If you are a WordPress user, then this is certainly good news. Artsy Editor, a new WordPress plug-in, helps you get a distraction-free environment while blogging. This plug-in helps bloggers post their blogs easily and quickly. It promises to take just half the time when compared to posting blogs without this plug-in.

Some of the interesting features of Artsy Editor includes:

• Customizing the look and feel of the user interface. Changing background colours, fonts or font sizes all made easy.
• Formatting text is simple, selecting text automatically brings up the formatting options in a box that fade ones the text is unselected.
• Automatic word and character count is enabled helping writers to keep track of how much is being written.
• Images can be placed easily using drag and drop options.
• Overlays are removed to make editing content easy.

As a HTML-intensive blogger, this may not be the most effective plug-in to have. However, on the other hand if you, as a blogger, like to post long blogs with little HTML requirements, then this plug-in certainly provides a enhanced and more effective experience to blogging.

Needless to say, all good things come with a price. The WordPress plug-ins premium version is priced at $19. It is important to note that this is certainly a reasonable price for the kind of features it offers.

Download Artsy Editor

WordPress is most commonly use blogging platform that it used beyond the limit of blogs to the extend of CMS. Many highly traffic sites and e-commerce site use wordpress as in back end. Many times we need to monitor the server load and SQL queries running in wordpress in order to maintain the smoothness of websites. We know that poor and damaged performance is due to poorly designed database or SQL queries (for example, when the table does not have indices that the query can use or when the query uses unnecessary performance killers such as ORDER BY/GROUP BY).

If you are not familiar then i will also recommend you 13 useful wordPress SQL queries you wish you knew earlier and  top five WordPress SQL queries.

How to monitor the SQL queries in WordPress Blog

SQL Monitor is the WordPress plugin for developers, theme designers and site administrators who wants to track and resolve the quality and performance for site.

Note:  SQL Monitor is incompatible with plugins that install their own db.php into wp-content directory (DB Cache, DB Cache Reloaded, probably W3 Total Cache).

WordPress is a high-tech open source publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, usability and high web standards. You can name this blog tool as free and priceless, which helps you work with blogging and not fight it. Apart from that there are many themes and plugins that help you plug and play with your blog/website. At Techprone we already saw few excellent WordPress plugins for Twitter and best plugins for adsense. Now this time we will share Top 10 Latest WordPress Plugins Worth Trying that will just augment your love the giant!

1. WP-SynHighlight

Plugin provides syntax highlighting in posts and comments.

• Full GUI mode. No need to switch to code mode and back like in some other plugins
• GUI editor with realtime syntax highligting support integrated (can be disable in settings)
• GUI button to help with highlighting options. No need to memorize them!
• Blog-wide default settings for code highlighting. Now you can change the look of all your posts at once!
• Many options to customize code highlighting (almost full Geshi set)

2. Revisionary

Have you ever wanted to allow certain users to submit changes to published content, with an editor reviewing those changes before publication? Doesn’t it seem like setting a published post/page to a future date should schedule your changes to be published on that date, instead of unpublishing it until that date? Revisionary enables moderated editing of currently published posts or pages. Contributors also gain the ability to submit revisions to their own published content. These changes, if approved by an Editor, can be published immediately or scheduled for future publication.

Partial Feature List

• Pending Revisions allow designated users to suggest changes to a currently published post/page
• Scheduled Revisions allow you to specify future changes to published content (either via Pending Revision approval or directly by fully qualified author/editor)
• Enchanced Revision Management Form
• Front-end preview display of Pending / Scheduled Revisions with “Publish Now” link
• New WordPress role, “Revisor” is a moderated Editor
• Works with blog-wide WordPress Roles, or in conjunction with Role Scoper

3. Web Worth Blog Value Calculator

Web Worth Blog Value Calculator 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 – Why not show this cool statistic off? This widget is dynamically updated when the sites value is updated at Web Worth. The site must be valued at Web Worth before it will show a value in dollars otherwise you will just see a VALUATE NOW warning.

4. All in One Webmaster

If you are a webmaster then you probably know Google Webmaster Tool. Both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With them you can check how your site is indexed (Webmaster Tool), get detailed statistics (Analytics Tool), earn money (Google AdSense) and more.

