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Best Widget Plugins For Your WordPress Website

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Widget plays an important role in one’s WordPress website. Then no matter, whether it includes just a search box or more than that. Widget on site need to include everything one want to have onboard. In this article, you will find the best of widget plugins for your WordPress website.

WP User Avatar

The plugin allows you to use custom avatars that are uploaded through Gravatar.

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Music Store

The plugin is an online store for selling audio files: music, speeches, narratives, everything audio.

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Double your Email Subscribers + Double your Sharing by SumoMe

The plugin provides the tools you need to grow your blog by engaging your readers. The features of this plugin will make it easy for your readers share your articles and engage in your community.

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Clear Cache for Me

The plugin purges all cache on WPEngine, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache when updating widgets or menus.

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Responsive Full Background

The plugin add responsive full background to your website easily.

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Vertical scroll recent registered user

The plugin lets you create the scroller in the widget with recently registered user avatar, username and date.

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Starbox – the Author Box for Humans

The plugin is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship

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Feedweb

The plugin lets you get precise feedback and expose your blog to a brand new audience at the same time.

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WP Currency Converter

The plugin adds a fancy ajax currency converter widget to provide your visitors with a convenient on the spot currency conversions powered by Google Finance.

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Events Calendar

The plugin uses jquery -ui datepicker, timepicker addon, provides short-code, widget support.

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Image Store

The plugin offers a photo gallery and store plugin for WordPress with Paypal and Google Checkout integration.

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Socialize WordPress Sidebar Widgets With Displaying Your Latest Pinterest Pins

While we discussed earlier the best available Pinterest WordPress plugins, we thought of why not find the one which lets you display all your latest pins in your WordPress sidebar widgets. Moreover, the trend towards opting for Pinterest as one of the most favorite social tool is also on the rise so it does make sense that you too get the one such tool in your website by which you can display all of your pins. Well, in this article, we will discuss a way by which you can display your latest Pinterest pins in your sidebar.

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Plugin To Use: Pinterest RSS Widget

The plugin “Pinterest RSS Widget” lets you put up a widget on your sidebar which fetches the most recent contents of a Pinterest user’s RSS feeds and result in displaying the corresponding thumbnail images. You can also choose to show the description below those images as well as also can set the height and width of the thumbnails to fit your theme. Further, the plugin also gives you the option to show four different sizes of the official “Follow Me On Pinterest” button below the list of your pins.

Installation

  • Upload the folder pinterest-rss-widget and its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or use the wordpress plugin installer
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  • A new “Pinterest RSS Widget” will be available under Appearance > Widgets, where you can add it to your sidebar and edit all settings of the plugin.

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Best Of Widget Ready WordPress Themes

While we covered about the same widget ready WordPress themes in past also, but thanks to readers demand we are covering the category again. In this article, I have collected the best of Widget ready WordPress themes for you.

Grepfrut

Grepfrut

Key Features

  • Responsive Layout – Twitter Bootstrap 3
  • Revolution Slider Plugin
  • Visual Composer Plugin
  • Custom WordPress Sidebar Plugin $13 value for Unlimited Sidebars. Each sidebar (including footer sidebars), on any page can be replaced with custom sidebar.
  • Page with two sidebars can be created using visual composer’s widgetised sidebar element.
  • Filterable portfolio
  • Pricing Table
  • Translation Ready
  • Widget Ready. Custom Widgets : Facebook Like Box, Twitter Feed, Contact Info, Recent Posts, Recent Works, Social Network (Icons), Tag Cloud, Contact Info.
  • Contact Form 7 Ready
  • W3C valid
  • PSD files (Home Page and Other Elements) included
  • XML data and Slider/Feature images included

Demo | Price: $45

Fresh

Fresh

Key Features

  • Responsive design
  • Two home pages
  • Custom post contact form
  • Logo Uploader
  • A lot of shortcodes
  • Google Web Fonts
  • Widget Ready
  • 8 Custom Widgets
  • Pricing Table
  • 8 Post Formats
  • Fully Responsive
  • HTML 5 Ready
  • SEO Ready
  • Unique design
  • well documented
  • Fully Layered Adobe Photoshop .PSD files

Demo | Price: $35

Incentive

Incentive

Key Features

  • Super-ultra-mega responsive
  • Parallax backgrounds
  • Mega-menus powered with UberMenu (by SevenSpark)
  • Slider Revolution (by ThemePunch)
  • Visual Composer content builder (by WPBakery)
  • SEO optimized
  • Traditional and modern blog styles
  • Post formats – Standard, Audio, Gallery, Image, Link, Quote and Video
  • Sortable portfolio
  • Blank page templates
  • Drag and drop layout manager
  • Contact form builder
  • Sidebar generator
  • Unlimited home page variations
  • Unlimited headers
  • Unlimited footers
  • Unlimited layouts
  • Unlimited color choices
  • Unlimited layouts and templates
  • Unbranded white label admin
  • Self-hosted HTML5 video player
  • Custom audio player
  • Google Fonts support (500+)
  • Retina ready
  • Translation ready (.po/.mo files)
  • Demo content included
  • All Photoshop files included

