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Reviewed: AdRotate Plugin

On December 27, 2013

You created an awesome blog, but what it still lacks is its ability to manage advertisements. Advertisements or sponsorships are the perfect way to monetize your blog. While there are numbers of plugins available for the same but question is what and in which way you can manage ads with one of the best available plugin AdRotate Plugin in WordPress. In this tutorial, I am going to talk about the same.

AdRotate is one of the simplest plugin to use. Despite it brings a huge larger chunk of ability with it, but thanks to the way it gets developed, it is the priority advertisement plugin which anyone wants to have on board. Assuming that you had download, installed and activated the plugin, I am beginning the process.

AdRotate Plugin Key Features

Super easy management of ads and groups of ads
Automated Javascript cycles of ads with Dynamic Groups
Have your advertisers add/edit/manage their own ads
Geo location for adverts
Works with Google Ads and most other referrer/ad servers
Get email notifications when your ads need you
Perfectly suited for any size of advertisement, including 125×125, 468×60, 729×90, 160×600 and much more
Simple to use stats so you can follow which ad is working the best, worst
Daily and monthly stats
Couple ads to users so that user can follow his personalized stats
Advertisers can easily contact you from their dashboard
Track how many times a banner is clicked and show it’s Cick-Through-Ratio
Put random, or selected, banners in pages or posts
Preview banners on edit
Advanced time schedules and restrictions
CSV Exports of statistics
Multiple groups per banner location
Unlimited widgets
Adblocks (blocks of banners)

Installation and Configuration

Download AdRotate (pro or Free).
Login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to the Plugins page.
On the Plugins page click “Add New” and select “Upload”.
Upload the adrotate-pro.zip file and wait for WordPress to tell you it’s finished. This may take a few seconds.
Once done, click “Activate Plugin”.
When activated, AdRotate (Pro) will install the nessesary tables to your database and set up the menus.
Pro: Navigate to “AdRotate” > “Settings” and activate your license to receive premium support and update notifications.

Creating And Organizing Advertisements

On activation, you will notice a tab name “AdRotate” on your dashboard.
To start with click on “Manage Ads” option under the plugin tab and then at top click “Add New.”
Here you will be asked to fill in information regarding the advertisement which you want to add in.
Add a title, your ad code and fill in the display options.
Once you have, say three advertisements in place, it will be better to organize them into “groups” so that you can begin with displaying rotating ads.
To make this happen, select the “Manage Groups” option from the dashboard tab and click “Add New” at the top.
With doing this, now all advertisements in this group will be rotated in one single spot.

Summary & Review

AdRotate Plugin without a doubt is the best available advertisement plugin. Choosing this one as your ad solution plugin is the right choice for both beginners’ blog as well as advance huge level blogs. I highly recommend using the plugin.

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Reviewed – AJAX WP Query Search Filter

By The Editorial Team

On November 23, 2013

In Tutorials

You completed your first WordPress website but still wondering what you actually left out with. Answer is simple a website never get completed unless and until it got a powerful search engine to fuel it up. While we talked about many WordPress search plugins in the past, but today we felt that it would be better if we got the things to some specific turns. That’s why with this article, we are going to review the search plugin name AJAX WP Query Search Filter.

Ajax WP Query Search Filter is a powerful AJAX search engine that let your user perform more precisely search by filtering the search through post type, taxonomy and Meta field. Moreover, you do get an option to customize the plugin as per your own choice, or else you can have the search plugin your own styling mantra.

Features

Admin are free to choose whether the search go through post type, taxonomy, meta field or even all of them.
Multiple Search Form Supported.
Search form support checkbox, radio and dropdown fields.
Using Ajax to display result in the same page complete with pagination.
Plugin extendable with hooks.
Using shortcode to display the search form.

Download, Installation & Configuration

Upload ajax-wqsf folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create your search form in the Advance WQSF.
Using [AjaxWPQSF id={form id}] to display the form.

Summary & Review

The question lies here only that what I required? Or what’s the option I am looking for? Since the plugin offers the site owner to have different search filters on board so that one can search via post type, taxonomy and Meta field making it a perfect choice for anyone. I say yes for the plugin and suggest site’s owner to give AJAX WP Query Search Filter plugin a try.

