The variety of availability of free plugins makes wordpress blogging quite a user friendly platform, with tons of plugins released everyday to maximize the potential of wordpress, here is another wp plugin called Short url plugin which will mask your webpages links, blog posts or affiliate url efficiently.

With Short url plugin you will be able to create short urls of your webpages links and track the traffic received to these links, you can also mask the download links or any files that will help you in analyzing the visits (as an download counter)

A Common webpage url example:

http://domain-name.com/my-blog-post..html

Url After using Short Url wordpress plugin:

http://domain-name.com/u/l

So you see this is beneficial, whether you are trying to make your blog post viral using social media or you want to share short urls in your email then this can be a better solution you should look into. Head over to the download link or search the plugin Short url in your wordpress admin dashboard and install it right away.

WordPress, as you know, is one of the best blogging system loved by search engine. There are tons of customization option available in wordpress and with every update of wordpress software, you will find a new feature integrated just to make it much more accommodating for the blog owner.

Similarly the attack on WordPress sites are on a greater extent. Blogote.com was once attacked with a type of virus which embedded in the homepage, single.php and other template files and the blog used to load with a blank page. Luckily, I was able to sort out the malicious code from the theme template and removed them quickly. But to be on the safer side, you can use this Anti virus Plugin which I am using it right now.

WordPress Antivirus Plugin

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A free plugin which scans your blog template everyday or instantly whenever you need, all your theme files will be scanned and if iframe or malicious virus code are present, then these are detected. The plugin can be helpful for all wordpress blogs and is a recommended blog security tip for wordpress users!

To tilt an image you have to make use of server scripts or buy commercial softwares but here is a easy way to do this using Live writer software.We previously discussed about Windows live writer being one of the top free blogging software for windows user which comes with a customizable tools and plugin support.The latest version of live writer comes with features to customize images giving a perfect professional look to your images.

We all know Adobe Flash player plugin is a important component required to view flash content and Videos on the Internet.Most of the browser renders the Flash content due to the flash player but Google chrome browser has a Flash support glitch due to which we can’t watch youtube videos or any flash content online.A work around on installing latest Adobe Flash plugin on Google Chrome was written previously but if you still facing problems about adobe flash player plugin and can’t watch Dailymotion,Megavideo or Youtube videos on chrome (You get a problem “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) then download this Flash player XPI.After downloading the Flash player,add .zip to the extension by renaming the file.The file should look like this flashplayer-win.xpi.zip.

Extract the content of the .zip files where you will find couple of files with different extension.Now here comes the solution,copy the two files – “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” and paste them to

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

Make sure you change the user to your windows logon username and If Google Chrome is installed on other drive then head over to that particular drive & explore the Plugins folder.Close Chrome browser and restart the system and you will find chrome supporting Youtube videos

If you are using Google Chrome web browser then you might be aware that sometimes you can’t view youtube videos from chrome and get a message “Sorry the video is no longer available”. This is due to the flash player issue, though you have flash player installed on your computer and the youtube videos works perfectly in other browsers like Firefox, Opera then why does the flash plugin player doesn’t support chrome browser?

This is due to the incompatible nature of chrome with the new macromedia flash player.

So here is quick fix for those who want to watch youtube videos on Google chrome. Basically we are going to remove/uninstall the old Adobe flash player from all browser and install other version of Macromedia adobe flash player plugin.

Installing Adobe Flash Player on Google Chrome

First download the small Flash player uninstaller file and uninstall the current flash plugin from your system, here are the un installers

• Download the Windows Uninstaller
• Download the Mac OS X Uninstaller
• Download the Mac OS 8.x, 9.x Uninstaller

Adobe has the updated Flash player 10 beta for Windows and Mac,download them and install the flash player. Now close all the application and re start the system.

Open youtube videos on Chrome & Viola! you can watch videos now This worked for me and hopefully will work for every chrome user! If you are unable to get the Youtube videos working on Google chrome or any other flash content then here is another guide to have Google chrome Adobe flash player working!

Tags can be a essential factor for your blog,they do give a good weightage to your blog and also help in easy navigation within the site for a visitor.The tags are usually written when a post is published via WordPress editor interface or any blogging software customized for wordpress blog postings.Tag Clouds are a series of tags which are in the same page or blog,tag clouds group the similar tags and emphasizes frequent similar terms boldly.

You can find large number of simple wordpress tags plugin but this is a different plugins which not only generates tag cloud but also displays the tag clouds in a visual 3D fashion.

Though using visual 3D type tag clouds slow down the loading time of wordpress blog to a little extent but they are always entertaining and gives a site navigation pleasure for your readers.These visual tag clouds are very good and a demo of this can be found here.They work excellently,moreover search engine spiders can crawl flash type objects too.To install Wp cumulus tag cloud generator plugin on your wordpress blog you have to

• Download the plugin from here
• Activate Wp cumulus from wordpress admin plugin panel
• Create a new page or make modifications in the existing theme and add this code <?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?> anywhere in the theme or page.

Your 3D visual tags are generated! you can set the visual speed of the tags or distribute tags evenly,change color,use transparent mode and tweak the tags.Alternately their is also a option to display category cloud on your blog.The plugin is updated and is compatible to suit the newer wordpress version (2.6)

If you are blogging on wordpress then you know the large amount of plugins available for different purpose ranging from editing the look to styling your wordpress blog with many more options to tweak and organize easily.We had a talk about bookmarking wp plugin,seo wordpress plugin and smiley comment plugins in the past.