Demo | Price: $55

Zoombi

Zoombi

Key Features

  • Fully Responsive
  • Unlimited colors options with color picker in backend
  • Built with Boostrap and retina ready
  • HTML5 and CSS3 tableless design.
  • Custom fonts with 600+ Google fonts
  • Visual shortcode generator
  • Unlimited sidebar.
  • A lot of widget elements
  • Easily adding Google analytics, logo, favicon, social links …
  • Works in all major browsers: Internet Explorer (IE 8+), Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome
  • Theme Update Notifier.
  • Localization Support
  • Documentation included

Demo | Price: $45

Explosion

Explosion

Key Features

  • Translation ready with mo/po files
  • WPML plugin ready
  • 10 Blog Post Formats (image, gallery, video, audio, standard, etc.)
  • jQuery Powered
  • Responsive Layout
  • Custom Archive and Full Width Page
  • WordPress 3.0+ Ready (Compatible up to WP 3 .4.2)
  • 3 Theme layouts
  • Demo Content included in an XML Import file for quick setup
  • Ajax Contact Form
  • 3 Comments Type

Demo | Price: $35

Hexagonal

Hexagonal

Key Features

  • Amazing WordPress Theme,
  • 8 PSD Files also included (worth 10$),
  • Fully Responsive Design,
  • Responsive Homepage Slider,
  • Advanced CSS3 Animations,
  • Two Homepage Layouts,
  • About Page (Company, Career, Team),
  • Services Page,
  • Team Page,
  • Two Blog Layouts,
  • Two Portfolio Layouts,
  • Two Video Portfolio Layouts,
  • Contact,
  • Page Elements,
  • Filterable Portfolio,
  • Widget Ready,
  • Three Custom Widgets,
  • Well organized and commented code,
  • Extensive Documentation,

Demo | Price: $40

Vivid

Vivid

Key Features

  • Vivid is an extremely easily customizable WordPress blog
  • Multiple options you can choose from
  • Alter things like font types, icons, colors, elements and images with a simple click
  • Great support for mobile and tablet devices
  • Vivid has 15 custom widgets most directed at social media
  • 10+ specially made shortcodes
  • Very easily customizable theme options panel.

Demo | Price: $40

John Doe’s Blog

John Doe's Blog

Key Features

  • Responsive Layout
  • Bootstrap based
  • Font Awesome – retina ready icon set
  • Sample data included
  • Unlimited Colors
  • Translatable – WPML Ready
  • 10 predefined css styles
  • Sidebar manager
  • Enable/Disable full text content posts
  • Unlimited Sidebars
  • Unlimited Homepage Layouts
  • 500 + Google Fonts
  • Animated circular and rectangular progress bars
  • Social Media Buttons
  • Built-in Pagination
  • Built-in FlexSlider
  • Embed Video Support
  • Lightbox Integration
  • Custom 404 Page
  • Custom Search Results Page
  • Google Maps Integration
  • Widgetized Footer
  • Powerful Admin Panel
  • SEO Optimized
  • Layered PSD for Customization
  • 60 Shortcodes
  • Documentation

Demo | Price: $45

Merapi

Merapi

Key Features

  • Responsive Design
  • Retina Ready Font Icons
  • WordPress 3.7+ Tested and Ready
  • Unlimited Color
  • Google Fonts Option
  • 8 post format Support (Standard, Gallery, Image, Quote, Chat, Status, Audio, Video)
  • SEO Optimized
  • HTML5 & CSS3
  • Sample Content Included
  • Video ready – custom metaboxes
  • Audio ready – custom metaboxes
  • Video – Audio Local Supported
  • Logo Upload Option
  • Shortcode Generator

Demo | Price: $35

Keilir

Keilir

Key Features

  • 6 blog formats
  • Detailed responsive design
  • 10+ bootstrap shortcodes
  • 6 custom widgets
  • Customer support
  • 300+ vector icons
  • Magnificent design

Demo | Price: $40

BuzzBlog

BuzzBlog

Key Features

  • Responsive Layout
  • Bootstrap based
  • Fontello / Font Awesome – retina ready icon set
  • Sample data included
  • Unlimited Colors
  • Translatable – WPML Ready
  • 11 predefined css styles
  • Sidebar manager
  • Categorized FAQ page
  • Built in categorized image gallery with 2, 3, 4, 5 columns and integrated lightbox
  • Header manager (Header background image / background color
  • Sidebar manager (Visibility)
  • Export / Import Theme Options
  • Unlimited Homepage Layouts
  • 500 + Google Fonts
  • Animated circular and rectangular progress bars
  • Social Media Buttons
  • Built-in Pagination
  • Built-in Slideshow
  • Embed Video Support
  • Lightbox Integration
  • Custom 404 Page

