80+ Websites To Submit And Promote Your Articles

From the last 2 months I was using Community news section of various blogs to submit and promote my design related articles and always get huge traffic after submitting my articles to these sites. In this article I’m going to share a list of best websites that offer community news section.

Direct Submission

1. Inspiration Feed
   http://inspirationfeed.com/design/ (Located on Sidebar)
   
2. 10steps.sg
   http://10steps.sg/wp-content/themes/10StepsBlue/community-link#submitfeed
   
3. ThemeFlash
   http://www.themeflash.com/user-feed-link/#add
   
4. Graphic Mania
   http://www.graphicmania.net/news-archive/
   
5. DesignrFix
   http://designrfix.com/category/news/
   
6. DevSnippets
   http://devsnippets.com/submit
   
7. Colorburned
   http://colorburned.com/link-feed#submit
   
8. InstantShift
   http://www.instantshift.com/user-submitted-news/
   
9. Web Design Updates
   http://www.pvmgarage.com/wdu/submit/
   
10. Design Your Way
    http://www.designyourway.net/blog/submit/
    
11. CreativeFan
    http://creativefan.com/ (Located on Sidebar)
    
12. CrazyLeaf Design Blog
    http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/user-submitted-links/
    
13. Fav Share
    http://favshare.net/favshare-your-article/
    
14. GoMediaZine
    http://www.gomediazine.com/news/site-news/go-media-user-link-feed/
    
15. PSDFAN
    http://psdfan.com/user-link-feed
    
16. Psdvibe
    http://psdvibe.com/ (Located on Sidebar)
    
17. PSD Learning
    http://psdlearning.com/2008/07/user-links/e
    
18. MyInkBlog
    http://www.myinkblog.com/design-news/#submit
    
19. SpeckyBoy
    http://speckyboy.com/submit-or-recommend-a-design-resource/
    
20. Designm.ag
    http://designm.ag/submit-news/
    
21. TutCandy
    http://tutcandy.com/submit/
    
22. TripWireMagazine
    http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/submit-user-link
    
23. Fuel Your Creativity
    http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/user-link-feed/
    
24. Knowtebook
    http://www.knowtebook.com/community-link-feed-1112.htm#add
    
25. Script and Style
    http://scriptandstyle.com/submit
26. DesignNewz
    http://design-newz.com/submit-newz/
27. Webdesign News
    http://www.webdesign-ne.ws/submit
28. Smashing Post
    http://www.smashingpost.com/submit-post/
29. WPRecipes
    http://www.wprecipes.com/submit
30. WP Candy
    http://wpcandy.com/submit
31. Wordpress Arena
    http://wparena.com/community-news/#add
32. Area1
    http://www.area1.info/community-link-feed/#add
33. DesignDazzling
    http://www.designdazzling.com/
34. Design Shards
    http://designshards.com/submit-link/
35. Web and Designers
    http://www.webanddesigners.com/user-link-feed
36. DesignBeep
    http://designbeep.com/ (Located on Sidebar)
37. DesignJuices
    http://www.designjuices.co.uk/community-news/
38. DesignUssion
    http://www.designussion.com/submit-news/
39. Artfan Design
    http://www.artfans.info/?page_id=574#submit
40. BrushKing
    http://www.brushking.eu/submit_news.php
41. Sharebrain
    http://sharebrain.info/ (Located on Sidebar)
42. CssLeak
    http://www.cssleak.com/submit.php
43. pv.mgarage
    http://www.pvmgarage.com/en/submit-news/
44. VisualSwirl
    http://www.visualswirl.com/submit-news/
45. DesignArtWall
    http://www.designartwall.com/news/
46. Tutorials Palace
    http://www.tutorialspalace.com/#submit
47. Reencoded
    http://www.reencoded.com/ (Located on Sidebar)
48. Chethstudios
    http://www.chethstudios.net/2009/04/submit-design-news-on-chethstudios.html
49. AnimHut
    http://www.animhut.com/(Located on Sidebar)
50. CssReflex
    http://www.cssreflex.com/community-news
51. Web Developer Juice
    http://www.webdeveloperjuice.com/submit-news/
52. Design Jojo
    http://designjojo.com/submit
53. CSS Drive
    http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/submit/
54. Admixweb
    http://www.admixweb.com/communitynews/
55. Whofreelance
    http://whofreelance.com/news-submission/
56. Build Internet
    http://buildinternet.com/news/#fvCommunityNewsForm
57. Creative Urbia
    http://creativeurbia.com/add-news/#fvCommunityNewsForm

