10 Twitter Plugins That Will Increase Your WordPress blog

10 Twitter Plugins That Will Increase Your WordPress blog

Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.Twitter is great for your wordpress blog.It will improve your blog look and it can increase visits of your blog. As you know Twitter keeps you informed with what matters most to you today and helps you discover what might matter to you most tomorrow.So this list of plugins are really helpful.It’s easy to integrate with your wordpress blog and you can done it in a few easy steps.

1. Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). Requires PHP5.

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Download: Twitter Widget Pro
Plugin Homepage: Twitter Widget Pro

2. Twitter Feed

Admin Control Panel

The control functions such as connecting to a Twitter account and storing information on the tweets/blogs, can be accessed through the “Twitter Control” GUI in the WordPress admin panel.

Any changes in the currently active Twitter account tweets can be immediately updated by clicking on the “Update Blogs” button.

Order, Prioritisation and PM Filtering

The application will display the latest tweet from all of the active accounts and then displays those latest tweets in date order. So the newest tweet across all of the accounts will always be shown first. It is also possible to switch between allowing/disallowing PM (Private Message) tweets to be included in the display.

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Download: Twitter Feed
Plugin Homepage: Twitter Feed

3. WP to Twitter

The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using either the Cli.gs or Bit.ly URL shortening services to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.

For both services you can provide your information to maintain a list of your shortened URLs with your URL shortening service for statistics and your own records.

The plugin can send a default message for updating or editing posts or pages, but also allows you to write a custom Tweet for your post which says whatever you want. By default, the shortened URL from Cli.gs is appended to the end of your message, so you should keep that in mind when writing your custom Tweet.

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Download: WP to Twitter
Plugin Homepage: WP to Twitter

4. Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget

There are a handful of plugins and widgets available that integrate with Twitter, but most of them require your web server to be running PHP5. This widget (up to version 0.100210) will work with PHP4 and PHP5.

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Download: Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget
Plugin Homepage: Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget

5. Twitter by V.J.Catkick

Twitter Widget displays your tweets on your sidebar. There’s lots of switches to turn on/off what you want to display.

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Download:
Twitter by V.J.Catkick

Plugin Homepage: Twitter by V.J.Catkick

6. YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

YOURLS is a free URL shortener service you can run on your webhost to have your own personal TinyURL.

This plugin is a bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you’ll submit a new post or page, your blog will tap into YOURLS to generate a short URL for it, and will then tweet it.

Note that, for maximum fun, this plugin also supports a few other public URL shortener services: tr.im, is.gd, tinyURL and bit.ly

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Download: YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter
Plugin Homepage: YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

7. WordPress Dashboard Twitter

Twitter is everywhere. So why not in your WordPress Dashboard? WordPress Dashboard Twitter is a Dashboard Widget that displays Twitter @replies, direct messages, sent messages and favorites the convenient way within your WordPress Dashboard. WordPress Dashboard Twitter turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client.

The Dashboard widget lets you update your status, send direct messages, follow your mentions, list direct messages, sent messages and your favorites in a simple tab interface. All in a single widget. No seperate admin page needed. All the Twitter stuff you need right where you need it.

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Download: WordPress Dashboard Twitter
Plugin Homepage: WordPress Dashboard Twitter

8. WG Twitter Widget

wg-twitter-widget is THE widget to show twitter status in wordpress sidebar. Developed starting from the existing widget of Sarah Isaacson, * using the example widget of Justin Tadlock

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Download: WG Twitter Widget
Plugin Homepage: WG Twitter Widget

9. Twitter Search Widget
This plugin adds a Twitter Search widget.
Install this plugin in the usual way, by downloading and unzipping the folder into your plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins).

The plugin then needs to be activated before it can be used.

To use, simply drag the ‘Twitter Search’ widget into a sidebar. To use the widget, your theme must be widget-enabled.

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Download: Twitter Search Widget
Plugin Homepage: Twitter Search Widget


10. WP Twitter Users

Allows authors to showcase single Twitter users or create formatted lists of users shown in in badges using a simple shortcode.

You can choose from 10 profile templates or create your own custom template and put it in your theme’s /wptu/ subfolder.

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Download: WP Twitter Users
Plugin Homepage: WP Twitter Users

15 wordpress slide show plugins for featured articles on home page

15 wordpress slide show plugins for featured articles on home page

These days many people have some wordpress blog. Every of them have different design,but most of them have something common. It’s wordpress slide show plugins for featured articles on homepage. With slide show you can easily show to the world what you are really trying to portray. Slide show has great effect towards the visitor.Here i am going to share some of my favorite wordpress slide show plugins.So let’s start…

1. Featured Content Gallery Plugin v2.0 (FCS)

Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.