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Reviewed – Table Of Content Plus Plugin

By The Editorial Team

On November 1, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

A huge (header) points between the content requires a good and massive well build-up indexing and unless and until if you have something relevant with you on your WordPress site, it will create a mess. On second note, learning the fact and in actual the love for Wikipedia, people love it not just only for the information one gets, but the way the interface has been developed from the group up. Now, what if – you will get both the things under one hood. Well, yes this is possible as in this article I am going to review a plugin name Table Of Content Plus.

The plugin Table Of Content Plus is built from the group up with keeping Wikipedia in mind. The content table (by default) will appear before the first handing on a page. It is a combination of powerful as well as user friendly plugin which will automatically creates a context specific index or table of contents (which basically required for longer pages as well as custom post types). The plugin gives the freedom to have lead-in content in the site which in turn may summarise or introduce the rest of the pages.

Features

A powerful yet user friendly plugin that automatically creates a context specific index or table of contents (TOC) for long pages (and custom post types).
It can also output a sitemap listing pages and/or categories across your entire site.
It also uses a unique numbering scheme that doesn’t get lost through CSS differences across themes.
It is a great companion for content rich sites such as content management system oriented configurations.
It includes an administration options panel where you can customise settings like display position, define the minimum number of headings before an index is displayed, other appearance, and more.
Custom post types are supported, however, auto insertion works only when the_content() has been used by the custom post type.
Each post type will appear in the options panel, so enable the ones you want.

Installation & Configuration

Upload the table-of-contents-plus folder into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
You can change the default settings and more under Settings > TOC+ while keep a note that this plugin requires PHP 5.

Summary & Review

I like this plugin, not just because it eases my job but also it’s like what I am seeking to, I am getting all of them under one hood. Say, if you are not a coding savvy and want to have a long post with wish to include an index before the first heading, then this is where this plugin will help you out. It’s good and I highly recommend the plugin to all.

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Reviewed – Power Widgets Plugin

By The Editorial Team

On October 28, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

Most of the time we summoned over the fact on finding that which would be the perfect set of plugins that one can use on the sidebar while the question does not take a halt here only. One can think of getting a step further and on thinking of creating as well as managing a website’s custom sidebar

On first thought the process of creating and managing a brand new “custom” sidebar is nothing but a tedious job as one has to go on page by page, adjusting layout on piece at a time. But have you wondered that if your this tedious job can be handle by a plugin itself which allow you to create custom widget areas.

Sounds like a dream comes true thing, but in this article I am going to review a plugin name Power Widgets which can perform the task in a very simple and elegant manner. The plugin can let anyone control each of widget area very simply, can let one to create custom widget areas for specific page, posts or categories and over the top manage all of them from one single location.

Key Features

Customize anything on your site: page, post, category, tag, single post, archive pages.
Customize your sidebars from one single location.
When it makes more sense to work your customization from inside the page, just use the Power Widgets table available inside any page, offering maximum flexibility.
Apply repeated custom sidebars patterns. Once you set the one, you can use it throughout your site.
You need not require knowing the coding.
Using Power Widgets is easy and user friendly.
Includes tutorials and documentations you’ll ever need.

Download, Installation & Configuration

Download and Installation

Upload Power Widgets via Plugins/Add New/Upload. You may also upload it to server using ftp software – Filezilla is a free and robust option – and unpack it on your server.
Go to Plugins and activate the plugin.
You will now see “Power Widgets” on your WordPress navigation menu.

Configuration

Insert the license key you received upon purchase into the text-box at the top of the Getting Started page, add the email you have signed up to SuperPlugin when opening your account and click Activate.
While obtaining your license key, make sure you don’t copy any spaces before or after the license key.
Once activated, you will be able to receive update notifications directly via WordPress dashboard.
Power Widgets will recognize and add any page, post or category to the appropriate table dynamically.