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1. Digg
   http://digg.com/design
2. Delicious
   http://delicious.com/
3. DZone
   http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html
4. DesignBump
   http://designbump.com/submit
5. Propeller
   http://www.propeller.com/story/submit/
6. Mixx
   http://www.mixx.com/submit
7. Reddit
   http://www.reddit.com/submit
8. Design Float
   http://www.designfloat.com/submit/
9. Yahoo Buzz!
   http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/
10. Design Related
    http://www.designrelated.com/
11. Designmoo
    http://designmoo.com/submit
12. The Web Blend
    http://thewebblend.com/
13. Twitter
    http://twitter.com/
14. Graphic Design Links
    http://www.graphic-design-links.com/submit.php
15. Abduzeedo
    http://abduzeedo.com/user-news
16. BlogEngage
    http://www.blogengage.com/submit.php
17. Faqpal
    http://www.faqpal.com/
18. CSS Globe
    http://cssglobe.com/
19. DesignDazzling News
    http://submit.designdazzling.com/submit.php
20. WP Scoop
    http://wpscoop.com/submit
21. Tutable
    http://www.tutable.com/submit
22. Tweako
    http://tweako.com/submit
23. Developers Niche
    http://www.developersniche.com/submit.php
24. Inspired News
    http://www.inspiredn.com/
25. Za Box
    http://www.zabox.net/submit
26. Top Roundups
    http://toproundups.com/submit/

I’m using these websites at regular basis to submit and promote my design related articles. If you think I missed a website that should be in this list, please leave your comments.

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16 Must have Plugins for a Wordpress Blog

 If you have a wordpress blog then you must make sure that you have these wordpress plugins in your blog. The plugin help enhance your blog and add extra features in blogs. These 16 plugins are the basic plugins that a wordpress blogger must have in his blog.

1. All in one SEO: This plugin is the most popular SEO plugin for wordpress. It helps you to add meta keywords and descriptions to your posts and home pages and also you can change the post title structre with the help of this plugin.
2. Google XML sitemap generator: This plugin helps you to create a dynamic XML sitemap of your site. You can change the properties also from the panel of the plugin. After creating your sitemap dont't forget to submit it to Google webmasters.
3. SEO smart links: This plugin interlinks your posts by linking keywords with related posts and categories. This is a great way to make people read more posts from your blog.
4. WP super cache: The dynamic php pages take more time in loading and also puts more load on the server, this plugin creates an HTML page of your content in a folder on server. So when someone opens the same page again, the page will load faster and also there will be much lesser load on the server. This plugin is must for blogs that have large amount of images hosted on their blog.
5. Yoast breadcrumbs: This plugin helps users to navigate in your blog. This plugin creates a structure like this: You are here: "Home » Category » Gadgets » Apple".
6. Bad behavior: This plugin protects your blog from receiving comment spams. It's very smart plugin and identifies the source whether it's human or a spam software and keeps the spam away from your blog.
7. No self ping: After you post an article or update any article your blog starts pinging and also it pings it self also, this slows down the posting process. This plugin will stop self pining of your blog.
8. Sociable plugin: Add bookmarking sites to your posts with the help of this plugin. You can choose the selected bookmarking sites to be shown below the post by changing the settings from the admin panel in sociable plugin.
9. Contact form 7: This plugin adds a contact form to your wordpress blog. Make sure you have this plugin so people can reach you and send their queries related to your blog. The plugin is easy to install and works smoothly.
10. Popular posts plugin: Shows the most popular posts of your blog.
11. Recent posts plugin: Shows the recent posts of your blog.
12. Light box plus: This is a new plugin and it opens the full size of image in a transparent ajax window, which is beautiful to look at.
13. Recent comments: Show the recent comments posted on your blog with the help of the plugin.
14. WP Content protector: If you want to protect your unique content from being coped by other, then make sure you use this plugin. The plugin disables right click feature on the page and also disable the selection of the text. This way you can protect your unique work.
15. Simple CAPTCHA: Protects spammers from spamming your blog.
16. Related posts: Show related posts below your posts. You can always edit the look feel by editing through CSS file in your blog.