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Download: Featured Content Gallery V 2.0
Plugin Homepage: Featured Content Gallery V 2.0

2. Featured Category Slideshow / FCS

This plugin is also based on Smooth Gallery similar to Featured Content Gallery by WPElements.The only difference it that this pulgin always shows the 4 newest posts in the slideshow. Older posts will just be automatically be removed out of the slideshow without being deleted from the blog.

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Download: Featured Category Slideshow / FCS
Plugin Homepage: Featured Category Slideshow / FCS

3. Featured Posts Slideshow

Featured Posts Slideshow shows as many post’s images as you want. It’s a very nice and powerfull Javascript Slideshow. It displays a certain image for every Post of a category that you have defined. You can slide through your Slideshow with the help of nice navigation buttons. The images are directly linked to the specific WordPress post. You have a powerfull Administration Area to adjust the Category, the number of Posts, the width and height, and many colours for the Slideshow!

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Download: Featured Posts Slideshow
Plugin Homepage: Featured Posts Slideshow

4. FeatPlug

Featplug is a standalone script / wordpress plugin that can mine your WordPress posts or any other data and look for images suiting a given dimension and generates ‘featured’ section for your site using the found items.

The featured section, includes a resized image (banner) with the label, description and link of the related post or data.

Featplug is a architectural plugin with input layers and output templates.

Input Layer -> Featplug -> Output Template

Currently it supports WordPress and standalone as input layers. But it’s very easy to integrate it to any other blog / cms / forum software or even in your static site.

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Download: FeatPlug
Plugin Homepage: FeatPlug

5. WP Featured Content Slider

Featured Content Slider provides a powerfull and nice javascript Slideshow/Slider for WordPress. It can be integrated anywhere on your Blog/Website. This Featured Content Slider shows your chosen Blog Posts from a specific Category. It also Display your images next to the excerpt of your Blog Post. This is the perfect solution for everybody who wants a nice flewing Slideshow under their navigation bar.

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Download: WP Featured Content Slider
Plugin Homepage: WP Featured Content Slider

6. Slideshow Gallery

Feature content in a JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase on your WordPress website.

The slideshow is flexible and all aspects can easily be configured.

Embedding or hardcoding the slideshow gallery is a breeze. To embed into a post/page, simply insert [slideshow] into its content with an optional post_id parameter to display the gallery images uploaded to that post/page. To hardcode into any PHP file of your WordPress theme, simply use slideshow($output = true, $post_id = null); }; ?>.

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Download: Slideshow Gallery
Plugin Homepage: Slideshow Gallery

7. WP Content Slideshow

WP Content Slideshow shows up to 5 Posts in a very nice and powerfull Javascript Slideshow. On the left side of the Slideshow it displays a Image for every Post. On the right side, there are all the Titles (and a small description under the Title) of the Posts. The Slideshow highlights the active Post and repeats automatically after getting to the 5th Post. You have a powerfull Administration Area to adjust the Category, the number of Posts, the width and height, and many colours for the Slideshow!

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Download: WP Content Slideshow
Plugin Homepage: WP Content Slideshow

8. Featurific For WordPress

An effortless interface to Featurific Free, the featured story slideshow.

Unlike traditional slideshows, Featurific imitates the behavior seen on the home pages of sites like time.com and msn.com, displaying summaries of featured articles on the site. The idea is to increase conversion and user satisfaction by funneling your readers to your strongest, most engaging content. If you believe that big budget companies like Time, MSN, and Walmart might be on to something, then give this plugin a shot.

Installation is automatic and easy, while advanced users can customize every element of the Flash slideshow presentation.

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Download: Featurific For WordPress
Plugin Homepage: Featurific For WordPress

9. d13slideshow

D13Slideshow is a plugin that will create an animated promo slideshow as part of your WordPress blog. You can use it to promote any pages or posts in your site and it is fully customisable through the admin pages of your blog. Unlike some other slideshow components, D13Slideshow makes use of the script.aculo.us and Prototype JavaScript frameworks.

Once added, your slideshow will animate through each of your chosen features providing an image, an extract and a link. Once all featured stories have been shown, the slideshow will pause and provide ‘next’ and ‘back’ buttons allowing visitors to cycle through them.

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Download: d13slideshow
Plugin Homepage: d13slideshow

10. Smooth Slider

Smooth Slider is a WordPress and WordPress MU Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow/s for featured posts on a blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that is why bloggers will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engines. You can choose some of your posts as featured posts and show them into a slideshow on your blog home page (i.e. Index) as well as in Sidebar.