Pricing

Power Widgets is priced in three different variants: Single Site, Three Site and Unlimited Developer’s License. Single Site comes at a cost of $25 for one year and brings in all the features and support. If you got more sites, then the Three Site variant will be a perfect choice for you. It comes at a cost of $49 while the Unlimited Developer’s License comes at a cost of $79. Over the top, you may also upgrade your plan anytime you wish while if in case you didn’t found the plugin a perfect choice for you, then you can also get a full refund on your purchase within 14 days from the day of your purchase.

Summary & Review

What one wants more? A single plugin which gives anyone a whole new “custom” widgets area and that too not only meant for one single page or post, but it goes as the way one wants it; for specific page, posts or categories with allowing one to manage all from single location. The plugin is really just like its name: Power Widgets and with all these features, it is really a powerful option one can opt for. I highly recommend everyone who has been in search of such a “custom” widgets solution to try this plugin for sure.

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Reviewed – Themify.me Premium WordPress Themes Club

By The Editorial Team

On October 22, 2013

In Themes, Tutorials

Introduction

While one can get a plenty of options when looking onto the premium WordPress theme for their next website, it would be best for one to count on Themify.me at first place. Founded in 2010, Themify.me is a Canadian company which offers beautiful themes for almost every niche one can think of. The club offers 40 different nice and easy to use themes. The amazed part if you are not even a programmer, still you need not to learn any programming language to customize the theme you opt for while if you got any question, then you can post it to the “support forum.” On talking about the features, Themify.me themes includes a large number of unique features including theme skins, social media icons, footer text, responsiveness, custom widgets and lots more.

Themify Builder

The recently launched feature by Themify.me club, the themify builder will let you build any page layouts with a live, frontend preview. And, what’s more, the layouts are completely responsive and go on same theory that what you see is what you get. It works on desktop, tablet and mobile. It comes in-build means you need not to buy it as an additional tool, it comes with any theme or plugin your purchase.

Features

Frontend drag & drop
Responsive & mobile support
SEO friendly
All post types
Shortcodes
Layouts & colors

Top Selling Themes

Elemin

Elemin theme is a simple but bears every fruit a person looking for his/her next website. It has a good sense of typography, great white space balance and minimal graphics. The theme design is completely fluid and responsive in nature while it being crafted with modern technology.

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Fullscreen

Fullscreen theme is the combination of minimal design, responsive layout and fullscreen gallery. It is a perfect theme if one is looking for photo gallery theme.

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Pinboard

Inspired by Pinterest, the Pinboard theme features an auto stacking layout with infinite scroll just like the way one can notice on Pinterest. The new posts are loaded automatically when one hit to the bottom of the page, thanks to infinite scrolling.

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Metro

Inspired by Windows 8, Metro theme is a responsive, minimal and colourful theme which can suit every blog and/or portfolio sites style. The theme comes with nine different colors based on Windows 8’s Metro look.

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Parallax

Parallax theme is a perfect choice if one is looking for the combination of parallax scrolling and single-page design. One can use the theme as a single page or a regular site with page URLs.

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Magazine

A three-column theme, the Magazine theme used the intuitive drag and drop capability of the Builder. It allows you to build any kind of layouts at ease. The theme is both responsive and retina ready theme packed with many features all together.

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Pricing

The theme club offers four purchasing options – Standard Theme, Developer Theme, Standard Club and Developer Club. The Standard Theme option cost $39 in which one can get 1 + 1 theme i.e. 2 themes in which one comes totally free of cost. The Developer Theme option cost $59 in which one can get 1 + 1 theme i.e. 2 themes in which one comes totally free of cost plus theme’s PSD files. The Standard Club option cost $69 in which one gets all the themes. The Developer Club option cost $89 in which one gets all the themes plus theme’s PSD files. In all the above options, along with theme(s), the club provides theme updates and support for all one year.

Summary & Review

The themify.me club is a clear choice for anyone who knows what s/he actually looking for. The club offers multiple theme choices to everyone and not only this, but with its recent launched Builder feature, it does make the life much easier for everyone who thought customizing a theme is a tough thing to do. I strongly recommend all to opt for the club.

