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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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…)

5 Ways To Greet Website Visitors On WordPress

Building a solid community takes a lot of work. Publishers not only have to come up with great content, they also have to take care of their community. You certainly want to take care of your loyal readers. But giving your new visitors  some attention with a greeting message is a good idea as well. Here are 5 plugins you can use to personally welcome new visitors to your website:

WP Greet Box: lets you display different messages to your visitors depending on how they find your website. You can use this to promote your social outposts or give your new visitors some incentive to become a loyal reader. (more…)

5 Plugins To Monitor Your Blog’s Traffic

Creating superb content for your website is the best way to make sure people come back to your site for more. You do need to keep track of your traffic to make sure you are on the right track. You can always use Google Analytics or solutions of that nature to track the visitors your site gets. These 5 plugins can monitor your traffic too:

WassUp for WordPress: provides you with real time statistics on your traffic. It shows you exactly what your visitors are doing on your website.

Visitor Maps and Who’s Online: it shows your visitors who are online in your sidebar. It also displays the location of your visitors on a map.

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6 Handy Scheduled Posts Plugins for WordPress

Many of us schedule posts ahead of time to lower our work load and be prepared for emergency situations. Having a bunch of posts queued up to go live without you having to do anything can reduce pressure on you and give you the freedom to use your creativity to develop higher quality work. WordPress is generally great in handling scheduled posts. These 6 plugins can help you handle your scheduled articles more effectively:

WP Missed Schedule Fix: WordPress should have no trouble posting your scheduled articles on time. But from time to time the process fails, especially if you don’t have the perfect environment set up for WP. This plugin lets you get around this issue without having to make major changes to your server environment.

Display Scheduled Posts: lets you display the posts you have scheduled in a post or page of your choosing. It can give your community members heads up about your upcoming work. (more…)

Assignment Desk: Editorial Tool for WordPress News Sites

Have you ever wanted to start your very own professional news portal? Maybe you are just tired of going solo and want to expand your portal by getting your community members involved. Assignment Desk is just the tool for that. It’s a powerful editorial tool for news sites that enables portal owners, community members, and news contributors to better communicate with one another. Assignment Desk can be used to gather ideas and assign stories to contributors.

Assignment Desk has plenty of options you can optimize to take your news website to the next level. The default assignment status is new. You do have the option to define new workflow statuses. Portal owners can use this system to easily assign stories to their writers. If you need to have multiple authors on your website, Co-Authors Plus plugin is a must-have. (more…)