Icon styled social subscription widget is looks random and simple, on the another hand metro/windows style social media subscription widget looks cool and smart. Before I published 2 different styled metro social media profile widget, and with this post I exposing just another metro social subscription widget with different format, Contains Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, Linkedin and Feedburner slot with hover effect and tool-tip. This widget will fit to any kind of website no matter it Blog or portfolio website. Let's see how it looks like and how to use it in your Blogger blog and wordpress sites.
Metro Social Subscription Widget for Blogger/Wordpress
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#ks-social-icons img:hover { -webkit-opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8; opacity: 0.8; -webkit-transition: all .5s ease; -moz-transition: all .5s ease; -o-transition: all .5s ease; -ms-transition: all .5s ease; transition: all .5s ease; border:#FFF 1px hidden; }/*crawlist.net CSS ends*/ </style> <div class="ks-metro"><div id="ks-social-icons"> <!--crawlist.net widget Starts--><div class="ks-fbbox"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Join us on Facebook"><img height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cIceYoqqvLx_UGzuGLGS835de8xvNMv6-nRz3oEWVBjzvurzx0or_4-Le3YSp5JsQZHxPxoOto36oWdgDDKN1IEuy_fQZ4vFOV4mQAvJ9oklVdF_5NwxuUMmUBbJD_y_whRne8ZZatCV/s1600/1.png" width="150" /></a></div> <div class="ks-gpbox"> <a href="http://plus.google.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Join us on Google Plus"><img height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNvB5Y8vxU2B3w9Put_GqNGnH8RM-FXnkp9sfSLoRCCa9Q6Yk0ZB2oN7kKrl0aK0bNOYr1j4nuHsI_ejH-GjMmkwbdbJrvt6btjanestLgVNXugT29uYM3CKIWzj2eueON3JaB6tNa6lJ/s1600/2.png" width="136" /></a></div> <div class="ks-ttbox"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Join us on Twitter"><img height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlIR7ivLhFeeQiEy5hyphenhyphen2CiYOg3u9NcyAJnOfkwQM20FQgbjFSex67BWb2CsWkXqj0idaI0BcxUs9yjSSo0j_aw7trD4GBi-1xyztbRvzZA062RH6n5LLy7FQwRlppgUlkYFY_sn-Y1l3Hp/s1600/3.png" width="136" /></a></div> <div class="ks-febox"> <a href="http://feedburner.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Never miss a post"><img height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhed2QOkmMW4do2Pb3T_TWFaq2Mu7CEfnNw6hd1SCmeKn3vjDFdDNekIFMXYXDLEkNxGm0fb1-J75NpGsfGka8lmRP8Fj4adb2-w-0dLhQAtV-FabYHaMNeYzNTGeWgBS2JXvv8n5xdUW9s/s1600/4.png" width="136" /></a></div> <div class="ks-lnbox"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Join us on Linkedin"><img height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5UqrxkgpvOyg5QiWzug8N5x9OA7uUkoE45D-OYxKf4MtKeSCXIIIaKiH7aEXE4rPCeTGH24GNHHvDxnkan-HYNFGu28yZGfx63leDEonkBpH7z_P48Ruqy-AlCbx8TDijnZFULhTVb0L/s1600/5.png" width="150" /></a></div> <div class="ks-ptbox"> <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/your profile" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Join us on Pinterest"><img height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiew4l0v9xc8f6MMH4AS-rXIFGRHInB5i6I89og7JRv1vadNa3S7QXAfeXJPv8KyOHq1aY_TbnF0S4Ca_uqaEQbZrDy_NKKbd0p9w5_oKc-V-pTYRfpxDBgkfk4X239rIILJU8YhtsLNac/s1600/6.png" width="150" /></a></div><!--crawlist.net widget ends--></div>
How to add this widget in Blogger
First log in to your Blogger, select your Blog,
Go to 'Layout' tab then click 'add a gadget'
Select 'html/javascript' from pop up menu.
Copy following codes and configure
How to add this widget in Wordpress
From dashboard hover mouse on 'Appearance' tab,
From 'appearance' menu select 'widgets',
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box
New Dashboard: Click on 'Text' add it to sidebar and paste following codes.