This plugin allows you to easily integrate them with your blog. It has option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code. Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask. In addition to that it has option to add tracking code for Clicky, 103Bees analytics!! Site-Verification-Option, Google XML sitemap submission. There are more to come in next releases. Stay tuned.

Features

• NEW: Updates the Asynchronous Tracking snippet to the latest version provided by Google
• getClicky.com analytics option added
• 103Bees.com analytics option added
• XML Sitemap submission to Google.com, Yahoo.com and Ask.com
• Warning/Success/Failure messages added
• Option to add Google, Bing, Yahoo Webmaster Meta-Tag
• Option to add Google Analytics code

5. Login With Ajax

Login With Ajax is for sites that need user logins and would like to avoid the normal wordpress login, this plugin adds the capability of placing a login widget in the sidebar with smooth AJAX login effects.

Some of the features:

• Login without refreshing your screen using AJAX calls.
• Password retrieval now available within the widget.
• Compatible with WordPress, WordPress MU and BuddyPress.
• Will work with forced SSL logins.
• Customizable, upgrade-safe widgets.
• Redirect users to custom URLs on Login and Logout
• Redirect users with different roles to custom URLs
• shortcode and template tags available
• Fallback mechanism, will still work on javascript-disabled browsers
• Widget specific option to show link to profile page

6. Group Document

Group Documents creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload and store documents. Documents can be edited and deleted either by the document owner or by the group administrator. Document activity is logged in the main activity stream, and is also tied to the user and group activity streams. The site administrator can set filters on file extensions, and users and moderators can receive email notifications at their option. There is also a “Recent Uploads” widget than can be used to show any number of recently uploaded documents.

7. WP Content Slideshow

WP Content Slideshow shows up to 5 Posts in a very nice and powerfull Javascript Slideshow. On the left side of the Slideshow it displays a Image for every Post. On the right side, there are all the Titles (and a small description under the Title) of the Posts. The Slideshow highlights the active Post and repeats automatically after getting to the 5th Post. You have a powerfull Administration Area to adjust the Category, the number of Posts, the width and height, and many colours for the Slideshow!

• Titles and small description
• Navigation possibility (when hitting a Title the Image appears)
• Image for every different Post
• Powerfull Administration for Posts and Styles of the Slideshow
• Javascript Effects between different Posts

8. Online Leaf

Online Leaf is a project started to help the Internet become greener, and through this plugin, it has been made easy for WordPress users to get a Green Website as well. Online Leaf is a project started to help the Internet become greener, and through this plugin, it has been made easy for WordPress users to get a Green Website as well.

Online Leaf aims to reduce the overall CO2 emissions from displaying websites, without any loss of visitor experience. You can still use visual effects, animations and heavy graphics to improve your website’s overall quality, since the standby engine does not conflict with any of those (as it is only activated when your visitors are inactive). The only change is that your blog will be a Green Website and help in making the web a much greener place to surf.

9. Multiple Content Blocks

With this plug-in, you can use more than one content “block” on a template. You only have to insert one tag inside the template, so its easy to use. When you make a WordPress template, you can show the content of the current page by using the code the_content();, but when you have (for example) several columns, you cannot split these in different content “blocks”.

10. Short URL Plugin

Short URL allows you to create shorter URL’s and keeps track of how many times a link has been clicked. It’s useful for managing downloads, keeping track of outbound links and for masking URL’s. Clicking the Clear All Clicks button will reset the count for each entry. Visit the plugin page for more information about this plugin.

Version 2.7.1 includes pagination of links, easier setup of htaccess (permalinks) and allows admins to pass variables to their redirects. It also allows customisation of the permalink so you’re no longer limited to /u/23.

Modify u.php if you’d like a custom message when a redirect is not found.

I hope this article was useful to you and feel free to share your experience working with above wordpress plugins!

This post is dedicated for those who are into writing any tutorials or posts on particular categories and wants to drag all the posts into a consecutive series of articles.

Organize Series WordPress Plugin is the solutions to all your queries. It helps in managing and organizing the series of posts on the basis of  taxonomy.

Screen Shot of Organize Series Plugin Options

Managing the twitter together with WordPress blogs is an efficient way to land into social media. You can manage your WordPress blogs together with Twitter upto any extent with the helps of below listed WordPress plugins.

1. Topical Tweets Topical Tweets enables the display of Twitter Updates in your blog for a specific query
2. Tweetable Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar, etc.
3. Advanced Twitter Widget Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget.
4. Gigya Socialize – Increase Registration and Engagement using Facebook Connect, Twitter and OpenID

Increase your site registration and Engagement using Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter and OpenID.

5. Tweelow Plugin Simple plugin that displays count of your twitter followers.
6. Twitter LiveBlog

Twitter LiveBlog is a plugin that lets you liveblog on your WordPress blog using Twitter.

7. Twimp-wp

Publish blog posts to multiple twitter accounts.

8. Twit Connect

Integrate Twitter and WordPress. Provides single-signon and avatars. Changes in Version 1.11 – Bug fix for missing ‘=’ in login code.

9. Pretty Link Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Create short links suitable for Twitter using your own domain name!
10. dB Twtpoll This plugins adds a shortcode for embedding polls from Twtpoll really easy.
11. Twitter real time search scrolling This plug-in will scroll the most recent twittered contents based on the entered search word. Enter search word and see the live content in side bar.
12. WordPress Dashboard Twitter The most creative name **WordPress Dashboard Twitter** in fact represents a Dashboard Widget for WordPress, that turns your Dashboard into a Twitter
13. Twitter News Feed Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hashtags and then adds them as post
14. Buzzom Badge This plugin let’s you display a small badge which shows your Buzzom profile.
15. WP-TwitterSearch Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
16. Twitter Tools – Google Analytics Tagger Tag all your URL’s posted to twitter with Google Analytics tags using Twitter Tools
17. WP to Twitter Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using the Cligs URL shortening service.
18. Twire This plugin will bring Twitter functionality to your buddypress installation. You must have 2 things: 1. WordPress MU, 2. Buddy Press
19. Twitter Bubble A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble, suitable for wide sidebars.
20. Lifestream Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.
21. Easy Retweet Adds a Retweet button to your WordPress posts
22. Twitter Blog Tweets your post, then captures tweets replying to that tweet and converts them to comments.
23. Feed2tweet Feed2tweet plugins allows you to publish your new posts to your twitter account.
24. Zipli-Retweet Adds a retweet button to all WordPress posts in your blog and update your twitter account with post from your blog.
25. Twitter Friendly Links Your very own TinyURL within your OWN domain! If you DO promote your blog posts in Twitter, then you MUST make your links look cool!
26. Twitter Followers Display your Twitter followers or people you are following in your sidebar.
27. Twitter Friends Widget

Displays your Twitter friends with their profile images in the sidebar.

28. TweetMeme Button

Adds the TweetMeme button into your posts and RSS feed.

29. TwitPic

Displays your latest pictures from TwitPic in the sidebar of your blog. The plugin is widget ready and comes with many configuration options!

30. Make Me Social

The “Make Me Social” wordpress plugin send each new post you make to the most famous social services.

31. Twitter Publisher Share a new blog post on Twitter using awe.sm or bit.ly url shorteners.
32. Twitter Tools Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
33. Lock a Blog

This plugin allows you block content wordpress post for underage readers.

34. Twitter Links Plus+

Checks Twitter usernames mentioned in the content and in the comments (eg. @tquizzle) with the Twitter service to see if that user is indeed a Twitter

35. Twitpost

A plugin that posts a short blurb on your Twitter page linking to a post you’ve recently published.

36. Comenta WP

Publish all your comments directly to a twitter account. You can customize the message published.

37. Capture the Conversation

What are people saying about your post, right now?

38. Twitter To Wire

This plugin will allow your twits to be automatically added to your Buddy Press wire. You must have 2 things: 1. WordPress MU, 2. Buddy Press

39. TweetScribe

TweetScribe plugin connects your WordPress blog with TweetScribe.me

40. PingPressFM

Allows you to spread your blog to 30+ social networks via ping.fm. Now with support for scheduled posts and custom triggers.

41. Wickett Twitter WidgetDisplay tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com.
42. Short URL Generator

This plugin automatically generates a Short URL for your article. You can choose your favorite provider and get multiple options.

43. Commentwitter Gives commenters the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.
44. Tweetly Updater

This plugin sends Twitter updates on new or edited posts, uses bit.ly.

45. TwitterSearch

TwitterSearch allows users to keep track of twitter search terms from within their wordpress dashboard.

46. Tracked Tweets

Posts are added to your twitter account. Tweet can be formatted. URL’s are shortened using Tinyurl or bit.ly, and Google Analytics tracking is added.

