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"With an active user base exceeding one million, Contact Form 7 is the King of the free contact form plugins. However, if you want it to compete with the top premium options, it needs a little bit of help. Fortunately, Contact Form 7 is fully extendable. That means you can unlock more advanced functionalities by installing extensions and add-ons. In today's post, we're taking a look at 10 of the very best of them - the 10 Contact Form 7 extensions you didn't know you need. Each extension is available completely free of charge from the official WordPress plugin directory. These extensions are stackable, too. That means you're not limited to just the one, and by mixing and matching these extensions, you can have contact forms capable of anything you ask of them. Now Contact Form 7 can give those premium contact forms a run for their money! Contact Form 7 Multi-Step Forms Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 Submissions Contact Form 7 PayPal Add-on Contact Form 7 Lead Info with Country CF7 Customizer Contact Form 7 Skins "

Product page is the most important part of e-commerce web design and you should insert all the necessary elements in it to make your online business profitable. Give the product name, price, buy button and use high resolution images to help the customers take a buying decision. You should also give a brief product summary to the customer to boost your business.

In the present time, WordPress have the lion's share of the millions of successfully running web portals in comparison to the dozens of other platforms Joomla, Drupal and more. WordPress is considered as one of the most popular choice of Content Management System in the web development industry because of its simplicity, user-friendliness, easy installation and great functionality.

Few days back, the widely used WordPress has hit the web development industry with its much-awaited 3.4 version. The recently arrived WordPress 3.4 version named as "Green" in honor of guitarist Grant Green. The new 3.4 version of WordPress comes with lots of improvements that adding more to the usefulness of the WP. A live theme-customizer, custom backgrounds and headers, better support for internationalization and revamped XML-RPC are some major additions to the new version.

"The Rating-Widget Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can embed ratings into your posts, pages or comments. PLUS, you can embed ratings into your BuddyPress activity updates and comments. In extra, the rating support BP's bbPress forum posts ratings. All Rating-Widget ratings are fully customizable, cross-browser, support multi-language, CSS3 compliant and hosted by Rating-Widget.com. You can create unlimited ratings and collect unlimited votes. The rating editor allows you to fully customize your ratings and its placement on your blog's layout. You can also avail of the the 'Top Rated' widget that will allow you to place the widget in your sidebar. This widget will show you the top rated posts, pages and comments."

"Fed up with the lack of automated tools to properly crop and scale post thumbnails? Maybe this plugin can help. To meet the needs of themes where the post-thumbnails have random and capricious sizes (which causes wordpress to crop images simply from the middle (either chopping off the top and bottom or chopping off the sides), this plugin attempts to give the users an interface to manually fix those thumbnail and random images."

"The plugin contains two shortcodes, lorem and loremimage, the loremimage shortcode can be nested in the lorem shortcode. The plugin contains two shortcodes, [lorem] and [loremimage], the [loremimage] shortcode can be nested in the [lorem] shortcode. The shortcodes generates dummy text and image when needed."

"Allows you to add and remove featured images from admin post lists. Works with AJAX and magic for your image assignment pleasure. Easy Featured Images allows you to assign featured images to posts much more efficiently, especially if you have a number of posts to go through. Normally you have to visit the edit page of each post, launch the media window and upload/assign the image. With the plugin enabled you can do this from the post list screen. Everything words via AJAX so images are assigned instantly, without having to wait for pages to load. It uses the regular WordPress media box making the plugin 100% WordPress awesome."

"In the previous tutorial I showed you how to style the posts on your main blog page according to their category, creating color coding by category. A lot of sites that use this technique also take it further by adding distinct styling to each section of their site, in a way that co-ordinates with the styling on the main blog page or home page. You can just use a simple color scheme or add completely different styling to each section, maybe with a different logo or branding for different parts of your organisation, or even a different layout. An example is the London Times website, which uses a different color for each section of its site. The front page uses these colors in a banner above each post, as shown in the screenshot:"

Wordpress.org forum post: I finally got the thumbnails working in Arras. Now I have two pictures in the actual post. When someone clicks the story, One photo is above the post and then the photo appears in the post as it should be. How do I get rid of the extra photo?

"Build and maintain a fully customizable database of participants, members or anything with signup forms, admin backend, custom lists, and CSV support. This plugin offers all the functionality needed to build and maintain a database of people. The database is fully configurable, allowing you to define all the fields of information you want to store for each record. The records can be entered individually in the WordPress admin section, imported with a CSV file, or let the individuals themselves create their own record. Display lists of records can be sorted and filtered by any field, and the result exported as a CSV file."

If you've ever come across a blank screen staring at you then you've already met the infamous white screen of death in WordPress (aka. WSOD). One minute the site works okay, and the other everything goes blank. (This can also happen when your dashboard isn't loading properly even though the front of the site is actually working.) Today, let's look into what causes the white screen of death in WordPress and how to fix it.

"The bbPress plugin is a great option for providing your users with a forum that integrates seamlessly with WordPress, almost as if it were a natural part of the core. The goal is to keep it as speedy and light as possible. Therefore, the bbPress plugin doesn't include everything you need for a full-featured forum for WordPress. You'll need to add in functionality via plugins. I've selected some of the best current add-ons for bbPress. These plugins will help you to be able to provide a smooth experience as well as many of the commonly-expected features of a standalone forum."

"To take out some of the work out of backing up your site, below we will show some ways to automate the process and save the backup to Dropbox. The easier and more hands off the process is, the better, right? Below are some WordPress plugins and other options to help you easily backup your WordPress site. 1. WordPress Backup to Dropbox 2. BackWPup 3. Cloudsafe365 4. WordPress SQL Backup 5. ManageWP 6. XM Backup"