WordPress coupon themes and plugins permit you to turn your WP blog into a fully functional WordPress coupon site or let you simply add a single page of coupons to offer discounts or promotional codes to your readers. Either way you choose to integrate this functionality, WordPress coupon plugins and themes provide another way to monetize your blog. This is an especially attractive offering for users as everyone loves to get extra discounts on great products and services. In a world where killer savings are just a click away, it can be lucrative to extend various coupons and discount codes to your viewers. So if you’re looking for alternative ways to monetize your WP blog and offer your subscribers a little something extra, check out our review list of some of the best WordPress coupon themes and plugins below. Otherwise, if you’re in need of some other great WP stuff, see our premium WordPress plugins directory. Read more »

A WordPress classifieds plugin or a WordPress classifieds theme permits you to extend your current blog to integrate classified ads for WordPress or create a full blown classifieds website, respectively. Whether you want to create your own professional classified ads service via a WordPress classified ads theme, or you simply want to utilize a classifieds plugin for WordPress to add-on such functionality in your current blog, there are several WP plugins and themes to meet your needs. Below is a list of some of the best WordPress classifieds plugins and top WordPress classifieds themes currently available for free or paid commercial use. If you’re looking for professional add-ons for your WP site, see our review list of premium WordPress plugins. Read more »

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 »

WordPress Twitter plugins combine the awesomeness of two great blogging platforms to seamlessly integrate Twitter directly into your WordPress blog. Getting the best of both of these worlds was once a daunting and limiting task, but there is a wealth of WordPress Twitter plugins to choose from now. WordPress acts as a great basis for your published content while Twitter brings the social activity to a high frequency with the amount of buzz it can incur around your shared content. We’ve sifted through a ton of WordPress plugins for Twitter found throughout the web and the WP plugin repository to identify the best WordPress Twitter plugins that are listed below. 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 »

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 »

Recently I changed commenting systems from the Wordpress default to using Intense Debate and then switching to Disqus. This need for change was due in part that I began thinking my blog needed to open up and get a bit more social. At that time, if you wanted to comment on ToMuse you needed to register. That requirement was put into place for several reasons that included cracking down on spammers, using the Social Profiles plugin, and helping to ensure good thought provoking comments instead of useless driveby link-dropping drivel. Read more »