How to configure First collect your following social media profiles direct links and replace with default links. All links are red colored;
So, what you think about this widget and how it working on your Blog don't forget to mention :) And don't forget to subscribe and like Crawlist on Facebook for more cool widget's updates.
Feedburner email subscription box is a must have widget for both Blogger and wordpress users. But the default subscription widget is pretty simple and non attractive, that’s what I did published custom attractive and eye catchy subscription box before (like- Cool Feedburner email subscription box, Total social subscription box widget, 4 stylish Feedburner subscription widget) And here I am publishing another one The Unique subscription box here. This widget is both attractive and eye catchy, it made with Pure CSS3 ribbon, retina ready background, flat pressable submit button and so so. It also smaller sized and will be fit with any kind of website I guess. Let’s see how it looks like and how to add it in your Blogger and wordpress blogs.
Ribbon: Feedburner Email Subscription box for Blogger/Wordpress
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box,
For new dashboard click on 'Text' add it to sidebar and paste following codes and configure
How to configure First log into your Feedburner account, get your Feedburner Id and replace FeedId pink colored (example- http://feeds.feedburner.com/your website’s feed id) Then save widget. Visit your site to see this widget working.
Widget compatibility
This widget tested with many templates and it compatible with all of them. Some template will not show this widget properly, in that case you have to fix widget’s margin code.
This widget works fine on All major web browser (latest versions)
So what you think about this widget do not forget to mention by comment, I would love to hear. And stay subscribed for more widget update in future. Goodluck
Email marketing is an important option for both entrepreneurBlogger and Internet marketers. For email marketing's essential tools is email sending services. Awber, Mailchimp, Madmimi, Get response are very popular. In these email sending services Mailchimp is very good choice for no matter you are beginner or pro and of course it's free and have ability to send beautiful customized newsletters. For sending newsletter you will need to have a list what can be done by sign up form. Problem is there Mailchimp Optin/email subscription/newsletter sign up forms are very simple and looks a bit of awkward with our themes/templates, Right? So reveling you from these boring-ness with sign up form here I publishing a homemade professional looking mailchimp sign up/subscription form. It's easy to configure and flat designed and it will easily match with any blogsites/websites. Let's see how it looks like and how to add it to your Blogger blog and wordpress sites and how to configure.
Professional Mailchimp Sign-up/Opt-in Form for Wordpress/Blogger
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box,
For new dashboard click on 'Text' add it to sidebar
And paste following codes and configure
How to configure Configuring this form won't take a while, read on-
First log in to your mailchimp account,
Select 'List' from side menu,
Inside 'List' on your email subscriber list's very right part after 'stats'
Click on dropdown menu, select, 'Sign up forms' from there.
Then Select 'Embedded forms'.
When you are into 'Embedded forms'
From Classic sign up forms page's botton contains sign up forms HTMLcode,
Copy all code and paste them on any txt file/word file (notepad)
And select the following link what shown as image and replace the link with my default link (pink colored).
Save your widget/gadget and take a look at your site, How it looking on your site, how it working or any trouble please leave with comment. More cool Mailchimp subscription form will release soon stay subscribed, Happy Email marketing :)
The usefulness of using Captcha on your site is so to speak. Most important some reason stands for your website’s security. Like-
Preventing spam bots (The bots what leaves/posts spam links as a comment or message automatically)
It does brute force protection (Login, account hacks)
Preventing Harmful data collector bots (Those automated programs collecting certain types of sensitive information, like-email, password)
Cookie base bots (Bots what examine cookies for their good, like-advertise serve)
Prevents DDOS attacks (The bots what assist with massive downloading of content from multimedia websites, and make server down)
And so on.
And if you use Wordpress you can get rid of these security problems with just installing a Captcha plugin. There are a lot’s of Captcha plugin you may find in wordpress plugin depositary. But I did some check and writing here 6 best Captcha plugin for wordpress based on there popularity, styling over all worth to have performance. So read on-
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image.
Configure from Admin panel
Valid HTML
Section 508 and WAI Accessibility Validation.
