Which is the best plugin to display code in your WordPress posts? Although WordPress allows users to display code within a post, the result is not impressive. That’s the reason why there are so many great plugins out there to address this issue. If you happen to be a blogger and occasionally publish coding tutorials, then today’s post will definitely be useful to you. We’ve done extensive research and gathered 17 most-used WordPress plugins for displaying code snippet in blog posts.

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As bloggers, we try our best to ensure that every link we create goes to a specific page on our site. However, in the event that we delete out-of-date posts or pages without removing the links to them, there is a chance that a link clicked will lead to Error 404 page. Instead of displaying your visitors “Sorry, page not found”, you should put more helpful message suggesting them what to do next such as go to homepage, contact administrator, or perform searches.

In today’s post, we will teach you how to customize your Error 404 page so that it’s more helpful to your visitors and consistent with your theme style. Read more…

Google AdSense is the most common way of making money online. Many bloggers managed to make decent income by displaying Google ads on their sites. However some people may prefer other advertising networks claiming that they are paying higher than AdSense. Well it depends, would you be surprised if I told you some great bloggers’ve successfully earned more than 400,000 dollars every month with Google AdSense alone? It’s true and the figure is not exaggerated.

If you are running a WordPress blog with a dream of making big money online, then you should pay close attention to this post. Today we’ve gathered 25 excellent WordPress plugins to help you fully utilize Google AdSense and maximize revenue from your blog! Read more…

As blogger, you should’ve come across some cool features in other’s blog and you may wonder how you can apply them in your own blog as well. Well, don’t feel bad about it as most of the bloggers have experienced this feeling. Another common situation is that you want to add new functionality or change some design on your blog, but you don’t know the keywords to search for the right tips, tutorials or plugin helping you to get the job done.

In today’s article, we’ve gathered some of the most wanted WordPress tips, tricks, tutorials and plugins that are absolutely useful for your blog. Make sure you go through the list as you might find the solution you want here. Read more…

One of the great ways to expand your blog is to get co-authors and guest authors producing fresh contents to attract different types of audiences. This trend has been growing rapidly in the blogging industry. Many one-man blogs have turned into multi-author blogs as it’s getting hard for a single author to keep up with the fresh content especially when the audience grows. In many cases, bloggers need to deliver more than one quality blog post everyday to satisfy their increasingly demanding audience. And that’s where co-authors and guest bloggers come in to reduce the workload.

Assuming the part of writers recruitment is being taken care of, the next big challenge will be multi-author management. Apparently it’s no easy task, you have to spend lots of time making sure the authors write quality content and post on time, giving them appropriate permission, and so much more. Fortunately there are lots of WordPress plugins out there helping you to manage your co-authors and guest authors. Read more…

Which statistics plugin is the best to analyze your WordPress blog? Every blog or website should have at least 2 statistics and analytics tools to collect useful information about your visitors such as who’s visited, visit date and time, referrals, search engine terms, countries, browsers and popular pages on your blog.

In the previous post, we’ve listed 18 most popular online statistics tools for web developers and bloggers. Today, we would like to do something similar exclusively for WordPress users. We all know that WordPress stands out from other blogging platforms when it comes to plugins and addons to increase usability. In today’s roundup, you can find 29 most-used statistics and analytics plugins for your WordPress blog. These plugins are powerful, easy-to-use, and most importantly they are free for every WordPress user, making you have no reasons to go for paid tools! Read more…

Slideshow, photo gallery and image gallery are a great way to share information, videos or a collection of pictures. They are commonly used by web designers and bloggers to showcase latest posts, portfolio, images, products, etc. If you are running a WordPress blog, adding a beautiful slideshow to attract your visitor’s attention can be done easily through a plugin. In today’s post, we’ve gathered 27 most downloaded WordPress slideshow and image gallery plugins for you to choose. Hopefully you’ll love them all, don’t forget to leave us your comment!

