1.All in One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack is included in every list you find and with good reason. It allows you to configure your page titles, Meta tags and keywords as well as descriptions for either your whole blog or for individual page by individual page. Another advantage of this plugin is that it is compatible with other WordPress plugins and every beginner can handle it.

2.Permalinks Moved Permanently

A lot of bloggers choose a wrong permalink structure at the beginning of their blogging career. Once you have gathered a few experiences you might notice that the structure needs to be adapted and changed. Herein lays a problem. If you manually change your permalink structure your traffic will come to a standstill until your site is indexed again. This could take a while. This plugin is similar to the Redirect plugin that is also available from WordPress but rather than redirecting traffic it manages your permalink structure.

3.SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links is important as it helps you to interlink your subpages to one another. All you have to do is predefine keywords that the plugin should link to other articles that focus on similar subjects. This doesn’t just help your readers to find other relevant posts but it also helps Google to see how well structured your blog is and will eventually turn into a better ranking.

4.Nofollow Case by Case

The Nofollow Case by Case plugin allows you to decide which comment links, comment author links, pingbacks and trackbacks should be allowed to be follow and which should stay nofollow. As all comments are by default nofollow this plugin might come handy if you are a new blogger that wants to attract more traffic and encourage for readers to comment. This plugin should be configured as it otherwise converts all your nofollow links to follow links.

5.Robots Meta

Search engines crawl and index all your pages of your blog. When this occurs, it can happen that it creates duplicate content which you don’t want as Google could punish you for it. The Robots Meta plugin allows you to select which sections of your blog Google should crawl.

Akismet (Bonus)

This Plugin is from the makers of WordPress, and although it doesn’t have that much to do with SEO it is always on top of my list no matter what list I create as it is so handy that ever one should have it installed as it protects your blog from comment spam and pingbacks and trackback that you don’t want.

I hope that with the above SEO extensions you’ll be a lot faster and more successful in your blogging. For further questions and suggestions don’t hesitate to contact me.
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Margaret Saunders is a part time webhosting consultant for IXwebhosting a Web Hosting company based in Ohio.

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Announcement in the Mozilla blog reads -

It’s been just over a year since we introduced Add-on Collections, a way for anyone to create and share groups of add-ons for Firefox. Today we’re very excited to launch a major update to our add-ons gallery that makes it even easier to spot, save, and share your favorite add-ons.

With more than 64,000 collections created in the last 14 months, it can be difficult to find a unique URL for a new collection that isn’t already in use. We’ve changed the URL structure so that all of your collections are under your username and can be called anything you want,” Mozilla explained.

Users that have created add-on collections just to save them can now add any add-on directly to a purpose-built, private My Favorite Add-ons collection. Collections now are easier to follow, share and edit. The new buttons will show up wherever collections are listed. Mozilla says the directory navigation has also been improved.

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1. Adblock

1,208,268 users – Weekly installs: 116,962

Your favorite feature in Firefox finally comes to Chrome!  Block all advertisements on all web pages.  Your browser is automatically updated with additions to the filter: just click Install, then visit your favorite website and see the ads disappear.

2. Google Mail Checker

650,543 users – Weekly installs: 47,547

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox

3. IE Tab

486,512 users – Weekly installs: 41,069

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files (i.e. file:// URLs).

4. Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer

449,444 users – Weekly installs: 38,395

Automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.

5. FastestChrome

395,484 users – Weekly installs

Save time and enhance your productivity! Get quick definitions, auto-load next pages, search faster, and more. FastestChrome is easy to use. Simply look at the previews to the right. All features are configurable via options.

6. Google Translate

407,320 users – Weekly installs: 32,652

This extension translates entire webpages into a language of your choice with one click. This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you’re visiting. The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you’re on is different from the language you’re using for your Google Chrome interface. If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.

7. Google Dictionary

387,487 users – Weekly installs: 28,730

View definitions easily as you browse the web. With this one you can double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble. And also view the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.

8. Downloads

368,746 users – Weekly installs: 39,974

Access the Downloads window directly from the toolbar. Quickly access the downloads window by clicking the icon instead of taking the “long way” (Tools/Downloads). Very useful for those who download a lot.

9. Cooliris

348,990 users – Weekly installs: 37,845

Cooliris transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D Wall for searching, viewing and sharing the Web. This version of Cooliris works on Windows. Linux and Mac versions coming soon. Chrome will display a warning when you install any extension that includes a plugin. The Cooliris extension includes a plugin that requires access to your graphics card in order to render the high-performance 3D Wall.