Allows Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
Setting to hide the Captcha from logged in users and or admins
Setting to show the Captcha on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all.
The Captcha plugin allows you to implement a super security captcha form into web forms. It protects your website from spam by means of math logic, easily understood by human beings.
Three basic maths actions - add, subtract and multiply.
This captcha can be used for login, registration, password recovery, comments forms.
There is also a premium version of the plugin, allowing compatibility with BuddyPress (Registration form, Comments form, "Create a Group" form and Contact Form 7
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human.
reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration form, etc.
In addition to protecting your site, reCAPTCHA also helps us digitize old books and newspapers, transcribe street numbers and solve hard AI problems
PlusCaptcha - Forget the spam, ugly and complicated captchas. The Easiest Captcha to Setup and Execute, with Auto-Setup Feature. An evolution of the protection from bots and people without good intentions. Simple to install, simple to use, security at a click distance
Simple to setup, Automatic account generation
Size, color, difficulty personalization.
Popular All Browsers Support
Integrated Form (with shortcode), Comment form, Login form, Lost password form
Stop spam and bots with PlayThru, the fun, free CAPTCHA alternative! CAPTCHAs infuriate users, increase drop-off, and ruin your site's user experience. PlayThru is the simple game-based CAPTCHA replacement that people love. It's easy to install and completely free.
This plugin works effortlessly on comment, registration, and lost password forms, and is compatible with BuddyPress, Gravity Forms, and Contact Form 7
CAPTCHA-related dropoff is five times higher on mobile than on desktop,
The PlayThru spam blocker is optimized for touch, so it works beautifully on mobile device
Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins.
It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
Also it is not strongly secure.
As you already knew why Captcha using so necessary. So use a Captcha plugin from above and increase your wordpress blog's security. Don't forget to mention what you use or gonna use :)
CDN full means Content delivery network, it's an advanced content delivery service that uses a huge distributed system of servers in multiple data centers to serve website content (Text, codes, images, video etc) to website visitors and give high end performance of website and visitor satisfaction. CDN 's content delivery system is very very powerful than your website hosting's server, and makes your website super fast loading (more than 200%), makes your website secure from various hack protection. In the matter of running Wordpress powered blogsite using CDN is kind of mandatory. So here I listed those best and free CDN plugins name and satisfaction. Basically these plugin are use for launching the CDN service, basically you have to go to these plugin provider service to create account, add your site to service. So read on 7 best free CDN service to use for wordpress sites.
7 best CDN service Wordpress plugins to use
1. Cloud Flare CloudFlare is the most popular free CDN service. Operating 23 data centers around the world. This service offers speeding up your site (can be more than 300%), Web pages with ad servers and third party widgets load snappy on both mobile and computers, Protect your website from a range of online threats, present data of all your website’s traffic including threats even search engine bots, one click set up cloud flare app will make your site more stronger and safe.
2. CoralCDN Coral CDN help speed up a website by loading assets from multiple sources around the Internet. Coral CDN provides a free network of servers to help website owners easily off-load resources to improve the performance of the site. Has Modern peer to peer indexing technologies, 260 servers around the world.
3. jsDelivr jsDelivr is a free public CDN that hosts JavaScript libraries and jQuery plugins, including all of the files they need to work css&png. It even hosts JavaScript files that use popular WordPress plugins. It will Speeds up your website, Cuts the bandwidth bill, Offloads the server from extra requests. Supports HTTPS and Uses Google CDN to load jQuery to take advantage of the user's browser cache. They has 91 server around globe
4. Bootstrap CDN Official WordPress plugin of Bootstrap CDN by MaxCDN. It's a free and public content delivery network. Users of Bootstrap CDN can load CSS, JavaScript and images remotely from its servers. Provides Faster website, Less requests to your server
5. Incapsula Incapsula gives any website the security and performance previously only available to the website elite. Through a simple DNS settings change, website traffic is seamlessly routed through Incapsula's global network of high powered servers. In realtime, blocking even the latest web threats from sophisticated SQL injection attacks to malicious bots and intruding comment spammers, accelerated and optimized site for faster load times
6. Blue Hat CDN This plugin offers lossless image optimization, JavaScript/CSS compression, parallel download optimization, database optimization. It also supports offloading your static media files to various cloud delivery networks including, Blue Hat Cloud Delivery Network, Amazon CloudFront, and Rackspace CloudFiles. Plus Optimizes Your HTML Code to be HTML 5 Compliant Optimizes, OneClick Setup etc
7. Photon Provide by wordpress, comes with Jetpack plugin. Give your site a boost by loading images in posts from the WordPress.com content delivery network. It will cache your images and serve them from a super-fast network.
