Here I am going to give information about a facebook photo plugin. This is so easy to use, as soon as you link the plugin to your Facebook account, photos you upload to Facebook will automatically show up in a convenient “Photos” tab in your WordPress blog. You can choose to use either small, medium, or large sized versions of your photos. This plugin uses the recently released Facebook Developers Platform.

Author: Joe Tan

License: GPL

Features:

• Automatically retrieves photos and albums you upload into your Facebook. No need to upload twice.
• Retrieve photos where you have been tagged by either yourself or your friends.
• Allows you to easily blog your Facebook photos.
• Choose from three different sizes: small, medium, or large

Requirements:

Both PHP 5.0 and WordPress 2.1 + are required in order for this plugin to work. To use this plugin you’ll need to run your own WordPress installation.

Installation:

1. Download and unzip the plugin.
2. Upload the entire “tantan” directory to the WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Login to your WordPress admin, click “Plugins”, and then activate the “Facebook Photos” plugin.
4. Click “Options”, and click “Facebook” to bring up the options screen.
5. Follow the directions given on that page to link the plugin to your Facebook account.
6. You’re done! You should now see a “Photos” tab when you create new posts or pages. Just click on a photo and select a size (small, medium, large) to insert it into your post.

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The flexibility of WordPress has always been its strong point. You can find the Reasons to use WordPress as the platform for your site.

Although the primary purpose of WordPress is not e-commerce, it provides e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and premium.

There are number of plugins and themes available that provides easy mechanism to create your online store. Here I am going to list top plugins according ti their use:

Plugins:
1. WordPress eShop

eShop is a free plugin that also has a lot of features and options for setting up an e-commerce site with WordPress.

2. Instinct WordPress e-Commerce Plugin

An extremely popular plugin that offers a lot of options for setting up an online store with WordPress. WP e-Commerce integrates with PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and more. Designers will have the flexibility to tweak and customize the appearance as well.

3. Shopp

Another popular e-commerce plugin. The cost is $55 for a single-site license or $299 for a developer’s license. The plugin includes a lot of features, including several payment options and flexible shipping calculations.

4. Quick Shop

Quick Shop is a free plugin that users sidebar widgets to create a simple shopping cart. You can place tags in your post that will generate a form to add products to the cart.

5. YAK for WordPress

YAK is a free plugin that creates a simple shopping cart that associates products with posts.

I am making a list of plugins that I use frequently in my most of the projects and recommend buyers to use.

1. Akismet
Do you often hit by spam? No worries Akismet is a saviour. Akismet protects your site against comment spam. Activate this plugin and you won’t need to moderate or captcha your comment submissions. Akismet does 99% of the work for you. In order to make this plugin work, you need Akismet Key which is easily available.

2. All-in-One SEO for Search Engine Optimization

Permalink feature of WordPress makes itself SEO friendly platform. Similarly most WordPress themes are built in SEO friendly manner. But again it is better to use AIOSEO which gives complete control over meta tags and title of the page.

3. Cforms
Almost all project needs contact forms, survey, input from reader; CForms makes life easier to integrate forms.

CformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more.

4. WP125

If you need to put advertisement widgets in your page then WP125 is an option for you. It supports an image ad of 125×125 px. The interface to manage ads is very clean and easy to understand. Further statistics about ads clicks can also be viewed. Its only drawback is; there’s no support for text ads and ads with other sizes.

5. WP-DBManager
DB is always the most important asset of your website. This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.

6. WP Super Cache
This plugin generates static html files from your WordPress powered website. After a html file is generated then webserver will will serve that static file instead of processing the comparatively more heavier and expensive WordPress scripts. It reduces database connection overhead as well. So if you’re getting heavy traffic to your site; consider using this.

7. YARPP Related Posts – to increase Pageviews and guide readers for possible suggestion
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) automatically scout out other posts on your site that are related to the post being read. YARPP lists related posts at the end of the post being read.

There are many other plugins which are as better than the plugin I listed above.

1. Viper’s Video Quicktags

This plugin adds on new buttons to the rich text editor on WordPress. In order to embed a video, you just need to paste the video URL into the prompt box. With this plugin you can also fully configure the width, height, colors and alignment on the page.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

2. FLV Embed

This plugin supports video sitemap generation, includes options such as auto start and menu control bar. It also supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flv-embed/

3. Interactive Video Plugin

Apart from video embed this plugin also includes the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor. You can even enable video responses, manage and track your video content.

Includes custom sizing of the video player, advanced sharing options and allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video/

4. Flash Video Player

This plugin allows the addition of videos into WordPress by using a menu with post-level overrides for customization of size, background color etc. Give up your style wishes once, and you never ever have to manually style a video again.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flash-video-player/

5. Video Embedder

To embed a video using this plugin, all you need is the ID of the video. With this plugin you can manage the settings for all of your embedded movies from the WordPress settings for Video Embedder, the properties for all the movies will be updated instantly as soon as you save the settings.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-embedder/

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