Demo | Price: $40

Showing ‘Selected’ Tweets Only In WordPress

Twitter

Social media in recent years took a huge leap from nothing to somebody to our one of the best friends. Among the entire social networking site, the one which got a huge love is nothing but a micro-blogging site: Twitter. People love it more as when compared to any other social network. You can found almost every second or third site using Twitter as one if social sharing medium either in form of Twitter Follow Button, Twitter Widget or more. Counting over on this, we think of what it will look like if one wants to show only “selected” tweets in their WordPress blog.

Suggested Reading: Best Twitter Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

Steps To Follow:

  1. Considering that you wish to add Twitter widget to your WordPress site with showing tweets containing certain keyword or hashtag.
  2. Go to Twitter Widgets site and click on the search tab.
  3. In the search query box enter from:justwp #WordPress. (Replace justwp with your own Twitter handle and #WordPress with your own selected keyword or hashtag)
  4. Save your widget and copy the widget code.
  5. Now on your WordPress site, go to Appearance » Widgets.
  6. Drag and drop a text widget to your sidebar and paste widget code inside it.
  7. Save your text widget and preview your website.
  8. Doing this and you are done.

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Adding WordPress Widgets In Post And Page

There comes a condition in front of you many times when you wish that your favorite sidebar will get added to your post and page content. But the confusion over on this exactly will be the best bet to perform.

amr shortcode any widget

Starting with you need to install a plugin name amr shortcode any widget first and once activated go to Appearance >> Widgets. Once completing this task, now drag and drop the widgets you want to display in your post or page into the Shortcodes sidebar, followed by adding the shortcode [do_widget id=widgetid] in a page or post.

Plugin in use: amr shortcode any widget

The amr shortcode any widget is a simply “utility” plugin which allows you to have any widget used in a page shortcode in any theme.

Steps To Follow:

  1. Test chosen widget works in normal sidebar first.
  2. Activate this plugin
  3. Go to Appearance > widgets and find “shortcode” sidebar
  4. Drag chosen widgets from configured sidebar to shortcodes sidebar. Save.
  5. Go to page where you want configured widget to appear
  6. enter one of: [do_widget widgetname] eg: [do_widget calendar] [do_widget “widget name”]. eg: [do_widget “tag cloud”] [do_widget id=widgetid] in a page or post
  7. If the plugin cannot work out what you want, it will show a debug prompt , click on the debug prompt and look for the id of your widget in the shortcodes sidebar. Try with the id.

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Best WordPress Plugins For Sidebar

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Having a ravished WordPress but sidebar still not making up to bar with missing ingredients over it does not make a right fit, isn’t? Well, you do often tried to find out not one, not two but plenty of options out there which you think makes a right combination to have it on your website sidebar, but still with having hundreds, actually thousands of options available, it nothing but makes you confused on deciding to which one to go with. There are social media widgets for sidebar, posts widgets, gallery widgets and lots more, but nothing but at the end, makes you think among the choices available which finally you can choose upon. With this article, I showcased all those best WordPress plugins for sidebar which I think will help you out to ease your confusion.

PHP Text Widget

The plugin modifies the standard Text Widget of your WordPress website letting it able to execute PHP code. The normal behaviour of the text widget will remain preserved so that on activation it will not end up in any kind of mess for you.

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Associated Posts

The plugin enables you to associate posts and pages with each other and allows you to display posts on any pages you like. All you have to do is to easily select posts in the “Edit Page” Mode and attach them to this page.

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Video Sidebar Widgets

Video Sidebar Widgets lets you display videos such as Vimeo, YouTube, MySpace Videos etc. The plugin consist of two widgets and one TinyMCE editor button.

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Latest Tweets

The plugin allows you to connect your Twitter account to it and the widget will display your latest tweets on your site.

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Posts in Sidebar

The plugin creates a new widget for your sidebar, which lets you display a list of post using author, category, tag, post format, custom post type along with other options available. Moreover, the plugin gives you an extra freedom to display the featured image, the tags and also a link to the archive page.

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Encyclopedia / Lexicon / Glossary / Wiki / Dictionary / Knowledge base

The plugin enables you to create, manage and present a knowledge base. It comes completely coalesced with your WordPress and fully compatible with all the other publishing tools you like.

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Feedweb

The Feedweb Plugin is a simple and easy way to promote and improve your blog. Once activated, the plugin allows you freely insert a customized widget into your selected posts. You can choose questions you want to ask your readers and get comprehensive and precise feedback about your blog.

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The Welcomizer

This Ajax powered plugin allows you to quickly animate your WordPress blog using jQuery effects.