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If you are running a WordPress blog, security is something you should never ignore. I strongly suggest you spend some time considering the security aspect of you site, otherwise you are taking risk of all your efforts going down the drain. To keep your blog away from hackers, spams and malicious Internet agents, you have to make sure that you are always updated with the latest version of WordPress, and that’s the least thing you must do. You should also take serious steps toward your blog security by installing some plugins.

In today’s post, I would like to share with you 45 very effective security plugins to protect your WordPress blog. They’re each devised for different purposes, so you will get the best protection from each field. Remember, spending a few minutes on securing your blog can save you hours or even days of trouble later. Read more…

If you are running a WordPress blog, you should know how important it is to optimize your blog so that Google and other search engines can discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. Fortunately there are myriad of WordPress plugins developed for search engine optimization (SEO). Most of them are available on the WordPress repository where you can download for free.

With these SEO plugins you can easily choose the right tags, instruct search engine robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and much more. Now the question is which SEO plugin can effectively optimize your blog? To help you choose the right plugin, following are 25 popular SEO plugins you can use to increase your site ranking on the search results. Read more…

Most of the bloggers generally agree that post’s content is everything. However comments are often just as important, they create valuable discussions which are considered the secondary content of your post. If you are WordPress user, you should know that the default comment box is too simple and uninspiring. Fortunately we can enhance it using various of plugins. Here we’ve compiled a list of 35 useful plugins for WordPress comments helping you get rid of spam, improve the appearance of comments, and increase your engagement and interaction with visitors. Check them out!

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If you think that creating more tags, categories, date and other kind of archive pages help to increase your site ranking in Google search engine, you’re probably wrong! This year, Google rolled out a number of updates called Google Panda to improve Internet search results. The purpose of the changes is clear, they basically aim to lower the rank of “low-quality sites” in search results and return high-quality sites to users. Panda rollout has affected almost 12% of all search results. Many websites have experienced a substantial drop in their traffic. So what’s the first thing you should do to improve your website or blog and avoid being affected by Panda effects? Here are some tips you must know!

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What can you do if you found that your WordPress blog getting sluggish? If you search the web for solution, surely you will get tons of suggestions and recommendations that may be confusing and you probably have no idea which is the good one to solve your problem. In fact, slow loading webpage is a very common issue faced by most of the WordPress users, however this is something should not be ignored as it will cause visitors to leave your site and go somewhere else, leaving your site without sales, low user subscriptions and poor search engine ranking.

One of the great ways for speeding up your blog is exercise caching and fortunately the WordPress community has a lot of caching plugins to choose from. So lets us round up some of the best caching plugins to make your web site load faster! Read more…

Nowadays, many website and blog designs are very complex, colorful, and loaded with lots of effects, images and CSS styling. Will vibrant and complex designs attract more visitors? Well, the answer can be easily found from some of the top websites like Google and Facebook. With clean and simple layout, it leaves more space for the text itself to be in focus and it tends to deliver greater user experience.

Today’s post is dedicated to WordPress bloggers who looking for simple and minimal themes. You’ll find a list below which contains 50 impressive WordPress themes both free and premium for your selection. We hope these themes can fulfill your needs to create an awesome and successful blog! Read more…

Do you think that Google+ will be Facebook or Twitter “killer”? Well we will know the answer when the time comes. But what we can tell you now is that Google+ is definitely a social media that you can’t afford to ignore especially if you are blogger, web developer or content producer. Today’s article is exclusively written for WordPress users as we would like to introduce 2 methods of adding Google+ to WordPress blog or website. So don’t miss it!

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By default, WordPress displays full post on the homepage and category pages. However, some users prefer their posts to be published in the form of excerpt (partial post), making their blogs look more decent. In fact, there are some benefits of publishing posts in excerpt form. Imaging if your visitors load a page which has lots of images, it can significantly impact your page load time. By using excerpt, you can simply show a short description of the article and let visitors view the post on single post page.

Other than that, excerpt also helps to increase page view count. Imaging if you don’t use the excerpt, your visitors will just read the post on the homepage or category pages. By adding it this way, they will go to the original post. That is 2 page views instead of 1. Without further ado, let us show you 2 simple tutorials on how to display post excerpts in your WordPress blog. Read more…