Top WordPress Plugins and Widgets

Top WordPress Plugins and Widgets

The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress 2.5 version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in comments that I can add to this list.

Manage WordPress Comments

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  Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
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  WP AJAX Edit Comments – Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
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  Close Old Posts – Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
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  WP Grins – allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
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  Live Comment Preview – the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
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  Show Top Commentators – Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
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  CommentLuv – shows a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.
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  MyAvatars – shows MyBlogLog�s avatars in your comments
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  Comment Relish – Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
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  Favatars – displays the favicon associated with the commenter�s website.
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  Dofollow – lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments.
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  OpenID Comments for Wordpress – allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
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  Extended Comment Options – allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.
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  Get Recent Comments – displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.

Stop WordPress Spam

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  Akismet – intelligently blocks spam comments. Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
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  Bad Behavior – is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
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  WP-Contact Form with Spam Protection – creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you easily.
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  Defensio is a spam filtering web service to block comment spam.
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  Digital Fingerprint � useful for detecting content theft.

Expert WordPress SEO

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  Google XML Sitemaps Generator – creates a sitemap of all articles on your WordPress blog. Helps Google and other search engines index every article you write.
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  Permalink Redirect – replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry�s (or archive�s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
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  All in One SEO Pack – Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
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  Head META Description – Insert HTML META description tags using post excerpts.
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  Enforce www. Preference – will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
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  Broken Link Checker – monitors and notifies you for broken links on your blog.
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  Quick META Keywords – will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post based on categories under which the article is categorized.

Easy WordPress Navigation

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  Related Entries – Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Increase pageviews by providing targeted related content.
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  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) – gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry.
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  WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced page navigation to Wordpress, which is very useful for navigation on index and category pages.
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  Evermore – Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. Helpful to create expandable posts summaries in Wordpress. Combine with Less that changes the (more�) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”.
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  Random Redirect – Allows you to create a link to a random post on your blog. Lets readers browse in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
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  WP-Cumulus – displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere
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  Lightbox JS Plugin – used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
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  Homepage Excerpts – Gives flexibility to use both full posts and excerpts on the homepage.
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  WordPress Mobile Edition – shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
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  Popularity Contest – keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
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  Extended Live Archive – implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog.
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  Landing Sites – When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, it shows them related posts to their search on your blog.
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  Clean Archives – designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year, the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article, and the number of comments that have been made on each article.
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  Custom Query String – set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website like categories, archives, or search results pages.
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  KB Advanced RSS Widget – a wordpress widget that gives you complete control over how RSS feeds are parsed for your sidebar.
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  Permalinks Migration Plugin – safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website or affecting your search engine rankings.

Interactive WordPress Posts

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  Share This – lets your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail to a friend.
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  Sociable – automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
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  WP-Email – Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
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  WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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  Viper’s Video QuickTags – easy posting of videos from various websites such asYouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo etc.

WordPress Twiter Plugins

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  TweetSuite -� integrates Twitter with your blog with server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts etc.
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  WP Twitip ID – Lets users add their twitter username to the comment form
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  Check out more top Twitter plugins

WordPress Database tools

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  WordPress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Back up your blog today.
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  WP-Supercache – A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
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  DB-cache – another caching plugin which claims your site will work much faster and will use less disk space for cached files.
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  WP-DBManager – Lets you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries.

WordPress Admin Management Tools

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  PodPress – adds lots of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.
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  TinyMCE Advanced – adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, the WordPress wysiwyg editor. Adds over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.
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  Exec-PHP – allows php tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files.
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  Photo Dropper – lets you add free photos (Flickr / Creative Commons) to your blog posts without leaving Wordpress.
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  WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
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  Admin Drop Down Menu – eliminates the need for this double clicking on the Admin screens by allowing you to see the second level menu just by placing your mouse over a main menu.
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  Maintenance Mode Plugin – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
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  Theme Test Drive – allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors continue to see the default one.

WordPress Advertising

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  Ad Rotator – Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file.
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  AdSense-Deluxe – is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. More Google Adsense WP plugins.
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  Buy Me a Beer – allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal on pretext of buying a beer.
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  Wordpress BankRoll – offers to help you cut out the middleman by allowing advertisers to buy reviews directly on your blog.

Wordpress Blog Translation

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  Global Translator – Translate your blog into multiple languages in a search engine friendly way.
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  Translator Plugin Pro – provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 13+1 languages. Costs $30.

Enhance Wordpress RSS Feeds

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  FD Feedburner – Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com
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  Simple Feed Copyright – adds a simple copyright notice to full text wordpress feeds.
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  Add Related Posts to Your Feed – adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. Requires either UTW or Related Posts plugin installed and activated.
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  RSS Signature – allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds.

