WordPress slideshow plugins can be very powerful tools for both publishers and designers. If used correctly, a slideshow plugin for WordPress can effectively highlight featured posts and images within your WP blog to capture the reader’s attention. The WP plugin repository is overflowing with slide show plugins but many of them either aren’t well supported or they are poorly developed. We’ve sifted through an incredible amount of those to select our favorites. Below you’ll find a list of free and premium WordPress slide show plugins that are both well supported and frequently updated. We plan to keep adding to this list as new ones are launched. After reviewing those below you should stop by to see our premium WordPress plugins directory which contains other kickass WP plugins that can help you juice-up your blog. Read more »

Commercial WordPress plugins offer lots of great benefits over free plugins such as great support and better functionality. Below is a review list of all the best premium plugins that are available for WordPress. These WP plugins below are not listed in any specific order. If you own a commercial WordPress plugin and would like for us to add it to the list, just send us an email and we’ll review it for inclusion. Read more »

Recently I reported on the poor donation rates that WordPress plugin developers receive and posted a follow-up article in which I criticized Matt Mullenweg for the minimal level of support he displays to WordPress premium theme developers and commercial plugin developers. The first post was received with accolades and a call for action to help support plugin developers as the reported donation rates for some of the most popular WordPress plugins were downright offensive (e.g. < 0.01%). Read more »

I believe it’s time for Matt Mullenweg to seriously reconsider the restrictive, unsuccessful business models (donations, paid support) he currently requires developers adhere to in order to have their plugins and themes hosted at WordPress.org. Theme and plugin developers have helped make WordPress the champion blogging platform that it is today without receiving a single dime of the $29.5 million in funding that Automattic raised last year. Read more »

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For beginners that aren’t very familiar with WordPress (WP) and how it works, we are here to help. We are available to answer any questions that you may have and help you troubleshoot any problems that may arise. If your WP site crashes, receives an error, or you need to move it to [...] Read more »

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If you’re just getting started with your WordPress based blog or website, you may not realize it but out of the box WordPress (WP) isn’t so friendly when it comes to search engines. That is, search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, etc.) index pages on a website like yours and add those pages to their [...] Read more »

Everytime I setup a new blog for myself or help someone else start their own blog there are some essential WordPress plugins that must be installed first and foremost.  What are plugins you ask?  Quite simply, plugins are tools that extend the functionality of WordPress (WP).  Most of them are available for free at the Read more »

I am pleased to announce the release of Widget Locationizer, our first premium WordPress plugin. This plugin solves a long standing problem in WordPress. That is, the inability to control where and when your widgets appear. For the longest time WordPress users have been stuck with all of our widgets loading for every single page, post, tag, category, and archive. Sure there were a few workarounds like creating multiple versions of a sidebar through hard coding but with the Widget Locationizer plugin it is so much easier now. Read more »

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Widget Locationizer is a WordPress plugin that gives you total control over your widgets by letting you decide when and where they appear.  For example, you may not want the same widgets in your sidebar to load for all posts or pages on your website.  Instead it would be smarter to customize your [...] Read more »

WP Secure Downloads, a premium WordPress plugin, is the quickest and easiest way to start selling your digital products online.  Whether you’re a blogger needing to sell your ebooks or a professional photographer that would like to offer your award winning images online, WP Secure Downloads can help you increase your sales and profit margins [...] Read more »