And using these CDN service you can have a faster website and more secure blogging. Don't forget to mention what CDN service you use or you will be.
In the matter of Wordpress powered sites there are a lots of plugins you can find to make your site beautiful plus those plugins are somewhat very useful for use. Here such useful and fancy wordpress plugin listed, let’s read on to know what plugins I’m talking about-
(Social network dedicated)
1. Facebook Add Facebook social plugins and the ability to publish new posts to a Facebook Timeline or Facebook Page. Official Facebook plugin.
Features-
Open graph protocol markup optimizes your content for social sharing and rich story previews on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Mixi, and more
Display large images, link to author pages, and improve story distribution through social news feeds
Facebook insights (Track rich audience data powered by Facebook profiles (age, location, language) and see how your content is shared on Facebook)
Add like, follow, send button every content
Embed facebook post, composer, creating a shortcode, calling a function from your theme
Facebook social comment box enabling, login support for AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! accounts
Recommending bar for recommending posts and encouraging Like shares posts and encouraging Like shares
Configure your Facebook application for Open Graph action news publishing support for improved Facebook distribution of author Timeline stories and news-specific highlights
Customize and extend the plugin through custom actions and filters
2. WP to Twitter Auto-posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or blogroll, with your chosen URL shortening service
Features-
Use tags as Twitter hashtags
Use alternate URLs in place of post permalinks
Support for Google Analytics
Support for XML, RPC remote clients
Url shorter t.co service
Pro service has much more
3. Floating Social Media Icon Easy to Use Plugin 2 Show Social Media Icons That Floats,Can Configure Social Icon Design, Order & Size at Plugin Settings, Support Widget & Short
Features-
20+ Icon Styles, Set Icon Size & Order
Multiple Widget & Shortcode Support
Auto/Manual Integration
Enable/Disable Floating
Less Load - Essential Social Medias Only
Pro service has much more functions
4. Pinterest "Pin It" Button Add a Pinterest "Pin It" Button to your site and get your visitors to start pinning your awesome content!
Features-
Let the reader select an image when pinning.
Pre-select an image for the reader to pin.
Default to the first image in the post.
Specify a specific image to pin per post.
Pick from official "Pin It" button colors and sizes.
Hide the "Pin It" button on specific posts and pages.
Add a "Pin It" button to your sidebar or footer as a widget.
Place "Pin It" buttons anywhere using shortcodes.
Pro service has much more options
5. Login radius social login Let your users log in, comment and share via their social accounts with Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vkontakte, QQ and over 25 more!
Features-
Users can register by logging in with social ID such as Gmail, Twitter, Facebook etc and they will not require usernames/passwords
Choose as many ID Providers as you want
It automatically creates account for the users after logging in with their existing IDs
Fully compatible with s2member, Buddypress and bbPress
Choose social icon themes and login interface (widget) design
API connection check feature for error notification, REST API access and HTTPS support, Validate API key and secret Enable, API connection check
Allow users to post comments with their Social Accounts, The comment will appear with users name, his/her avatar image and link to his/her profile
Options to add social sharing widget on homepage, posts, feeds, content pages, etc plus Choose social sharing interface designs
Enable email verification of end users, Fetched data include Email addresses, name, date of birth, etc
A nice and clean user friendly WP admin U/I with tab structure with various options for social login, sharing and commenting
Custom Login Redirection i.e. set a URL to redirect your users after logging in, Custom Logout Redirection i.e. set a URL to redirect your users after logging out
Pro service has much more functions
(Better customization on theme dedicated)
6. SlideDeck 2 Lite Responsive Content Slider Create responsive content sliders on your WordPress blogging platform. Manage SlideDeck content and insert them into templates and posts
Features-
Responsive slider plugin that lets you easily create content sliders out of almost any content
Connect to a variety of Content Sources like YouTube, Flickr, WordPress posts and Pinterest to create gorgeous, dynamic sliders in a few clicks
Embed video several source supports
Unlimited slidedeck add into a post
Pro upgrade has lot more function
7. Meta Slider Easy to use slideshow plugin. Create SEO optimized responsive slideshows with Nivo Slider, Flex Slider, Coin Slider and Responsive Slides.
