Free WordPress Plugins You Must-Have for Your WordPress Site.

As there is almost 20% website designers choose WordPress platform for building their website. You can accomplish almost anything you want with WordPress. It also able to support lots of plugins and most of them are totally free for users. And this post today would list the most recommended plugins users use.

1. Content Aware Sidebars
It allows you to create an unlimited number of sidebars (widget areas) for any widget area and assign it to specific pages, posts, categories, and so on. In a nutshell, it basically creates a virtual widget area that replaces the real widget area for the pages you specify.
Once you create a new sidebar, it will show up in the Appearance -> Widgets with all other widget areas.

2. Enhanced Text Widget
The Enhanced Text Widget is a free plugin that enables a more feature-rich text widget for your use. Some of the features supported by the widget include:
*It allows you to hide or show the widget title
*Turn your widget title into a link
*Assign CSS classes to the widget
*Supports text, HTML, PHP, Flash, JavaScript, and Shortcodes

3. WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO by Yoast is bar none the best SEO plugin for WordPress. It allows complete control of page titles and meta descriptions on a per page/post basis as well as for each taxonomy.

4. Akismet
Although there are many plugins that help you combat spam, Akismet is one of the best options because it comes with WordPress out of the box and it’s free for personal use.

5. Digg Digg
If you’re not taking advantage of social media for your business yet, it is time to start. The Digg Digg plugin adds a floating box on your website that enables your users to quickly and easily share the page they are on.
It supports all popular social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, and Pinterest.

6. W3 Total Cache
Website caching necessity varies based on your website. Websites that are heavy in images and scripts will see a nice speed improvement from using cache plugins.
W3 Total Cache is a free WordPress plugin that has all the caching features you will need. In fact, they can be a bit overwhelming at first, so it would behoove you to just start slow and test each feature carefully.

7. 404 Redirected
From my experience, business owners don’t monitor their broken links nearly as much as they should. Broken pages present a business and SEO problem for your website. On one hand, your potential customers might leave your website immediately when they see a 404 error, and on the other hand, Google will not pass PageRank to your 404 page.

Conclusion: If you choose a right wordpress theme for your site, many things would become simplier. Maybe you would be interested in this post for Best E-Commerce WordPress Themes.

Steps for Designing a Website.

Many people want to build their own website.  Today, I’d love to talk about how to build a website, what you need for building a website. It can be divided in 7 steps.

Okay, let’s begin with the first one — Hosting.
What is hosting? hosting is a place where you can put your website.
Then there are several types of Web hosting options you can choose from:
Free Web hosts
Standard Web hosting
Dedicated, Virtual, and Shared Hosting
Colocation

Secondly: Domain Name
A domain name provides extra branding for your site and makes it easier for people to remember the URL. Just like http://www.google.com, http://www.youtube.com. They could help users to find the site easily and simply.

Thirdly: Plan Your Website
After you’ve got a hosting and demain name, you can start planning your site. You need to decide the following tips:
Type of site – what’s your point for your website?
Navigation – The navigation affects the information architecture of your site.
Content – Content is the actual pages you’ll be building.

Fourth: Build Your Website Pages
There are some knowledge you need to know:
Design Basics – The elements of good design and and how to use it on websites.
Learning HTML – HTML is the building block of a Web page. While it’s not absolutely required, you’ll do better if you learn HTML than if you don’t.
Learning CSS – CSS is the building block of how pages look. And learning CSS will make it easier for you to change your site’s look when you need to.
Web Page Editors – Finding the perfect editor for your needs will help you learn design, HTML, and CSS.

Fifth: Publish Your Website
Publishing your website is a matter of getting the pages you created in step 4 up to the hosting provider you set up in step 1. You can do this with either the tools that come with your hosting service or with FTP clients. Knowing which you can use depends upon your hosting provider. Contact them if you are not sure.
How to Upload
Best FTP Clients for Windows
Best FTP Clients for Macintosh

Sixth: Promote Your Website
The easiest way to promote your website is through search engine optimization or SEO. You build your Web content so that it ranks well in search engines. This can be very difficult, but it is inexpensive and can result in good results if you work at it.
Other ways to promote your site include: word of mouth, email, and advertising. You should include your URL on all professional correspondence and whenever it makes sense in personal messages. I put my URL in my email signature along with my email address.

Seventh: Maintain Your Website
Maintenance can be the most boring part of website design, but in order to keep your site going well and looking good, you need to do it. Testing your site as you’re building it and then after it’s been live for a while is important. And you should also work on content development on a regular basis.

September iPhone WallPaper Sharing: Part Nine.

During these week I have collected a few nice iPhone wallpapers. Today I am going to share them for you as before. First Here is the collection for the former iPhone wallpapers sharing posts, Check for them.

iPhone 5 Wallpaper Share, Part One: Colorful.

iPhone Wallpaper Share, Part Two: Natural. 

iPhone Wallpaper Share, Part Three: Cartoon.

iPhone Wallpaper Share, Part Four: The Ones I Appreciate.  

iPhone Wallpaper Share, Part Five: Unique 

iPhone WallPaper Part SIX: Purple Romantic Ones.

iPhone 5 WallPaper Share Part Seven: Independence Day.  

iPhone WallPaper Share Part Eight: I just like it.  

 

Alright, here are the ones for this week collection for iPhone wallpaper.

