Posts for the Category: WordPress Plugins
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WordPress App Store – Making Plugin Purchases Easy
The WP App Store is now open for business! The WordPress App Store is a quick and easy way to purchase and install premium WordPress themes and plugins all in one place. It’s that simple! With brands like Woo Themes and ThemeJam or plugins like Gravity Forms – there isn’t much of a reason not Continue Reading »
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Easily Create Galleries and Slideshows with WordPress
Showcase by Dev7studios makes the whole process of uploading, ordering and editing your images as simple as it can be. Then it makes your gallery look stunning by automatically showing your gallery in a beautiful “lightbox” slideshow. Built in features like dynamic image resizing and simple lightbox theme changing just make it all the better. Continue Reading »
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How to Disable WordPress Plugin Deactivation
Just like how clients can mess up their WordPress site by changing the theme (Learn how to Disable Theme Switching), clients can, and will, mess up their site by deactivating plugins. This problem can be easily averted by disabling the ability to deactivate WordPress Plugins. How to Stop Users from Deactivating WordPress Plugins Place the Continue Reading »
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LifeGuard Assistant Plugin
We’ve had the LifeGuard Assistant for Developers available as a way for WordPress developers and WordPress theme authors to make some extra money on their work. This tool is especially handy for WordPress theme developers – an extra $8.70 off each theme would be a welcome income increase for any theme author. In an effort Continue Reading »
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Google+ Add to Circles WordPress Plugin
Google+ Add to Circles lets you easily add the Google+ Badge to your website through a WordPress plugin with just a widget. Google+ Add to Circles also adds Google+ Direct Connect to your WordPress site, allowing Google+ users to add you to their circles from within Google Search Results. Disclaimer: This Google+ Badge only works Continue Reading »
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WPMU – Quality WordPress Themes & WordPress Plugins
WPMU is a fantastic WordPress focused website with a WordPress blog, WordPress forum, WordPress themes, and WordPress plugins. While WPMU offers a lot for WordPress users, we’re gonna focus on their WordPress plugins. WPMU’s WordPress plugins can greatly improve any WordPress website. It doesn’t matter if you want to make minor improvements to your WordPress Continue Reading »
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Day 29: Add Google Fonts to your WordPress Website
Google Webfonts is a fantastic free web font directory. While they constantly are adding more and more webfonts, at the time of the posting there are 436 free webfonts available to improve your WordPress website. In fact, wpLifeGuard uses Quattrocento Sans for the body copy. WP Google Fonts allows you to easily add Google Web Continue Reading »
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Day 28: Use Jetpack to Boost Your WordPress site to the Next Level
Jetpack is a official Automattic WordPress Plugin. It includes several very handy features to improve your WordPress website – all of which are already found on WordPress.com websites. Jetpack adds several WordPress widgets to your WordPress website, many social sharing features, subscription options, stats, and SEO value. Feature list Subscription options Traffic statistics Social sharing Continue Reading »
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Day 27: Clean Up and Optimize your WordPress mySQL Database
While WordPress’ autosave and drafts feature is a very useful feature, it can bloat your WordPress’ mySQL database. Spam comments can also bloat your mySQL database to epic proportions. While a large mySQL database doesn’t slow down your website (Source), it does increase the chances of mySQL errors. Besides, no one likes overly bloated files Continue Reading »
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Day 26: Fighting WordPress Comment Spam
Everyone hates spam. Even spammers hate spam. Fighting comment spam on your WordPress site can be a difficult process if you don’t know what you’re doing. Thankfully there are WordPress plugins that make fighting comment spam on your WordPress website super easy to manage. The Spam Champion – Akismet Akismet is without a doubt the Continue Reading »