Simple, easy to use interface - perfect for individual users, developers & clients
Built in Widget and Shortcode
Create Responsive, SEO optimised slideshows in seconds, Unrestricted support for Image slides (supports caption, link, title text, alt text)
WordPress Multi Site compatible, Fast, only the minimum JavaScript/CSS is included on your page
Simple, easy to use interface - perfect for individual users, developers & clients, Extensive
Developer API (hooks & filters)
Full width slideshow support, Drag and drop slide reordering
8. JQuery Mega Menu Widget Creates a widget, which allows you to add drop down mega menus from any WordPress custom menu using jQuery
Features-
Hover/Click - Select the event that activates the sub-menu. Note that if using "Click" the parent menu links will be disabled
Skin - Several sample skins are available to give examples of css that can be used to style your own mega menu
Animation Effect - The effect used to display the drop down menu. Options are slide down or fade in
Animation Speed - The speed at which the dropdown menu will open/close - selecting "No Animation" will immediately show/hide the menu
Set Sub Menu To Full Width - If checked, the drop down mega sub menu width will be 100%
9. Sticky Header by ThematoSoup Sticky Header by ThematoSoup allows you to add sticky header to any WordPress theme
Features-
Menu - You need to create at least one navigation menu before you can add it to Sticky Header. The menu in Sticky Header shows only first level items, so no submenu items will be shown
Logo - You can upload your sticky header logo by clicking on "Upload new" > "Select a file". Ideally, this logo should be 30px tall or it will be resized. If a logo image is not uploaded, site title will be used.
Custom background, text color
Sticky Header max width - This option allows you to match interior Sticky Header width to your content area width
Make visible when scrolled to - This is the distance from the top of the page at which sticky header will show, in pixels
Hide if screen is narrower than - Sticky header will not be shown on screens narrower than this value, in pixels. When people use mobile devices, they're used to vertical scrolling so it's not necessary to have sticky headers
Floating palettes, Side palettes Undo step, Redo step and Auto backup
Inline editing, Get HTML HTML Source, Mini HTML Editor, Full HTML Editor
Embeds for adding html layers, Embeds for paypal, Embeds for youtube
(Media dedicated)
11. NextGEN Gallery It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import Meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more
Features-
Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries
Edit galleries. Add or exclude images, change gallery title and description, reorder of images, resize thumbnails
Thumbnail Management. Turn thumbnail cropping on and off, customize how individual thumbnails are cropped, and bulk resize thumbnails across one or more galleries
Edit Individual Images. Edit meta data and image tags, rotate images, and exclude images
Watermarks. Quickly add watermarks to batches or galleries of images
Albums. Create and organize collections of galleries, and display them in either compact or extended format
Multiple Gallery Types. Choose between two main display styles: Slideshow and Thumbnail, and allow visitors to toggle between the two. Or display Imagebrowser galleries and Singlepics
Slideshow Galleries. Choose from a vast array of options for slideshows, including slideshow size, transition style, speed, image order, and optional navigation bar
Thumbnail Galleries. Choose from a wide range of options to customize thumbnail galleries, including 5 different lightboxes for individual images, optional thumbnail cropping and editing, thumbnail styles, captions, and more
Single Image Displays. Display and format single images, Work with Options Panel or Shortcode
12. Easy FancyBox Easily enable the FancyBox jQuery extension on just about all media links. Multi-Site compatible. Supports iFrame and Flash movies
Features-
All other image types and image maps, SWF (Flash) movies, SVG media images
WordPress Galleries, NextGEN galleries
Youtube galleries via Youtube Simple Gallery plugin, Vimeo, Dailmotion
Hidden inline content
iFrames, PDF files
Auto-popup on page load, links inside Gravity Forms in ajax mode
13. Responsive Lightbox Responsive Lightbox allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices
Features-
Select from 4 responsive lightbox scripts (SwipeBox, prettyPhoto, FancyBox, Nivo Lightbox)
Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image galleries
Automatically add lightbox to WordPress image links
Automatically add lightbox to WordPress video links (YouTube, Vimeo)
Option to display single post images as a gallery, Enter a selector for lightbox
Highly customizable settings for each of the lightbox scripts
Multisite support
14. Video Thumbnails Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template
Features-
Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template
When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and locate the thumbnail for you
Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically
There's even support for custom post types and custom fields!
