5 WordPress Plugins You Absolutely Need in 2010

April 12th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Tools by Matthew Lux

WordPress is one of the most powerful CMS platforms for bloggers.  Even out of the box, it contains a ton of functionality and can meet a lot of users demands.  However, eventually you’ll want to add some plugins to meet your personal blogging demands.

Whether you are starting a new WordPress blog or  already have one, either way this post should be very helpful in finding some great plugins to help make your WordPress blog function better and faster, as well as improve usability and user experience.

Let us know what you think of these plugins, and if you have any of your own to recommend, drop a link in the comments!

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25 Professional Twitter Backgrounds of Famous Bloggers

January 7th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Inspiration by Daud

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networking platforms on the internet.  Many famous designers and bloggers use Twitter to engage others and keep them updated on their daily lives.  It is important to maintain a similar brand through a blog, Twitter, and other media.  Twitter allows users to change their avatar and their backgrounds in order to create a more unique experience.
In this post, we’ll look at 25 professional Twitter backgrounds of famous bloggers, which demonstrate how a Twitter page can have a unique styling.  Be sure to share your favorite Twitter backgrounds with us in the comments!  Enjoy, and don’t forget to subscribe!

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Image Decoration and Optimization Tutorial in WordPress

November 30th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, How-To by Ayaz Malik

WordPress is used widely for showing images and photo contents, such as designs, illustrations, inspirational images, and more.  Because of this, it is critical not to neglect the possible decoration and optimization that you can apply to images.

This can help draw the attention of users, and can also bring traffic from search engines.  It can also save you valuable bandwidth, improve  your website performance, and make for an overall more appealing website.

So, let’s look at some ways to apply decoration, and how to optimize your images.

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24 Free Professional WordPress Photo Gallery Themes

November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Freebies by Eric Shafer

WordPress is an incredibly easy to use content management system.  It is also very versatile, able to function as a blog, e-commerce site, or photo gallery.  Many photographers have elected to use WordPress to host their photo gallery sites, and with good reason.  However, finding a quality free theme for a WordPress photography site is a bit more challenging, as many of the themes provide either mediocre functionality, or are visually unappealing.  That’s why we made this post, to make your lives easier.  In this post, you’ll find 24 free, professional looking, premium-like, functional themes for WordPress photography blogs.  Simply click the thumbnail, and you’ll be taken to the download page for that theme, and you’ll be up and running in a flash.  Did we miss a theme?  Let us know in the comments so we can add it to the list!

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