Divine Elemente (www.divine-project.com) is a Photoshop plugin which is intended for PSD to WordPress conversion. This short 5-minute video gives the information about Divine Elemente and its work – (0:10) Installation, – (0:35) New PSD template creation, – (2:15) WordPress theme publishing, etc. If you are new to Divine Elemente, you should watch this video first. What’s the difference between this video and the previous one? This video is with the real human voice 😉
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Best WordPress Plugins
Best WordPress Plugins
Before getting into the best WordPress plugins out there, let’s cover a couple of definitions for the uninitiated among us.
WordPress is the world’s most widely-used open source Content Management System (CMS). While it is often employed as a blog, WordPress is strong enough to run entire websites. So it isn’t just a blogging platform. WordPress is powered by PHP and MySQL, and has exciting features such as templates and plugins that make building fantastic websites relatively effortless. WordPress is used by 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites in the world, no small feat considering the breadth of options available.
Plugins are simply applications that augment the capabilities of WordPress and make it better to work with. Most plugins are free.
Here are the best WordPress plugins out there. My opinions are highly subjective, but these are plugins I want you to know about.
#1: All-in-One SEO Pack
The All-in-One SEO Pack makes on-page search engine optimization simple. For this reason, it’s my top pick. With this plugin, adding Meta tags such as title tags, meta descriptions, and keywords has never been easier. This is a good thing, as too many websites are missing these crucial elements (and missing out on online lead generation and/or online sales as a result).
#2: Askimet
Askimet allows you to quit moderating comments. It automatically checks comments left on your website against the Askimet web service to see if they look like spam or not. If it’s spam, they toss the comment out. To keep the service honest, you can analyze the spam it catches to make sure the plugin is doing its job accurately. There are two things that make using this plugin vital. One, your readers will never have to type in a CAPTCHA again. Two, your readers will never have to wait for their comment to be moderated again (this drives me nuts when we visit other blogs).
#3: Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps will produce a special XML sitemap which will allow search engines to index your blog. If that sentence makes your head hurt, just know this: it makes it easier for Google to read your website. That’s a good thing. If Google can’t or doesn’t read your website, that’s bad. You want them to read it so they can share your website with people that use the Internet. Consider this a crucial WordPress plugin if you enjoy trading your labor and/or skills for money.
#4 Subscribe to Comments Reloaded
Consider this one a cherry on the top of your delicious WordPress sundae. Subscribe to Comments Reloaded will change the way people use your blog. Without it, people just stop in, leave a comment, and never return. With this plugin, your readers can click a box saying they wish to be notified of follow-up comments via email. This email notification will (in some cases) cause the reader to return and leave a comment. This will give you more Web traffic, more comments, and it will make your blog more conversational.
#5: TweetMeme
Guy Kawasaki once called this the most important button on the Internet. It probably isn’t at that level today, but it is certainly still highly useful when it comes to getting your message to the masses. Twitter has proven to be a highly beneficial viral marketing tool. If you have something important or interesting to say, odds are Twitter will go a long way in getting your voice heard. Within the Twitter-sphere, there is nothing more valuable than a ReTweet. A ReTweet occurs when someone that reads your content re-broadcasts it to all of their followers. When this happens, viral marketing magic happens. TweetMeme makes it convenient for your blogs’ readers to ReTweet your content, which will bring you more traffic, more comments, and (hopefully) more business.
So there you have it. Those are, in my estimation, the five best WordPress plugins out there.
SXSW 2010: Is WordPress Killing Web Design
Is WordPress killing web design? Leading creatives from the world of web design debate whether CMS tools have made designers lazy, and created a new set of design conventions that designers feel obliged to follow.
Guaranteed SEO Benefits With WordPress Plugins
Guaranteed SEO Benefits With WordPress Plugins
There are many ways to gain guaranteed SEO benefits for your website if you are using the WordPress CMS, some more effective than others. Most of your benefits will be with off site SEO but there can be some on site SEO advantages. People reading this article may or may not be aware that the majority of your SEO benefits will come from off site SEO, back linking is a huge one, especially if you are anchoring your back links with the correct text. Here I will not go into this aspect of SEO however, this article is more concerned with how you can improve on site SEO via WordPress plugins.
