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This is the list of world’s best webmaster forums sorted by Alexa rank and Category. Alexa rank will roughly tell you the popularity of the forum (amount of visitors) but does not neccessarily imply the “quality” of the forum. Category is roughly the main topic of the forum.
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This is a recommended ping list for a WordPress blog. The information is gathered from personal experience and various sources on the web.
Every time you post these services will be notified of your blog post increasing your online exposure.
To use this list, copy and paste this list to your Settings->Writing tab in the admin panel.
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Entrecard Me! will allow you to easily use Entrecard widget on your WordPress Blog.
If you do not know what Entrecard is, go to www.entrecard.com and get your widget.
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Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos in your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.
From version 2.0 it also supports YouTube high quality videos, works on iPhone and allows you to view videos in fullscreen.
The videos will be embedded in your RSS feed as well, and if this is not support by the reader you can choose to have video link and/or video preview screenshot displayed instead.
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WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).
All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.
WP Wall is fully customizable with a CSS file and included graphics.
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Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!
Snazzy archives simply lets you express yourself and your blog. You can select different layouts and special effects, Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.
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How many times have you activated a plugin and the searched hopelessly for it’s options page? With new plugins it is like a trend to hide them better.
Show Me Options is a plugin designed to give you a link to the options page when you need it and where you want it.
When you activate a new plugin, Show Me Options will show you a link you can use immediately.
No more wandering around menus, just install the plugin and click options – always waiting on the same place.
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SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.
Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.
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Plugin Central is a WordPress plugin management add-on to automatically install and update WordPress plugins. It works with WordPress 2.5+ only.
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Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.
When the user hovers the mouse above the link, RSS feed from the site is automatically discovered and a number of recent posts is shown dynamically in a box.
Live Blogroll uses internal caching for feed discovery and WordPress caching for RSS feeds to make sure everything is smooth.
The looks of the hover box are fully customizable with CSS, and the position is editable in the options.
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Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories and you want to display them as a part of search results.
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Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. While originally developed and maintained by Peter Harkins, it had seen no updates for 8 months, and it wasn't rolled into the WordPress plugin repository, so I've decided to give it a new life, after being request by my friend Mel Carson to "get him some social media buttons".
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Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in the following different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.
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You most certainly have two types of visitors on your blog : some returning readers, and a majority of first time visitors. Returning readers come to your site for its content and for what you write. First time visitors, and mostly search engine visitors, come because they are looking for something particular, look at the page, and leave.
The first obvious thought that comes to mind when you want to monetize your blog is: "I'm going to put ads and banners everywhere". By doing so, you won't add any value or service to regular readers, who are not likely to click on your ads. By doing so, you'll also probably won't do justice to your finely handcrafted pixel polished WordPress theme. By not serving ads to your regular visitors, chances are you'll both lose little money and show your readers you're treating them differently.
Therefore, the second obvious thought about blog monetization is : "I wish I could display a lot of ads to those coming once never returning readers, but not bothe
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Subscribe to Comments 2.1 is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
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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. Key features include:
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When someone is referred from a search engine like Google, the plugin show your blog content matched the terms they search for.
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I am glad to finally release Homepage Excerpts, a WordPress plugin that I have been developing with a friend for some time already. The plugin has two main objectives. The first one is to make blogs that use full posts on the homepage more search engine friendly. The second one is to give flexibility to people that want to use both full posts and excerpts on the homepage.
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This plugin will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference (http://example.com/ vs. http://www.example.com/) and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
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The Category Base Killer Plugin does exactly what it says. It removes the “category/” text from your WordPress URL string.
In other words, it turns your URL string from this:
http://www.myblog.com/category/category_name/post_title.htm
into this:
http://www.myblog.com/category_name/post_title.htm
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AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site.
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السلام عليكم جوجل اضاف خدمة جديدة في صفحة جوجل ويب ماستر
هي عبارة عن كود لصفحات الخطً 404الكود بيساعدك على اظهار الصفحة الاقرب لصفحة الخطْ او نتاءج محتملة وقلل من هروب الزوار بسبب صفحات غير موجودة او مأرشفة غلط
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خطط عملاقة البرمجيات مايكروسوفت وضع خاصية جديدة في النسخة القادمة من متصفح الانترنت الذي تنتجه.
فعبر الضغط على أيقونة خاصة، سيتمكن مشغلوا المتصفح الذي يسمى IE8 بتحديد حجم المعلومات التي تسجل المواقع التي تصفحوها وماذا قرأوا أو شاهدوا عندما زاروها.
August 23, 2008 at 3:43 am
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