Wordpress Social Bookmarking Plugins

 Social bookmarking widget is a must have for a blog. There some really good social plugins for wordpress which are mostly used by the bloggers and these plugins are the best you can get for your blog.

• AddThis Plugin: The plugin is provided by addthis.com only, the plugin lists some really top and important social media websites you can share your bookmarks with, also there is option to send the page via email to your friends.
• ShareThis: This plugin is provided by Sharethis.com team. This is an elegant social bookmarking plugin for wordpress, emailing the page to your friends is so much easier with this plugin.
• Sociable Plugin For Wordpress: Sociable plugin adds social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of your posts. You can choose your favoutite bookmarking sites button to show at the bottom of your posts. You can also change the location of the buttons if you want and you can do that from your backend panel.

How To Design Wordpress Theme? 5 Great Online Resources

Learn to create wordpress themes on your own. Some of the best and simple online tutorials to teach you wordpress theme designing. You will be explained from header to footer on how to create a wordpress theme.
Wordpress is an amazing technology and it's the most used blogging platform, just imagine what you can do with your template designing skills. You can use your template designing skills to create incredible templates for wordpress and sell those templates to make good money. People are always looking for great wordpress templates and wordpress designers so this opens another gate for you as a source of earning money by providing redesigning services to wordpress bloggers.

1. WpDesigner: Create wordpress theme from scratch. 16 Lessons to learn theme designing.
   
2. Texto: Get started with your HTML and CSS knowledge.
3. Wordpress: Complete guide to wordpress and it's features. This is the official wordpress website, here you will find all the designing features from basic wordpress designing to advanced wordpress designing.

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10 Life Saving Wordpress Plugins Often Ignored By Bloggers

This post is to educate Wordpress bloggers about some of the important plugins for wordpress blogs which you may not know about or the importance of theme but let me tell you this these plugins prove to be the life saving plugins for a blog. It is a must read for those who have just stepped into blogging and those who are thinking of starting a self hosted wordpress blog.

I hope you will find this post useful and informative. If you like this post please feel free to tell me about it in your comments and share it with your friends to inform them as well.



1. WP-DB-Backup

This plugin helps you take the backup of your database and gets the backup file sent to your email Inbox. It's a hassle free and simple process to backup your blog database without much effort and also you can configure the plugin to take the backup automatically after some interval.

With backup of your blog you can restore the data if any mishap happens.

2. No Self Ping

This plugin stops your blog from pinging its own posts and sending trackbacks to the posts of your blog only. The trackback links are created whenever you link your post with another blog post. The trackback links are shown in the comment section of your wordpress blog and receiving trackbacks from your own blog is no use rather waste of bandwidth and running some extra process on server.

3. WP Super Cache

This plugin generates a static HTML file for your dynamic blog pages. So whenever someone opens your blog the data will be fetched from static HTML page instead of running a heavier PHP script file which puts more load on CPU of the server.
If you are on shared hosting and you intend to drive traffic from sites like Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon and more than this plugin is must for your blog.

4. WP Security Scan

This plugin will scan your wordpress setup for any vulnerabilities and also suggests you with corrective suggestions. This plugin hides the version of the wordpress from the header, so that your readers wont know the wordpress version you are using. This is a very important security plugin and you should scan your wordpress with this plugin once in a while for any vulnerabilities in your blog security.