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10+ Great WordPress Review Themes

By The Editorial Team

On October 19, 2013

In Showcase, Themes

With WordPress working as a core to one-to-many ways, it will work the same way when one think of creating or building up of a WordPress review site. Although with just like as the word says “review,” it makes a huge sense for the visitors who are going to be a part of it by accessing it. Websites like that of movies review, music review, softwares reviews, smartphones reviews and so on, it is one such never ending genre. While there are some good themes out there matching different genres, WordPress does have its own perspective themes which can be used mainly for review purpose only.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you make a purchase through those links. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

Steam

Key Features:

WooCommerce 2.0+ full integration and compatibility
BuddyPress 1.7+ compatible
AJAX admin panel
630 Google fonts
130 icons (via icon fonts)
Full Google rich snippet and schema.org review integration
Unlimited custom sidebars
Unlimited colors and styles (custom logos, layouts, toggle display of all sliders and elements)
Page builder for front page, archive pages, standard pages, unique for each minisite
Mega menu dynamically loads posts for minisites, taxonomies, categories, and tags
Sticky top bar with menu and login/account/register controls for improved user experience and accessibility
Shortcodes based on Bootstrap library
Custom menus (4 locations)
Featured videos (display them in your article listings too!)
Lightbox effect and navigation automatically added to galleries and images
Paged, nested, styled comments
Custom login logo
Custom 404 and search results layouts
Localized and translatable (.po file provided)
Tested and works great with BuddyPress 1.7+
Trending carousel with AJAX filter controls
Sizzlin’ carousel rotates selected articles
One-click minisite builder
Complete Review/Rating system
Three main layouts: right sidebar, left sidebar, full-width
AJAX post loop sorting & filtering controls
Custom ad network (supports Google Adsense and any other ad vendor)
30 footer layouts
Unlimited social badges
Views & Likes stats with live AJAX updating
Awards & Badges system (custom user-defined)
Related posts engine (5 algorithms to choose from)
Minisite directories (2 types, 4 styles, 2 layouts)
Author listing template (exclude/include by role or username)
Page-specific background images and colors
Theme options for Google Analytics, custom CSS, and custom JavaScript
Theme Options importer/exporter tool
Complete demo site provided with 3-step install instructions
Fancy tooltips
Email signup

More Info | Demo | Price: $55

Gonzo

Key Features:

Compatible with Adpress Plugin: For responsive advertising, Gonzo is 100% compatible with Adpress from CodeCanyon right out of the box (not included).
Facebook and WordPress Comments: You have the option of using Facebook comments to get more reach or use WP comments to preserve anonymity. The choice is yours.
Four Post Formats: Choose from standard, audio (with soundcloud), video (embed) and gallery.
GUI Shortcodes: User-friendly buttons/dialogue system. No need to type or remember the shortcodes.
Widgets included: Facebook Fans, Socialbox Counter, Video, Latest Posts with Thumbnails, Tabbed Widget (supports all widget types) and Flickr Widget.
Connected Author Page: Dedicated Author page with social media icons directly integrated into the User Panel in the WP Dashboard.
BBPress: Gonzo is now compatible with the BBPress forum plugin.
Best Reviews Page: As of version 1.5 there is a best reviews page and widget (both are filterable by category).

More Info | Demo | Price: $45

Zine

Key Features:

Instinctive admin interface
Responsive
5 Custom Post types
4 menus locations: main menu, top menu and bottom menu + Mobile/Tablet Menu
The Top Menu and Main menu support 3 levels drop down
Custom backgrounds: You can upload a different background for each page directly in your page editor.
Archive template and custom taxonomies for each post types
Rating system and Top Rated templates for reviews post types
SEO feature: you can set up your metatags for each post and page.
Generate video thumbnails automatically for video post format.
Filter Portfolio (izotope)
Complete Theme Options Panel
Advertisement manager: Upload and manage your advertisements and use the “advertisement widget” to display them anywhere in your sidebars very easily.
A bunch of usefull shortcodes with custom editor buttons to generate them
Social Share buttons: facebook, twitter, google+, linkedIn, pinterest (meta automatically generated.
Social Plugin : Set links to your social network profiles in the theme options ( available)
Author box and Author templates : extra profile fields added for your authors (twitter, facebook , google+, linkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Youtube)
Choose your Homepage:
Choose your home page header as slider, video, static image or no header
Choose wich post type you want to display (default is all post types)
If you choose to display the last blog posts, you can choose to display only one category (e.g: news)
Complete Documentation with screenshots.
Automatically create the main pages on theme installation.
Translation Ready : Contains .po and .mo files for translation
Built on the BrutalDesign Framework
Support