Again,here are some of the wordpress plugin which helps in editing the posts pages,categories,slugs and also tags very easily with some enhanced options.I have used most of them and they are installed on my wordpress platform blogote blog.Some plugin needs a little editing/tweaking of themes! So make sure you visit the plugin page and install the plugin by reading those proper instructions.

Advanced Category Excluder – With this plugin you can define categories for some parts of the site to be hidden.If you have a uncategorized section or about me or any section which you want to hide then this plugin helps a lot.

Batch Categories – Easily manage the mass/bulk categorization of posts that match various criteria.Requires some tweaks!

Category Overload – This plugin will allow you to better manage a very large category list in a easy way.

Themed Categories v1.2 – This plugin allows you to change the theme on a per category basis.

Better Tags Manager – A simple wordpress plugin to search and bulk edit the tags which are written while publishing the post.Just go to manage section and you can edit the tags and save them in no time.

Manageable – So far the only wordpress plugin to have bulk category edit option.Extremely useful to re edit those mis-checked categories in a couple of seconds or add extra categories to the already published post.You can also edit the date of the post or pages, title, author, categories, tags, status and more  without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. Just simple click on edit and you can do it very easily.Do install this plugin for better blog post editing options.

We had written about generating random password tools in our last post,these random passwords are very secure and strong but remembering these random passwords if you have registered to many sites is almost impossible.But majority people use the same password repeatedly and for this their is a web service which helps to login anywhere on the web with your OPEN ID password.Clickpass deals with all of the generation and submission of user’s OpenIDs.It is created in order to save the need to remember passwords. This means that a normal user never has to know anything to do with the URL’s that are flying to and fro within his browser.

You can  log into your Clickpass using your Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft Live accounts.All you need to do is choose which account you want to use and then connect it to your existing Clickpass.Creating an account, including name, email, address and even a profile photo takes only a second.All their servers are in secure data centers and protected behind both software and hardware firewalls.Here is how Clickpass works

1. Your page loads
2. Clickpass button loads pre-filled form containing user’s OpenID
3. User clicks button
4. OpenID is submitted from Clickpass directly to your website
5. OpenID authentication process continues as normal

For now Clickpass supports login to some sites but in the coming weeks they will build the login list.They even have a wordpress plugin  which lets you log into your wordpress admin pages using Clickpass. Once the plugin is installed you will be able to log in to your admin panel from your Clickpass account page or from your wordpress login page without typing the password or username.

Download Clickpass wordpress plugin

Here is a video done by Ijustine (Funny Twitter downtime) which explains Clickpass uses :

WordPress being state-of-the-art article publishing platform has huge benefits when it comes to plugins.Their are various developers who create wordpress themes and different plugins for various purposes.For search engine exposure their have been quite a few plugins which are really very helpful.We have written about other plugins like instant Watermark, bookmarking and smilies plugin but here is a compiled resources of best SEO wordpress plugin for blogging :

1. All in one SEO plugin  – All in one seo plugin is the most used SEO plugin due to fact that it optimizes titles,Meta tags and fine tune the keywords for search engine.It is compatible with other plugins and also avoids duplicate content found on WordPress blogs automatically.

2. Platinum SEO Plugin – This plugin works is new and works exactly as All in one SEO plugin but it has a option to add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir meta tags to any post/page quickly.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect which many new bloggers are not aware of.

3. SEO Title tag – Apart from overriding a blog page or a post title tag with a custom one,SEO title tag also defines a custom title tag for your home page.It helps in optimizing every title tag on your site like homepage,categories,archives and posts.It has also a useful Mass editing option to ease the task.

4. Add Meta tags – This is a automatic wordpress SEO meta tag plugin which adds Meta tags to the frontpage of the blog and also to the single post.You can provide full XHTML code of META tags you would like to be included in all of your blog pages for better blog optimization.Though it is a old plugin but it works with the new version of WordPress.

5. SEO friendly Images – So far the only SEO plugin for Images,SEO friendly Images plugin helps in WordPress images optimization which automatically updates all the images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.And moreover this wp plugin makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.A must have plugin if you use photos/images in your blog frequently.

6. SEO slug Plugin – SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.Very useful to make your slugs shorter and easy to remember,You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.Their is another plugin which works similar to SEO slug called as SEO post link.

7. SEO smart link – As the name suggests SEO Smart Links automatically searches for keywords and phrases in the text of your posts and comments then add links to the corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog,it build the Internal linking of a blog.This plugin helps a lot in building your internal blog post links without much effort!

Due to copyrighted Image theft,people use watermarks on their self captured pictures/photographs.Watermarks is a layer of words like your own domain name,our your signature which are on the original image which helps to know the original owner of the image.Once the watermarks are used on the original image and saved then their is no way to erase or remove them.Watermarking images is the only effective way to protect your original images.

You can use softwares like Irfanview or paint to make a simple watermark layer but if you are feel it is cumbersome to use any applications then don’t hesitate to use this wordpress watermark plugin from Marekki.

Marekki’s Watermark Plugin for WordPress inserts your logo or any text in which are located in wp-uploads folder of your blog directory. You can watermark in two different ways :

1. Insert watermark for a image which is uploaded - You can give a transparent background and also setup the font, size, shadow, color and opaque-level without much effort
2. Insert watermarks on all chosen pictures from a directory (My gallery) – You can add watermarks in bulk to the specified directory which is located on your web server.

The wordpress watermark plugin is updated and compatible with wordpress 2.5 and higher version too.

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