5. SEO No Duplicate

If for some reasons you have duplicate content on your blog or you are facing duplicate content issues on your blog then this plugin will help you sort it out. This plugin will inform the search engine about the preferred version of the post or page which should be indexed and leaving the rest. At the end helping you from being penalized by search engines for having duplicate content in your blog.

6. Maintenance Mode

This plugin will add a splash page which will let your visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance. It will display a default message informing your visitors about it.

7. Scissors

The plugin will add cropping, resizing and rotating functionality to your wordpress image upload management. It also allows you to crop image automatically and also manual watermarking of images.
This is a great plugin for those wordpress blogs where images are uploaded more often and are main part of content feed.

8. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will scan your blog for any broken links and inform you about those broken links in your blog, it also detects redirect links. You can easily monitor for broken links and improve your SEO status of your blog.

9. Register Plus

If you want to allow your readers to register on your blog and publish articles on their own then this is a great plugin for an enhanced registration form.
This plugin allows you to change the logo on the registration page. No more emailing of passwords in emails, instead allow your users to create their own custom password and also check the strength of the password in the strength tool and many more features.

10. Plugin Central

It will help you to update all your plugins at once and moreover if you shift your blog or change your hosting then this is a great plugin in that case as multiple-plugin install feature allows you to move plugins from one blog to another. A real time saver.

SEO Tips For Beginner Bloggers

SEO is an important part of blogging. You don't just want to be writing content after content and no one there to read it, no one wants that to happen. So, there are some important white hat SEO tips that a beginner blogger must know and follow as well.

If you are completely new to the concept of blogging then you must read this first to open up your mind about blogging concept "What is Blogging? and how can I benefit from Blogging" and also check out "Top 10 important tips for beginner bloggers".





Now you should be ready to go through with SEO tips for blogging:

• Blogging platform: When you start blogging on platforms like Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad or anyother platform for blogging, your 80-85% of SEO work is already done by these blogs. Blogs themself are search engine friendly and all the search engines love to crawl blogs. So what you have to do is that try to fill that 20% SEO gap as much as possible.
• Quality content is the key: Provide good quality content in your blog, if the content is good then only your visitors are going to stick to your blog posts to read it, else they will just skip your blog and your bounce rate will go up.
• Unique content: In order to get a good content make sure you don't copy it from some other website or blog. Copying content will benefit you in no way at all instead it can lead your blog to be penalized by the search engines and the SERP (search engine result page) will go down.
• Quality keywords and phrases: Add good quality key phrases to optimize your page for SEO, don't just focus on single keyword, describe your page well in about 160 words and choose your keywords wisely. Don't stuff unnecessery key words.
  
• Use targeted keywords in Headlines: Use your targeted key phrases as headline tag(H1, H2 etc). This provides more value to your targeted keywords than that of other words.

Off page SEO (search engine optimization)

• Blog submission: Submit your blog URL to search engines and top directories on web.
• Get good backlinks: Ask other bloggers to backlink to your blog. Get links from blogs and websites related to your niche. Make sure you are reputed bloggers and websites to link to your blog. If your blog is referred by good and reputed websites then that will help your blog's creadibility in search engines and your content will also gain prefrence.
• RSS submission: Submit your RSS to RSS directories on web and blogs that take RSS submissions.
• Keep your blog updated: Don't make your site look static by keeping the content and not updating it. Also it's always good to provide your visitors with updated and new content. By adding new content you are allowing search engines to index more and more pages from your blog.

These are some of the most important SEO tips which you must follow and you should see results in 20-30 days if you do everything correctly and follow the process.
Never use black hat SEO methods to get top rankings in search engines as it can get your domain banned from search engines.

