connect with your blog and consume your content? You may want to try adding SMS capability to your blog. There are plenty of ways to add SMS to your WordPress blog. You can always let people to get content alerts via SMS. You can also create a section specifically for those who communicate with you via SMS. So not only you can give people more ways to connect with your blog, you can also create exclusive content based on SMS.

Thankfully, there are plugins available for WordPress that let you integrate SMS into your blog fast. So you won’t really have to do anything complicated to offer this capability on your blog. With that in mind, here are 3 SMS plugins that you may find handy:

1. Quick SMS: a cool simple plugin that lets your visitors to connect with you and send you SMS messages right from your blog. You’ll of course need a mobile phone #. (more…)

5 WordPress Plugins To Better Promote Your Posts

A lot of bloggers spend a lot of time developing high quality content to keep their visitors coming back for me. But what they don’t focus on is promoting the content they have worked on already. Let’s say you blog 3 times a week. After a year, you are going to have over 150 posts on your blog. Would people still be able to find your older posts on your blog? Do you give them a way to do that on your blog? Thankfully, there are plenty of plugins that give you the opportunity to do that.

If you happen to have a lot of articles on your blog and want to give your visitors a chance to find your other top articles by linking out to them from your sidebar or below your articles, here are 5 plugins you should try:

Random Posts: if you just want to give your visitors a chance to find out about your other articles on a random basis, you can count on this cool plugin. It comes with a lot of options and lets you modify the look and feel of how articles are presented on your website.

Popular Posts: this is my favorite plugin in this bunch. It keeps track of how many people are visiting your articles and displays a list based on that information with your top visited articles at the top. No matter how many articles you have on your website, it’s always nice to have a way to display the very best of what your blog has to offer to your visitors.

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