Random WordPress Stuff

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  Democracy – adds AJAX polling functionality to your WordPress blog.
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  flickrRSS – allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your weblog.

If you liked this, you might like our wordpress articles. I know there are many great wordpress plugins out there I might have missed, please suggest them in comments, and I might add them here. This post is constantly updated.

Do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car!

Do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car!

Please open the windows after you enter your car and do not turn ON the

air-conditioning immediately. According to a research done, the car dashboard,

sofa, air freshener emits Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen- take note

of the heated plastic smell in your car). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons

your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure

will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer may also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft. A car parked indoors with

the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors

under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up

to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level… & the people inside the car will

inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxins.

It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for

the interior to air out before you enter. Benzene is a toxin that affects your

kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
 “When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it,

you have a moral obligation to share it with others”

Executive General Management Program – IIM Lucknow for Managers

EGMP

INTRODUCTION & PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

The program is specially designed for the middle level executives to strengthen the area of their current specialization along with developing a comprehensive view of other functions of management. The program contents will help the individuals to develop a strong understanding of Indian and international business not only conceptually but analytically too.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Managers with recognized high-growth potential preparing for General Management responsibilities

• Those seeking to consolidate their work experience with intense integrative inputs

• First-time leaders, project managers and those aspiring for managerial and business, development roles in a business operation

PROGRAM STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS

Core Modules:

1. Business Economics

2. Organisational Behaviour

3. Human Resource Management

4. Marketing, Sales and Distribution

5. Principles of Accounting and Corporate Finance

6. Operations and Supply Chain Management

7. Strategic Management

8. Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making

Campus Modules:

1. Foundation sessions on various management modules included in core modules

2. Case Analysis on select modules

3. Communication Workshop

4. Issues on Team Building and Leadership

5. Workshop on specialised management topics

6. Open House

TEACHING METHODOLOGY : Each program will be taught with the help of case studies, corporate examples and general discussions.

PROGRAM DESIGN : Students will undergo eight modules during this period.

EVALUATION : There will be one comprehensive multiple choice question examination at the end of the programme. However, continuous feedback shall be given to the participants based on their participation in class discussions, assignments, case studies, and project work etc.

CERTIFICATION : Those participants who decide to take up the exam at the end of the program and upon qualifying the same as per the standards drawn by IIML shall be awarded ‘Certificate of Successful Completion’.Those participants who meet the requisite attendance and based on the recommendation of the faculty will receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’.

DURATION AND TIMINGS :

• Duration: One Year

• Frequency: Once a week

• Class Schedule: Saturday – 1:00 PM-6.00 PM

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA :

• Applicants should be working professionals/self-employed (Need to submit supporting proof)

• Graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent) in any discipline recognised by UGC/AICTE/DEC.

• Minimum 6 years of work experience post completion of graduation is required as on June 1, 2010

SELECTION PROCESS

Eligible appli cants will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Program Aptitude Test (PAT) together with the assessment of background and motivation (Statement of Purpose).

FEES SCHEDULE : Program Fees: Rs.200, 000.00

The fee above is inclusive of all academic charges, examinations, textbooks, study material and taxes. All fees are non-refundable. Fees can be paid by cash, or cheque/demand .

Payment Plan :

With Application#: Rs. 10,000/-

On Registration Rs. 70,000/-

Instalment 1 (August 2010): Rs. 40,000/-

Instalment 2 (October 2010) Rs. 40,000/-

Instalment 3 (December 2010) Rs. 40,000/-

(Students to submit the PDCs towards future instalments as per the due dates at the time of registration.)

Campus Instalment 1 (July 2010): 9000/-

Campus Instalment 2 (April 2011): 9,000/-

IMPORTANT DATES

Last Date of Application: 16th May, 2010

Last Date of PAT: 29th May, 2010

Result Declaration: 10th June, 2010

Last Date of Registration: 18th June, 2010

Orientation Class Tentative: 30th June, 2010

HOW TO APPLY : PDF version of the Application form Can Be procure by writing to back2campus@cloud9india.com . Complete application with required documents has to be send to us.

ILLUSIONS

If your brain works normally this is neat..  This is another example of an amazing illusion!!!  The last sentence is so true.



If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink

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BRAIN ILLUSIONS

However, if you stare at the black ‘ + ‘ in the center of the picture, the moving dot turns to green .

Now, really concentrate on the black ‘ + ‘ in the center of the picture.  After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating.  If you lose your concentration on focusing on the black ‘ + ‘ (by tracking the movement of the green dot), the pink dots will reappear.

It’s amazing how our brain works! There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don’t disappear.. This should be proof enough that we don’t always see what we think we see.