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Tips To Drive Traffic From Digg

Digg is one the most popular social media websites. Bloggers love Digg because Digg is a website where you can submit your blog content no matter what your blog's niche is as far as your content is revelent to masses. To achieve success on Digg you have to follow some rules, written and unwritten both.

As a blogger and as a responsible Digg user follow the steps below and you should do well with driving traffic from Digg to your blog.

1. Quality content: The content that you want to submit on Digg must be of good quality if you others to Digg your story. The digg users are only going to digg it if they find it interesting or else they might just bury it as lame content.
   
2. Don't submit your own blog: Don't submit your own blog's content yourself unless you want your blog to be banned on Digg. So, what to do if you can't submit your own content, don't worry, you can always ask your fellow diggers in your network to submit the story if they are comfortable and they will probably won't mind submitting it if your content is really nice but also make sure that you don't ask too much of favor from Diggers like asking them to post your story evry other day. This can get your reputation down as a digg user and you might not get too much support for your future stories.
3. When you ask other diggers to digg your story, ask them to digg some other stories as well on the same page. Don't make a monotonous cycle to get diggs from other users. Digg is a smart website and to deal with the spamming they have look after every aspect so trying to fool digg is not a good option.
   
4. stay active on digg and keep digging stories to make your presence felt on digg. Don't just login to your digg account to submit a link or ask other's to digg your story. Keep intracting with other digg users also.
5. Always link to the direct source of the story instead of trying to link a story through some blog because that comes under Digg's terms of use violation and also that is considered to be spam which can lead to deactivation of your digg account.

These are important facts that you must keep in mind to achieve good results for your blog on digg and also to maintain a high profile on digg. You need to be patient with digg to drive some good traffic by hitting the front page of the digg. There are chances that you may not hit front page page in beginning even if your content was exceptional but never lose hope keep posting good quality content in your blog and if you do so then your loyal visitors may themself volunteer to post your content on digg. I'm saying this because that has happened with me and many other blogger's, to succees you must be patient and persistant and soon you will see getting success with digg.

55+ Websites To Download Free Templates/Themes For Website/Blog

A collection of some of the best websites to download stunning themes/templates for your favorite CMS for free. These are the websites which provide you with the legal download links and moreover these themes are safe to use as they do not contain any malicious file or virus which would harm your website.

Have fun downloading free themes for you blog or website and don't forget to share it with you friends, so they can also benefit from the source.

Websites To Download HTML/CSS Templates

• Freewebtemplates - A useful website where you can find CSS, Flash and many more website templates.
• Freecsstemplates - A huge collection of beautiful CSS templates.
• Templatemo - This website contains some really good collection of professional CSS templates that you will like for sure.
• Temaplteworld - A mind blowing collection of free XHTML/CSS templates.
• Free-CSS  - CSS templates gallery.
• CssCreme - Not a huge collection by some quality templates which you can use for your purpose.
• Arcsin - Offers you more than just CSS themes.
• Styleshout - Cool CSS website templates.
• Bestfreetemplates - Stunning and premium looking free website templates for free and also available in lots of categories.
• Freecsstemplates.Com - Some quality templates you can find here.
• Templateyes - CSS and Flash templates.
• OpenSourceTemplates - The best free website templates.
• Solucija - Browse templates by categories and styles.
• Templatebox - A decent collection of themes.

Free Wordpress Themes

• Themedaily - A huge collection of wordpress themes.
• Bestwpthemes - You will find all the great themes on one single page.
• Freewpthemes - Free themes gallery.
• Themes2wp - A monster collection of all kinds of wordpress themes and literally for all kind of categories.
• Wordpressthemebase - A vast yet beautiful collection of wordpress themes.
• Themesplice - Free themes.
• Templatesbrowser - A very distinct collection of wordpress themes.
• WPskins - Adsense ready wordpress themes.
Some More Websites To Download Wordpress Themes For Free
• Wordpressthemesforfree
• Topwpthemes
• Skinpress
• Web2feel
• WPtemplates
• WPthemesfree
• WPthemespot
• WPdaddy
• WPthemeland
• Themes-wp
• Magpress
• Themesbase
• Themespreview

