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Finally You Can Add WordPress.Com’s Like Button In Your Self Hosted WordPress Blog

UPDATE: NOW JETPACK BY WORDPRESS.COM PLUGIN ALREADY PROVIDES YOU OFFICIAL WORDPRESS.COM LIKES MODULE SO THERE IS NO NEED OF USING THIS PLUGIN. 

You might have noticed a content like feature at the bottom of most WordPress.com’s blog posts. There is a “Like” button, which when clicked, displays a Gravatar image of the bloggers who liked that post. JetPack by WordPress doesn’t provide you with this feature but still you can have it for your self hosted WordPress blog.

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Encourage Comments By Rewarding Commenters To Build Backlinks More Effectively In Your WordPress Site

Reward your WordPress site commenters by automatically adding a link to their latest post at the end of the comment they have posted. It Encourages a community and discover new posts.

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Free Ultimate Mobile Pack Plugins For Your WordPress Site

Make your WordPress site mobile friendly so that your visitors from most popular mobile devices like iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 etc browse your site easily on their devices. Now no need to check each mobile plugin present in the WordPress Plugin Repository because here are the best plugins that convert your normal WordPress site in to a handset friendly site. Each plugin mentioned here has its own importance and unique features. If you also know about any cool mobile plugin for WordPress then feel free to mention it here.

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5 Best AuthorBox WordPress Plugins For Displaying Author’s Bio, Custom & Social Links After Posts

Author box plugins expands user profile page by adding social media fields and makes it easier for readers to follow author on social media networks. Here is a list of top 5 WordPress plugins for displaying Author Box after posts, pages, widget areas etc wherever you like. If you only want to add a perfect cool author box after your posts then try Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup or read this tutorial for knowing about more plugins providing different types of customization.

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Now Display Google’s Verified Authorship Using WordPress Plugin

In one of my post, I discussed about how you can display your image and Google+ profile link in Google’s search results using WordPress hack. Here also I am discussing the same but suggesting you a more easy option for that, yes you can do same by using a plugin now.

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How To Build Multilingual Websites With WordPress Multisite Install ?

Now it is much easier to build multilingual WordPress sites and run them with WordPress multisite install using Multilingual Press. You simply write your posts in your language and it automatically creates its duplication in the other sites and these new posts get interlinked and become easily accessible from the post/page editor screen – you can switch back and forth to translate them! Multilingual-Press is WordPress conform. This plugin doesn’t make any changes to the WordPress core and it doesn’t harm your website’s performance.

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Easiest Way For Displaying Ads In WordPress, Wherever You Like & Without Editing Any Theme File

There are many plugins in WordPress Plugin Repository that allows you to display Adsense and other ads in your blog but sometimes you like to display add on your header and footer areas, you install a plugin for that then you change your mind to sidebar and inside your post, you install another plugin and when you get tired of checking plugins one by one then you start editing your theme files but now reading this tutorial you can show ads anywhere you want in your blog without using any extra plugin and without editing and theme file.

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Best Dashboard Themes For Giving A New Look To Your WordPress Admin Area

If you are getting bored of default admin area interface of WordPress or you want to try new looks of WordPress dashboard then here are few good working dashboard themes. Mostly all dashboard themes comes in the form of plugin so you need to install them from Plugins-> Add New option in your dashboard.

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Easiest Way To Show Recent Posts From Selected Categories In WordPress

If you don’t want WordPress default recent posts widget to show all categories then try this widget plugin, using it you can show recent posts on your sidebar widget from selected categories.

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Minimalistic Administration Theme For Your WordPress Dashboard

Magazi Admin Theme is a a clean, minimalistic WordPress administration theme (visible in your WordPress Dashboard) quickly adds a CSS file to your administration area.

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How To Make External Links Automatically Open In New Tab In WordPress?

Twitter, Google, Blogger, Youtube, Facebook most of the famous networks excluding Hacker News make external links to open with a blank target. Opening links with target blank means the link opens on a new tab of your browser.

This leaves your page open and increases time on site so if you are tired of checking the box of ‘open link in new tab‘ or setting up target blank for each and every external link you add on your WordPress site then here is a quick solution for you.

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Indian Blogger Communities For Submitting Indian Blogs And Meeting New Bloggers

Blogging communities collect and categories your blog post links and serve it them who needs it, this way they drive traffic to your blog and you get better rank and more clicks. Using blogging communities you meet new bloggers with similar interest, you get comments and suggestions on your blog articles etc. There are many directories which list websites categorised as per country to country basis, I searched for them on Internet then read few articles showing on the top of search pages but I found that most of the lists they are showing are outdated and even the sites they are mentions are no more active on Internet, some sites are having very bad user interface. Then I decided to choose 3 cool Indian blogger communities for this post because they rank higher and are easy to use. If you are looking up for Global Communities then you should read This Article: Famous Blogging Communities For Promoting Your Blog And Meeting Other Bloggers.

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Best Of Firefox & Google Chrome Addons For Social Media Addicts

After reading many articles on other blogs and checking out many social media extensions for sharing my website’s content on different social networks, I have selected following top 10 extensions for Chrome and top 10 for Mozilla Firefox. Check them all if you are a social media addict and reply if you know about any better extension.

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Free Blog Publishing Services Takes Away Your Blogging Freedom, All Bloggers Deserve A Domain Name With A Self Hosted Blog

If the headline of this article makes you understand the importance of your own self hosted blog and a domain name then no need to read more, just click here. Else continue your reading.

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins For Managing Your Blog Comments Better

There are many nice working plugins available in WordPress plugin repository but you cannot use them all. Here in this article I am not discussing about the plugins that integrates social login , makes better SEO for comments or lets you join comment communities etc. Here are the plugin that fulfills basic needs of most WordPress bloggers for managing comments like limiting comment length, disabling comment on pages and certain post types, give comment ratings etc.

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins For Podcasting, Post Revision, Image Gallery, Media Embedding & Social Media Profiles That Worth Trying This Week

If you are trying new plugins one by one to find out which works better then its time to take a break because here are top five plugins that works best for podcasting, social profiles, image galleries, media embedding and post revisions without creating any conflict with WordPress.

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How To Signature Watermark Your WordPress Site Images ?

Now you can adds a watermark signature or image to all of your uploaded images in your WordPress site. Signature Watermark plugin uses PNG images with transparency for watermarking your site’s images.

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Stop WordPress Trackback Spams By Blocking Their Requests, Easily Validate All Incoming Trackbacks

You can turn off trackbacks completely from your WordPress settings but remember this will completely remove any future trackbacks from all of your single post pages and also it doesn’t provide you any solution for past trackbacks. It only works for future. So instead you may try using following Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker Plugin.

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