15. WP Tiles WP Tiles shortcode adds fully customizable dynamic tiles to your WordPress posts and pages
Features-
WP Tiles are automatically generated based on your 20 last posts, can be modified
Posts are automatically shown with either their featured image, the first attached image, or the first image found in the post itself
Posts that don't have an image automatically get a background color, randomly chosen from a selection of colors set in the options panel of WP Tiles
WP Tiles comes with a couple default tile-templates
(Other fancy option's dedicated)
16. Google Analyticator Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics.Includes widgets for Analytics data display
Features-
Supports Universal (analytics.js) and traditional analytics (ga.js)
Includes an admin dashboard widget that displays a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches
Includes a widget that can be used to display visitor stat information on the front-end
Supports outbound link tracking of all links on the page, including links not managed by WordPress
Supports download link tracking
Supports event tracking with outbound links / downloads instead of the old pageview tracking method
Support site speed tracking
Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides, Supports localization -get the settings page in your language of choice
Installs easily - unlike other plugins, the user doesn't even have to know their Analytics UID, Ability to hide Google UID dropdown
Supports any advanced tracking code Google provides, Provides complete control over options, disable any feature if needed
Star Rating System for WordPress - the most beautiful & user-freindly Thumb & Star ratings for WordPress
Features-
Secure Connection (Fraud protection)
No Ads in votes overview pop-up
Lots of rating icons
Most Rated post and other sidebar widgets
Remove (i) icon from Ratings
Pro version has many more features
18. WP Google Maps The easiest to use Google maps plugin! Create custom maps with high quality markers containing locations, categories, descriptions, images and links
Features-
Super easy to use, Latest Google Maps API (V3), No advertising or links
Create as many map markers as you need by simply typing in the address, Edit your markers with the click of a button
Responsive maps, UTF-8 character support
Map can be included as a widget
Google Maps Street view supported, Support for localization
Define your own width, height and zoom level for your Google Map
Choose from four Google maps types: roadmap, terrain, satellite and hybrid
Add animations to your map markers!
Pro version has lot more function
19. Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup Give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website with Fancier Author Box, The Only Author Box Plugin You'll Ever Need
20. Infinite-Scroll Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page
Features-
Works out-of-the-box for many popular WordPress themes, just activate the plugin and scroll
Fully customizable to adapt to your site and theme
Requires no (hopefully) template hacking, only a knowledge of CSS selectors
Relies on shared database of common themes to simplify installation process
Maintain local database of theme presets for all installed themes (shared across network on multisite installs)
Countless API endpoints to modify the behavior
Backwards compatible: Will not break RSS readers, mobile devices, or browsers with JavaScript
May be you using some of these plugins, if you still didn’t tried, lets try today :) got recommend some fancy useful plugin you use don't forget to mention....
No matter your Blogger or Wordpress site is for Blogging, selling product, download stuffs using Testimonial widget is necessary. Testimonial widget represents your sites and product’s quality and it increase your visitors trust on your content directly. Here I developed a simple minimalistic Testimonial widget for you, it made with little amount of HTML, CSS, CSS3, Google font. It’s easy to add, configure, lightweight, fast loading. Let’s see how it looks like and how to configure it. Read on-
First Log in to your blogger account, select your blog,
Go to ‘Layout’ Tab, from sidebar select ‘Add a gadget’,
From pop up menu select ‘Html/JavaScript’.
