Images can enhance the overall appeal of your blog posts. After writing a great post - do you involve in rigorous search for a related image? Then, download that image, upload it on your wordpress blog, add credits for image source and much more.

Too much of effort? You can do all the above steps in more quickly using Wordpress Plugin Photo Dropper. It lets you add free photos at Flickr to your Wordpress posts.

It uses Flickr to search for Creative Commons licensed photos and add them easily to your posts complete with attribution links. Once you upload and activate the plugin, you will see ‘Photo Dropper (more…)

We have already seen 5 Ways to Create or Convert existing website into mobile friendly website. Now here comes specific alternative for Wordpress Blogs in the form of a Wordpress Plugin ‘WordPress Mobile Edition’.

This plugins allows you to show an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.

Mobile browsers are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed. Using this plugin require more than usual steps required to install a Wordpress Plugin.

Besides installing files in Plugin directory, you also need to drop some files in Theme directory. Here is the installation procedure:

1. Drop the wp-mobile.php file in your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Drop the wp-mobile directory in your (more…)
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Do you want to change or test themes on your Wordpress Blog without visitors noticing the change? If yes, then you should install and enable ‘Test Drive Wordpress Plugin’.

Many times when theme is tested or played with, visitors on the front end can have real rough experience browsing the blog. To avoid this bad experience for visitors you can use this plugin to make theme changes seamlessly.

Theme Test Drive Wordpress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparently and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. (more…)

Banner ads, pop ups ads, pop in ads, in-text ads - list keeps getting bigger and bigger. Here is another type of advertising format not talked about too much - Strip Ad. It is basically a text ad shown at the top of a webpage. It is NOT a new type of advertising with few big and popular blogs already using it for a while now.

These ads always catch an eye of a visitor as the webpage loads. On the other hand they are non-obtrusive and do not break the reading experience of a visitor. MaxBlogPress has released free wordpress plugin to show Stripe ads on Wordpress blogs. (more…)

Majority of readers will bookmark the stuff they like, however some of them prefer to print posts or articles straightaway for future reference and reading.

The default print option in browser can lead to broken and uneven priting of elements in the article. For Wordpress users here comes an option to add ‘Print this post’ button to every post/article.

When you click on the print button, post contents are reloaded in  very clean format ready for print. Also, the article or post URL and other referenced links are shown at the end of the article for future reference of the websites itself. Here is screenshot of actual and printable page: (more…)

Yahoo and Wordpress? Well, Yahoo has launched a Wordpress plugin for bloggers to show relevant YAHOO! content in blog posts. Relevant keywords will be highlighted and box will pop up on mouse-over resulting into advertisement link to any of the Yahoo Service or content. This wordpress plugin finds Flickr photos, ticker symbols, products, yahoo maps etc in blog posts.

What is the logic? As blogger you do not get anything, it is not paid advertisement program. Yahoo wants its services advertised for FREE !!! Yahoo is also offering Free T-shirt for bloggers who (more…)