Smart sharing adds a floating box with social media buttons in single posts,using this smart sharing plugin you can easily add your own custom codes buttons anywhere in the webpage. This plugin provide you an additional flexibility to read the post and share the article on various social media networks.

Smart Sharing plugin lets you maximize the power of your current readership to get you more votes in social media.

If you have social media buttons placed at the top of your blog posts, and your user reads the entire article, then they will have to scroll all the way to the top to share the article on various social media networks.

In a way by placing the social media buttons at the top, you are discouraging your loyal users from sharing this article. Similarly, if you have social media buttons placed at the bottom of your blog posts, then you are expecting every user to read the entire post.

What if this user simply skims rather than reading the entire post. They will never get to the very bottom, thus you lost a valuable vote from a user who actually visited your post.

This plugin adds a scrolling box with social media icons on single post pages, so as your reader scrolls down the page, they will continuously see the share button.

Source : http://www.wpbeginner.com/smart-sharing-plugin-for-wordpress/

Receiving the Web Traffic is the very essential part for any website .The most important aspect of owning a website is the amount of visitors you receive.With WordPress this can be done easily by using some usefull plugins without  any knowledge about the SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Here are some popular SEO friendly plugins .Using these Plugins to your blog  should help you to building traffic for your website.

All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, SEO Friendly Images

The All in One SEO Pack ,Google XML Sitemaps and SEO Friendly Images are commonly used SEO plugins .The  All in SEO Pack is the most popular plugin for wordpress which comes as default in WordPress.

Sociable

Sociable is a plugin that capable of  automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages, and in your RSS feed. There are 99 different sites to choose from. Giving readers a way to share your content on social bookmarking sites is a great way to catch the attention of new readers and increase traffic to your site

Headspace2 SEO

Headspace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to define tags, keywords, descriptions, page titles, and more for posts, pages, and categories on your site. It supports many add-ons as well, like Google Analytics, Statcounter, Feedburner Stats Pro, and CrazyEgg heat map.

SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site. It can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories, and tags. You can also set up your own keywords with a set of matching URLs to get your blog interlinked.

SEO Slugs

This WordPress traffic builder plugins removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, and ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO. Removing these common words and phrases makes your post titles more search engine friendly.

The slug is generated once you save your post, so you can always view or change it before publishing.

WordPress is already famous for its flexibility. With the right theme and plugins, you can turn a WordPress blog into almost anything that you need, such as a photo gallery.

Other than the teaching-learning process, another important part of education is the assessment process – to evaluate how well the students understand the lessons. The most common form of assessment are quizzes. So it’s only natural that this distance learning site that I’m working on should also be able to assess student understanding by adding quizzes to a blog.

The Quest For A Quiz Plugin

The challenge is finding the plugin to add the proper quizzes to your blog, one that is able to:

1. Create multiple choice questions.
2. Create as many quizzes and questions as we need.
3. Explain the answer to the student after the test.
4. Give an instant grade based on the test result.

You can search and install the plugin easily from the “Plugin > Add New” menu of your blog’s sidebar.

After installation, go to the “Settings > Quizzin Settings” menu to customize several general settings.

The settings page allows you to put all questions in a single page by checking the box, or spread the questions into several pages with the box unchecked. Users can also choose to hide or show the answer (at the end of the test or immediately after each answer).

Don’t forget to click the save button if you make some changes.

To Quiz Or Not To Quiz…

The next step is to create the quizzes by visiting “Tools > Manage Quiz” menu.

Click “Create New Quiz” to add one. In my experiment, I only tried to create two, but I think you can add as many quizzes to your blog as you need.

Give the name of the Quiz and the description. For example: “English Test #3 for Grade 1”

Then you can customize the “Final Screen“. This is what the test taker will see after he/she finishes the quiz. Similar to a blog post, Quizzin allows you to add pictures, video, sound and other multimedia files to this final screen.

The template comes with a pre-made final screen, but if you want to customize it further, there are some variables that you can use written below. Click “Save” after you finish.

…That Is The Question

Go back to the “Manage Quiz” page to add the questions.

Click the “Create New Question” link to add a question. Repeat this step to add more questions. To display the questions, just put the given code into any post.

Add the questions, choices of answers, and determine which one of the options is the correct one. There are only four choices of answer but if you need more, you can add a new answer by clicking on the small link below.

If you want to explain why the correct answer is correct, put some explanation in the box. This explanation can be displayed to the test taker if you choose to do so in the settings above. Having explanations for the mistakes will be a very good way to learn for students.

Click “Save” and you will be back to the add question page.

After you have finished with all the questions and answers, you are ready to put them in the blog post. Just create a new post and insert the code.

This is the result with the choice of answers. After choosing one, test takers can click the “Show Result” button.

And the result of their quiz will be displayed immediately after they finish taking the quiz

. There’s also the right answer and the explanation below.

Displaying recent posts in your WordPress is a norm nowadays on every other WordPress or Blogger blog, Now you can use any of these codes / methods to get yourself a nice recent posts list for last 10 “X number of posts “ .

1. Recent Posts Using the wp_get_archives function

<?php wp_get_archives(‘title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=10′); ?>

 

This would list recent 10 posts , in their own <li> tags , you can use this after post-meta or the_content () in single.php to list recent posts after every Post , or use it in any of your Sidebars.

