A WordPress shopping cart plugin can instantly turn your WordPress site into a full blown online ecommerce store. Nowadays there are many WordPress shopping cart plugins to choose from permitting an alternative way to earn revenue from your WordPress blog as opposed to solely depending on advertising. A shopping cart for WordPress solution allows the administrator to sell digital goods and products like ebooks, tickets or even services from the friendly confines of his/her blog. Read more »

If you’ve got a blog or website then you know that redistributing it through platforms like Facebook apps is key to your branding and marketing. In order to effectively grow your blog, make it accessible to a wide array of readers and facilitate discussions around your blog content, you have to be able to share your blog in various forms just like Facebook. Lucky for you, there are several apps out there to aid you in this quest. Here are some of our favorite top Facebook apps for bloggers and webmasters. Read more »

WordPress music plugins can add an extra dynamic to your WordPress site. Whether your band needs to showcase its musical talent or you simply want to share a history of what you’ve been listening to lately on Last.fm, there’s a WP music plugin available to meet your needs. There are tons of free WP music players available to select from but we’ve tried to lighten to load a bit by creating a list of our favorite top free WordPress music plugins. Feel free to leave us a comment and let us know which WordPress music players are your favorite. Read more »

WordPress photo gallery plugins allow you to easily extend the functionality of your WordPress blog to feature images and enrich your WP blog posts. Thankfully there are several WordPress photo gallery plugins and simple WordPress picture plugins to serve this need. Whether you’re a WP photo blogger or you simply like to include quality images in every article, incorporating photos into your blog posts can tack on a great deal of time to your editorial process. Using these WP photo plugins can save you lots of time and headaches. The challenge is to find the right WP plugin for your particular needs. Read more »

WordPress (WP) is the most popular blogging software on the internet right now. While WordPress.com accounts offer free WP hosting, those blogs offer limited features. If you want to take your WordPress blog to a more professional level, then it’s time to find a WordPress hosting provider. If you already have your own WP hosting solution but you’re unhappy with its performance, then you may want to switch to one that’s more reliable or has better features. 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 »

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 »

A couple of weeks ago, I thought I would take the initiative towards making the comment system here more socially accessible. With their rising popularity and the great social features available with Intense Debate and Disqus, it made sense to put the default WordPress comment system on the back burner. I thought it would also be helpful to test, review, and compare the Intense Debate, Disqus, and WordPress comment systems prior to settling on one or the other. As I pointed out in my previous post, I had a great experience with Intense Debate but it’s lacking some of the social features that Disqus possesses. Read more »