1. SMS Global SMS Plugin

The SMSGlobal SMS Plugin helps you in getting more traffic at your WordPress site. It also helps in increasing post read rates of your site by informing your readers about the new posts through SMS alerts. With the help of this Plugin, you can send SMS manually to all your readers with the SMS tab from your control panel. It also gives you a choice of either sending SMS to all the users or select users from individual groups such as editors, admins, subscribers, contributors and authors. You can enter mobile numbers that you wish to add with the help of Send SMS Tab. It is very simple to configure the settings of SMSGlobal. The choice of sender ID, password and username can be accessed through SMS Settings Tab. The users of the site have the option of receiving SMS alerts about new posts through entering mobile number in profile. This mobile number is then used by this SMS Plugin for sending SMS. As you are the administrator, you can update all this information from the profile page.

Features

The various features of SMSGlobal Plugin are:

• It gives you the power to choose or reject the mobile number display with the help of Screen Option from user page.
• It enables you to send SMS about every new post through Post Tab and SMS will include the title of Post.
• It enables you to select as well as save the settings for Send Post Alert with the help of SMS settings sub-tab.
• You can select or deselect the column display of Send Post Alert.
• It enables you to select the types of users for sending post alerts (choice of authors, editors, subscribers, contributors, admins or all users).
• The column display of Send Post Alert depends upon the Send Post Alert Settings (Yes-Column appears, No-Column disappears)

Download

You can install it from here.

How to Install

1. Upload zip file to Plugins tab
2. Activate the Plugin
3. Configure SMSGlobal settings in SMS settings tab

2. International SMS Subscription Manager

This plugin is created by iGeek and it is inspired by WebAddiCT(s). It enables you to build a widget on your blog from where your readers can subscribe or unsubscribe their cell phone numbers for receiving SMS Text messages about the blog updates. In case, you use registrations for your blog, the registers users can get SMS message about the blog updates by subscribing their mobile numbers from their profile page. The owners of the blog cab use WordPress dashboard to send SMS Text messages to all the subscribed members of their blog. They can manage the subscribed numbers as well. They also have the option of exporting or importing contact in CSV format. The blog owners have the choice of sending SMS messages to registered member or widget subscribers or to all. It enables the blog owners to alert their blog subscribers about new post on their blog. It has a new feature of automatic country code detection on the basis of IP address. In case, this feature does not work, the users can select the country from dropdown menu.

Features

The various features of this Plugin are:

• Widget for SMS subscribe or unsubscribe option
• Registered users can subscribe or unsubscribe from their profile
• Custom widget header and footer
• WordPress dashboard is used for sending SMS text messages
• Ajax enables Widget (Requires no reloading of page)
• Auto country detection on the basis of IP address or dropdown menu
• Export or Import contacts in CSV format
• IP tracking for readers who subscribed their mobile number
• WordPress dashboard is used for managing the mobile numbers which are subscribed.
• Mobile number is added without adding zero or country code

Download

You can install it from here.

How to Install

Installation

1. Upload clickatell-sms-subscription-manager folder to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate plugin through Plugins menu from WordPress

Basic Setup

1. Sign up with the Bulk SMS Provider
2. Build a new HTTP connection type with Bulk SMS Provider.
3. Enter the connection details under SMS manager from Options menu of WordPress dashboard.

Adding Widget to Sidebar

1. Go to Appearance->Widgets from the dashboard of WordPress
2. Drag SMS Subscribe Widget to the Widget area where you wish to add it.

There are some other SMS Plugins for WordPress that are also very good. These include:

3. WP-Frontline SMS

Download

You can install it from here.

How to Install

1. First, upload wp-frontlinesms directory to /wp-content/plugins/directory
2. Activate the plugin from Plugins menu in WordPress
3. Place widget to bar

4. Quick SMS

Download

You can install it from here.