 

So there are lots of swell iPhone wallpapers on my blog, download the ones you like and recommend them to your friends. Thanks.

Learning Time: How to Add Social Media icons to Wordpress Website?

It's a nice way to promote your websites or products by SNS (Social networking service) spreading. So it is necessary for designers to add social media icons to your websites for easily sharing by visitors.
I'd love to share the steps for how to add social media icons to WordPress Theme for you today. The WordPress Theme I would like to use as an example is Magee Theme which I had mentioned on Best 10 E-Commerce WordPress Themes Recommendation.

1. Add Social Media Buttons to Website Footer
Magee Theme allows you to add social media icons to website footer easily as follows:
Step 1. Go to MageeBuilder -> Footer in your WordPress admin panel.
Step 2. Scroll down to Social Network section, you’ll see that by default that the social network is enabled.
Step 3. Add the social media buttons you’d like to display.
To do this job, you just need to enter the specific link in the related URL fields, including Facebook/Twitter/Google+/ Flckr/RSS/LinkedIn/Skype /Vim /YouTube URL fields. Any social button that has a link specified will be displayed.
For example, if you want to add the Facebook icon, you can enter the link in the Facebook URL field:
If you want to remove the social media buttons from your website, just set the related URL filed to blank, including the “#” presented in the Facebook /Twitter /Google+ / Skype / YouTube URL fields by default.
Step 4. Click Save Changes button.

2. Social Network Widget
In addition to the default social media options in the footer, Magee Theme also comes with the social network widget helps to display social media icons on your website.
Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets, you’ll find the Social Network widget and the widget settings look like this:
Set the title that displays above the top of your social icons, and then type the URL of the social networking website if you want to display its icon in your website.

3. Social Network shortcode
Social Network shortcode is also available to let you add social media icons anywhere on a page/post. To add this shortcode, just click Add SNS button on the Built-in WordPress Visual Editor in the page/post edit page.

If you are using other WordPress Themes, you can take the similar steps to add social media icons.

Comparison for Samsung Galaxy S4, iPhone 5S, Lumia 1020 and more.

It another season for more than one excellent phones release. And many people opt to upgrade phone to a better one. So there're always questions like this: Which One is better? Which Phone is the best? Should I choose iPhone 5S or Galaxy S4 .....
In this post, I'd like to discuss the comparison for the hotest smartphones recently. The festures are listing on the form. Look for the ones you prefer and decide which one you would like to choose.

Latest Free WordPress Themes for September, 2013.

I have collected 4 free wordpress themes today which are released lately in September. Take a look and find out one you want.

1. Unique Free Magazine WordPress Theme

"Unique is a free creative and elegant WordPress theme from Justin Tadlock. The theme is built with the Hybrid Core theme framework and includes a lot of great features. This is a theme perfect for magazines, news websites and online portals presenting awesome articles and content. Features including in the theme are theme options, custom widgets, custom page templates, 9 WordPress post formats, three menu locations, support for multi-author sites, breadcrumbs, support the Grid Columns plugin and the Whistles plugin. Unique uses the Flexslider script to display awesome and cool slides."

2. TopBest Free WordPress Theme

"TopBest is a great looking free WordPress theme from ThemeSmarts. This is an elegant theme that is suitable for all kind of website types, but it is perfect for your business or corporate website. Display and promote beautiful and creative portfolios and galleries! It is simply up to you what you can create! TopBest includes a lot of features and options such as SmartPanel theme options provided by vafpress framework, 5 multiple homepage layouts, simple portfolio gallery with 4 different layouts, widgets, GPL license and much more. If you looking for a great business WordPress theme, then TopBest is a theme for you."

3. Portafolio Free WordPress Theme

"Portafolio is a free WordPress theme from WPExplorer. This is a beautiful and elegant theme perfect to showcase photos, design, art or other creative content or work. Portafolio was designed and developed with portfolio and galleries in mind. The theme have a clean and light look with a lot of white space that will make your content look awesome."

4. Scribble -- A Free WordPress Theme from 7Theme

"Scribble is a great looking WordPress theme perfect for all bloggers and writers. The theme comes loaded with great features and options such as theme admin panel, responsive design, four post formats (standard, quote, link and image), 600 + Google web fonts, unlimited colors, unlimited sidebars + generator, import / export your settings plus much more. "

Sites You Can Download Free WordPress Themes.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform for users. One of the most important reasons is lots of free wordpress themes. This post today we are going to discuss where to find nice free WordPress Themes with ease.
1. WordPress.org

Wordpress.org is the official site for WordPress. There are some really nice themes on WordPress which are as good as premium ones even better. You can find many popular free theme frameworks like Responsive, Hybrid on WordPress.

2. Magic Theme

Magic Theme is a WordPress Themes design site which provides both Free and premium WordPress Themes. The free WordPress Theme -- Sillver is a free, clean and simple WordPress theme. It features 100% responsive design and can automatically adjust to any screen size, from desktops to mobile devices. Sillver comes with many advanced features to create your website/blog easily and quickly.

3. free-wordpress-themes.com

Free WordPress Theme is a site which for people share and download Free WordPress Themes. It contains more than 700 Free ones. I think it could a certain way for you to get a free satisfied WordPress Theme you need.

4. wpexplorer.com

It is a WordPress site which contains both free and premium WordPress Themes. You are able to download high quality free WordPress themes created by AJ Clarke. All GPL themes without any encrypted footer links, include premium features and great designs.