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"Based on the well known Subscribe-to-Comments PlugIn, but now with double-opt-in feature to prevent spam. Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, with double-opt-in Feature. First, the user will get an e-mail with a confirmation link, after the user has confirmed the subscription, he or she will be noticed about new comments. Plugin based on Mark Jaquith "Subscribe to Comments"."

"Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers."

"WordPress has a built-in feature Post Thumbnails aka Featured Images. There is also a built-in function add_image_size() which lets you specify image sizes and give you the option to crop. Using these core functions in your theme can essentially eliminate the need of a third party script like TimThumb in most cases."

"Ultimate newsletter plugin. Works with 3rd-party newsletter services like Aweber and YMLP. includes sign-up checkboxes, widget forms and form shortcod This plugin adds various sign-up methods to your WordPress website, like sign-up checkboxes in your comment form and a sign-up form to show in posts, pages or widget areas."

"This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content."

"I explained in the previous post on How to Install a WordPress Blog from cPanel. You can easily install a WordPress blog by following that tutorial. By default, you will receive two free themes, Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve in the latest version of WordPress. You can carry on your WordPress blog with the default theme. Even so, you might have a purpose to create a blog, which may not come with the default theme. In that case, you must want to install your chosen theme, but don't know how doing that? Nothing to worry, in this tutorial, I will explain you how to establish a theme of your choice by removing the default WordPress theme."

"A very simple social share plugin with vertical scrolling sharebar support A very simple social share plugin with just 5 social icons. Well the around 99% of the posts are share with these 5 social icons (i.e Twitter, FB Like, Google +1, Linkedin and FB Share) then why to have more. Lesser social icons means less load on pages and you pages will load much faster. Earlier there were just 4 icons. But upon the request of many of this plugin user I decided to add the Linkedin button."

"CMS-like permissions for reading and editing. Content-specific restrictions and roles supplement/override WordPress roles. User groups optional. Role Scoper is a comprehensive access control solution, giving you CMS-like control of reading and editing permissions. Assign restrictions and roles to specific pages, posts or categories."

"Subscribe to Comments Reloaded allows commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications of subsequent replies. Subscribe to Comments Reloaded is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts or suspend all notifications. It solves most of the issues that affect Mark Jaquith's version, using the latest WordPress features and functionality. Plus, allows administrators to enable a double opt-in mechanism, requiring users to confirm their subscription clicking on a link they will receive via email."

WordPress shortcodes are used frequently in plugins and themes as a way to achieve extra functionality, without the need to modify template files. You just type the shortcode word right into your post.

This post will guide you in creating a custom drop down menu in WordPress. In order to make your menu more stylish, add the custom WordPress Walker Class.

What if, instead of being purely a list of links to blog posts, your WordPress category pages actually provided some value to the visitor? Now they can.

If you use WordPress and wonder how do you learn WordPress development as a complete beginner? That's the question we're going to be answering in today's post.

OneNote Publisher is Microsoft's new WordPress plugin. With OneNote Publisher, you can compose a WordPress post on any device, online or offline in OneNote.

"Lets you easily embed and promote any Facebook Page on your website. Your visitors can like and share the Page without having to leave your site. Description Simple Facebook Plugin enables Facebook Page admins to promote their Pages and embed a simple feed of content from a Page into any WordPress blog. The Facebook Page Plugin enables users to: See how many users already like this Page, and which of their friends like it too Read recent posts from the Page Like the Page with one click, without needing to visit the Page You can easily integrate Like Box using WordPress Widgets and Shortcodes."

"Redirect users to different locations after logging in and logging out. Define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users. Also, set a redirect URL for post-registration. This is all managed in Settings > Login/logout redirects. You can use the syntax [variable]username[/variable] in your URLs so that the system will build a dynamic URL upon each login, replacing that text with the user's username. In addition to username, there is "userslug", "homeurl", "siteurl", "postid-23", "http_referer" and you can also add your own custom URL "variables". See Other Notes / How to Extend for documentation. If you're using a plugin such as Gigya that bypasses the regular WordPress login redirect process (and only allows one fixed redirect URL), set that plugin to redirect to wp-content/plugins/peters-login-redirect/wplogin_redirect_control.php and set the relevant setting to "Yes" at the bottom of the Settings > Login/Logout redirects page in the WordPress admin panel. You can add your own code logic before and between any of the plugin's normal redirect checks if needed. See Other Notes / How to Extend for documentation. Some examples include: redirecting the user based on their IP address; and redirect users to a special page on first login. This plugin also includes a function rul_register that acts the same as the wp_register function you see in templates (typically producing the Register or Site Admin links in the sidebar), except that it will return the custom defined admin address. rul_register takes three parameters: the "before" code (by default ""), the "after" code (by d"

"Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer."