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Simple Music is a new plugin that makes it extremely easy to add an MP3 to your sidebar with a drag and drop widget. Setup and configuration can be done in under a minute.

Features of Simple Music:

  • Bulletproof Functionality – Just enter the song URL and go!
  • Easy Settings – Upload a file or find one online, choose to autoplay the track, repeat, and more!
  • Fast Customization – Changing the options, such as picking a new song or adjusting the settings, is a snap!
This is a great way to add a personalized welcome message to your site or share music with your readers.

Calculators are often overlooked as a simple utility, but you might be surprised by how much they increase user interaction on your site. If a user finds your calculator extremely useful, he’s likely to bookmark your site so that he doesn’t have to search for it the next time. You may not be aware of the variety of calculator plugins available for WordPress, so here’s an excellent sampling of recently updated plugins that will perform calculations on your website.


If your site depends on being able to provide some sophisticated calculations for your visitors, then WordPress has the calculator for you. Many of these can be used in combination with a BuddyPress site to promote a community that’s based on mutual interests and goals, such as running, losing weight, or getting out of debt.

Mortgage Calculator Sidebar Widget

A Mortgage Calculator sidebar widget that enables your visitors to calculate their monthly payments towards their mortgage.

Download Plugin

Mortgage Loan Calculator

This is a sidebar widget that calculates your principal and interest mortgage loan payment. You insert the loan amount and interest rate (pop up tells you to insert a number if you put anything other than a number in), choose the length of the loan from a drop-down, and press the calculate button. Your payment information is displayed.

Download Plugin

Financial Toolbox

The financial toolbox includes a news ticker for the latest financial news along with an integrated credit calculator.

Download Plugin

Net Worth Calculator

This plugin helps you keep track of your monthly assets, liabilities, and net worth. You can mark any asset or liability value as private if you do not want it to displayed.

Download Plugin

Debt Reduction Calculator

This plugin displays functional debt reduction/debt payoff calculator. It shows people how they can pay debt faster or how much they need to pay extra each month in order to be debt free after choosen period of time.

Download Plugin

BMI Calculator Widget

This plugin will let you add a fully customizable BMI calculator widget to any widget enabled space. Both standard & metric input options and full color customization to match your theme exactly are available.

Download Plugin

Zodiac Calculator

This plugin provides sidebar widget that displays your visitors’ Chinese and/or Western zodiac signs based on their date of birth without reloading the page.

Download Plugin

Runner’s Log

This plugin let you convert your blog into a training log and let you track your distance, time, calories and calculate your speed, time per km(or miles), and let you have advance statistics. It includes a Training Zones Calculator, VDOT calculator, V02maxulator Calculator, Race Time Calculator, Training Pace Calculator, Body Mass Index Calculator, Calculate Predicted effect of change in weight.

Download Plugin

Blog or Website Value Calculator

This is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog’s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog.

Download Plugin

Math Calculator

This is a simple calculator can be used for quick on site calculations. Check http://www.calculator.net/math-calculator.html for a demo of this calculator.

Download Plugin

NACC WordPress Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin implementation of the N.A. Cleantime Calculator. When you use the shortcode for the plugin, it will calculate and display cleantime.

Download Plugin

Time Zone Calculator

This plugin calculates, displays and automatically updates times and dates in different timezones with respect to daylight saving. The calculator uses AJAX and is based on the PHP timezones database.

Download Plugin

Overweight Calculator

This plugin displays functional overweight calculator / BMI calculator. It can be used to check the user’s Body Mass Index and suggest the recommended weight range.

Download Plugin

Love Calculator

This love calculator evaluates the compatibility of two people based on names. The score range from 0%-100%. The higher the score the better. This calculator can be inserted either to the sidebar or into the post, but not both. Check http://www.calculator.net/love-calculator.html for a demo of this calculator.

Download Plugin

Countdown Timer

Countdown Timer allows you to setup one or more dates to count down to or away from. Events can be inserted into the sidebar, either manually or as a widget, or within posts and pages.

Download Plugin

GeneralStats

This plugin counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages with AJAX functionality.

Download Plugin

Post Stats

This plugin calculates and displays total number of words in blog posts, minimal and maximal post length, shortest and longest post (title and permalink), and estimated reading time of the blog posts. It can be displayed in the dashboard, on a sidebar widget, or before and after each post.

Download Plugin

Price Calc

This is a plugin that shows a n inter-active price calculator form on any post, page or widget content. Let your customers view automatic bids and cost estimates for your products and services. You can set up a set of product variations and freely define a price structure.

Download Plugin

Calculators are often overlooked as a simple utility, but you might be surprised by how much they increase user interaction on your site. If a user finds your calculator extremely useful, he’s likely to bookmark your site so that he doesn’t have to search for it the next time. You may not be aware of the variety of calculator plugins available for WordPress, so here’s an excellent sampling of recently updated plugins that will perform calculations on your website.


If your site depends on being able to provide some sophisticated calculations for your visitors, then WordPress has the calculator for you. Many of these can be used in combination with a BuddyPress site to promote a community that’s based on mutual interests and goals, such as running, losing weight, or getting out of debt.

Mortgage Calculator Sidebar Widget

A Mortgage Calculator sidebar widget that enables your visitors to calculate their monthly payments towards their mortgage.

Download Plugin

Mortgage Loan Calculator

This is a sidebar widget that calculates your principal and interest mortgage loan payment. You insert the loan amount and interest rate (pop up tells you to insert a number if you put anything other than a number in), choose the length of the loan from a drop-down, and press the calculate button. Your payment information is displayed.

Download Plugin

Financial Toolbox

The financial toolbox includes a news ticker for the latest financial news along with an integrated credit calculator.

Download Plugin

Net Worth Calculator

This plugin helps you keep track of your monthly assets, liabilities, and net worth. You can mark any asset or liability value as private if you do not want it to displayed.

Download Plugin

Debt Reduction Calculator

This plugin displays functional debt reduction/debt payoff calculator. It shows people how they can pay debt faster or how much they need to pay extra each month in order to be debt free after choosen period of time.

Download Plugin

BMI Calculator Widget

This plugin will let you add a fully customizable BMI calculator widget to any widget enabled space. Both standard & metric input options and full color customization to match your theme exactly are available.

Download Plugin

Zodiac Calculator

This plugin provides sidebar widget that displays your visitors’ Chinese and/or Western zodiac signs based on their date of birth without reloading the page.

Download Plugin

Runner’s Log

This plugin let you convert your blog into a training log and let you track your distance, time, calories and calculate your speed, time per km(or miles), and let you have advance statistics. It includes a Training Zones Calculator, VDOT calculator, V02maxulator Calculator, Race Time Calculator, Training Pace Calculator, Body Mass Index Calculator, Calculate Predicted effect of change in weight.

Download Plugin

Blog or Website Value Calculator

This is a plug-in that gives you a nice tidy widget to display your blog’s current estimated value in dollars. This information is displayed to you and your visitors to demonstrate just how much hard work you have put into your blog.

Download Plugin

Math Calculator

This is a simple calculator can be used for quick on site calculations. Check http://www.calculator.net/math-calculator.html for a demo of this calculator.

Download Plugin

NACC WordPress Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin implementation of the N.A. Cleantime Calculator. When you use the shortcode for the plugin, it will calculate and display cleantime.

Download Plugin

Time Zone Calculator

This plugin calculates, displays and automatically updates times and dates in different timezones with respect to daylight saving. The calculator uses AJAX and is based on the PHP timezones database.

Download Plugin

Overweight Calculator

This plugin displays functional overweight calculator / BMI calculator. It can be used to check the user’s Body Mass Index and suggest the recommended weight range.

Download Plugin

Love Calculator

This love calculator evaluates the compatibility of two people based on names. The score range from 0%-100%. The higher the score the better. This calculator can be inserted either to the sidebar or into the post, but not both. Check http://www.calculator.net/love-calculator.html for a demo of this calculator.

Download Plugin

Countdown Timer

Countdown Timer allows you to setup one or more dates to count down to or away from. Events can be inserted into the sidebar, either manually or as a widget, or within posts and pages.

Download Plugin

GeneralStats

This plugin counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages with AJAX functionality.

Download Plugin

Post Stats

This plugin calculates and displays total number of words in blog posts, minimal and maximal post length, shortest and longest post (title and permalink), and estimated reading time of the blog posts. It can be displayed in the dashboard, on a sidebar widget, or before and after each post.