In Html/JavaScript’s content box copy and paste following code and configure
How to add this widget in Wordpress
From dashboard hover mouse on 'Appearance' tab,
From 'Appearance' menu select 'widgets',
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box
For new dashboard click on 'Text' add it to sidebar and paste following codes, configure and hit save
How to configure
To configure the testimonial sentences, Add your testimonial sentences into <p> and </p> tag. Example in <p>Place your content</p> replace ‘Place your content’ with your testimonial.
To configure By, replace By Name, Company/site into <h5> and </h5> tag
Then save Template.
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Wordpress is born to be a blogging platform but to the courtesy of the developers now Wordpress can be shape as any type of website. In that case Wordpress can be use as eCommerce website by using plugins. Basically there is lot of option to build a eCommerce website but creating a eCommerce website with Wordpress has lot more advantage. Like Wordpress is easy to use and maintain than other CMS and plugins also make Wordpress use more comfortable and handy plus these eCommerce plugin's user interface is very compact and lightweight also offer top class security. And these plugins are Very useful for running a small even big eShop or eCommerce site on self hosted Wordpress . It's pretty hard to tell what is the Best eCommerce/shopping cart Wordpress plugin solution. But here you can find a list of Best eCommerce plugin for Wordpress what listed by it's features, satisfaction, popularity and usability. Keep on reading-
Wp e-commerce is a free and paid wordpress all in all shopping cart solution brought to you by Getshopped developers. It let you sell your product, service and digital downloads online.
Basic features:
100% Customizable, Easy to modify templates
12+ different payment gateways
Flexible coupon/discount pricing rules, Product specific sales, Free shipping options,
Cross-sells on product pages,
Google Sitemap and Google Analytics
Search Engine Friendly, RSS feeds for products and categories
2. Woo Commerce Woo Commerce brought to you by Woo themes. It's a free and paid shopping cart plugins. Woo Commerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything, Beautifully and easily
Basic Features:
Strength and flexibility what makes it efficient, robust and intuitive ecommerce plugin
Smart dashboard widgets and reports
Sales and reviews
Stock levels, performance tracking
Customizable, WooCommerce works with any theme, including the default WordPress themes
Free ecommerce themes with psd
Multiple Payment Gateways and Shipping Methods supports
Cash on Delivery, flat rate shipping, and free shipping
Free Extensions like Admin Bar Addition, Delivery Notes, Affiliates Integration Light, Custom
Product Tabs Lite, and the WooCommerce Customizer etc
3. MarketPress Brought to by legendary wordpress developers WPMUDEV team. Free and paid eCommerce plugin for WordPress what is Beautiful, powerful and easy to use
Basic Features-
All the major payment gateways supports
Supports all major currencies
Fully internationalized by the WPML crew
Sell real objects or digital downloads
Tax and VAT ready
Multiple shipping options
Coupons, discounts and affiliate ready, Coupons and sales pricing
Unlimited product variations
Cart widget, Powerful shortcodes you can use anywhere
Stock tracking and order management and alerts
Checkout without having to be a site user
Looks great with any WordPress theme
Beautiful themes you can customize without touching code
4. Easy Digital Downloads Sell your digital content downloads through WordPress with this complete digital downloads management plugin. Very lightweight, perfomant complete ecommerce solution.