More Info | Demo | Price: $35

ReviewIt

Key Features:

Free $80 JW Player (series 5) commercial license (YouTube, Vimeo, self-hosted audio/video support)
7 custom widgets (GP Recent Comments, GP Review Boxes, GP Review Lists, GP Post Boxes, GP You May Like, GP Review/Post Entries and GP Latest Members widgets)
Cufon fonts
Front-end login, register and profile pages
Add custom review tags for easy categorizing of reviews
Custom post/page/category options
Fully localised (translation files)
Image resizing
Unlimited Sidebars
Degrades gracefully if javascript is disabled
Compatible in all major browsers
BuddyPress/bbPress ready
WooCommerce ready

More Info | Demo | Price: $55

Bodega

Key Features:

Widgetized homepage
Easily customizable Slider
Style Options with Custom style presetss
Get video thumbnails straight from YouTube & Vimeo URLs
7 Custom Widgets
Post ratings
Post formats
Post Thumbnails
Customizable post settings
Button, Column shortcodes
Contact Form shortcode

More Info | Demo | Price: $40

Avenue

Key Features:

Reviews, Videos, Music and Galleries
Unlimited Skins
Built-in Review System
Easy Customizeable Homepage Layout
Responsive Design
Custom Theme Options Panel

More Info | Demo | Price: $45

SwagMag

Key Features:

Designed to create customized review mini-sites
PHP and HTML versions both included with your download
Works for both review and non-review sites from personal blogs to huge content heavy sites
All of the latest jQuery enhancements and user interface upgrades to provide a rich user experience
Tons of layouts and page templates including 14 total page templates, 2 front page layouts, 5 post listing layouts, and 2 single post layouts, and 4 unique rating box designs
Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, spaced/indented/commented code, and architected intuitively
5-star customer support monitored 7 days a week with a smile

More Info | Demo | Price: $16

Broadway

Key Features:

Unlimited skins
3 Post formats (videos, audio & galleries)
Built-in review system
User Ratings on reviews
WordPress 3.0 menu support
Custom theme options panel
11 Custom widgets
Easy thumbnails with WP built in function
PSD included
Works with WP 3 .3+
Broadway requires PHP5

More Info | Demo | Price: $40

Score

Key Features:

JW Player (series 5) commercial license (YouTube, Vimeo, self-hosted audio/video support)
2 custom widgets (GP Sidebar Posts and GP Footer Posts widgets)
Ability to follow posts/reviews
RTL support
Front-end login, register and profile pages
Add custom review tags for easy categorizing of reviews
Custom post/page/category options
Fully localised (translation files)
Image resizing
Unlimited Sidebars
Degrades gracefully if javascript is disabled
Compatible in all major browsers
BuddyPress/bbPress ready
WooCommerce ready

More Info | Demo | Price: $55

Backstreet

Key Features:

Light and Dark Skin
Spotlight
Portfolio
Gallery
Featured Slider (Full & Small)
3 Post formats (videos, audio & galleries)
Inbuilt review system
WordPress 3.3 menu support
Flexible homepage layout
Custom theme options panel
15 Custom widgets
PSD Include (Template & Stars)
Easy thumbnails with WP built in function
Works with WP 3.5+
Backstreet Theme requires PHP5

More Info | Demo | Price: $45

Reviewer

Key Features:

Translation file included! – Use Reviewer in any language
Five background pattern options
Five Star Rating colors
Author’s Page Template which lists all of the sites authors
Ten font options from Google Fonts
Custom “Recent Ratings” Graph Widget
Custom “Featured Reviewer/Author” Widget
Unlimited color options for links through included color pickers
“Featured Posts” on home page which makes use of Sticky Posts with jQuery hovers
Two layout options for the content and sidebar
Two sidebar styles
Widgetized sidebar and footer
Five Shortcodes
Social Network Icons
Supports the plugin Contact Form 7
Easy to follow documentation
Valid XHTML

More Info | Demo | Price: $45

Black Aperture

Key Features:

WordPress menu for the main navigation
Standard featured images (post thumbnails)
Unique featured posts showcase requires minimal effort to take advantage of
Nivo Slider bundled (since version 1.7)
Dynamic image resizing
Custom built Theme Options panel within WP-Admin
Default 3 column layout can be changed to 2 (removes left sidebar) from WP-Admin
Both sidebars are widgetized
Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots, along with a recent posts list
Change the logo to plain text (which makes use of the Blog Title and Tagline settings) or replace it with your own image without touching any code
Custom CSS area in Theme Options which allow you to override CSS without manually editing templates
Super lean markup and CSS
Tested on Windows and Mac
Support for Subscribe to Comments, Twitter Tools, and WP-PageNavi plugins out of the box

More Info | Demo | Price: $35

Reviewed: Livefyre Commenting System

By The Editorial Team

On October 16, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

Note: The review is a second in series of WordPress commenting system. If you missed out reading our Disqus commenting system review, then click here.

Blogging sometimes does not make sense if someone not gives us feedback about what we did. You don’t get any idea on how the things actually are. You will be wondering that what you are doing is either right or wrong. Commenting on blog is one of many things one can opt for as it will offer a direct influence of a visitor with the blogger.

To help you figuring out selecting the commenting system for your blog, in this article I have been sharing as well reviewing Livefyre commenting system. The commenting system is a direct rival to Disqus commenting system. It is available in both free and professional plans to suit your requirements.

Introduction: Livefyre Commenting System

Livefyre is a comment platform for real-time conversations. It centralizes conversations from around the social web back to your site, and encourages engagement between readers on your site to build community around your content. Its Admin dashboard allows you to track and monitor every interaction on your site from one location, in real-time.

Key Features

Real-time technology: Comments is built on XMPP chat technology for fast, lightweight conversations on your site.
Social Sync: the conversation happening around your articles on Facebook and Twitter automatically syncs directly to the comments on your site.
Social Signin: Users have the option to sign in with several social networks so that they can jump right in and join the conversation.
No new login required.
Guest Commenting: Sites can also use our guest commenting option to let their community comment without even creating an account.
Friend Tagging: Easily invite Facebook, Twitter, and Livefyre contacts to join the conversation right from the comment box.
Comment Sharing: With one click, readers can easily share comments with their contacts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Comment Liking: Let your community members recognize those commenters who elevate the conversation.
Rich Text Editor: Emphasize your point of view in flourishes of bold italics, or create a bulleted list to drive home your argument.
LinkBack: Encourage community interaction by allowing other Livefyre bloggers display a link to their latest post when they leave a comment.
Live Listeners: Show readers exactly how many people are viewing the page and are following the conversation.
Comment Notifiers: Show your readers who is participating in the conversation and what they are saying in real-time, all without losing your place on the page.
Media Embedding: Display Instagram photos, play videos from YouTube, listen to songs from Spotify, and cite Wikipedia articles directly in the conversation stream.
Comment Editing: Commenters can fix typos mistakes with a five-minute window to edit their comment after it has been posted.
User Profiles: Visit the other Livefyre Network sites where your community is commenting.
SEO Optimization: Comments 3 is Google crawl-able so you receive SEO credit for all comments, including those originating from Facebook & Twitter.

