With shortcode it is possible to display complicated codes or function result every where in your WordPress  Theme like  in widgets, excerpts, comments, theme files, user descriptions, and category/tag/taxonomy descriptions. According to WordPress support’s site “A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut [shortcodes].

Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and allowed the Gallery feature allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog. but now you can us shortcode for your theme by using WordPress plugins and can create your own function to display requires result. I was working on my client web site and was required to display one category post on a specific page, I tried few plugins but did not get the proper result so one of blog fellow have given a solution on Simple Recent Posts Shortcodes for WordPress, which help me a lot and here is my code for The Corporation WordPress Theme:

<?php
function my_recent_posts_shortcode($atts){

global $post;

$myposts = get_posts(“showposts=5&category=32″);
foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

<img width=”120″ height=”120″ <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<div class=”latest_news_box”>
<h3><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p><?php the_content_limit(520); ?></p>
</div>
<?php
endforeach;
}
?>

There are different requirement to display content on your blog, Kevin Chard have wriiten lot of usage of shortcode on his blog. You see shorcode usage on the following link: wpsnipp/shortcode. and  Filip Stefansson, the Founder and editor of WP-Snippets, explained in detail about shortcode usage on this link: Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples).

WordPress Plugins for Shortcode

Slider gallery shortcode

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page.

If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set. You can:

• add controls to go back and forward through each slide
• select an specific transition between images (fade, zoom, scroll, curtains, grow, toss and many more)
• show the image title
• set the size of the images displayed in the slider
• wrap the image with a link to the image file
• adjust the transition speed
• set the pause between transitions
• set the initial delay before the first transition
• exclude some selected images.

TitanEditor – The Shortcode Editor On Steroids

Features

• Drag and drop Functionality – Drag, drop, move or delete your short-codes until your satisfied.
• Page template Manager – No more messing around inside your default pages and posts, create your own page templates filled with short-codes.
• Button shortcode editor – Create as many button styles and shapes you want.
• Most common shortcodes included – Buttons, tabs, accordion, toggle, slider, images, columns, lists, message boxes, video, quotes, separator, blog elements, galleria and pre/code
• Quick fill – After adding your columns your able to fill them all by just one click.
• TitanEditor Page Attributes – After creating your page template and you’ve filled and rearranged all components then just create a new page and select your page template from the TitanEditor Page Attributes window and your done.
• Clever editing – Not happy after seeing your freshly baked page, then just select the template through TitanEditor and edit it, TitanEditor remembers where you have left and opens the page just as you left it.
• Screencasts Included – Watch the videos for full instructions on how to use the editor, once your used to it you never return to the wp-editor ever again.
• Blog Post compatible – Your also able to create a nice looking blog post that looks different then any other blog post. Just create a page template ad your content through the editor and assign this page template to that blog post.
• Editors Option Panel – A option panel from where you can enable or diasble the stylings, so if you want to use your own then you only need to disable it.

Tabbed Content Shortcode

A clean, easy to integrate, reusable tabbed content area for your WordPress themes!

Features

• Reusable , add as many as you want on the page!
• Easy to use, activate and copy-paste the sample shortcodes to begin
• Auto sizing on a tab by tab basis
• Help and information admin page
• Easy to integrate into any design

SWS: Nivo add-on for Styles With Shortcodes

Styles with Shortcodes is a great plugin that makes life easier using WordPress whether you are a seasoned developer, designer or just a normal user!

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Shortcodes Ultimate

With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premiun in just a few clicks. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve many premium themes features and display it on your site. See screenshots for more information.

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Display Posts Shortcode

The Display Posts Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of posts without knowing PHP or editing template files.

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Category Post Shortcode

This plugin allow you to display post list in your page or post by using shortcode.

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List category posts

The shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can also display the post author, date, excerpt, custom field values, even the content! The [catlist] shortcode can be used as many times as needed with different arguments on each post/page.

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Category Shortcode

This plugin creates the [Category]] Shortcode. The code takes 5 arguments:
number: the number of posts to display. 0 equals the default number. -1 equals the total available.

Detail

Available shortcodes for WordPress Hosted Blog

Miscellaneous | Video | Images and Documents | Audio

Detail

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I had to design a Vertical Scrolling news ticker for my client. Initially,  I thought it’s hard to figure it out, but thanks to a tutorial “ Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker With jQuery and jCarousel Lite“.  I learnt from this tutorial along with other and  modified  the code and made it into something I wanted, hope this would help you too.

First thing first, how to Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)? WordPress already includes a copy of jQuery. Here is how you can load up jQuery in your theme the smart (and intended) way. Put the following code in header.php file in the <head> section:

<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>  <?php wp_head(); ?> 

[Detail]

Other References:
How to Add JCarousel Lite to WordPress
How to Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress

jCarousel Lite is tiny but powerful plugin and with it you can easily add/tweak/configure  News ticker part on your Website. After including jQuery Carousel into you WordPress theme, now need to create style and html code to run image gallery or News on your website. Follow these steps to  Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker on WordPress With jQuery Carousel.

Step 1

Create a new <div> in your style sheet, which should include container for the news ticker and style of the text and heading. As well, a very important <div> class name that must b same class name when you configure jCarousel Lite in your theme. In my case I have created “latestnews-jcarousellite”, as you can see bellow:

/* ======= Latest News ===================*/
#latest-news {
width:268px;
padding:0px 0px 8px;
float:right;
margin:0 !important;
min-height:100px;
}
#latest-news a { text-decoration:none; }
#latest-news .title {
text-align:center;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
padding:2px;
}
.latestnews-jcarousellite { width:100px; }
.latestnews-jcarousellite ul li{ list-style:none; display:block; padding-bottom:1px; margin-bottom:2px; }
.clear { clear: both; }

Step2

Create a News category and get its id number, hope you know how to get it, after creating some news post for created category, add a loop where you want to display News ticker. In my case i wanted to display it in side bare and  have added the following code in my theme sidebar:

<div id="latest-news">
<h2>Latest News </h2>
<p> Find out our latest orders, clients and customer feedback! </p>
<div id="latestnews-jcarousellite">
<ul>
<?php query_posts("showposts=5&cat=32"); $i = 1; ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li> <a class="title" rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul> </div>

Step 3

After adding loop’s posts  and configure the jCarousel. Under the<head> or  in sidebar.php file  add following price of script:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function() {
jQuery("#latestnews-jcarousellite").jCarouselLite({
vertical: true,
speed: 1000,
visible:5,
auto:500
});
});
</script>

Where visible number  must be equal to showposts number, <div id=”latestnews-jcarousellite”> must be same.  The “auto:500? means it will auto-scroll every 500ms. There are a lot of options read the documentation for more information and configuration.

Other References about How to Create a jQuery Carousel with Website and WordPress Posts

From the list bellow you can create image gallery from carousel on WordPress posts from a specified category.

jQuery Carousel Gallery for WordPress
Making an infinite JQuery carousel
jQuery Infinite Carousel
How to Create an Infinite Carousel with jQuery
How To: Create A Jquery Carousel With WordPress Posts
Create a Simple Infinite Carousel with jQuery
How to install and style jcarousel lite
Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker With jQuery and jCarousel Lite
Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker With jQuery and jCarousel Lite
How can I degrade from Jquery carousel to css scrolling list gracefully
How to create simple and sleek jquery carousel gallery
HTML5 jQuery slider w/ Canvas and jQuery

Pre-made Carousel Plugins

By using these plugins you can create beautiful carousel image gallery for your visitors inspiration.

Boutique carousel

A ready to use jQuery slider/carousel to present your images in a unique, smooth and customizable way. Simply link to the JavaScript and CSS files and apply it to your HTML element like other jQuery plugins. Customize the settings and CSS to match your style and purpose. Full documentation and examples included.

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jCarousel

jCarousel is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation) - Example.

jCarousel Lite

jCarousel Lite is a jQuery plugin that carries you on a carousel ride filled with images and HTML content. jCarousel Lite is not a replacement for jCarousel; rather it is a light-weight (only 2kb) alternative for users whose primary focus is not to build a full-blown image gallery.

Agile Carousel

Agile Carousel is a JQuery plugin that lets you create a carousel with fexible settings.
New features in Beta 2.0 include:

• Ability to show multiple slides
• Ability to show intro slide
• Ability to Disable “First” and “Last” buttons at beginning & end of carousel.

Here’s an example with intro slide.

jQuery Carrousel

Moodular is a jQuery plugin which allows to create carousel/slider very easily. Moodular comes from the contraction of two words : mood & modular.
- Mood for many reasons, “in the mood – Glenn Miller”, …
- Modular because this plugin has some modules integrated (controls & effects).
It’s modular too, cause you can create your own controls & effects to perform your personal carousel.

jQuery Infinite Carousel Plugin

jQuery carousel plugin where small image thumbnails allow users to jump over to other images.

Features:

• Carousel never ends and images shuffle around
• Captions are optional
• Optional thumbnail controls which allow visitors to jump to any image in the carousel sequence
• Thumbnails can be styled via CSS
• It’s less than 14K
• Reusable on multiple containers within the same page

Step Carousel Viewer

Step Carousel Viewer displays images or even rich HTML by side scrolling them left or right. Users can step to any specific panel on demand, or browse the gallery sequentially by stepping through x number of panels each time. A smooth sliding animation is used to transition between steps.

Just Another Carousel

A jQuery content carousel that works with any size content and supports mouse input. Features:

• Works in FF3, IE7, Opera, and Safari.
• Supports fixed-size or variable-size children
• Supports the Meta plugin for jQuery
• Totally CSS-based allowing for high customization
• Degrades gracefully into an unordered list

 jQuery Carousel

Great looking plugin with various types of use.

Roundabout

Roundabout is a jQuery plugin that converts a structure of static HTML elements into a highly customizable turntable-like interactive area. (And now, not just turntables, but many shapes!)

jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow

This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin’s parameters.

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AviaSlider – jQuery Slideshow

AviaSlider is a very flexible and easy to use Image slideshow plugin for jQuery with a set of really unique transitions that were nver available before, as well as some basic transitions, so the slider will fit into every project.

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Estro – jQuery Ken Burns & swipe effect slider

This jQuery plugin uses unobstrusive javascript to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a georgous elegant slider, which can be completely customized using HTML5 data attributes. The markup is valid HTML5 and SEO optimzied, with all content always being available to search engines. When using this plugin, your page layout will be consistent even if javascript has been disabled.

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 Sexy Slider

SexySlider is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript Sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider!
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Examples for Inspiration

There are huge list for inspiration and I will complie it in my next post along with pre-made WordPress themes with jQuery gallery. Subscribe to wparena’s email for update:

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If you are running a blog on WordPress than you should convert it into a community blog by allowing your visitors to participate on your blog. There are mainly two ways that you can use to run a social friendly blog. Firstly, Allow them to make a post or share a news on your blog from the Front end. Secondly, Allow them to vote on blog’s content.

WordPress Plugins for Front end posting and Editing

For those who are not familiar with WordPress dashboard, for guest writers, authors, WordPress have the capabilities to make a post and to edit it from front end. Lost of users find it difficult and often give up on posting. So its very necessary for those sites which heavily relay on user-generated content,  such as reviews or community news, can be a formidable challenge. I’ve complied a list of plugins that will help to virtually eliminate this problem.

Gravity Forms

This plugin allows users to automatically create a post, among many other things. When added to a form, the post fields create a post when the form is submitted. It’s great for user-submitted stories, job postings, directories, etc. and comes with professional support.

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Post From Site

This new wordpress plugin allows you to post straight from your front-end (i.e. website) – perfect for a quick update! Also useful if you have multiple users and don’t need them to see the admin side of things. It creates a link on your website which, when clicked, will bring up a simple text-box. Users can enter a post title (required), content (also required), add categories and tags (including created new ones), and upload images. Images can be placed in your post with custom tags ([!--image1--]), or all appended to the end of the post.

Front-end Editor

Front-end Editor is a plugin that lets you make changes to your contentdirectly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo.

Goals:

• save as many trips to the backend as possible
• compatible with any theme, out of the box
• light and fast

You can edit posts, pages, custom post types, comments, widgets and manymore elements.

Quick Post Widget

This plugin provides a widget to post directly from the frontend of your site without going into the backend. The widget optionally offers visual editing while posting from the frontend, with a bunch of features (media uploading, spellchecking, preview,….)!
Guest posting can be enabled with optional captcha security. Apart from post title, content and categories, tags, custom fields, custom taxonomies, post date and excerpt can optionally be entered. You can easily add images or video-clips to your posts without using the backend of your site.

Inline Editor

Adds the capacity to edit your content from the front end of your WordPress blog using the styling of your blog.

Using the excellent and lightweight NicEdit WYSIWYG editor component to give you full control over the look.

The main advantages over editing this way over the traditional method is that you can see your content exactly how it will appear using all the styles and formatting of your WordPress template, plus it’s far more convenient this way.

One Quick Post

One Quick Post is a WordPress/BuddyPress plugin that allows you to enable frontend posting on your blog; including for non-registered users.

FE-Editor inline

The famous Front-end editor by scribu http://scribu.net is changed only by CSS to an real inline editor. After login into backoffice and going back to your front end you can edit your texts by double click as in scribu’s front-end editor. But now your editor panel is fixed above in your browser’s left corner and always present and the page looks as before but now you can write in it. Above that edit panel you find an edit button – if your template supplies the class post-edit-link for it – for going into backend making the job you can’t do with the small editor.

WP User Frontend

Some of us want something like that the subscriber/contributor will not be able to go in the wordpress backend and everything these user can control will be done from wordpress frontend.

WordPress Plugins for Voting on posts

Get vote on your post to get more exposer for social bookmarking. All you have to do is to  give your readers the ability to rate content on your site.