47. Thread Twitter

Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.

48. Tweet Cloud

Cloud of popular words and phrases from a user’s Twitter profile.

49. RF Twitter Post A simple plugin that will post to twitter whenever you add a new post to your wordpress blog.
50. Simple Twitter Link

Simple Twitter Link displays a link allowing Twitter users to update their status with a link back to your post or page.

51. TwitterPosts

This WordPress plugin automatically sends new posts of your blog to twitter as soon as they get published.

52. Twitter Digest

Creates a daily post containing tweets from a twitter account.

53. Social Media Manager

Manage & monitor your social media brand. Facebook, twitter, digg, youtube & tumblr. Post to multiple twitter accounts easy.

54. WP Quote Tweets

Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple shortcode. [quotetweet tweetid=123456789].

55. Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter Keeps your blog always fresh by regularly adding your latest and greatest content from FriendFeed or Twitter. No external passwords required!
56. Twitter Profile Field Adds an additional field to the user profile page where they can enter their Twitter username.
57. Twitter Tracker

Tracks Twitter search results or a Twitter hashtag in a sidebar widgets.

58. Social Links Sidebar

Social Links Sidebar is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites.

59. iTwitter Twitter plugin for WordPress. A useful plugin for those who uses Twitter.
60. Tweet Tweet Archive your Twitter conversions in your database, and use your free web texts to receive sms notifications.
61. Twitter Keywords

Add tweets about a certain word, in certain language and from a specific user on your sidebar

62. Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post, using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks.

63. TwitterCounter

Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter

64. Twittley button

This plugin will install the Twittley button for each of your blog posts in both the content of your posts and the RSS feed.

65. Twittrup

Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post utilizing an shortener service of your choice.

66. Tweet Blender

Adds Twitter sidebar widget and creates an archive page. Blends Twitter tweets for multiple screen names, hashtags and/or keywords into a single stream.

67. BackType Connect The BackType Connect WordPress plugin lets you show related conversations (from Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed & more) inline with your own comments.
68. The WordPress Bar Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your WordPress blog by creating a navigation bar for all external links outside of blog.
69. YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

Use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URL of your posts and tweet them.

I assumed that you know about one of the most brilliant WordPress Plugin, WP Super Cache, used to enhance the website / blog performance by increasing its loading time. If you doesn’t hear about it then on a simple note its functionality can be described as

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

Thanks to Donncha for creating this awesome plugin. Now the what’s the point of this blog post? This blog post aims toward the recent update in the WP Super Cache where it comes with new check list of Accepted Filenames & Rejected URIs. Initially we used to defined the manual file names with php extensions for the rejection of the caching but now it work even beyond that.

wp-.*\.php
index\.php

Now the check list comes with the options of Conditional Tags (Tags used to define the conditions of the contents in the templates). The main changes in the recent 0.9.6.1 updates are listed below:

1. Ability to move “not logged in” message init below check for POST.

2. Options to add is_admin() check so plugin definitely can’t cache the backend.

3. Options to add “do not cache” page type to admin page.

What is the benefits ?

Now the page which changes most like your home page , front page loads the recent updates and changes with any hassle of clearing the cache.

Recently Facebook launches the Facebook Connect APIs which provides the great functionalities like single sign-on, avatars, and News Feed publication of comments within your WordPress blogs. It is very simple to implement Facebook Connect with your WordPress blogs and here are the few simple steps to achieve it successfully.

Step 1

Download / Install and activate the best Facebook Connect plugin WP-FacebookConnect for WordPress. You can also Search WP-FacebookConnect from Plugins>Add New of your WordPress dashboard.

Step2

Implement the following changes in your comment.php files located under your current WordPress theme folder.

Open the file comment.php file and locate the following code:

<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

...

...

<div style="float:right;">
<?php do_action('fbc_display_login_button') ?>
</div>

Step3

Configure your Facebook Connect Plugin Options and enter the API Key and Secret Key generated from Facebook application registration page

The final button will look like below

How this plugin works?

Whenever a user wants to comments he need not any logins and just require a Facebook authentication. This works on the principle of WordPress login cookie which is set by the plugin as soon as the WordPress and Facebook accounts are linked and the Facebook user ID is verified. The best thing about the Facebook Connect is that users need not any registrations or require any forms filling as all the user with verification will be automatically logged into the blog.