Blogger Templates

• Bloggertemplatesfree - A great place to find good blogger templates.
• Btemplates - The best and the biggest collection of blogger templates on this website.
• Blogger-templates - A few but good themes.
• Ourblogtemplates - Simple templates mainly.
• BloggerStyles - A huge collection of blogger themes.
• Deluxetemplates - A website run by a designer and has some great collection of professional blogger templates.
• Pyzam - Get themes for blogger on pyzam.
• Chicablogger -A Spanish website that offers some beautiful blogger templates.
• Bietemplates - A blog hosted on blogger as well, that has some nice collection of blogger themes.
• Bthemes - Another blogger based blog that offers some great range of themes for blogger.

Joomla Templates Websites

• Joomla24 - A monster collection of themes for Joomla.
• Joomla2u - Theme for all categories.
• Themebase - Great Joomla themes worth downloading.
• Themebot - A website with wide range of themes for Joomla, flash, wordpress and more platforms.
• Themeza - Themes available for different Joomla versions.

Drupal Theme Websites

• Drupal2u - 230+ Free Drupal templates available for download.
• Themebot - Hundreds of Drupal themes for download, choose your favorite one.
• Drupalab - Drupal themes and Drupal development.
• Drupal.org - Official Drupal website to download some stunning themes for free.
• Topdrupalthemes - Quality themes available for free download.
• Drupal-theme.net - Bringing you some really unique and huge collection of Drupal themes.

40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks

Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.

1. Display categories in horizontal Drop-Down menu

   Instead of using your categories in sidebar, you can put them up on the navigation bar, dropping down the sub categories in second-level drop down.
   
   

2. Add Gravatar for post author

   How about adding Gravatar to your post titles to highlight the comment author?
   
   

3. Using custom page as homepage

   Instead of showing recent entries as main page on your blog, customize it!
   
   

4. Add author bio on every blog post

   For multi-authored blogs, adding the bio info of each author at the bottom of their respective posts is a good way to give props to the author as well as providing information to the readers as to who that person is without having to refer to an about me page.
   
   

5. Display recent post from specific category

   Control recent post of any categories you want to display.
   

6. Highlight author’s comments

   This helps differenciate the author’s comments away from the rest. Useful for commentators to spot which are comments made by the author.
   
   

7. Create thumbnails for each blog post and displays them

   How to create thumbnails for each blog post, use them anywhere you want, make your post more interesting.
   
   

8. Create and show categories image

   How to add some simple PHP code to your Wordpress template and make linked images appear instead of text for your categories in posts.
   

9. Format images for feed readers

   Get your blog content to display properly, even in feeds.
   
   

10. Create really cool Wordpress date button

    Display your blot post’s date in the form of button.
    
    

11. Hiding Advertisements For Single Posts

    Quick and easy way to hide advertisements for any particular post by making some minor changes to your theme.
    

12. Creating a dynamic sticky

    There are some news you just want them to stay on top.
    

13. Customize Error 404 page

    Create a new Error 404 page of your own.
    

14. Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme

    Implementing a custom stylesheet that simply overrides the styles defined in the theme’s original stylesheet
    

15. Make your blog Digg proof

    Tweaks and settings to add to your blog to take the Digg effect.
    

16. Using Wordpress as Membership Directory

    Create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information.
    
    

17. 4 Ways to speed up your wordpress blog

    Some quick tips on how to speed up your self-hosted WordPress site.
    

18. Create mobile version of your blog

    Create a mobile version of the website within clicks with Mofuse.
    
    

19. Open links in new windows (by default)

    Title’s pretty self-explainatory, make all links open in new window.
    

20. Turn Wordpress blog into CMS (Content Management System)

    Your Wordpress blog don’t have to look like a typical blog display. It can be something more fun.
    
    

21. WordPress Thumbnail Size Limit Hack

    Don’t like the default thumbnail JPEG quality? Change it.
    