2. Recent Posts Using the WordPress query function to query the Posts database 

<?php query_posts(‘showposts=5′); ?>
<ul>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

This piece of code can be used anywhere in your theme , as it is self sufficient and it will display recent 5 posts, change the value of “showposts=5” variable to whatever no. of posts you want

3. Recent Posts widget / Plugins for the novice and beginners

If you are a noob at wordpress and still want to get the recent posts functionality , then try the various plugins available to do the work for you. You  can use any of these ..

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=recent+posts

OR Use the Add plugin option in your WordPress Dashboard, and search for recent posts  and you can install the plugin from their directly and easily .

Out of the 3 mentioned above I would recommend using first 2 , as they give you more control but only if you know some PHP and programming , otherwise go for the plugins ( it’s the easy way out ! ).

Speed up your WordPress Blog in the quickest and best possible manner including Server side and client side improvements via this plugin named Web Optimizer, from the description on the plugin page and it’s presence on the Google code repository It  made me firmly believe that this plugin will surely get the task of Speeding up and Boosting slow loading times a easy job for any novice user , as it has all the characteristic of a Server side and client side optimization routine .

On Server side

it compresses pages and uses gzip compression if supported  , also It tries to make CSS sprites which get loaded quicker on the client side , it also employs various Apache hacks and htaccess tricks to get the task done .

On Client side

it minifies CSS and JS and also optimizes HTML

Feature list is exhaustive and enthralling , take a look and be tempted to use it

Note –

If you use Wp-Cache or Wp Super cache disable them before using this and they may conflict as both essentially do the same on server side stuff while this Web optimizer does various client side optimization too .

Simple 1-click installation

• overall website acceleration in 1 minute;
• express install requires no advanced knowledge;
• default options guarantee optimal performance;
• monitor for traffic / visitor’s time savings;
• average speed up is 300-500% (up to 1000% or 98 by YSlow).

Powerful and fast algorithm

• caching for minimized files;
• caching for gzipped files;
• fast HTML code parsing (3-10ms);
• server side load decrease (by number of requests).

CSS / JS files merging

• dozens of JavaScript files are combined into 1;
• dozens of CSS files are combined into 1;
• libraries can be excluded;
• inline code and external scripts are included by default;
• all code is minified and compressed.

Unobtrusive JS and dynamic loading

• by default scripts are moved to </head>;
• scripts can be moved to </body>;
• scripts can be loaded on onDOMready;
• counters can be moved to </body>;
• ads can be moved to </body>;
• no blocking scripts!

HTML minify / strip comments

• simple and fast regexp for HTML code;
• comments can be striped;
• one-string mode for HTML code.

Earlier flush of content (first 1-2 Kb)

• can help for CPU intensive websites.

CSS Tidy / simple regexp for CSS

• CSS Tidy 1.4 to minify CSS;
• if no CSS Sprites and data:URI simple regexp is used;
• minimization up to 50%.

JSMin / Packer / YUI Compressor for JavaScript

• YUI Compressor if java is installed;
• JSMin by default (with conditional compilation);
• Packer for non-gzip systems;
• minimization up to 50%.

GZIP for HTML / CSS / JS / ICO files

• via .htaccess if it is possible;
• via PHP for HTML / CSS / JS (ob_gzhandler);
• static gzip to prevent CPU wasting;
• additional check via cookie;
• minimization up to 85%.

Optimized .htaccess for Apache

• mod_gzip;
• moddeflate (+ modfilter);
• mod_mime;
• mod_rewrite;
• mod_headers;
• mod_expires.

Client side caching for CSS / JavaScript / HTML files

• 10 years for CSS / JavaScript;
• GET param to clear cache;
• optional HTML caching;
• conditional caching (ETag);
• customizable time for HTML.

Client side caching for static assets

• docs / video / others;
• via .htaccess.

Server side caching for minified CSS / JS / HTML files

• static gzip;
• static combine & minify;
• prepared HTML file.

CSS Sprites (background images merging)

• up to 3 images from 100+;
• optimized via smush.it;
• no initial Sprites required.

data:URI (+ IE7- hacks)

• for images up to 24 Kb in size;
• .cur, .htc, .eot, .ttf files excluded;
• * html hack for IE6;
• *+html hack for IE7;

Multiple hosts for static assets

• HTML images + CSS images;
• 15+ default hosts;
• optional auto-check for availability;
• need only DNS records and aliases in server configuration.

CSS Images optimization (via smush.it)

• PNG can be reduced by 30%;
• GIF can be reduced by 60%;
• JPEG can be reduced by 20%.

PHP4/5 — Apache module or CGI

• tested on Denwer;
• tested on VPS;
• tested on shared hosting;
• tested on collocation;
• PHP4 backward compatibility.

Auto-update

• additional security;
• no need to download & install;
• all options are saved.

You have a blog that raises lots of comments but has few feed subscribers , then i think it would be better to show off your comment count and now We have a unique plugin that displays your total comment count as a small graphic chicklet , similar to feedburner’s reader count chicklet . This WordPress plugin enables you to show your comment count with no external website reference as the image and code for chicklet resides on your own server ( so it’s fast ) . Enjoy changing colors and playing with various options to build your own customized chicklet !

You can get it here at planetozh

Here , is a cool new look for your WordPress administration area , in essence it is just a plugin which changes the overall CSS of the dashboard and administration area , It works like a charm and you get a cool new look instantly , Developed and maintained by OrderedList ,here are some snapshots of what his plugin does to your WordPress administration area  .

1. The DashBoard

2. Manage posts page

3. A  Write Post page

Download the Plugin

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