Download Plugin

Price Calc

This is a plugin that shows a n inter-active price calculator form on any post, page or widget content. Let your customers view automatic bids and cost estimates for your products and services. You can set up a set of product variations and freely define a price structure.

Download Plugin


Change WordPress login page URL
Wordpress Login
As you might know, the default login page in WordPress is  domain/wp-login.php.  Almost every other person in the world knows that it is the login page of a WordPress blog. So if someone gets yourpassword, it is easy for them to login to your WordPress dashboard and change the default password.  Trial & error and  brute force attacks by bots on a particular page would also lead to password theft. Stealth Login is a WordPress plugin that can be used to change WordPress login URL to custom URL and prevent such incidents.


Stealth Login is a WordPress plugin :

Stealth Login Settings
Stealth Login Settings
Stealth Login WordPress plugin options:

Download the plugin here, upload to the  WordPress plugin directory and activate. As you can see from the screenshot, there is a simple option to customize WordPress login slug. First, turn the plugin ON and enter the required login URL slug in the login slug box. Now enable stealth mode and save changes.  Plugin will start working from the next login.

If you’re someone that manages more than one WordPress blog you’re going to love ManageWP. It’s an amazing tool that lets you manage all of your blogs from one centralized dashboard. Signing up and getting started is a simple as 1, 2, 3; first setup your account, then add your WordPress blogs, finally manage them from the dashboard.


In their own words:
“ManageWP is a WordPress service offering modern technology to manage multiple WordPress blogs from a centralized Dashboard.”
So whether you’re someone who just has a few blogs, or you manage WordPress blogs of several clients, ManageWP will be a tool that you’ll want to keep close at hand. ManageWP is actually built on a WordPress blog itself. So, when registering you’ll just need to enter your username a email; a password will be emailed to you.



Next you’ll need to add your blogs. To do this you’ll first need to add the ManageWP Worker plugin to the blogs that you want to manage. Then you’ll have to enter your URL, username and password into the ManageWP dashboard area. If you’re worried about the security of your account, be sure to check out their privacy page.

The control panel will show you which plugins on are up to date. You can upgrade all the plugins (on each of your blogs) at once with the click of a button. This is a definite time saver — rather than having to go to each blog separately. From the control panel you can also upload new themes and plugins, create new blog posts and pages, import/export, clone blogs and backup/restore.

Under the sites area, you’ll have options that you can perform on each blog individually (instead of all together). You can manage posts, pages, categories, tags, comments, plugins and themes. If there is a new version of WordPress available, you can even upgrade the blog right from here. When you click on a button/action, it actually opens up a new tab (along the top of the dashboard). Then you can simply click the X on the tab to close it out when you’re done.



The company is also planning to offer a self hosted version of ManageWP for companies and individuals out there that want to run their own dashboard. It’s still in the works but you can sign up to receive notifications about its release. This is great if you do have numerous clients and want to use your own domain to manage them all in one place.

ManageWP is a lifesaving tool that will save you lots of time and effort. It’s such a convenience to be able to login to just one WordPress blog and manage all of your blogs from there. I have 6 sites that run WordPress and this plugin has really made my day. How about you?



Are you tired of the boring default theme that comes with WordPress? Do you want to customize it and brand your site? This tutorial from WordPressforWomen.com at WordPressforWomen.com offers quick and easy ways to customize any theme.


Images in summary are be very unattractive and ugly looking. It can even dismantle or dis-layout your webpage.

While posting, what you usually do is add more tag:




When you add margin, everything above more tag the including image just above it also will be visible:




You may want somewhat similar features like this blog, as you can see that we don’t have irregular image in our main page.

Now let me teach you how to do this in your template. To do this you must have basic knowledge in html and must have little experience in html programming. But actually we are not doing any coding here, we’ll be just copying some code and replacing it with older one.

Usually most of the Wordpress template uses following code snippet to load post summary in index page.




Actually Wordpress by default has availed this feature to you. But this excerpt will not be visible until you replace the above code snippet with another one.

WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary. The part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag is called teaser. If you have post images showing up in your main excerpt page, then you must know that it’s using teaser rather than excerpt.

Now, how to replace teaser with excerpt.