How to Install

Installation

1. Unzip the downloaded package and drop Quick SMS folder in WordPress Plugins folder.
2. Log into admin panel of your WordPress
3. Go to Plugins and Activate this Plugin

Basic Setup

1. Go to Options and then select Quick SMS tab
2. Use Teleflip for Canada/US or select your network
3. Enter the Mobile number where you wish to reseive SMS text messages

Adding Sidebar with Widget

1. Go to Presentation, Sidebar Widgets
2. Drag Quick SMS widget to right
3. Check the blog to check whether the Widget is at proper place.
4. Send a trial message to yourself to ensure that it is working

Adding Sidebar with Code

1. Edit the theme of your WordPress (Recommended theme is sidebar,php) to include the SMS box where you want it to appear.
2. Check blog to check if the Quick SMS form in at proper place or not.
3. Send a trial message to yourself to ensure its working.

So now you really don’t need much time and effort to enable SMS capabilities on your blog or website with WordPress. You might want to have your own SMS gateway to have personalized short numbers and better efficiency with timely delivery.

The newbies often use Blogger and the experts use WordPress. So, here is a comparison in detail about Blogger and WordPress.

Blogger

You don’t have to be an expert in HTML or CSS to have a blog using Blogger.

It is totally free and has unlimited server facility which allows you to host every single page at no additional cost.

You can run it from the usual web browser and you don’t need to install anything.

Very easy to use and has a much easier navigation facility.

Their new tools provided then and there is of very much help to their users to customize their contents on their respective blogs.

WordPress

WordPress has a choice between free [www.wordpress.com] and paid version [www.wordpress.org]. The free version needs no separate hosting and domain but the premium paid version has to be installed in a separate hosting provider’s webpage and should possess a domain too.

The navigation and the interface are very easy to use and the user gets comfortable using it more and more.

It provides a statistics system in detail, which is considered to be an added advantage.

It has the best SEO tools which are more efficient than any other blogging platform and gives superior and enhanced position in the search engine results.

Comparison

When compared in their customer service efficiency, WordPress gets the first place with more number of topics to help its users whereas Blogger has only a few topics to assist its users.

Blogger can be easily used and created by Google users. They can add Adsense to their accounts and earn some money too.

WordPress offers more templates to choose from, and has a variety of widgets too. It also allows to add more pages like those of a contact page, about page and more such.

Both Blogger and WordPress offer to upload video.

With all these comparison stuff said, it is up to the user to decide on the best blogging platform to start their blog on the internet since both Blogger and WordPress have their own features and elements that might attract different people.

1. Frezhnyer :

The theme is best suited for movie or some blockbuster site. The following are some of its features :

a.Theme is expanded in two columns that make the front page simple and clean with lots of space for various features
b.Social media ready theme that allows you to connect various social media sites like Twitter and Facebook with a RSS button.
c.Multiple JavaScript and JQuery widgets
d.Cross Browser Support
e.Backward compatible with older versions of WordPress

2. Dream Sky :

The theme is best suited for small businesses or blogs that don’t require any heavy marketing or glitz. The features include :

a.Three columned theme that makes a clean presentation of elements on the pages
b.Google AdSense
c.AJAX widgets and forms
d.Content sliders and many more
e.Social media ready with tweet button
f.Confirms to XHTML standards
g.Cross browser compatible

3. SoulVision:

Another beautiful theme that can be best used for blogs and small businesses. The features include :

a.Two columned theme with beautiful layouts and backdrop
b.RSS Feed button
c.Listing of earlier posts in the form of ordered and unordered lists
d.Search feature
e.Recent Post display along with useful links
f.Calendar and other customized widgets that can be added onto the page
g.Valid XHTML code

4. Recipy:

Recipy is best suited for eatery blogs or websites that are related to food recipes or similar like that. The theme is based on food. Some of its features are :

a.Two columned theme that is simple and sober
b.Nice color combination that has bright backdrops that can become painful for eyes sometimes
c.The paper table looks gives a nice presentation to the web page.
d.Social media ready with Twitter and Stumble buttons
e.RSS Feed enabled
f.Cross Browser Compatible