Basic Features-
Any theme adaptable
Cart system for purchasing multiple downloads at once
Many payment gateways, Complete payment history
Multiple files per downloadable product
Customizable purchase receipts, Bundled products
Complete promotional code system
Earnings and sales charts, Data export options for CSV and PDF
Extensible with many add-ons
Sell and Track Software License Keys (Software Licensing for Easy Digital Downloads provides a complete license key generation, activation, and checking system. It allows you to provide license keys along with your digital products that can then be used to properly license and activate the buyer’s copy of the software)
5. Wordpress e-store Brought to by Tips and tricks hq developers. Premium ecommerce plugin solution with many many features
Basic features-
Security of Your Digital Asset (Automatic instant digital product delivery upon payment through dynamically generated encrypted download link)
Sell Anything, tangible and non-tangible products
Secure Download Manager
Multiple payment gateways
Light Weight Shopping Cart
Multi Site License
Auto responder Integration (email marketing)
Elegant Product Display
Customer Purchase History
Extensive Shortcode Library, Free Addons
Sell License or Serial Keys
Discount Coupons, Affiliate Software Integration
Customer support, one time buy 40$
6. The CartPress Native eCommerce wordpress plugin. Comes up with high Flexibility & Scalability, Ideal for merchants, themes constructors and developers, Also You can extend its functionality with plugins and themes to customize your store exactly in same way that you do with WordPress.
Basic Features-
New WordPress user roles: Customer and Merchant
Powerful backend tools to make your Store Easy and Useful
Multi currency, flexible and custom price formats International taxes, Prices with or without taxes, Rules for taxes
Multilingual
Physical and downloadable products
Auto embed media player for audio products
Complex Products and Catalog Structures (Grouped products with excerpt, content, images, author, date, comments, cross content, etc)
Search Engine Friendly URL’s, Custom permalinks for product archives, single product and taxonomy pages
Free Shipping Option, Discounts, Coupons
Cross sells and cross-content in many ways
Customizable Order Emails, Order status and history, Address Book with unlimited addresses
Catalog Management Offering (Stock management, Post Types generator, Taxonomy Generator, galleries for product)
8. WordPress Auction Plugin WP Auctions is a revolutionary plugin which allows you to host auctions on your blog or website and to sell anything, completely fee free
Basic Features-
Attractive AJAX powered popup for optimum user experience
Host as many sales as you like, Sell physical goods from iPods to Cars, Sell your artwork
Use PayPal
Upload an image for your auction, Easily Edit, End or Delete
Choice of 5 display styles
Set a specific end date and time, down to the second
10. Cart66 Lite, WordPress Ecommerce Sell digital products and/or physical products with Cart66. The easiest to use WordPress ecommerce shopping cart plugin
11. Shopp Shopp adds a secure cart, streamlined checkout, product showcase and infinitely flexible ecommerce development toolkit to WordPress
Basic Features-
Safe and sound
So secure it passes PCI vulnerability scans every day
Integrates with over 50 payment processing services, half a dozen shipping rate providers, cloud storage services, tax services and fulfillment services
Add unlimited Profucts, Catagories
Summary table, collects product pricing data
Reduces CPU utilization powerful backend
Free downlodable, Premium 75$ and 299$
12. Ecwid Shopping Cart Ecwid is a free full featured shopping cart that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile and takes less than five minutes to set up
Basic Features-
It has AJAX everywhere and supports drag and drop content
It can be easily integrated to any existing site or Facebook profile in minutes
Also Integrates with social networks. Run your own store on mySpace and many others, or let your customers share the links to your products and their purchases
Simple to use and maintain. For both store owner and customer
Lightning fast. New gen technologies make Ecwid much faster than usual shopping carts regardless the hosting service you use
13. Sell Downloads Sell Downloads brought to by codepeople, It's an WordPress eCommerce option for selling downloadable files: audio, video, documents, pictures all that may be published in Internet. Free don't have a lot of option paid does.
Basic Features-
Allows selling digital files like audio,video,documents,pictures,etc
Allows to filter products by types of files
Allows paging and sorting the results by popularity, price or file name
Uses PayPal as payment gateway, very secure
Allows to protect the files with the inclusion of a file's demo
14. Shopperpress ShopperPress is a Premium Wordpress theme that transform Wordpress into a fully functionality online store with shopping cart functionality.
Basic Features-
Quick & Easy to Setup, Suitable for users of all levels, easy store management
Search Engine Optimized, Seo plugins compability
ShopperPress can create online stores, affiliate stores and even catalog websites
20+ different payment gateways
20+ different store designs to choose from, all included free
View order history, export to CSV, view product, billing and shipping details as well as print off customer invoices
Customizable Product Fields
24/7 Customer Support
One time buy 80$
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