Simple Star Rating

The Simple Star Rating plugin for WordPress is a very simple-to-use star rating system that you can use anywhere in your blogs & pages by clicking on an additional button integrated in your content editor.

Choose the number of stars, the default value, the color and the size of your rating items within the WYSIWYG editor, through a dead easy slider-based popup. Then let your visitors rate your posts, movies, recipies and more…

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Avia Feedback Box – feature request system

The Avia Feedback Box is a feature request system for visitors and customers. They can suggest new ideas, vote on existing ones, and track your work progress.

At the beginning of each month a user/visitor get 10 votes to distribute. They can choose to use all their votes for one idea they really like, or spread them across between several ideas.

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Post Voting Plugin

Gauge the popularity of your site’s content by letting your visitors or users vote on that content. Sort of like your own personal Digg or Reddit, and it’s packed with features!

jSocial

With jSocial you can easily place social share buttons under your articles and pages on your website. This script uses the jQuery framework and works completely client side. So you can use it on static and dynamic webpages.

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According to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), broken links are very important, because search engine do not like landing pages which give 404 error page. Search engine treated them as a dead end. Just like human, search engine don’t like to waste time on broken links.
There are different online tools available to check broken, after detection you can manage those broken links manually and if you are using WordPress than there are plugins which helps you to manage error pages.

There are many broken link checks on line, here we are compiling few of them and a list of WordPress pluging to manage  broken links which make your  life easy to handle them.

What are broken links?

Broken links are like stop signs to search engine robots. They use the links on the pages of your site to follow to other pages at your site. The more pages they crawl, the more content they gather.  The more content they gather, the more valuable your site appears to them, and your ranking will be higher! (Not to mention how irritating broken links are to your visitors.)  - Broken Link checker

Online Broken Link Checkers

W3C Link Checker

This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, CSS style sheet, or recursively on a whole Web site. For best results, it is recommended to first ensure that the documents checked use Valid (X)HTML Markup and CSS. The Link Checker is part of the W3C’s validators and Quality Web tools.

Broken Link checker

This free online broken link checker will quickly scan your web page and verify that your hyperlinks are working appropriately.

Link tiger

LinkTiger will hunt your websites for broken links every day and notify you with rich reports.

Dead link checker

This tool isn’t for finding reciprocal links or making sure your reciprocal links partners are still linking back to you (Although I guess you could use it for that) it’s just going to make sure all the links on your web page are linking to somthing that exists.

WordPress plugin to fix broken links

Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

Features

• Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
• Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
• Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
• Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
• Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
• You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
• Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.
• Highly configurable.

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Broken links found. What next?

After getting all broken links you can redirect visitors on specific page by using following plugin.

5sec Proper 404

• stop hardcoding your 404 page in 404.php
• select any page to be used as the 404 page
• use 5 provided shortcodes (recent, popular, similar posts; search form, Google search widget) to make better, more useful 404 pages
• eliminate broken links and backlinks with a detailed 404 log

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For eCommerce and sports related websites, tables are the perfect solution for those who are in need of a well designed and more importantly to show pricing table with product detail, especially when you’re trying to show things on your website that should be in table format like score board. There are lots of benefits of using WordPress plugins to use in your ecommerce website, to display score board without disturbing your page layout.
Today we are compiling a list of Free and Premium WordPress pluging for displaying data and a list of Fantastic Pricing Tables for Your Inspiration.

Premium Pricing Tables for WordPress

CSS3 Pricing Tables for WordPress

This plugin enables you to integrate some awesome and modern Pure CSS3 Pricing Tables into your WordPress. No Javascript is used at all and all major browsers are supported. You can apply different styles to your pricing tables, and create them all from a very friendly and visual admin interface!

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uPricing – Pricing Table for WordPress

uPricing is a pricing table for WordPress. We have been developing it for our WordPress themes, but have decided to release it as a standalone plugin. It is a premium quality Pricing Table with a nicely polished WordPress admin.

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Premium Pricing Tables Plugin

WP Mega Tables are the perfect solution for those who are in need of a well designed and more importantly a easy to use pricing table in there wordpress themes.

Features

• Very Flexible Pricing Tables, 1 Column, 2 Columns etc.
• Advanced and very easy to use option panel.
• 4 Different styles.
• Option to select your currency
• Option to Select on which column you want your “Best Value” tag
• Option to Select a different style for each table
• Ad tables with short-codes.
• Ad tables throughout a custom panel.
• PSD Included
• WP 2 .9 , WP 3 .0 and WP 3 .1 ready
• Very well documented (screencast included)

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CSS3 Web Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress

This is a pack of pure CSS3 Web Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress with 2 table styles and 20 predefined color versions including hover states.

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Free Pricing Tables for WordPress

Price Table

This plugin gives you a drag and drop interface for building price tables. It also renders those price tables using pure CSS3. They have a clean, minimal design – so they’ll fit into just about any design. Thanks Orman for the great design!

You can read more about it on SiteOrigin.

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Price Quantity Plugin

Price Quantity Plugin is provided for free by Advidco. Price Quantity plugin was developed primararly for use with Shopperpress. However this plugin will work with all WordPress themes. Simply add the short code anywhere within WordPress and set your desired prices and quantities and Price Quantity Plugin displays a very sharp looking table on the page where the short code was placed. Optionally you many also change the styles to match your WordPress theme.

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Custom Tables

With this Plugin, the Admin can very simply create an new Table in the Database. The Table can filled in manually over the WordPress Admin Menu with new entries, or he can choose the way over Excel for MultiEditing all lines and reimport the data as CSV File. The Plugin will create diffrent Shortcodes to add this Tables to the WordPress sites.

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Fantastic Pricing Tables for Inspiration

From the following examples of pricing tables / plans you will come to know how successful companies are engaging their users in their pricing plans, from simple tables.

One Hub

Squarespace

Bigcartel

Shopify

Formstack

Notable

Mailchimp

Live Stream

 Wuffo

CrazyEgg

Highrise

PulseApp

LighCMS

Cobblestone

Invoice Machine

PlanHQ

Mediatemple

 Mailer Mailer

Litmus

Sipgate

Yootheme

The Resumator

Poll Everywhere

Box

Clicktale

Usabilla

Cannybill

NewsGroupDirect

Typekit

Podcast people

Vflyer

PandaStream

Groupsite

Browser Mob

Glasscubes

Hellothemes

Varto

After inspiration, you must be interested in the following links:
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How to integrate Magento into WordPress e-Commerce site
Create Online Store with Free WordPress e-Commerce plugin
WordPress e-Commerce Theme for Furniture Store & Home Products
Creative WordPress Powered eCommerce Web Sites
Free Download Plugins and Themes From WordPress Multi Site User (WPMU)
How to Create a Membership site with WordPress
Best Magento Themes for Your Online Store

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Running a multi-author web directory for articles, posts pages, or other content to your wordPress powered site, means you have different people writing on different topics or offering different perspective on the same topic. WordPress  designers and developers have extended the ability to manage the users and Authors by using specific themes and plugins. For example with ArticleDirectory  you can manage your article site with the power of WordPress and it will let your users submit articles, featured articles and do the Advanced Search and do lot more with this advanced theme but still you need to manage authors and co-authors.

And with Article Manager Module for CMS pro plugin! Article Manager is a CMS pro! premium module designed to enable you to create unique Blogs/Articles/News items.

Today we are compiling some WordPress plugins and explaining some tips and tricks for managing a multi-author web site by using WordPress.

How To Create An Authors Page

If your theme do not come with authors page, you have to create one for that. In this case WordPress will look for an archives.php template or an index.php template and the summary of an authors posts would be display in the same way that monthly and category archives are displaying.

In the following list of tutorials you will find how to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page.

How to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page

He has written a flexible WordPress page template that will support most themes. You can download the page template and this template lists all authors ordered by author ID. The format of a listing is author name followed by author description and gravatar which is followed by a link to recent post and finally links to social media profiles. The page template supports twitter, facebook, linkedin, digg and flickr.

How To Create An Authors Page

Kevin Muldoon explain step by step how to create and embed it into your theme. If you have multi authors blog, you will get more detail about creating a dedicated authors page for them in order to give them more exposure.

Add More Social Network Handles To Your WordPress Author Profile

The authoer’s page by default only allows you to put just enough information up. For those who utilize their authors.php page, they can add more things like your Twitter and Facebook profile to their author profile and not have to even alter the core of their site. You can even add more than that.

Creating A Simple Author Profile Page In WordPress

You want it styles somewhat similar to your other pages, but you can add the following and style it according to your own template. The code contains the gravatar, 3 different social network handles, and a simple listing of the author’s posts. You can customize it to display excerpts, display excerpts with thumbnails, full posts, and more.

Custom Portfolio Page For Your WordPress Theme

Whether you’re modifying an existing wp theme, or building a new one, this easy to follow tutorial will allow you to add the commonly used Portfolio/Gallery Page to your website. You can also use this same method to create other custom pages & custom categories (category-x.php) to display “WP Custom Post Types” in categories of your choosing.

How to add Author Bios to Single Posts

For the Multi-author sites, WordPress has built-in functionality to display Author Bios to single post, and there are some plugins to help as well. There are three thinks that we need to get to display Author Bios: Detail

How To Display Author Photo In WordPress Post and comments Using Gravatar

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. It is a service by Automattic, and stores “avatar” or profile, images link to an email address on its servers. Once you upload an image on Gravatar server, it will display on any site that supports Gravatar across the Internet. Gravatar is a widely supported service used by many social media sites.

Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently

Multi-Author Blogs are a popular trend that is spreading rapidly in the blogging industry. It is getting hard to keep up with the fresh content for one man bloggers therefore more and more blogs are now seeking for guest authors, co-authors, and multi-authors.

Tips Tricks To Manage And Handle Multi-Author Blogs

Luckily there are lots of WordPress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.

Must have Plugins if You have Multiple Authors in WordPress

Managing a Multi-Author Site

There are many tools available to assist you in managing a multi-author site, as well as making your site more interactive by adding some features, By using these tools on your site you can make more rewarding and satisfying experience not only for you and your readers, but for your authors, as well.

Tools that help authors communicate

By Communicating on a multi-author site, co-authors can share information about their articles and thoughts with each others. Use the following tools to help you manage the flow of communication between everyone involved:

WP Status Notifier

WP Status Notifier will send a notification to given email address(es) of posts pending review by contributors. It can also optionally notify the contributors when their post is accepted or rejected. WP Status Notifier is useful for moderation in blogs with multiple contributors.

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Simple Private Message System

PMS is a very simple php private messaging system, which can be used for communication. It can be integrated into your existing application.
Using PMS to enhance your application, it enables users on your site to send private messages to each other, which will greatly increase the sociability of your site.

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Editorial Calendar

The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.

Try the calendar before you install it. Check out the demo installation at Zack’s WordPress Sandbox.

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Email Users

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. Power users can email groups of users and even notify group of users of posts.

All the instructions for installation, the support forums, a FAQ, etc. can be found on the plugin home page.

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WordPress Email Newsletter Plugin

The email newsletter plugin is an advanced bulk emailer designed especially for WordPress 3. It is very easy to use and feature rich. Heaps of features which allow you to quickly send professional newsletters to your existing wordpress user database.

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Subscribe To Author Posts Feed

This plugin adds links after the posts for subscribing to the post author’s posts feed via RSS. So if there are several authors in the blog, but a visitor wishes to subscribe just an author posts feed, this plugin gives that possibility to do it.

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Notification messages

jNotice is the plugin for you, if you like to use some nifty popup’s on your websites or applications. This plugin is very customizable because you can select a div that you want to use as popup. In this div you can place whatever content you want.

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WPD subscription add-on

This WPD subscription add-on is for you If you wish to run a premium membership on your blog. You can run unlimited types of subscriptions (silver, gold, sponsors,donators, beta tester,….) and display specific content to them.

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ku2d – Keep up to date

KU2D allows you to offer a simple way to inform your clients (subscribers) about updates of one of your releases. You can use it for events, parties, new product, … too.

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Dashboard Notepad

This dashboard widget provides a simple notepad. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them. Version 1.30 also adds support for custom roles and integrates with theMembers plugin for role settings.

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Tools to promote author profiles

This is very difficult task to promote your blog, One way to operate a successful multi-author blog involves taking every opportunity to promote your authors and their information as much as possible.
This list give you tools to promote authors bios, links, social network feeds, and more:

WordPress Profile Manager

The WordPress Profile Manager allows you to create custom fields for your users. You can create text fields, text area’s and drop down menu’s with the drag and drop interface within 5 seconds.

Features

• Create custom fields, text area’s and drop down menu’s.
• Beautiful user interface
• On the fly validation with jQuery
• Written in OOP
• Very easy to use
• Drag & Drop interface
• AJAX Based
• Use the native WordPress the_author_meta function to retrieve the custom author profile fields

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List Authors

A widget to display a list of authors in your WordPress blog. Includes widget options to configure the features mentioned below. Completely updated to use the new widget API and is multi-widget enabled. Fully XHTML compliant.

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Profile Pic

This plugin allows authors to add a picture to their profile and helps automate the process of displaying author profiles.

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Author Spotlight (Widget)

To display a custom photograph with the Author’s Profile please install the User Photo. In absence of this plugin the ‘Author Spotlight” widget will fall-back to displaying the Gravatar associated with the user. If your posts have multiple authors you may use the Co-Authors Plus, the widget will display all the author profiles one below another for such posts.

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Author Based Twitter Widget

This plugin will allow all authors to have their own tweets shown on in the widget area of their posts, by adding it to their profiles. That way any multi-author blog can let their bloggers promote their own twitter account and not a joint account.

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User Messenger

User Messenger provides a simple method of integrating a member system into a new or existing site with the ability for users to send messages to one another. The script features a CMS / admin panel to manage users & site settings as well as all of the scripts needed to let users register with and login to your site.

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Tools to manage multi-author blog posts

By using these plugins, you can manage your group of authors, can track users’ activity, list their posts, and stay up-to-date and notified when your authors publish new content:

Authors Widget – WordPress Premium Plugin

This widget show your site authors with details description and avatar. Widget can be used multiple of times even in one sidebar area.

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Co-Authors Plus

This plugin is an almost complete rewrite of the Co-Authors plugin originally developed at Shepherd Interactive.

Allows multiple authors to be assigned to a Post, Pages, or Custom Post Types via the search-as-you-type inputs. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. New template tags allow listing of co-authors. Editors and Administrators may assign co-authors to a post. Additionally, co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is usual).

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Author Complete Post List

Provides an easy way to display the complete list of the an author’s posts, including the posts where he’s also co-author. It solves two problems with the author page:

1. It displays all the posts from the author despite any pre-definition of the maximum number of posts to be displayed.
2. It counts the posts where the user is co-author, even if he’s not the original poster.

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Advanced Blog Authors Widget

This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display your blog authors in any widgetized sidebar. It includes the abilities to display author gravatars, author URLS , post counts, and bios.

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Custom Author Byline

Lots of folks using WordPress sites with multiple authors may run into this problem. You want to attribute correct credit to the writer/author of the article, but not give out access to your WordPress install.

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WP Pending Post Notifier

WP Pending Post Notifier will send a notification to given email address of posts pending review by contributors. It can also optionally notify the contributors when their post is accepted or rejected. WP Status Notifier is useful for moderation in blogs with multiple contributors.

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Audit Trail

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

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User Profile Widget for WordPress – About Me

About Me is a plugin for WordPress that creates a new widget to display your user profile and latest tweets. Let your visitors and users know who is behind your site or give a quick explanation about what your site is and what it can do for your users.

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Themes With Authors Profile

Primefolio – WordPress Theme

This is a minimalistic yet feature rich wordpress theme. The theme packs in features like custom post types, taxonomies, custom templates, filterable portfolio, built in contact page, shortcodes, theme options etc. More features of the theme are listed below.
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The Novelist: Responsive WP Theme for Writers

This theme is built for the serious writers looking to showcase their talents. ‘The Novelist’ is a premier RESPONSIVE portfolio theme for authors and/or copy writers. Content is king people.

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Reviewer – WP Theme for Entertainment Reviews

Reviewer is a WordPress theme built for one purpose: writing reviews. Whether it’s reviews for movies or TV shows, Reviewer can handle it.

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Synoptic Premium WordPress Template

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Just like WordPress, HTML5 is becoming more and more popular everyday. Website powered by WordPress Themes and plugins which are based on HTML5 are more compelling. All modern browsers have already started implementing HTML5 features but some browsers have limited support for all HTML5 tags.

If you want to learn everything you need to know about HTML and HTML5 and how to use it with this highly informative video based course at “HTML & HTML5 Crash Course” and “Introducing the HTML5 video element.

Today we are compiling a list of best Premium HTML5 WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins with HTML5 fallback.

WordPress Plugins with HTML5 fallback

Degradable HTML5 audio and video

Embed video and audio on your website using shortcodes. The plugin enables HTML5 native playback for users with compatible browsers while offering an elegant degradation to other users through very lightweight Flash players. For HTML5 playback, it auto-detects and offers different alternatives, or degrades to Flash, and (failing even that) to download links.

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CCSlider WP – 3d/2d Slideshow WordPress Plugin

CCSlider WP makes it easy to embed the CCSlider jQuery slideshow plugin in your WordPress theme. CCSlider is an unique slideshow plugin because of the fact that it supports 3d transitions! There are 10 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 10 stylish 2d transitions. You have the option for mentioning a 2d transition fallback for old browsers that don’t support HTML5 Canvas, which is used for producing the 3d transitions. The plugin also supports HTML captions and autoplay of slides. See below for a list of features available in the plugin.

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CCSlider – jQuery 3d Slideshow Plugin

CCSlider is an unique jQuery slideshow plugin. It supports 3d transitions! There are 10 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 10 stylish 2d transitions. You have the option for mentioning a 2d transition fallback for old browsers that don’t support HTML5 Canvas, which is used for producing the 3d transitions. The plugin also supports HTML captions and autoplay of slides. See below for a list of features available in the plugin.

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Ultimate DJ Manager – WordPress plugin

Ultimate DJ Manager is a “Must-Have” wordpress plugin for DJs and producers. The plugin comes with 3 outstanding Applications: Soundcloud Player, MP3 -Player in Flash with HTML5 fallback and a Gigs Scheduler.
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Route Planner for WordPress

This plugin enables you to insert Google Maps widgets into your posts and pages, and by utilizing the Directions API , lets your user find directions to you (or any other address). Built on the 5 star rated jQuery Route Planner plugin!

Features

• Let your customers or friends find you easily thanks to Google Maps!
• Leverage HTML5 GeoLocation. Users with a compatible browser or device don’t even have to type in their address. This plugin finds their location!
• Works in both posts and pages
• Custom TinyMCE shortcode plugin lets you easily insert the widget.
• Easily customizable! Want other labels, miles or kilometers or other modes of transportation? No problem at all!
• Works great on iOS and Android!

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Chop Slider 2 WordPress Plugin

Chop Slider uses full power of CSS3 animation (2D and 3D transform transitions), has own CSS3 2D Transforms and 3D Transforms support detection and works a little bit different (but still awesome) in old (and Internet Explorer) browsers.

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Video Gallery WordPress Plugin /w YouTube, Vimeo

1. Three skins for you to choose from. So now it can fit perfectly in your site design.
2. A custom admin panel prepared for the gallery. Feeds from self hosted videos, videos hosted on s3 amazon, youtube, vimeo, images, vimeo or even audio ( so it’s a media gallery )
3. Has html5 functionality so that it can display on iPhone / iPad.
4. Cross-browser compatible. Works on every major browser.

Features

• easy install – purchase, download the zip, access your WordPress Admin Menu > Plugins > Add New > Upload zip and that’s all! Go to Settings > Zoom Video Gallery and start adding videos.
• three skins – choose from Complete or Light skin for every gallery you setup
• iPhone/iPad compatible – this plugin generates html5 videos if the visitor is on an iToy
• full of choices – set up the gallery just by inputing your YouTube user/playlist in the ‘feed’ tag of the xml file. all descriptions/titles/thumbs/videos will be feeded directly from YouTube so you won’t need to write anything other then that
• hybrid – it can be a video player / example in the preview

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Youtube SEO playlist for WordPress

Allows you to turn an unordered list of YouTube links into a video playlist. The php script makes the youtube list on a fly and uses the latest Gdata Api v2. You can choose to make a video playlist with keywords, userchannel or a regular youtube playlist. There are many options which can be set in the php script and in the jQuery function. Includes the new html5 youtube player option. This is the only youtube script available with search engine optimalisation (SEO) Almost drag and drop.

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Best HTML5 WordPress Themes

Visual HTML5 WordPress Theme

Visual is designed for people who love a clean design and functionality. It’s built on a solid modular framework and it comes with a custom set of Widgets which allow you to build your own layout.

Visual comes with a modular structure, which means you can customize the whole theme as you wish. The homepage is really flexible, you may choose to use or remove the homepage slider, the message board, center and footer areas etc..

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Nitro Modular HTML5 WordPress Theme

Nitro is a Modular HTML5 Theme for WordPress. It’s built on a solid Grid System Framework, the modular design gives you a full control on the theme layout. Homepage, Columns, Sidebars and Widget areas are designed to make this product really flexible and easy to use.
Nitro has a modular structure, which means you can customize the whole theme as you wish.

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Daydream – A Modern WordPress Theme

Daydream is an extremely variegated WordPress theme packed with many great features all accessible trough an incredibly easy and cool Control Panel. It comes in 15 colors and 25 (and growing) patterns to give even more personality to your website.
It was coded using the latest technologies: HTML5 and CSS3 , and also supports new HTML5 features like the video tag.

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Mingle – Multi-purpose WordPress Theme

The theme uses HTML5 and CSS3 to create advanced styles using the latest technologies. Proper heading tags and coding standards are used to ensure outstanding search engine optimization. We take pride in creating well formatted and easily managed code.

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Salutation: WordPress + BuddyPress Theme

Salutation is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme. If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it’s a social network plugin for WordPress allowing your website to become a fully functional community portal. BuddyPress lets your users interract through groups, forums, friends, status updates, private messaging and a lot more.

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Studio Zen Fullscreen Portfolio WordPress Theme

Studio Zen is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists.
Features Fullscreen slideshows with audio. Video fullscreen playback fro Vimeo, Flash, Youtube and HTML5 videos.
Fullscreen Focus view toggle clears other elements for best view of fullscreen slideshows.
Portfolio includes a Horizontal Slide scroller with captions support, and Galleria slideshows, both placed on background images with focus view toggle.
A transparent fullscreen template where slideshow shortcodes and thumbnail galleries can be displayed nicely. Portfolio Galleria slideshow is currently generated by this template.
Post formats ( Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image, Gallery )
Custom Widgets ( address, social icons, flickr, gallery, twitter, recent posts, popular posts )
Internationalized ( localize with your language .po .mo files included )

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Free HTML5 WordPress Themes

HTML5Press

HTML5Press lives here. HTML5Press is a WordPress theme based on the HTML5 template by Jesper.

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TwentyTen Five

Upgrade WordPress to HTML5! Download and install TwentyTen Five, or use it as a framework for your own HTML5 themes. It’s FREE!

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HTML-ified TwnetyTen

So we all know WordPress 3.0 ships with a shiny new theme called Twenty Ten. You probably also know that this theme is “HTML5″ ready. What does that mean? Not much. Basically that the code validates and the doctype is the new HTML5 doctype. No <header>, <footer>, <asides>, etc to be found (understandably). So I decided to take the theme and make it as HTML5-ified as possible.

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Toolbox

A semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of super-clean templates for your own WordPress theme development.

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Spectacular

A free WordPress theme that aims to provide a warm and pleasurable atmosphere for personal musings and ramblings. The theme comes in two flavors: HTML 4.01 and HTML5.

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Euclides

Euclides is the perfect theme for those who write tutorials online. While they concentrate on web developers, anyone can use this theme. By the way, Euclides is a free WordPress theme?

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H5 WordPress Theme

In an effort to inspire more WordPress theme designers to embrace HTML5, Digging into WordPress releasing the “H5” Theme Template. The H5 Theme Template is a bare-bones WordPress theme built entirely with HTML 5 and styled with CSS 2.1. As you may know, HTML 5 provides greater flexibility and interoperability than previous markup languages, and enables us to build well-structured themes that are more flexible, interactive, and semantically precise.

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H5 WordPress Theme

Starkers HTML5 is now available on GitHub, you can now download it, fork it, change it, basically do whatever you want to do with it.

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The Travel Theme

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Free Dream

A theme presented by Dreamweaver Gratuit. FreeDream is a clean and simple theme using HTML5 and CSS3 properties. This theme works fine on every current versions of MSIE (6, 7 and 8), Firefox and Safari.

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Roots Theme

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS (or 960.gs) and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.

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Handcrafted WP Starter Theme

Handcrafted WP is a starter theme built for WordPress developers who are doing more than building blogs. The theme is based on Ian Stewart’s Toolbox Starter theme and Paul Irish & Divya Manian’sHTML5 Boilerplate plus some other awesome features based off our years of experience. This is not a framework, but an almost-naked starter theme that gives you a rock solid starting point for crafting a serious website on the WordPress platform.

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Constellation Theme

The Constellation Theme is an assemblage of awesome resources, put together to form an extremely flexible WordPress foundation.

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Brave New World WordPress Theme

The theme is free of layout and styling beyond a modified version of Eric Meyer’s reset CSS and a baseline typography. Just like Elliot Jay Stock’s Starkers theme this is a base theme free from cruft yet incorporates HTML5, WAI-ARIA landmark roles and hCard andhAtom microformats.

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HTML5 WordPress Shell

HTML5 Features
modernizr (html5 feature detection). HTML5 reset stylesheet. A well thought out HTML5 document outline which is good for SEO and Accessibility @font-face examples

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HTML5 Reset WordPress Theme

With the assistance of Digging Into WordPress and their BLANK WordPress Theme,

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Thematic HTML5 Boilerplate

A Thematic theme for WordPress using the goodness of HTML5 Boilerplate.

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Orange Flower

Light WordPress theme based on HTML5. Has an options, like a position of a main layout and a position of a sidebars.

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JustCSS

Pure HTML5 theme with custom colours using css3. This theme is child-theme ready and supports WordPress 3.2, including support for aside and gallery post-formats.

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Platform

Platform is an drag-and-drop theme-design framework for WordPress and HTML5. It will help you do amazing things with your site, faster & easier than ever before. Designed and developed by PageLines in California.

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Grey

Grey: A New Free HTML5/CSS3 WordPress Theme

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Twighlight

ThemeInspire is here to help you update your website with stunning, professional themes.

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Temple Gate

The design of Temple Gate is inspired by the spirituality and simplicity of Japanese Temple Gate.

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Yoko WordPress Theme

Yoko is a modern three-column blog theme. A responsive layout optimizes the theme for mobile devices like tablet pcs and smartphones (the layout switches to a two- or one-column layout depending on the screen size the theme is viewed on).

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Do inform by commenting if you know any other HTML5 WordPress theme and Plugin that we’re missing.

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WordPress is very strong platform to publish and promote your thinking by powering blog and Website on it. No one commenting on your blog posts? Get the conversation start giving the option to readers to comment with an account they’ve already set up, then you will be much more likely to get some interaction.

There are 3rd party commenting systems like eComments – easy commenting system, Disqus, IntenseDebate, Livefyre, Automatic Comments, Facebook Premium Client Application, along with others that work cross-platform regardless of what programming language or scripts your site is based on.

Today, I’m going to compile a list of the most commonly used (by bloggers and site owners) WordPress Plugins and 3rd party commenting and discussion systems, along with their key features and a couple of useful links for your reference.

Best 3rd Party Commenting Systems and WordPress Plugins

Comments Plus

Let your readers choose to comment via Facebook, Twitter, Google or regular old WordPress – developed for WPMU.org, now available for you!

Here are some cool features:

• This plugin effectively allows you to combine comments from all these different services, rather than picking just one
• If users choose Facebook or Twitter, comments are by default posted to their own accounts, extra exposure for you!
• Fully integrated with subscribe by email with Facebook and Google
• Works beautifully with any theme (and if you have any issues we’ll sort you right up!)

Useful Comments Plus Related Links:

• Comments on Your WordPress Site with Comments Plus
• Comment Using Their Facebook, Twitter, Google or WordPress IDs

Automatic Comments – Get the conversation started!

No one commenting on your blog posts? Get the conversation started with the Auto Comment plugin. Auto Comment automatically posts a comment on every new blog like: “Did anyone else see this?”, “Who has experience with this?”, “Has anyone tried this?”, etc.

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Facebook Plugins, Comments & Dialogs for WordPress

This Facebook Plugins for WordPress is the ultimate and most advanced plugin to integrate Facebook Plugins, Dialogs and Facebook comments into your blog or website. It’s using WordPress shortcodes to make it very simple to add a Facebook plugin or dialog into any blog post or page. The plugins also comes with 4 widgets ready to be customized + a way to automatically add a Like button and/or the Facebook comment system into all your posts and pages.

Features

• 7 Facebook plugins that can be integrated with one line of code.
• 2 dialogs using native Facebook popups.
• Shortcode support for all the plugins and dialogs.
• 4 widgets ready to be customized.
• Automatically add a Like Button to all your posts or pages.
• Automatically integrate Facebook comment to all posts and pages.
• Easy way to customize the look and options of the plugins.
• A way to disable the WordPress default comments.
• Rich documentation and each shortcode option is documented.
• Compatible with the Facebook WPress for WordPress.

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Disqus (dis·cuss • dï-sküs’)

Disqus is the most used comment management system amongst bloggers and website owners. Integrating Disqus with your website and blog can be fairly simple. After signed up with Disqus, Under Admin, Click on Tools and go to the Import / Export section to find out more instructions on how to import your existing comments from various platforms (WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type, or other commenting systems) to Disqus.

Disqus mobile friendly:

Are you really attached to your phone? Our suite of mobile apps is the perfect fix if you’re looking to manage your community on the go. Moderate, reply, search, and manage straight from your iPhone, Android, or webOS phone!

Disqus features:

• Compatible with search engines, in another word – SEO friendly.
• Integrates with Akismet.
• Allows commenters to post as guest, or login via OpenID or social networks IDs (Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo).
• Allows user to flag comments.
• Easy comment moderation via admin panels.
• Supports blacklist/ whitelist and word filtering.
• Allows site owner to display Tweets and other reactions.

Disqus: Useful Links:

• Disqus official website | Sign up
• Disqus features
• Disqus blog
• Disqus premium
• Disqus demo
• Disqus for users
• Disqus for developers

IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate is a feature-rich comment system for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and many other blogging/CMS platforms.  IntenseDebate is an Automattic product, the same guys who brought you WordPress, PollDaddy, Akismet and other cool web services.

 IntenseDebate features:

• Supports numerous widgets to show off your comment stats, most recent comments, most popular comments and top commenters.
• Allows users to login via OpenID, Twitter, Facebook or even WordPress.com ID.
• Developers can take advantage of the Plugins API to make commenting and discussion even more interesting. E.g., adding PollDaddy polls, embedding YouTube Videos, etc.

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Just like Facebook, Twitter is one of the most popular social networking website. Although Twitter is not a new thing but this compiled list is for new bloggers as well business owners can get lot of information to boost their business online. All bloggers and website owners paying special attention on Twitter to promote and share stuffs with their friends.
In this list, Copyblogger have collected a fairly valuable links of killer resources along the way, which definitely help you to start marketing your business on Twitter.

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After reading the resources, hope you want to enhance the Twitter experience with your website specially if you website or blog running on WordPress. Following are the premium plugins which help you to get more traffic by using Twitter applications.

Twitter WPress Premium Plugin for WordPress

The Twitter WPress for WordPress enables you to use the power of the Twitter API , on your own WordPress blog. Integrate the Twitter connect, the signup process using Twitter. Store your users Twitter tokens and update their timeline later. Display Twitter widgets and buttons with powerfull shortcodes. Display Twitter friends and followers using the built-in widgets. Open you WordPress to the Twitter API !

Features

•  Enables users to connect with their Twitter account.
•  Enables users to create a WordPress account using their Twitter credentials.
•  Enables you to link a Twitter account to your WordPress first admin user.
•  Store the Twitter users tokens into the database.
•  Ability to post updates to your users Twitter timeline (even if they are logged out).
•  4 widgets ready to be used (one for the Twitter connect, one to display Twitter friends, one to display the Twitter followers and one to display the last connected users).
•  You can customize how many users are displayed in the widgets.
•  Ability to display the Twitter connect button wherever you want in your theme(by adding a small PHP code provided in the documentation).
•  Caching of Twitter API calls (set to 2 minutes).

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Twitter Mobile Web Application

This is a native Web Mobile Twitter application. It works like a Twitter client and contains all the Twitter connect functionalities. It enables the users to view their Twitter timeline, @Mentions, Tweets and favorite tweets. It also gives the ability to users to update their Twitter status without leaving the app.

Features

•  Powered by jQuery Mobile Framework.
•  Uses AJAX to load the content, without reloading the page.
•  Display user’s timeline, tweets, favorites and mentions.
•  More button to dynamically load more tweets.
•  Ability to update Twitter status.
•  Status automatic counter.
•  Works on major Mobile devices (including iPhone, iPad, Android).
•  Setup in less than 2 minutes and you get your own Twitter Mobile app.

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Twitter Widget Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for WordPress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

The Long Awaited Premium Twitter Plugin

• Ready to use out of the box
• The only premium Multiple User twitter plugin
• Include twitter avatars, names, times, and more in the options page!
• Automatically links hashtags, twitter users, and links
• Caching support, both via wp_cache_set and via database options
• Graceful crashing support in case, heaven forbig, twitter goes down
• In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
• Ridiculously easy to use – install it in mere minutes (and that’s being generous!

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Twitter Feed – iOS XCode Project

Twitter Feed is an iOS XCode project which illustrates the versatility of utilizing the built in URL request objects along with the XML parsing objects to perform GET transactions against the Twitter API in order to allow for retrieval of Tweets from a user’s timeline.

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Powerful Exchange System

This script is an powerful exchange system for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google and Web Traffic and many features!

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TweetSearch – Twitter Search Plugin for WordPress

Premium WordPress plugin for displaying Twitter search results in your posts, pages and widgets.

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Twitter Statistics Suite

Twitter Statistics Suite lists exactly who has started following or unfollowing you, and who you have started following or unfollowing in the past 24 hours. Each user is displayed with their avatar and their username, with only 1 click away from their Twitter.com profile.

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Twitter Updates Widget for WordPress

With this widget, you can show your latest tweets on your website. Create your own widget with its great customizability.

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Sociology for WordPress: Twitter/Facebook Poster

Broadcast your posts to Twitter and Facebook directly from the WordPress post page.
- Automatically post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your post.
- Checks for already-published status.
- Select which or both social networks to post to on the post page.
- Bit.ly support with custom credentials.
- Custom Twitter and Facebook credentials.

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Send or Schedule Facebook & Twitter Status Updates

You will find in the package the WP integration package. Now you can use tuitting on WordPress, having the very same features, but completely integrated with your WordPress Theme and working with all the WordPress features!

What is tuitting?

tuitting is an extremely powerful tool, completely powered with AJAX and PHP . It gives to each member of your Website the possibility to immediately Send or Schedule Unlimited Status Updates for Unlimited Facebook Accounts, Facebook Pages and Twitter Accounts.

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Twitter Ultimate-Wordpress Plugin

Twitter Ultimate – A WordPress Plugin offer following features
Realtime Twitter Feed-Live Tweets
Shortcodes
Shortcodes which helps to embed directly into page or post
Multiple instances
You can have multiple instances of twitter ultimate feed
Multiple Query/Username Options
You can display tweets from multiple queries or usernames
Two types of search
You can either display tweets from usernames or tweets mentioning a word
Autoplay On/Off
Realtime incoming tweets can be disabled/enabled on load
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Twitter Support Tickets

Twitter Support grabs incoming tweets to your account and organises them based their status, such as ‘Active’, ‘On Hold’, ‘Spam’ and ‘Closed.’ This app is primary for those who run a Twitter support account for their business and offers a simple method of management, so that it ensures everyone gets a speedy response. When you reply to a customer’s tweet it automatically marks it as been dealt with, so you won’t have to sift through masses of tweets to make sure you’ve replied to them all.

Features:

• Secure, password protected single user log in
• Active tweets are refreshed every 60 seconds in the background and are added to the list, so need to to manually refresh.
• Counters displaying how many tweets are in each category
• Settings control. Ability to edit admin username and password, Twitter username and password without editing configuration files.
• Settings control to choose to ignore ReTweets (ie: RT @twittername)
• Ability to post a custom status to Twitter (without it being a reply to a customer)
• Automatic link generation – Displays click-able links in each tweet.
• Logout feature

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The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Marketing

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There are many ways to run online business. If you have plans to make some money online, WordPress so for a best platform for small business owners specially if you are a freelancer. The big edge of running a website on WordPress is that you can extend the functionality of WordPress to grow your business independently. So let us check the few important and innovative plugins of invoicing systtem to manage client and making money from your website.

Online Invoicing System Powered by WordPress

If you are a Freelancer, With WordPress powered website you can run a fully-featured invoicing system by enhancing WordPress functionality  that allows you to send itemized bills to your clients and integrate with payment gateways like Google Checkout, Authorize.net or PayPal. You can read all about Best Online Invoicing and Billing Tools for Web Designers on this link and I am compiling a list of the WordPress plugins for invoicing systems.

Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E-Commerce

Friendly Manual Order Processing for WP E -Commerce provides an easy-to-use and flexible way for you or your client to process orders directly from the WordPress back end without having to go through the payment process necessary on the front end of the site.

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WP-Invoice – Web Invoice and Billing

WP-Invoice is a plugin from TwinCitiesTech that lets you create invoices right in your WordPress Administration screen. WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.

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WordPress 3 Invoices

Wp3i is a WordPress plugin to manage invoices for freelance web designers / developers.

• Create and track your invoices and quotes
• Send stylish invoices to clients via HTML email.
• Create a custom php templates for invoices, quotes and HTML emails
• invoice templates use native WordPress code to make life easy
• See live statistics of your income
• Well designed interface
• Customise Currency, tax and more
• Completely FREE!
• Supports I18n
• Pay online though PayPal

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CollabPress

CollabPress adds project and task management functionality to WordPress. Easily create projects and assign tasks to users.

Features include:

• Unlimited projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
• Easily edit/delete projects, task lists, tasks, and comments
• Front-end shortcode support
• BuddyPress group integration
• File upload on projects, task lists, task, and comments
• Email notifications for new tasks and comments
• Task due dates with a calendar view
• Uses built-in WordPress user accounts
• Activity log tracking all activity

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Technical Support

If you’re a freelancer, a web design agency or simply a WordPress consultant, Technical Support for WordPress is a way to provide quality support to your clients. After setting up a WordPress powered website for your client, install the Technical Support plugin, which will enhance your client’s Dashboard with a new widget for submitting support tickets directly to your e-mail.

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FV Testimonials

FV Testimonials brings you easy management of your testimonials.

• Easy to use and configured straight out of the box
• Takes extensive care on testimonials images, resizes them to correct user-defined size
• Easy embedding of testimonials everywhere on site
• Requires almost no installation (just copy and activate)
• Doesn’t create database overage (just a single additional query on a page with testimonials)

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Advanced Client Portal

Advanced client portal allows you to centralize all of your interactions with clients by combining client management and invoice management.

Features:

• Create multiple projects per client, upload documents, media, links, and post messages
• Create professional invoices for clients.
• Download PDF versions of invoices.
• Messaging system allows general conversations, as well as conversations specific to a project, document, or invoice.
• Inline media player via flowplayer.
• Projects can be organized by phase.
• Email notifications for account activity (messages, documents, invoices, etc)
• Security via sophisticated authentication system that also protects files. No one will be able to access a document or file not associated with their account.
• Create multiple administrators.
• Comes with an easy to use installation wizard.
• Built using an MVC architechture making it easily extensible.

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eInvoice

eInvoice is a invoice generate system, with html & pdf format. easy to email to client. Nice template with easy to print out. You can also create your own template. just use two line, you can create your own invoice.
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Invoice Design Examples

Design by Chase holdsnowaterv

 Cameron McEfee

Microspective

Stereotypes

Veerle Pieters for Devia

Ole Martin Buene

 Impulse Studios

Sugar Rush Creative

Yummygum

I would love to hear feedback from people who rely on WordPress to run their business.

Other References and Resources:

20 Invoicing Tools for Web Designers
Freelancing with WordPress: The Future of Invoicing with WordPress
blog post about WP-FreeLance
Free WordPress Plugins and Themes that are Perfect for Freelancers
an easy Online Invoicing System or Invoicing Software Solution
Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices

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