5. SimpleFolio:

This theme is best suited for a professional blogger that wants to attract the other people by showcasing his talent in variety of ways. The features of this theme includes :

a.W3C compliant CSS and HTML
b.Two-column layout that makes things easier to organize and present
c.Multiple AJAX and JQuery widgets that can impart dynamic effects to the website can be installed
d.Content Sliders and dynamic search forms
e.Social Media ready
f.RSS feeds enabled
g.Cross browser capability
h.Backward compatible with older versions of WordPress

6. Maparaan :

The theme has the following features :

a.Three columned layout that makes the interface simplified with all the content presented on the same
b.Content Gallery
c.Multiple Color Schemes that can be used by using CSS tweaks
d.Popular posts can be viewed according to different filters like page views, comments, shared
e.Social Bookmarking ready
f.Social Media ready with links to Facebook and Twitter widgets
g.RSS Feed ready
h.Multiple WordPress plugins are available to enhance the functionality of the site

7. Decayed 1.0 :

This is another beautiful theme that is inspired from one of the default themes of Drupal CMS. Some of its features are :

a.Two columned layout with dark backdrop
b.Search box and Blogroll
c.Archive list
d.RSS Feeds
e.XHtml friends Network (XFN) that helps to maintain human relationships via linking
f.Valid CSS and xHTML that complies with W3C standards.

8. Conceditor WP Platinum:

The theme is best suited for those business establishments that want to market their products and at the same time also want the attention of the user towards the other aspects of it. The theme features :

a.Three columned layout
b.RSS post and subscription buttons
c.JavaScript widgets that add dynamic behavior to the site
d.No social media buttons available yet, but you can add them later on by using various plugins from the WordPress site
e.Cross browser compatibility, but optimized to be viewed in Firefox. Internet Explorer (IE) users may experience some problems viewing it

9. Tribune Magazine:

As the name suggests the theme is suited for the magazines where there has to information about various issues at a single time. Some of its highlights are :

a.Set in the black and white layout and has three columns to handle a variety of content
b.Content Sliders along with other widgets that adds dynamic behavior to the website
c.Search box and content gallery
d.Featured videos along with tags section that will help you to find the
e.Cross Browser compatibility
f.Admin panel and collapsible column
g.Similar theme is available for Joomla and Elxis

10.Brave Zeenat:

Best suited for a personal website where a person can showcase his talent and stuff like that. Some of the features of the theme are :

a.The content is organized in sequential fashion thereby concentrating only on the main content
b.All the important links and contact will be placed in the upper portion of the website so that they are readily visible to the visitors
c.Multiple AJAX and JQuery widget can be installed
d.Social media ready
e.Cross browser compatible

11. Imobile:

This theme is made with a technology blog in mind. Some of its features include :

a.Simple organization of content by segregating them into various categories
b.Two column layout with white background
c.Options page
d.Thumbnails for content gallery
e.Featured posts and videos
f.RSS ready
g.XFN enabled
h.Search box along with tag section so as to locate the articles easily
i.Social Media Ready with widget buttons of almost all the popular networking sites
j.W3C compliant code
k.Cross browser compatible

12. Calypso :

The theme is best suited for any ordinary website or blog. Some of the theme features are :

a.Two column layout set with some vibrant colored backdrop
b.Multimedia widget support
c.JavaScript content slider that will feature the recent posts
d.RSS button
e.Social media ready buttons
f.Cross browser compatible

13. Atlantis:

This beautiful theme that is best suited for the information displaying site like a movie site or a news site. Some of the features of the theme are :

a.Three columned layout
b.Dynamic image slide shows in the content slider
c.Twitter updates showing the latest of comments and happenings in the micro blogging world
d.Gallery photos
e.Sponsor section
f.Dynamic search box and dynamic AJAX forms
g.RSS enabled
h.Cross browser compatible