You can easily accomplish this by following the method I guide you through.

In your Wordpress Admin page, navigate to Appearance > Editor.






At the right side of the page, click on Main Index Template.



Now in the code editor, search for following code snippet:

content(); ?>


Now replace the_content with the_excerpt.
 must be replaced to .

Now update the page.




Now whenever you type anything on excerpt page, it will be posted as summary of the post and will appear on the main page.

Even if you don’t type anything in excerpt, the main page will automatically load first 50 words excluding image.

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Performance is one major factor for any successful website. A website with driven by Wordpress will be more popular than ever, if it is easy to navigate and speedy as could be. Here are some things you should do if you want your WordPress site to have best performance and avoid upcoming problems at high traffic.

1. WPCompressor - Increase loading time up tp 80%




We couldnt believe it! Just by this small plugin, which activates GZIP compression of your website without any changes to your server, you can reduce your site weight to 80%. It uses PHP to activate GZIP instead of .htaccess. wpCompressor automatically compresses the data output and boosts the speed performance of your blog. You can test your speed here.


2. Remove unnecessary Plugins & upgrade current one
Remove all unused plugins wordpress site. Disable them and then physically remove from your web server. Plugins are disabled will affect the speed of a site for WordPress plugin will check whether activated or not. You also must keep up-to-date with the latest version of the plugin you use. Developer would have released a new version because they have modified the code in several ways to make this plugin work better.


3. Minimize PHP and database queries
I also have read great tip on Wpcandy’s simple ways to speed up WordPress. The article makes a lot of sense, cutting down on PHP and database queries.Jadi when the page loads on your site, and your browser must execute PHP query, it adds to the burden of time. If you change the query PHP with static HTML, every time the page is loaded, the browser you only read HTML.


4. Optimize and Repair your Database from myPhpAdmin
Every week or so you should login to your myPhpAdmin and optimize your db. Locate your Wordpress DatabaseTables, check all the tables in the Check Boxes, select the Optimise Tables Option and repair. You would be surprised how well this trick might work, it saved more than 10% of my current database size



5. Use Reliable image hosting service
Try moving the common web images, CSS, JavaScript and other static files to Amazon S3 Storage service and you will notice the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server will be reduced a lot. Read this step by step guide. Signing up for reseller hosting gives you more power for your own projects. You will have more control of system ressources.



You can also try WP-Offload . This plugin will boost the performance of your blog by seamlessly offloading static content like images, documents and movies. This will greatly reduce bandwidth consumption and the number of HTTP requests issued to your web server. Additional features such as remote image manipulation and thumbnail generation are provided.


6. Install WP Super Cache Plugin
This plugin will generate static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After the resulting html files, your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the relatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts and would not actually load content from a database at all, so the post will load faster with less stress on your server.


7. PHP Speedy WP
PHP Speedy WP can quickly and easily speed up your WordPress site and increase your blog’s response without too much effort on your part. PHP Speedy WP also allows us to automatically combine all the JS and CSS files into only two files - which in turn helps the opening page of times. CSS Background Images are automatically converted to URI.Dan this data will be useful in reducing the number of HTTP requests even further. And, importantly, is compatible with Internet Explorer, although the data do not support URL


8. Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API
The AJAX Libraries API is an attempt to make Web applications faster for developers in simple ways by becoming a content distribution network and loading architecture for popular javascript libraries including:
jQuery
prototype
script.aculo.us
MooTools
dojo

You can either link to the source code directly:


Or you can use Google’s API:


By using the google.load() method, your application has high speed, globally available access to a growing list of the most popular, open source and up to date JavaScript libraries.


9. Optimize your images with this great tool
Shrink O’Matic AIR is a great application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. This will be able to handle JPGs, GIFs and PNGs. Simply drag and drop images and they will be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.


10. WP CSS
This plugin GZIP and strip whitespace from your CSS file. This plugin allows you to confidently use @ import in the CSS file and not have to worry about what happens at the end user. This can be seen through the style.css file and put all @ import files into it. You also can set the cache expiration time. In addition you can also add CSS files to a specific page or post and put them all into one file.


11. Display page loading time + number of queries
Here is a simple code that can be inserted in your template. This code is useful to know how long it takes to load your page, or how many sql query is executed.

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