10. Google Mail Checker Plus

302,429 users – Weekly installs: 23,878

Displays the number of unread messages in your Gmail and Google Apps inbox. Preview mail, read, delete, archive and mark as spam! 10 different icon sets, choose your favorite! Mail preview window, read mail without leaving the current tab. Delete, archive, spam, star and mark as read functionality. Desktop and sound notifications when new mail arrives. Google Apps For Your Domain support and more.

When it comes to Firefox extensions there are two drawbacks, one is hard to pick few best ones from the lot and other drawback is that some of the add-ons are created, but has no use and many are not updated so will not work with latest edition of Firefox. Well, it’s not the same in case of Chrome, as it carry less add-ons for now and are of great use.

Easier the compare with the usage numbers. Firefox possess more than two billion add-on downloads to date. The browser is five year old, Chrome’s most popular extension is used by 1.1 million people and gets 113,000 plus new downloads every week. The most popular add-on for Firefox gets about 884,000 downloads every week. It has been downloaded by 89 plus million people. So it looks like, scale wise, Chrome still has a lot of catching up to do.

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1. Galleria

Galleria jQuery Plugin

You can’t just miss out on Galleria when looking for excellent jQuery Sliding show techniques and tutorials. Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Interesting Features of Galleria

• Unobtrusive javascript
• Degrades gracefully if the browser doesn’t support javascript or CSS
• Lightweight (4k packed)
• Displays the thumbnail when the actual image is loaded
• CSS powered – create your own gallery style
• Super fast image browsing since the images are preloaded one at a time in the background
• Can scale thumbnails and crop to fit in thumbnail container
• Can be used with custom thumbnails and more

2. Image Scroller

Building a jQuery Image Scroller

Image scrollers employ the jQuery’s brilliant animation qualities and by and large incorporate loads of fun with code. Obviously there isn’t anything new about Image scrollers; but new versions of the same keeps popping up most of the time. Mainly these new developments are a result of the user initiation that is for example, for the current displayed image to swerve over a button to be pressed or any other specific action will be required. The new Scroller is completely different and this is designed to be autonomous that it starts scrolling once the loading of the page is done.

Interesting Features of Image Scroller

• Autonomous Scrolling;
• Widget is totally cross- browser.
• Interaction to enable an option to change the direction of the animation.

3. Gallerific

A jQuery plugin for rendering rich, fast-performing photo galleries

Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth.

Interesting Features Of Gallerific

• Smart image preloading after the page is loaded
• Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
• jQuery.history plugin integration to support bookmark-friendly URLs per-image
• Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)
• Keyboard navigation
• Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects
• API for controlling the gallery with custom controls
• Support for image captions
• Flexible configuration
• Graceful degradation when JavaScript is not available

4. Flickr Gallery

Open Source Flickr Photo Gallery Using jQuery

An amazing open source image gallery designed specifically to aid the concepts of jQuery, is the Flickrgallery, it even allows one to easily pullout the photos from the Flickr photoset directly. This plug-in makes the dynamic image gallery a reality. Some time users face lightbox issues when working on same page, so you can first learn how to resolve jQuery, Prototype, and lightbox issues to make them work on same page.

Interesting Features Of Flickr Gallery

• Pulls out images from the Flickr photoset easily.
• Compatibility to provide Light- box effect to small images.
• Easy to add or remove images from Flickr
• Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

5. Resizable Image Grid

Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery

Dragging and sliding your images are no longer confined to your desktop applications like the Picasa or similar apps.  You can make your image grid dream come true even on your web page, hats-off to the resizable image grid.

Interesting Features Of Resizable Image Grid

• Dragging & Sliding of Images on the web.
• Fun working with em unit

6. SlideViewer

jQuery Image Slider

Sorting or arranging the images and the photos on display on your webpage has become such an Easy task. Thanks to the jQuery intelligent option SlideViewer.

Interesting Features Of SlideViewer

• Listing of images.
• Creates of dynamic links, for easy accessing.
• Clicking next, the image will smoothly slide over to the next position.
• Option to customize animation, time for transition.

7. Supersized

Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

The image transition or the sliding is all taken to new heights. jQuery’s commitment in the web designing stream is further been imposed strongly by these full screen Image gallery, It’s completely hypnotizes you, Cos it makes you feel that you are almost running a desktop application.

Interesting Features Of Supersized:

• Image ratio is maintained while resizing to suit the browser.
• Navigation key permits Pause, play, forward & back options.
• Images are cycled around as slide shows.

