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Two of my favorite web designers with super helpful blogs, Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks and Jeff Starr of Perishable Press, have just released their new collaboration! The book, "Digging Into WordPress," is now available as a PDF download, and if you buy the PDF book now, you will be eligible for a "sweet discount" on the hard copy of the book when it comes out, plus receive updates free. They've done a great job on this book, which covers setting up WordPress, anatomy of a WordPress theme, theme design and development, extending functionality including using WordPress as a CMS, working with RSS feeds, SEO, dealing with comments, and keeping your site "healthy." I already followed both of these designers before they began their collaboration, and have found countless useful tutorials, code snippets, design ideas, and much more on both of their sites - I've relied on Perishable Press as a source for great unobtrusive javascript code, and on CSS-Tricks for all kinds of other useful tools for making valid, functional, and beautiful sites. This book is bound to be a valuable reference to anyone who works with WordPress.

With the evolution of internet era, there arises the need of building content-rich websites. WordPress is an excellent solution to fulfill that need. It is a powerful CMS (Content Management System) and an open source blogging tool based on PHP and MySQL. Among all the CMS, WordPress has proved to be most prominent platform to rely on.

WordPress is an excellent web development tool. Thousand of WordPress themes are available online with some stunning effects. Wordpress has fully established itself as the perfect web development and web design tool.

"Bloom, Popup Maker, Popups, PopupAlly, Popup by Supsystic Optimizing conversion rates is the number one priority for most digital marketers. Attracting and 'hooking' a future loyal follower can be an art form - one that baffles the best of us. Fortunately, there are a vast amount of tools to help you achieve your goals; especially within the WordPress community. In this article we're going to explore the cream of the crop. More specifically, we're going to dive into the world of popup plugins. Once we're done with that, we'll move on to explore how you can make the most of your new popup plugin and maximize conversion rates on your WordPress website. Let's get cracking! What Is An Opt-in Popup? Opt-in popups are a proven way to convert visitors into loyal followers. Opt-ins enable visitors to enter contact information for subscribing to a newsletter or requesting more details about a particular subject. Popups you say? But they're annoying as hell, right? Marketing tools can be tiresome - there's no doubt about it - but in the hands of a great fisherman, the correct bait can be the key to his or her success. Only you can decide if the results are worth the method. With that said, let's get straight onto exploring the top popup plugins for WordPress."

"The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Disqus, pronounced "discuss", is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community. The Disqus for WordPress plugin seamlessly integrates using the Disqus API and by syncing with WordPress comments."

"WP-Members™ is a plugin to make your WordPress® blog a membership driven site. Perfect for newsletters, premium content sites, and more! The plugin restricts selected WordPress® content to be viewable by registered site members. Unlike other registration plugins and WordPress® itself, WP-Members™ puts the registration process inline with your content (and thus your branded theme) instead of the native WP login page. WP-Members™ works "out-of-the-box" with no modifications to your theme, but it is scalable for users that want to customize the look and feel, or want to restrict only some content. It is a great tool for sites offering premium content to subscribers, and is adaptable to a variety of applications."

"Suite of components that enables the creation of interactive storytelling themes for WordPress. The Aesop Story Engine is a suite of open-sourced tools and components that empower developers and writers to build feature-rich, interactive, long-form storytelling themes for WordPress. At the heart of ASE are the suite of storytelling components, which are created on the fly while crafting posts within WordPress."

"CleanPrint - Eco-friendly content output to print, PDF, email, Kindle, Box, Google Drive and Dropbox The world's best and most used eco-friendly print tool is now available on WordPress. Join top sites like NBC News, CNN, Disney and Fox Sports and offer your users an economically and ecologically friendly printing and saving experience that saves paper, ink, and money while saving trees. How CleanPrint Works CleanPrint is an eco-friendly tool that saves paper, ink and money when printing from the internet. Users can easily edit content before printing or saving to PDF, Kindle, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box. CleanPrint includes sharing tools and a pagination/paper saving counter that shows visitors how eco-friendly your site is and helps them avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper! User activates CleanPrint by hitting print button Print preview appears including pagination and editing tools for optimization User selects desired output: PDF - Saves content as a PDF document Text - Saves content as a rich text formated file Dropbox - Saves a PDF or text file to your Dropbox account Box - Saves a PDF or text file to your Box account Google Drive - Saves a PDF or text file to your Google Drive account Kindle - Saves content directly to your Kindle Google Cloud Print - prints to a remote printer Print - Sends content to your printer Email - Sends content via email Share article link to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ Features and Benefits Use the CleanPrint button set or point your own buttons or text to CleanPrint. Lightbox keeps users on your page within their original browser window. Green ticker shows how many pages CleanPrint has saved. Pagination/paper saving counter helps users avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper. Control - Users are in control of font size, images, gray scale of text, and eliminating any unwanted content before outputting t

Wordpress performance with Google analytics, Learn how to configure, Wordpress to google webmaster tools

Plugins are great tools, used to improve the functioning of WordPress blogs by incorporating a wide range of useful features. These are usually pieces of code, created specifically to achieve some purpose.

"Simple but effective plugin allows you to extensively clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without doing manual queries. WP-Optimize is an extensive WordPress database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn't require PhpMyAdmin to clean and optimize your database tables."

"Simple but effective plugin allows you to extensively clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without doing manual queries. WP-Optimize is an extensive WordPress database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn't require PhpMyAdmin to clean and optimize your database tables."

Does the thought of managing and promoting events on your website give you a headache? Forget the headache! These WordPress tools will take all the heat an

Does the thought of managing and promoting events on your website give you a headache? Forget the headache! These WordPress tools will take all the heat an

I recently wrote an article about how to use WordPress 3.0 multisite/network features. This feature is really cool but out of the box it only supports the multiple sites/blogs to be served on the same domain (networksite1.domain.com or www.domain.com/multisite1/). For some this may be fine but really most like you want to have unique domains for each individual site. In this article I provide a quick guide on how to set up multisite domain mapping in WordPress 3.0. Please note that you should not follow this tutorial if your WordPress 3.0 has not been configured to support multisites!

Wordpress widgets and plug-ins that could really your marketing and business plans soar into heights.

Speed is a very important aspect of your website's ranking in search engine and user experience. Even though there are many aspects that we check before choosing the best WordPress theme for our website. The final target of your website should be to load faster at the user side. Yes, people do not like slow loading web pages. Once they find your page loading slowly, they will soon hit the back button and search for some other page. If your site does not load fast, it can show the impact on the user experience and affects search engine optimization. Nowadays, Page loading is very important for better ranking and conversion rates. here we have checked for some of the best WordPress themes that give you the fastest performance, highest standards, lightweight and SEO friendly. Choose any one of the below fastest WordPress themes for your sites and you can have blazing speeds on your webpages.

WordPress has beautifully evolved from a blogging tool into an efficient web development tool. And now, it has evolved as a wonderful app development tool. 

"Tweet2Download allows a wordpress blog to require a tweet and a follow in exchange for the downloads or article parts available on the blog. If you have a blog that provides downloads, this plugin is the perfect twitter marketing tool for you. Tweet2Download allows you to require a tweet and a follow in exchange for a download or a content snippet on your blog. It effectively asks your users to "pay" with a tweet for free content on your blog, making it a very powerfull viral marketing tool."