Here is a list of great plugins that you may find useful incorporating into your Word Press website.

Shopp

The Shopp plugin has been around for a little while and continues to be our plugin of choice when integrating an e-commerce solution for Word Press. They offer extra modules for common gateways and shipping providers, and with the ability to modify the page templates as child templates, you can style it almost any way you want.

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

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When adding your feed URL to FeedBurner, you may want to exclude some categories from your feed. A simple problem demands a simple solution.. but figuring out how to do it may not be obvious.

So how do you exclude categories from your feed when using FeedBurner?

The solution is easier than you might think…

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The new Freebie Images WordPress Plugin provides a nice interface for adding  free stock photos and images to your blog.

Features:

• Image Search
• Advanced Image Search
• Drag and Drop images right into your edit window.
• Easy to install and use.

Licensing:

The images provided by this plugin use the Creative Commons License with a few conditions:

• Attribution – Each image has a small watermark and a caption with a link.
• No Derivative Works – You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

From our testing, the plugin appears to work as expected, but does seem to conflict with a few other plugins that enhance the edit window in WordPress.

Give it a try, you just might like it!

Since we appear to be on a Twitter kick today, here is a list of even more tools for integrating Twitter with Word Press:

• Twitter Tools – This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
• Twitter for WordPress – Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
• Tweetable – Tweetable is a WordPress Plugin intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can tweet your blog posts as they are published, shortening the URLs with either Tr.im or Is.gd and optionally including Google Analytics campaign tags. You can display your latest tweet(s) in your blog sidebar with a customizable widget, which can even display your follower count.
• Official Twitter Widget – Widgets let you display Twitter updates on your website or social network page.
• Twitpress – Twitpress is a really simple WordPress plugin that does one thing: Every time you publish a post on your blog, it tweets an update to your twitter account.
• Bird Feeder – Bird Feeder is a WordPress plug-in that simply tweets when you publish a post. It doesn’t do anything else, nor will it ever.
• Twitterfeed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.

Here is a great little plugin for Word Press to help people follow you on Twitter.

Follow Me Plugin Website

WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allow you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog.

With FollowMe you can:

• change the color of the badge
• change the follow me label (Follow me /  Follow us)
• change the position of the badge (left side or right side and the distance from top)

What you need to use this plugin :

• a wordpress powered website (blog)
• a twitter.com account (obviously)

We have just installed a new Word Press plugin that should also post to our Twitter account.

Testing 123 .. cross your fingers.

Here is the link to the plugin : Twit-update

cforms II 8.5.1 Upgrade Notes – Upgrade today!

Generally: if you’re upgrading from an older release I recommend to read the HISTORY.txt file to follow-up on all the enhancements and bug fixes, they may require re-configuration of your settings (e.g. date-picker, WP comment form feature etc.)

It is important to note, that WP’s auto update process is far from flawless, ie. it may overwrite any of your custom settings (CSS theme file, background images, font files etc). Please always make backups of files you need to preserve!

With v8.5+ cforms supports a separate custom user folder to store your tailored CSS, font and image files! Simply create the folder:

/plugins/cforms-custom

and move your CSS (including images!), font & background image files (CAPTCHA) to it.

WordPress is a fantastic blogging environment with an easy to use interface and incredible extensibility. One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to add plugins. Plugins let you extend the capabilities of your original WordPress installation and enable all sorts of new and exciting tools.

The WordPress community supports and develops hundreds of plugins that are made available to everyone for FREE. Read on to see our list of great WordPress plugins.

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