8. GalleryView

Content-gallery plugin

A complete in-house solution from jQuery is their very own formula for successful Content-gallery visualization java script is the GalleryView. It serves a complete visual glory of animated view of the gallery. If you are working with WordPress then know to add featured content slider into WordPress using jQuery. Also note that if you are using jQuery 1.4.x, please update to GalleryView 2.1. A minor bug fix has been implemented for the new version of jQuery.

Interesting Features Of GalleryView

• Any HTML content can be displayed using this vibrant java Apps.
• Timing of the animation can be employed using timers plug-in.

9. PikaChoose

PikaChoose jQuery Image Gallery

Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well… all around easy. Creating an image gallery shouldn’t be a complex thing. I’ve created a new plugin that I’m packaging with PikaChoose called SliderJS.

Interesting Features of Pikachoose

• Easy navigation and auto play
• Easy to install and set up
• Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

10. Image Flow

Image Flow jQuery Plugin

The Apple bug has also successfully bitten our JQuery genius. A more of an inspiration on the likes of Apple’s Cover flow, this Java based scripts serves the very same effect completely flawless. Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging all possible in this amazing tool.

Interesting Features Of Image Flow

• Navigation possible with Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging.
• A free Application for any site.
• Just 11 KB (uncompressed mode) means it leaves a very small foot print.

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Steps To install Google Chrome Extension:

First, locate the Shortcut to the Chrome, browser, “right Click” on the icon and Click on “properties”.

In the “Properties” window you will spot the “Shortcut Tab” on the menu. On the address of the “Target”, You need to paste or type “Enable-extensions” , once you are done with it, Just click on “OK”. This kick starts your preparations and you are all set to get the desired extensions for Chrome.

Chrome Extension Installation:

Go to the Chrome Extension home page, to choose & install you desired extension. The available extension currently are “Gmail Checker”; “Google Reader” & “BuildBot Monitor”, every extension is presented with individual “Install” & “download Code” Links.

Pick on your desired installation and click “install” and when you done, click “OK” to complete the installation procedure.

After installing your desired extension, CHROME will resemble like what’s mentioned below. Look at the “Gmail Checker” & “BuildBot Monitor positioned beside each other at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Also checkout previously used methods to install extensions on Google Chrome.

These extensions will serve you to visualize the performance of your steely Chrome in a much better means than before.

Also learn about Google Chrome Extension for checking IP. Now your Chrome is all set to sizzle you with its extensions installed in your system. In case if you would desire to access or delete them in the future all you got to do is just type or paste  “chrome://extensions/” in the address bar and press enter, the extension page will be open. To uninstall any of the application, just hit “Uninstall” button and your needs are taken care.

We also developed Google Chrome Extensions for Gtalk which is also available on CNET and Chrome extension library.

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• Its Simplicity
• Trackback Feature
• Auto Ping Functionality
• Easy to Customise
• Variety of Design Themes Available
• Outstanding Plugin Functionality
• User-friendly and So on

With increasing popularity WordPress web hosting has become common as many are choosing wordpress as the base platform for their project. In fact, toady you will find many .gov and .org sites are based on wordpress. Here, I have collected Top 10 Government Sites Powered By WordPress.

1. America.gov

America.gov is produced by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), which engages international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values to help create an environment receptive to U.S. national interests. IIP communicates with foreign opinion makers and other publics through a wide range of print and electronic outreach materials published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. IIP also provides information outreach support to U.S. embassies and consulates in more than 140 countries worldwide.

2. Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Budget Office blog is maintained by the director Douglas W. Elmendorf. He oversees the agency’s work in providing objective, insightful, timely, and clearly presented information about budgetary and economic issues. The Director also supervises the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates produced by the agency, and he testifies frequently before Congressional committees. In managing the agency, the Director is responsible for a staff of about 235 people and an annual budget of roughly $40 million.

3. Broadband.gov

Blogband is the official blog of the United States National Broadband Plan. A great way to create a connected America is to involve all Americans in the development of a National Broadband Plan. The FCC welcomes civic participation, and also look forward to more interaction through this website as they new features and functions. Through this blog, broadband tries to help spread the word about the available and imminent plans and promote what FCC is doing to educate people about it. Blogband is also one of the FCC’s major ventures into blogging and social media.

4. National Center for Preservation Technology & Training

NCPTT protects America’s historic legacy by equipping preservation professionals with progressive technology-based research and training. NCPTT advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the Center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships. NCPTT serves the community that fostered its creation and, in turn, serves the nation and the world.