Understanding Livefyre Admin Dashboard

Livefyre’s centralized dashboard allows you to track and monitor every interaction on your site from one location.
Spam Protection: Imperium spam filtering keeps the conversation going and the spam out.
Community Flagging: Develop trust with community members by letting them notify you when a comment is offensive or off topic.
Edit Comments: Moderators can edit all comments to correct spelling and grammar, and make sure that shared links and embedded media keep the conversation clear and relevant.
Leave Comment Notes: No need to leave your admin panel to coordinate with your moderators, see all your communication around comments in one place.
Multiple Moderation roles: Delegate moderation responsibilities among Site Owners, Admins, and Moderators.
Whitelists & Banned Users: Authors and trusted community members can bypass pre-moderation with Whitelists.
Profanity Lists: Customize the settings for filtering comments for your community.
User Activity: See which community members are your top commenters and who you should reach out to invite them back to your site.
Moderation & Conversation Reports: Generate reports that give an overview of your moderation practices and see which posts are sparking the most conversations.

Download, Installation & Configuration

Download and Installation

Download the Livefyre Community Comments plugin file.
Log in to your WP Admin panel and click on Plugins from the Admin menu on the left.
Deactivate any third party comment plugins you may have previously installed from the Plugins menu.
Click on Add New from the Plugins menu.
Click on Upload and choose the Livefyre.zip plugin file, and then click Install Now.
When the automated installation has completed, click Activate Plugin.

Configuration

At the top of the Plugins screen you’ll see a message box prompting you to confirm your blog configuration with livefyre.com
Click on this link and sign in to your Livefyre account, or create a new account if needed.
Once you Sign in or create a new account Livefyre will begin importing comments from your WP database into the Livefyre system.
We always write your comments back to your database as they are made, so you don’t have to worry about any re-imports or exports of your comments.

Summary & Review

Livefyre is a great commenting system with an extremely strong and powerful real-time engine which comes equipped with a nice looking user interface. Livefyre is well good enough for target bunch of people as I feel not everyone looking for real-time activities as say for a new blog, which hardly make its existence in the web-o-sphere requires time to influence its visitors while overall it’s good.

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Reviewed: Gravity Forms

By The Editorial Team

On October 11, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

Unless and until your WordPress site got the best content form on board, it does not get a mark of complete as having the right contact form installed means your site is having all the right ingredients into in it. Certainly, there are plenty of Contact form plugins available out there, but the thing is which one is the best. Well, with this reviewed article, I am going to talk, discuss and putting into mark about Gravity Forms – the BEST contact form.

Introduction

Gravity Forms is a lot more than a contact form and lead generation plugin. It comes equipped with number of features including drag & drop interface, advance notification routing, lead capture, conditional logic field and more. It helps you create web form the way you like it so that you can collect visitor feedback, email addresses among other things.

You will find many scripts over the web but they don’t come flexible and suitable for your blog for one-to-many reasons. This is where Gravity Forms come in front of us. You don’t need to know or experience any coding skills including PHP, HTML, and JavaScript for opting it out. It just take your minute or two to setup a simple form while if you require more, then also it will not take more than 15 to 20 minutes of time.

Features

Form Builder
Form Fields
Conditional Logic
Order Forms
Entry Management
Notifications
Customization
Styles & Layout
WordPress Integration

Add-ons Available

Mailchimp, Aweber, Campaign Monitor (included in Business license)
Picatcha (included in Business license)
Authorize.net
Freshbooks
PayPal
Quiz, Survey, Poll
User Registration
Twilio
Signature

What You Can Do With Gravity Forms?

Contact Form
Support Form
Guest Post Submission
Lead Capture
Surveys & Polling
User Generated Content

Pricing

Gravity Forms is priced in three different variants: Personal, Business and Developer. Personal and Business package both comes with almost similar features while Developer contains additional features along with standard ones. Personal package comes at a cost of $39, Business cost $99 and Developer cost $199. Also, remember that the prices are on per year basis and to continuing using for second year and so on, you need to re-pay for the license.

Summary & Review

Gravity Forms is a one of the must have WordPress Contact Form. It’s not just a regular contact form as it includes fully featured list. With this one can easily create forms with ease. It comes with lots of features in hand which gives an extra edge for site owners who are using it. I strongly recommend Gravity Forms to all.

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Reviewed: Disqus Commenting System

By The Editorial Team

On September 24, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

WordPress is a simple as well as a powerful content management system covering 20% of web, result of which almost second other site today have WordPress on board. But, having content management system completely not makes proper sense unless and until proper tools are being implemented along with it.