14. Epione:

This dark theme is ideal for the serious blogs or those websites that are associated with some issues. Some of the features are:

a.Two column layout that is set in black backdrop
b.Content Sliders and other AJAX widgets
c.Home page loads with a slider that displays the latest blog posts
d.Multilevel Drop down Menu
e.Gravatar Support
f.Social media buttons for variety of networking site
g.Cross browser compatible

15. Bayer:

A simple and yet powerful theme that can be suited across a variety of blogs and businesses. Some of its features are :

a.Three column output with a variety of interactive widgets that have been places into them
b.Image gallery showing the latest image uploads that have been done by the authors of the site
c.Spaces for placement of advertisements
d.Search box
e.AJAX and JQuery Widget ready
f.It is easy to customize and extend
g.Social media ready
h.RSS enabled
i.Compatible across all major browsers.

16. Runone:

Another ideal site for technology blogs and websites. Some of the features are :

a.Two column layout with a number of interactive widgets
b.Image gallery
c.Social media ready
d.XFN enabled
e.Featured Video and Tag Functionality
f.Variety of AJAX and JQuery widget support
g.Cross Browser compatibility

17. Tauri:

Ideal for some sports website. Some of its features are:

a.Two column layout set in white backdrop
b.Google AdSense ready
c.Image Gallery and search box
d.Dynamic effects thanks to AJAX and JQuery widgets
e.Social media and bookmarking ready
f.Cross browser compatible

18. Freemium:

Another attractive free premium wordpress theme. Some of its features are :

a.Two column layout
b.RSS enabled
c.JQuery menus
d.Multiple advertising spots
e.Multiple sidebar widgets

19. Irrestible:

Visually enhancing theme that is best suited for personal blogs and websites. Some of its features are:

a.Widget sidebar where up to two widgets can be added
b.Better Advertisement management
c.Integrated video player
d.More than nine color schemes to choose from
e.Cross browser compatible

20. Modicus:

A flexible theme that is available in a variety of formats to suit different requirements. Some of the features are :

a.Spacious and clean presentation of elements
b.Light and fast
c.AdSense enabled
d.Easy to install with variety of plugins and widgets to choose from
e.More than four color combination possible

1. WP Colors:

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2. MW Theme:

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3. Adsense Ready Theme:

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4. Almost Spring with Google AdSense theme

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5. Bubbles Adsense Theme

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6. Blix theme

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7. K2 Theme

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8. Ad Flex Niche Theme

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If you are looking for more adsense optimized wordpress theme then dont forgot to check our previous 5 best themes for wordpress users. And if you are a blogger then check 5 adsense optimized themes for blogger.

Now if you want that types of wordpress pages on your personal blogs or a website which provide you a  large wordpress tags collection of your blog posts  in just one page, and from it user can find any information from your website using tags which is provided by you while posting articles on your blogs.

I think there are few plugins are available for it. but after installing the plugins on your wordpress blog  sometimes  it can defect your wordpress installation or themes templates.  and it decreases your site loading speed also. so i created  just a simple steps to create your wordpress tag cloud page.

Just Follow The simple steps :

Step 1 :

At The First login to your cpanel and then navigate to your wordpress directory. ( I will describes you whole things using twentyten theme as my default theme. )

Then in your wordpress installations folder  go to  wp-content > themes > twentyten ( please choose your current working theme )

step 2 :

Download the file below.

File name: geeks-desk-tag.rar
File size:319 Bytes

Note : Please don’t change in the file if you don’t know more about it.

Extract it from the .rar file and upload it to your theme folder.

step 3 :

Now simply Click on “Add New Page” option from your wordpress admin panel.

Page name :

Give your page name such as “Tag Cloud”, “Surf the tags” or anyone you want.

Description :

In description area don’t write any description.

In the right sidebar of the editing page “Page Attributes” Are Available There. And In This Section Find “Template” title and in it choose “geeksdesk.com tags” option from dropdown option as described in screenshot below.

Screenshot :

Now You Done !

Click on “publish” button and get ready for your own wordpress tags on your particular page without using any kind of plugins.