As you are probably already aware there are thousands upon thousands of WP plugins that all claim to benefit you in some way, not all are made equally however and sorting through all the garbage to actually find something of real use is extremely hard work, especially if you are new to WordPress and all the plugins that are available. I cannot claim to be an expert on every single plugin available, the number to be tested is just too many and would take a lifetime to test individually but the following list shows a few of the plugins that I find are most useful for my personal needs and do give me guaranteed SEO advantages of one description or another.
Your list may vary depending on the reason why you are building a WP site but I think most people will find the list to be of use for the basics plus a few added extra bonuses. While some of these plugins are not directly related to SEO they may help you to avoid disasters that will ruin your sites credibility with both search engines and visitors alike so do not be fooled by the simplicity of what some of them do. While on site and off site SEO are very, very important the integrity of your site as a whole does come into play. If your site goes down or is slow or littered with links that go nowhere these problems will all add up to a bad site that both man and machine will dislike and avoid. One more point that you should bear in mind when installing plugins: Do not over do it! I bring up page speed further into this article, one of the things that will slow your site down is a lot of plugins.
Certain plugins are non optional, a sitemap and a database backup are for example 2 things that you absolutely need but if others are going to be of little use to you, forget them! Use your head in regard to what you need for the function of your site. Never install a plugin just for the sake of it, only use them to improve functionality! WordPress plugins with guaranteed SEO benefits The first thing that any site needs is a sitemap, you don’t need to be a coding expert and create your own thankfully with ‘Google XML sitemaps’. There are other sitemap plugins out there but this is one of the most trusted out there and something that no WordPress site should be without. ‘Yoast breadcrumbs’ is a great breadcrumb plugin that will leave a trail for your readers to be able to find their way around with greater ease. If set up correctly it will also help with internal SEO as it makes the text bold for the current page in the breadcrumb trail and also allows to set your own anchor text for both the homepage and blog page. The ‘official Statcounter plugin’ is another great piece of kit for your website, while it does not offer any immediate guaranteed SEO benefits the information that can be garnered from Statcounter.com is invaluable in your future SEO decisions.
Where are your visitors coming from? Where do your visitors go from your site? What keywords are attracting visitors? With this information and more you can start to make future plans, see what is working and see what is a wasting your time. It is well documented that Google now takes into account the speed that your website loads, feeding cached versions of your sites web pages is a no brainer when you take also consider that visitors may also click away if your page takes too long to load.
Help to improve page speed by using the ‘W3 total cache’ plugin. If you also have a lot of things going on in your sidebars you may also consider ‘WP widget cache’. Something that every WordPress site needs is a backup system of some kind. I recommend ‘WordPress Database Backup’. Depending on how active your site is you can set the plugin to Email you a complete backup of your site anywhere from every 900 seconds to bi monthly. Guaranteed SEO benefits? Well… How good is it for your SEO if your site crashes and you have to start from scratch? Ever had your content stolen from your site via your RSS feed?
Then you will like the next plugin. It’s called ‘RSS footer‘, a simple yet effective plugin that shows a link on the post that they stole which leads right back to your site, if anybody scrapes your feed content the guaranteed SEO benefit is that you get free keyword optimized back links and maybe a few visitors from the thieving gits site.:-D Bonus! ‘Broken link checker’ Ever been in a rush and put a link into a post or page that is not correct only to find out days or weeks later? (Do you have some that you didn’t find at all come to think of it!?) This plugin will monitor your site and report any links that are not working so you can correct them immediately. Google hates broken links and your visitors won’t like them too much either, neither should you if you want your site to do what you want it to do and direct visitors where you want them to go. How often do you finish off a page or post and notice mistakes?
You go back and correct them and then you make a couple of improvements and tweaks to the page, hitting the update button every few minutes to put it right… Bad!! Every time you post or update one of your pages WordPress automatically pings the Pingomatic site, if you are repeatedly pinging all the time your blog can get banned from the update sites for ping spam. Cure this with ‘cbnet Ping Optimizer’ which will only allow pinging when you actually publish for the first time. Pinging on an update will be disabled hence protecting you from being labelled as a ping spammer. Best of luck with your WordPress site, I hope this information was of use to you.
