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 »

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 »

Plugin developers are the heart and soul of WordPress. WordPress plugin developers not only extend the core functionality of WP but they drive innovation for the popular blogging platform. Compared to other blogging platforms, WordPress arguably possesses the strongest and most generous community of all. Despite this however, WP plugin developers receive very little compensation for their efforts to supply the WP plugin repository with quality free plugins. Read more »

When optimized correctly, WordPress performs really well when it comes to SEO and search engine results page (SERP) rankings. Out of the box, however, WordPress has a ton of duplicate content problems. For instance, if you’re not using excerpts on the home, tags, categories pages and you are displaying the entire post, that post is being shown not only on the homepage but also on the category, tags, categories pages and you are displaying the entire post, that post is being shown not only on the homepage but also on the category, tags, and archives pages too. Read more »

Today we are very excited to announce the release of WP Secure Downloads, our second WordPress plugin to date.  The plugin is an ecommerce solution that permits the sale of digital goods from one’s own WordPress based website or blog with the utmost ease.  This is in stark contrast 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 »

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I prefer to use WordPress for my blogging software needs and in my opinion, as well as millions of other bloggers that use WordPress, it is the best blogging platform available today. I’ve thus invested my own time and resources developing some premium WordPress plugins listed below to add extra functionality to it.

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