22. Automatically post Del.icio.us daily link to Wordpress

    Get more daily post on blog, from del.icio.us
    
    

23. Create a peel away effect on blog

    Very effective way to market products and bring more attention to pages you want visitors to focus.
    
    

24. Seperate Comments from Trackbacks/Pingbacks

    Get a clear view on what are comments, what’s not.
    
    

25. Blog Alone or Together with Writely

    Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.
    
    

26. Embed Google Ad in first wordpress post

    The leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) sites will tell you that placing an ad after the first post in your blog’s home page is particularly effective.
    

27. Creating multiple single posts for different categories

    Fast and simple way to assign a specific stylesheet for only one category of blog posts in a WordPress blog.
    

28. Using WordPress Custom Fields

    You can do pretty much anything you want with custom fields. Your imagination is your limit.
    

29. Creating an Archive Index

    Create single page with links to all your archived entries, arranged just so to form the main gateway into your blog’s past.
    

30. Wicked WordPress Archives in One Easy Step

    Provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability.
    

31. Place a login form in the sidebar

    Put a login on the front page of your Wordpress blog.
    
    

32. Protect Wordpress post against hot-linking

    Plugin for Wordpress that helps prevent image hotlinking as easy as installing and activating it.
    
    

33. Moving a Static HTML Site to WordPress

    how you retain the old URLs after moving static HTML to Wordpress.
    

34. Build a Techmeme River of News Clone

    Building something similar to Techmeme with Wordpress.
    
    

35. Custom login page

    This is more significant for multi author blogs, or sites you have set up for clients.
    
    

36. How to Put Your Best Content Forward

    Don’t let your best content get lost in the archives.
    

37. Display Twitter messages in Wordpress

    Customize the Twitter message display on your Wordpress blog.
    
    

38. Add Stripe Ad to boost response / earnings

    A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top ofyour blog
    
    

39. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

    Put your Facebook statuses directly on your wordpress blog. Works for both self-host Wordpress and Wordpress.com bloggers.
    
    

40. Post text and image count

    Counts and display number of words and images (leaving the default Wordpress smilies out)
    

41. Place content only in RSS Feed

    Ever wonder how some bloggers control some content to be shown only in RSS feed but not the blog. Here’s the plugin to do that – RSS Footer.
    
    

Read more: 40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks | Wordpress http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/#ixzz0iVcp8vJm

Wordpress 16 Wordpress Plugins Everyone Must Install

Hello there! as i have already published a few posts about wordpress themes and code snippets. This time i’ve decided to write about the wordpress plugins, There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet, but some of the wordpress plugins are most essential to run a successful blog. below is a list of  16 essential Wordpress Plugins I cannot blog without.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Code Keeper

CodeKeeper plugin retains the formatting of blocks and converts any characters to HTML entities when necessary. It is useful for small snippets of code that do not require colour-coding, line numbering, or the other effects offered by more powerful syntax highlighters.

FD Feedburner Plugin

It Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

jQuery lazy load plugin

Lazy loader delays loading of images in (long) pages. Images below the fold (far down in the page) wont be loaded before user scrolls down. This is opposite of image preloading. Using lazy load on long pages containing heavy image content makes page feels snappier. Browser is in ready state after loading visible images. No need to wait for unknown amount of pictures to load.

Login Lockdown

This plugin records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. 99% of your visitors will be served static html files.

Stealth Login

This plugin allows you to create custom URLs for logging in, logging out, administration and registering for your WordPress blog. Instead of advertising your login url on your homepage, you can create a url of your choice that can be easier to remember than wp-login.php, for example you could set your login url to http://www.myblog.com/login for an easy way to login to your website.

Platinum SEO Pack

This Plugin is the ultimate wordpress SEO solution .Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

(YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. This plugin requires that your database run on MySQL 4.1 or greater.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Wordpress Database Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.

WordPress.com Stats

This Plugin collects information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.