Know About WordPress Themes
Know About WordPress Themes
It is an age where people of all age are into blogging. A lot of people today not just write blogs but also promote and earn money from blogs. The most popular application used by people for blogging is WordPress. It is an open source blog publishing application which is powered by PHP and MySQL. Considered to be extremely user friendly and having the facility of advanced template system, making it easy to use.
WordPress is pretty popular among all the age groups because of the fact that it’s easy to access new themes or rather change the appearance of the blog at the click of a mouse. There are a lot of websites that offer free WordPress themes to make the blog look good and match the content written in it. Similarly one can also find a number of WordPress templates which help in making the work of writing the blog easier. Since the template is already present, all one needs to do is type in the content and the blog is ready. There are also a number of sites that help in designing your own WordPress themes.
WordPress application can also be used as a Content Management System (CMS). CMS is a document centric application which is used to manage documents. This system is used in managing the documents especially websites and web content. This system is extremely flexible and hence quite a favorite among people. There are quite a few people who are already using WordPress as a CMS. This system also allows using different looks for different categories. Using custom templates helps in changing the content and look of the different categories on the page.
Changing it into CMS helps in customizing the administration panel as well the themes. WordPress normally has the posts arranged chronologically but with CMS this control lies in the hands of the user. CMS also makes it possible to add multimedia files like pictures, videos etc. to the WordPress CMS site. To enhance the interactivity, one can also add elements to the site. This is not all; one can also add mailing lists to the site and also enhance e-commerce by adding advertisements to the WordPress CMS site. These sites help in controlling the administrator’s rights or user’s roles. This means one can control their multiple accounts and comments too. On WordPress CMS sites one can have multiple plugins which will help enhance the website.
Using WordPress as a CMS gives the user freedom to use the website as per his preferences. The use of CMS helps in keeping the website in good shape and also makes sure that the website doesn’t get monotonous. The various themes are the solution to that. All in all, using it as a Content Management System makes the entire process of blogging more flexible, easy and fun to use. With the plugins and other elements that can be added one can be assured that the website is very effective in conveying the purpose. Combining it with CMS not only makes the website worthwhile but also very effective.
Internet Marketing Tips – How to Reach Global Market With Your WordPress Website
Internet Marketing Tips – How to Reach Global Market With Your WordPress Website
Nowadays, we can see WordPress blog everywhere on the internet. People love it so much as it is not only easy to use, there are also tons of features that are available through plugins module. Setting up a basic website nowadays take merely minutes compare to days or weeks previously. The What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) interface make it easy for people who has no programming knowledge. Creating a website can be done simply by pointing and clicking.
WordPress was originally created as a weblog or blog platform. But now, it has grown so powerful that you can use it to create any type of website and use it as a Content Management System (CMS).
This platform is both free and priceless at the same time. Everyone agrees that it is one of the most powerful software that is easy to set up and simple for maintenance of a blog. There is no question that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging software platforms because it focuses on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
There are features for integrated link management; a search engine -friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles and many others.
In addition to that, automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes ) are also included.
One of the advantage is that WordPress is an Open Source blog tool which offers a rich set of blog features as well as a large supporting community. If your business does not have a website yet, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. There is no better time to start with WordPress to establish your online presence today.
WordPress Theme from your Photoshop Design in Seconds
psd2cssonline.com – now you can take your WordPress Theme Design in photoshop and convert it directly to all the code and images needed to be a real working WordPress theme. Just name some of the layers in your Photoshop PSD file right, upload to psd2css Online, and seconds later you’ll download a zip file with all of the code, files and images. Then just unzip it into your WordPress installation and it works!
WordPress 3.0 Nav Menu Management Introductory Screencast
The Menu Manager is one of my favorite additions to WordPress 3.0 as it makes WordPress an even more robust content management system (CMS). I’ve recorded a short introduction to the new Nav Menu highlighting the various features and how to use them. One of my favorite functions is the ability to add custom links to your nav bar. This allows you to have links in your nav bar that go anywhere on the web you’d like. For more great content: dmiracle.com. Dawud Miracle, Build Your Following…Build Your Business. (sorry for resolution problems)