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Download: Smooth Slider
Plugin Homepage: Smooth Slider

11. Front Slider

You are looking for a fancy Slideshow to improve your Blog’s/Website’s Design? This is perfect for you! Front Slider includes as many Featured Posts as you like. You can define a Image for every Post. It shows an excerpt, date, time and number of comments for every Post. The text and images are sliding smoothly – Front Slider generates nice thumbnails through which can be slided and navigated. By clicking on the big image one gets directly to the featured Post.

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Download: Front Slider
Plugin Homepage: Front Slider

12. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums.

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Download: NextGEN Gallery
Plugin Homepage: NextGEN Gallery

13. WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin

This plugin embeds JonDesign’s SmoothGallery into your posts and pages.

It’s this simple:
upload some pictures to a post/page
use the shortcode “smoothgallery”
add a custom field named “smoothgallery” with some options
watch your gallery 😉

There’re a lot more possibilities with this plugin. Please have a more detailed look at it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you’d like to suggest a feature, need help with the plugin or just want to say how cool this is 😉

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Download: WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin
Plugin Homepage: WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin

14. Global Flash Galleries

Global Flash Gallery plugin can help you to create fast and perfectly wonderful and unique galleries of great albums, photos, cards and other images.

Global Flash Galleries plugin is easy and convenient for use. It’s captivating and beautiful to execute in practice. Ready-made harmonic color layouts are offered in this plug-in. It is possible to preview a gallery created from several albums in a convenient mode of slide show (full size) or in thumbnails (streaming tape). It’s easy with Global Flash Galleries to create different galleries from numerous grouped albums even if you don’t have much experience in it. There are many various and apprehensible settings and styles with which you can easily change the size of images preserving its original proportion and put the required tags. The plug-in navigation is made at the highest levels and has a broad range of demonstration effects which are easy and plain to comprehend. The excellent functional capabilities of the plug-in will help to create a really peculiar and distinctive collection of galleries.

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Download: Global Flash Galleries
Plugin Homepage: Global Flash Galleries

15. SlidePress

SlideShowPro is a Flash-based slideshow application for presenting your photos and videos online. SlideShowPro features over 100 customizable parameters to control color, layout, size, and behavior for an endless array of configuration options when publishing your digital content. Built to meet the demands of professional photographers, as well as web developers looking for a fast, simple utility, SlideShowPro creates slideshows without coding any ActionScript or modifying Flash files.

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Download: SlidePress
Plugin Homepage: SlidePress

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Incredible skate inspirations

Incredible skate inspirations

There are a many skater categories like figure skating,Artistic roller skating,Road skating,Snow skating…
Skate are popular sport but also it is dangerous. Skaters do many incredible moves,jumps..Many categories of skating are different,but only thing what’s connecting them is magical thing called skateboard!These are really incredible skate wallpapers, i guess you will love them.These wallpapers were made by devianART members and i hope you will like them.

SOS by ~xetobyte

skate by ~pikachu-94

SOS by ~xetobyte

CT Skate by ~InfinityDesigns

SOS by ~xetobyte

skate. by ~blurdrummer

SOS by ~xetobyte

Luv Skate by ~kit094

SOS by ~xetobyte

SKATE by ~Jarogicha

SOS by ~xetobyte

Embarcadero Skating by Rev Dan Catt

SOS by ~xetobyte

skate or die by =LukeGoesDeviantArt

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skateboarding in Porirua by kiwikeith

SOS by ~xetobyte

2009.193 - New Skateboards by Slightlynorth

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skateboarding in New Tampa, Florida by eron_gpsfs

SOS by ~xetobyte

724039406_XhzNt-L by kensingt0n

SOS by ~xetobyte

Giovanni Zattera - 360 flip by sir Riki

SOS by ~xetobyte

Lima Peru skate park by ~jorgevr

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skate... by *Beaverlady

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skateboard by katkamin

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skate or Die? by ~Dessite

SOS by ~xetobyte

Sunset Skate Session by ~Knux68

SOS by ~xetobyte

Free Skate by =ZeKRoBzS

SOS by ~xetobyte

Skateboard by ~FabinhoHpS

SOS by ~xetobyte

Roxas - Skateboard by =Garih

SOS by ~xetobyte

skateboard by ~nferah

Summer Character Creativity

Summer Character Creativity

I try to find the best summer characters, and to add them into this story. All images are properly linked to its owners.