5. Speaker Nancy Pelosi

This blog belongs to Nancy Pelosi who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected first woman to serve as Speaker of the House.  Speaker Pelosi has proved to be a strong, pragmatic leader, unifying her House Democratic caucus more than any other leader in the last 50 years to pass critical legislation moving America in a New Direction after eight years of Republican rule. With Speaker Pelosi at the helm, the 110th Congress has built an impressive record that has focused on the priorities of the American people and brought needed change to Washington and across the country.

6. Official Site of U.K’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown

This is the official site of the U.K Prime Minister’s (Gordon Brown) office. It is the complete source of information on Prime Minister’s performance and activity. The news feature will continue to be central to the site, allowing you to keep up to date with Prime Minister’s work. The Number10 TV channel also provide a wealth of video material, photos updated quickly to the Number 10 Flickr channel, and he will also be posting frequent messages through Twitter to keep you in touch with his day to day activities. With this site he discover what are the current issues faced by the country and locates solution to it.

7. Brazilian Culture Ministry

It is the official web site of the Brazilian Culture Ministry. Apart from daily updates, the sites shares huge information on Project support, Bids and Awards, meetings and forums and videos.

8. Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library’s mission.

9. Directgov | innovate

Directgov is an Directgov | innovate developer site to provide an innovative, collaborative, open source environment for Government and developers to interact, share new ideas and showcase work. The success of this space is dependent on open participation and the ability to have conversations around best use of government data, development of applications and use of new and innovative technologies.

10. Power of Information Taskforce Report

This site offers report on Power of Information Taskforce. The Taskforce brought together a group from government, industry and the third sector who all share a passion for using ICT to enable better public service delivery. All members have contributed in a personal capacity rather than on behalf of their respective organizations and this independence of approach is reflected in our conclusions. The group has itself worked largely through web 2.0 tools – communicating as a web group, publishing our progress via a blog and RSS feed, and producing this draft report on a wiki.

All these sites are powered by WordPress and doing a great job out there. Do share other wordpress based websites (only .gov) if you come across. Meanwhile, if you are a blogger then let’s join hand together via Blogger on Twitter.

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How to hide categories from WordPress Feeds

1.In your current theme(template) files, open functions.php

2.Copy the below mention code in your functions.php file

<?php
function my_cat_exclude($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set('cat','-ID1,-ID2,-ID3');
}
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','my_cat_exclude');
?>

add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,'my_cat_exclude’);
?>

Where ID= your categories ID’s

Note: If  you don’t want to digg into code, use this awesome plugin named as Advanced Category Excluder which not only hides the posts from displaying on home page but can also hides the posts from search results, your RSS feed, your category, your recent post, and from web crawlers.

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Today we are going to discuss a common hacks to hide a categories posts from Home page without any plugin. Follow the following listed process to hides the categories from posts

A normal index.php page of WordPress theme (i took a default sandbox theme) looks like

<?php get_header() ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

Post the below described code after the container (for your theme you can try to post it after header)

<?php if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-ID");
}
?>

For excluding more than one categories use this code

<?php if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-ID1,-ID2,-ID3,ID4");
}
?>

Where ID= your categories ID’s

Note: If  you don’t want to digg into code, use this awesome plugin named as Advanced Category Excluder which not only hides the posts from displaying on home page but can also hides the posts from search results, your RSS feed, your category, your recent post, and from web crawlers.

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Broken Link Checker is a WordPress plugin which automatically checks all the post and pages for errors in links and images. It will auto notify about the errors at the WordPress Dashboard. This plugin checks  for the errors within defined interval of time(you can change the time interval from the plugin options)

Dashboard Demo of the Broken Link Checker

Editing and Management of Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker – Plugin Options

• Plugin Page
• Developer Page

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In all the above issues IE6 PNG Transparency is the most unpleasant and irritating. On general websites we can fix these issues with the the help of script that adds near-native PNG support with alpha opacity to IE 5.5 and 6. Now the question moves into WordPress, though you can manually fix that but its quit tricky. HITS- IE6 PNGFix is a WordPress plugin for the persons who doesn’t have any knowledge of scripts and css and wants to fix the PNG Transparency issues in few clicks. This plugin will automatically adds the codes to fix the PNG Transparency in IE6.

• You can easily add and install the HITS- IE6 PNGFix from the Plugins>Add New options in the dashboard

• You can configure the plugin from the Settings>HITS- IE6 PNGFix

• You can choose the PNG Fix Method from the drop down options of Twin Helix v1.0 ,Twin Helix v2.0 and Unit PNG fix

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