Preview :

WordPress being one of the easiest and best platforms for being modified into any CMS-like website, an affiliate like site is not hard to manage. Plugins are an added advantage, so here are a few plugins that are the best in fields of SEO and Affiliate marketing.

Search engine optimization plugins

1. All in one SEO Pack

The All in one SEO pack plugin is one of the best to insert unique meta tags for every post page in the blog. This removes the static titles that are commonly seen on every page, and with the meta description and keywords too, the way search engines indexes your blog also gets better.

2. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart links is an internal linking plugin, which automatically links the specified keywords to the links that you have set. Internal links always helps in better ranking of the web pages, and this plugin exactly does that. The only problem with the plugin is that you need to manually set the keywords which are to be linked to the specified pages of the blog. This is time taking for large blogs.

3. SEO Friendly Images

The image search engine is another traffic generator apart from the web search engine, so the optimization of images too is a must. Optimizing the images with the meta tags, like the ALT and TITLE, helps in better indexing of the images too.

Affiliate marketing plugins

1. Pretty link

There is no scarcity in the 3rd party URL shorteners which hide the original affiliate URL and give you their shortened URL, but affiliate marketing can be made smarter by doing the same from your own domain. The Pretty link plugin creates shrunk URLs, and it also helps you track the visitors which visit the blog through those links.

2. WordPress Affiliate Store Plugin

Affiliate marketing is mainly through the sites like Commission junction, Amazon etc. The wordpress affiliate store plugin helps add products from various sites like LinkShare, Commission Junction, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network, LinkConnector, or Betty Mills.

3. Google analyticator

Earlier we had discussed about the Ultimate google analytics plugin, which is good enough but there is an alternative, neat and easier to use. It’s the Google analyticator which does the same job. It adds the necessary javascript code to enable the analytics in the blog.

There are several other wordpress plugins for affiliate marketing, like those which help in adding various stores and their products directly into the wordpress blog. But the ones mentioned above are good enough, as the WordPress affiliate store plugin is one of the best around.

WordPress is one of the best platforms for blogging, one of the main reasons being the availability of thousands of plugins. The plugins not only help to make the blog navigation better, but also makes the visibility of the blog better in search engines and social networks. Here is a list of plugins that one should be installing on a new blog -

Search engine optimization

All in one SEO Pack – Plugin page

This is one of the best plugins around to put in, the meta tags of every single post page, making the title modified rather than the static title. And apart from that, it also helps in the SEO of the blog, with meta description and keywords for the post page.
To install, just go to the Plugins > Add New section and search for “all in one seo” and install. To configure, go to the plugin settings section and enable the plugin and add the meta data for the blog, and the way you want the post page title to be shown.

Anti-spam

Akismet

Spam doesn’t end anywhere. WordPress blogs are a big victim of spamming, but the Akismet plugin which comes pre-installed, is one of the best to combat the spammers. It still would need an API key which you can get by having an account at wordpress.com free hosted blog service. Once you enter the API key, the plugin starts functioning.

Better indexing

Google XML Sitemaps – Plugin page

Sitemaps are one of the essential parts of any blog or website, as it is the one which lists all the internal links of the blog, and one of the most frequently visited pages by Search engine spiders. Indexing becomes faster and better through these sitemaps. The Google XML sitemaps plugin is one of the best for producing a well formatted sitemap page for the wordpress blogs, as the page created is supported by most of the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live search and Ask.com.
After installation of the plugin, you need to just add the sitemap link to the footer.php of your theme, and add the sitemap to Google webmaster tools.

Traffic tracking

The Ultimate Google analytics plugin – Plugin page

Tracking the visitors, the source of traffic and the search results is all what helps you develop the blog and modify it the way to bring in more visitors by implementing more strategies. And for the traffic tracking, there is nothing better than Google Analytics. The Ultimate google analytics plugin helps integrate the Analytics service of Google into your wordpress blog.
Just install the plugin, setup the analytics account and website code in Analytics site, and copy the property ID from there. Paste the same in the plugin settings page for the plugin to run.