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Tabbed Login Widget

The plugin allows you to have a login form in the sidebars of your WordPress powered blog.

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Flare

One of my favorite social media plugin although I never get a chance to use in any of my blogs yet but I highly recommend this to everyone. Flare is a simple yet eye-catching social sharing bar that gets you both followed and connect to get shared your content via posts, pages, and media types.

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WordPress Custom Sidebar

The plugin lets you edit sidebar content including posts in the admin area and assigning them from a dropdown menu to any post or page.

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StatComm Multisite Edition

The plugin provides real-time stats on your blog – either single or multisite – collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, operating systems and more.

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Make Your Site Social

The plugin allows you to make you site social by integrating online businesses with the most popular social networks and implementing powerful social plugins into a single, comprehensive solution.

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Standard Widget Extensions

The plugin is known for adding some nice features to your standard widgets. It’s effective for themes which use widgets in a standard manner.

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Easy Random Posts

The plugin allows you to quickly add a collection of random posts to any theme element.

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Juiz Last Tweet Widget

The plugin adds a widget to your sidebar to show your latest tweet(s) with style and without JavaScript.

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Fancy Gallery

The plugin manage and handle image galleries easily in your WordPress backend and present images to your website visitors. It associates linked images and galleries with the jQuery Fancybox.

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Easy Popular Posts

The plugin is an easy to use WordPress function which allows you to add popular posts to any WordPress theme.

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55 Most Useful Resources For WordPress Developers

I have been working on WordPress content management system from a pretty long time – then whether it would be for the development of mine own company brands or working on clients projects – I always opt WordPress platform on others. But, in all these years, the things that wondered me that collectively there are plenty of resources for WordPress developers are available on internet – but what are the BEST of them – although almost every single resources speaks its own story and they all have been worked and stand very properly. In this article, I have compiled the 55 most useful resources for WordPress developers.

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Starter Kits, Plugins, Widgets, Frameworks

When you planned on to develop a WordPress theme, widget or plugin, the best bet is to start by using a “blank” template file which not only save your time but also will give you a solid foundation. For this, the following are the best resources:

  • WP Starter Kit: WP Starter-Kit is a development template for rapidly building WordPress plugins. The framework provides some useful services and a clean way to structure your plugin while allowing you to build libraries of small functional components.
  • Plugin Starter: Plugin Starter is a new framework to help make WordPress plugin development easier. It is not a boilerplate or template that acts as a starting point for a plugin.
  • WordPress Widget Starter: The WordPress Widget Starter will let you create your own new widget with the help of the sample widget starter code.
  • Threaded Comments: It lets you do basic CSS styling for threaded comments.

WordPress Hosting

Since thousands of web hosts available out there offering Free, Shared, VPS, Dedicated as well as Managed WordPress hosting but the question at the top which one to go with. Although we strongly recommend anyone to go with Hostgator but still there are also secondary options available. The priority wise we recommend:

  • Hostgator: This is what our brands are using, all of them. We have been with Hostgator now for over three years and they are very good. They are available 24 by 7, round the clock. Details
  • BlueHost: Another good WordPress hosting provider. Offers number of options. Although we had not tried it directly yet but with having number of clients / past customers websites are on BlueHost. Details
  • DreamHost: DreamHost is good but in our list stands at third position. Having a hold on n number of customers around the world. Tried thrice but still it does not able to make a place in our heart and brain which say us to go with this hosting company. Details

Related Article: Comparison Of WordPress Hosting Providers

Free Themes Vs Premium Themes

On starting with your WordPress website development, this question strikes your head many times. Which one to go with – Free themes or Premium themes and the answer of this is in question itself? If you have good knowledge and understanding of coding and know that you can manage all the updates (which is require to fuel up your theme from time-to-time), then free themes will be the right choice for you. But, if you are interested in having someone who can help you whenever required and keep the track of all technical areas of your WordPress themes, then it would be better to opt for premium themes. In either option there are thousands of themes available in both categories.

Other Useful Resource:

Plugins

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There are not one, not two but thousands of useful plugins available – both free and premium in nature. The plugin will either be for anything, ranging from social media to commenting to security and lots more.

Tutorials Sites And Blogs

While during and after completion there would be n number of time you would be requiring tutorial sites and blogs, which helps you time-to-time.

  • WP Tuts+: Interesting WordPress Tutorials collection site.
  • WP Engineer: Huge collection of coding tutorials, tip and tricks.
  • Smashing Magazine: Offering some very in-depth tutorials and articles about WordPress.
  • JustWP.org: Sharing huge collection of tutorials, talks about themes, plugins and lots more.
  • WPMU: A multi-author site, bringing variety of useful stuff.

Snippets Collections

The number of websites (including ours) is offering useful snippets (the short codes) which you can use in your WordPress website to ease the job.

Other Valuable Resources

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