It is always important to have tools which influence not one but a lot of people out there and commenting is one such way of achieving the same. There are plugins which are available for the purpose but the answer lies beneath towards which one to opt for. If you know WordPress well or got at least some knowledge of content management system, you will heard loud and clear that Disqus and Livefyre are two major commenting systems.

Too easy to decide upon one – we will help you out finalizing the one.

We’ve been putting together two review articles which discuss both of these commenting systems – Disqus and Livefyre – investigating their features, usability, reliability and support to help you decide which commenting system would work best for you.

Introduction: Disqus Commenting System

Disqus pronounced “discuss” is a free commenting system which enables great communities over the web – then whether you are running a blog or a website. It comes equipped with so many cool features including being social, keeping track of the discussion activity, and lots more.

In short, the service is used by millions of websites which covers pretty much any topic one can imagine of. It makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

Features

Uses the Disqus API
Comments indexable by search engines (SEO-friendly)
Support for importing existing comments
Auto-sync (backup) of comments with Disqus and WordPress database
Threaded comments and replies
Notifications and reply by email
Subscribe and RSS options
Aggregated comments and social mentions
Powerful moderation and admin tools
Full spam filtering, blacklists and whitelists
Support for Disqus community widgets
Connected with a large discussion community
Increased exposure and readership

Installation

Unpack archive to this archive to the ‘wp-content/plugins/’ directory inside of WordPress.
Maintain the directory structure of the archive (all extracted files should exist in ‘wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/’
From your blog administration, click on Comments to change settings (WordPress 2.0 users can find the settings under Options > Disqus).

9 Pointer Disqus Benefits

Disqus is everywhere
Blog commenting is ‘more’ social
Keep track of the discussion activity
Time saver
Real time and editable
Find the hot discussion
Keep track of the discussion
Get to know who is your commenter quickly
Content promotion and revenue source from discovery

Summary & Review

In my both the blogs – I2Mag and JustWP.org, I have been using Disqus commenting system. I really love it as it comes as a bundle solution for all my blogs commenting needs. I will say and suggest if you haven’t using it yet, you would love to use it. Better give it a try today.

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Reviewed – Po.st: The Social Sharing Platform

By The Editorial Team

On September 20, 2013

In Plugins, Tutorials

I believe there is hardly any publisher out there who doesn’t want to make some extra money. Certainly the answer is simple that yes everyone wants to make money, but what about if one makes money with the social sharing platform that they have been using on their WordPress blog or a website.

Po.st is the one such social sharing platform which offers publishers the ability to monetize the social activity on their site. The plugin will display “after-the-share units” which in turn will make it easy for publishers to generate revenue from a 300X250 ad units which appears within the social sharing confirmation box.

The plugin includes access to all major social channels on display with which one can share, like and follow the publisher’s content. The social channel it comes with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, email among others. The plugin gives publishers the freedom to choose an array of button styles as well, choosing from small, medium or large buttons, placed vertically or horizontally, with or without share counters.

Installation & Configuration

For an automatic installation through WordPress:

Go to the ‘Add New’ plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
Search for ‘Po.st‘
Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin
Register for a free account and Publisher Key here: https://www.po.st/portal/register.

For a manual installation via FTP:

Upload the Po.st folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in your WordPress admin area
Register for a free account and Publisher Key here: https://www.po.st/portal/register.

To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:

Upload the downloaded zip file on the ‘Add New’ plugins screen (see the ‘Upload’ tab) in your WordPress admin area and activate.
Register for a free account and Publisher Key here: https://www.po.st/portal/register.

To monetize:

Once you register your account at Po.st portal and get your Publisher key, simply email at publishers@po.st. The email will includes the request to opt-in for revenue account and your publisher key for Po.st admin team reference.

Summary & Review

The Po.st plugin is fairly a good choice when one in searching for a good social share plugin as it offers all the social networks sharing at one single place. Moreover with its ability to let publishers monetize their blogs with an additional way – thanks to their “after-the-share ad units” – it got its 10 on 10 and highly recommended.

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