SOS by ~xetobyte

Summer Amy by ~pokemastersan

SOS by ~xetobyte

Summer '09 by ~Kittn622

SOS by ~xetobyte

Summer Blaire by ~blumarine

SOS by ~xetobyte

TMMN Contest: Summer is Here by =reka-chan

SOS by ~xetobyte

.Summer Begginnings. by ~Lorena677

SOS by ~xetobyte

.Summer Begginnings. by ~Lorena677

SOS by ~xetobyte

Summer of 2004: Kaiba Brothers by *jbramx2

SOS by ~xetobyte

Summer Shine by *shaloneSK

SOS by ~xetobyte

::Summer Again:: by ~StrayShadow

SOS by ~xetobyte

Starlight :: Summer by *Wind-Alria

SOS by ~xetobyte

Beach Fun and Summer Sun by *Zoy

SOS by ~xetobyte

Farewell, Summer by ~LynnStrife

SOS by ~xetobyte

summer vacation by ~sage666

Beautiful Emotional Photo Manipulations

Beautiful Emotional Photo Manipulations

Amazing and beautiful Photo manipulations revolving around female emotions.

Some of the most amazing manipulations by awesome manipulators  from Deviant Art. Each and every artwork tells a story and for that i suggest read the title before you see the artwork. I hope you like it .

All Artworks are gathered from Deviant Art and Properly Linked Back.

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20 photoshop tutorials for creating wallpaper

20 photoshop tutorials for creating wallpaper

These are not easy tutorials.If you are beginner in photoshop, probably your wallpaper wouldn’t be success.These are not the best tutorials on the internet, it’s the best what we found for you. The best ways to experiment and try new things with Photoshop is to create wallpaper.You can done these tutorials for approximately 20 minutes or for little less times.So, let’s start with our list,it’s not sorted by quality or difficulty.

1. Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

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2. Create an Intensely Grungy Wallpaper

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3. Abstract Lines Background

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4.Turning a Picture Vintage

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5. Vector Wallpaper Tutorial

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6.Old Photos Wallpaper Tutorial

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7.Knight Rider Wallpaper Tutorial

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8.Team Fortress 2 Wallpaper

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9.Water drops on a spider web

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10.Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

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11.Abstract Art Wallpaper

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12.Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

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13.Marine Wallpaper

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14.Abstract Christmas wallpaper

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15.Beautiful Rainbow Island Wallpaper

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16.Create A Glowing Extreme Wallpaper

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17.Fire Dragon

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18.Distant Desert City Scene

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19.Screamusic Wallpaper

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20.Design a Music Wallpaper Montage

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How to make shiny web 2.0 buttons

How to make shiny web 2.0 buttons

So, you have your blog/website and you want to make it like web 2.0 sites? It’s not hard you can do it in a few minutes.Well, lets start with this tutorial. First you need to make new psd file.

go to    file–>>>>>new

You will see menu like this one in the picture below.

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Now you should set dimensions of  picture and background contents.Width and height are your choice. Background should be transparent for the best performance.

First you need to draw an rounded rectangle.

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When you select this option you need to draw it.

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Now you have simple rounded button, it’s not very cool, right?Your next job is to make it feel like web 2.0 . For this you need photoshop feature called gradient.

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Like you see on picture above, on the right side of your screen you need to check layers (1), photoshop had automatically set your background layer.Now you need to click on fx (2) and then click on Gradient overlay (3).After you have done this steps you should see menu in the picture below.

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Now you need to set options like on picture.Set blend mode as normal,opacity should be about 50%. You don’t need to change rest options cause it will be like on the picture above.Click on ok and you will see your web 2.0 button.

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Also you can use different options than we used.You can change opacity,blend mode,you can reverse axis…It’s very easy all you need to have is idea!

The simpliest way to scale picture in photoshop

The simpliest way to scale picture in photoshop

Have you ever asked yourself how to scale picture via photoshop? It’s very easy, you can do that in a few easy steps. This is tutorial for beginners, everyone can do this. Everybody can learn how to scale an image in Photoshop. Well, lets start..

First you should select you layer.

On the right side of your desktop you should see LAYERS

It’s marked as ‘1’ on this picture.When you click on layers you should see panel like this one on picture marked as ‘2’.

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Next step is in top panel.

Go to EDIT–>>>TRANSFORM–>>>SCALE

IT’s showed on picture below…

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After you done these steps, you will see gray border around selected layer.

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Now you can scaling down/up selected layer.You just need to click on some rectangle on gray border line, hold on click and move your mouse to scale your layer.

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So,it didn’t hurt? It was really ease and short tutorial how to scale a photo in Photoshop.

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