Site safety

WordPress Automatic upgrade plugin – Plugin page

One of the safety measures for the wordpress blogs is to be updated with the latest version of the platform, thereby reducing the risk of attack of hackers. The WordPress automatic upgrade plugin helps you with the same, by automatically backing up the files, database and then downloading the updated version of wordpress, putting the site into maintenance mode, deactivating the plugins, upgrading the files and reactivating the plugins. All being played safe, the plugin upgrades the wordpress platform in the smoothest way.

There are many other types of plugins, but the above mentioned ones are the most essential for any new opened blog.

To extend the full usage of WordPress, you have to install some plugins. Plugins make your WordPress management easy and more comfortable.

Here are some Most Popular WordPress Plugins

1. Fast Secure Contact Form:

This is an advanced level contact form for your WordPress site. It lets you make contact forms, feedback forms with varieties of field types. This plugins has a spam remover, which automatically removes spam from form message.

Download Fast Secure Contact Form Plugin

2. WP-Optimize:

This plugin cleans your database orphan entries and makes your site loading faster. It removes entries which are orphan, which do not refer to any document, file, etc. This plugin is best for Shared Hosting customers.

Download WP Optimize Plugin

3. Sexy Bookmarks:

Sexy Bookmarks are bookmarks to the social sites. Users click on attractive buttons to share your site article. This is best for making your article sharing easy. Users have to click on any site bookmark and he will be redirected to that site with your article URL embedded.

Download Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

4. W3 Total Cache:

This is the best plugin available for WordPress optimization, it is a complete solution for WordPress optimization. This plugin caches site pages,objects to make site faster. This makes user experience faster and reliable.

Download W3 Total Cache Plugin

Above four plugins will surely help you optimize, extend your WordPress for more comfortable experience.

DB Cache plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much faster than other html caching plugins and uses less disk space for caching.

I think you have already heard about WP-Cache or WP Super Cache, they are both top plugins for WordPress, which make your site faster and responsive. Forget about them – with DB Cache your site will work much faster and will use less disk space for cached files. Your visitors will always get actual information in sidebars and server CPU loads will be as low as possible.

How to Install DB Cache Plugin?

1. Download the DB Cache Plugin.

2. You should upload the db-cache folder to your wp-content/plugins.

3. Go to your Plugins page and activate “DB Cache”.

4. Now go to Settings >DB Cache and enable caching of DB queries.

There are lots of more useful plugins available in our WordPress Category, dont forgot to browse them all.

Here, I have compiled a list of top 6 plugins to enable Featured posts gallery in your blog:

1. Featured Content Gallery:

This plugin creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.

Download Featured Content Gallery Plugin

2. Featured Content Slideshow

This plugin helps you to shows up to 5 Posts in a very nice and powerful Javascript Slideshow. On the left side of the Slideshow it displays a Image for every Post. On the right side, there are all the Titles of the Posts. The Slideshow highlights the active Post and repeats automatically after getting to the 5th Post.

Download Featured Content Slideshow Plugin

3. Front Slider WordPress Plugin

This plugin helps you to add as many Featured Posts as you like. You can define a Image for every Post. It shows an excerpt, date, time and number of comments for every Post. The text and images are sliding smoothly – Front Slider generates nice thumbnails through which can be slides and navigated. By clicking on the big image one gets directly to the featured Post.

Download Front Slider WordPress Plugin

4. Smooth Slider Plugin

This plugin is JQuery based content slideshow generator threw which you can choose some of your posts as featured posts and show them into a slideshow on your blog’s home page (i.e. Index) as well as in Sidebar.

Download Smooth Slider Plugin

5. JQuery plugin

This plugin enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css.

Download JQuery plugin

6. FeatPlug Plugin

This plugin can mine your WordPress posts or any other data and look for images suiting a given dimension and generates ‘featured’ section for your site using the found items.

Download FeatPlug Plugin

You can find more useful plugins for WordPress in our WordPress Category.