Sunday 4 May 2014

20 Best Must Have WordPress Plugins

WordPress is without doubts the most professional and outstanding blogging platform, it meets everyone’s needs from an individual blogger to a company and from a company to a corporation. WP has become a business and a platform which provides A to Z resources for making your website looking the most beautiful on the web. However, you need to take extra care of your overall WordPress content management system, because this is all in your hand and you can do many tasks to make your WP site user friendly and awesome i.e security measures, search engine optimization and the designing etc. This post will cover all the basic WP tasks by using the best plugins available for free in the default Plugins library. I’m using all these plugins myself for maintaining my blog’s security, SEO and speed of my blog. So I’ll share these must have plugins with you in order to improve your WP site/blog


Top 20 WordPress Plugins every blogger must use:

The plugins list I’m giving you here is used by me for last 2 years and I update the plugins time to time as well as I remove and add the plugins if they have any problems, so you can do the same yourself. However, the plugins I’m sharing on this page are producing great results for me, so you can use them without any fear. Moreover, these plugins will cover the following aspects of your WordPress website:
I’ll mention the category of the plugin with the name of the plugin for example if a plugin is used for SEO then there will be (SEO) in the bracket. Now Here is the list of the plugins one by one.

1. Akismet (For Spam comments)

This plugin is installed by default when you get your WP dashboard, however, you can activate it as soon as possible, it will protect your blog from spam comments and will save so much of your time. You must activate it by first going to get a key from Akismet website and then verify it.

#2. All in One SEO Pack (SEO)

This plugin covers all of your search engine optimization tasks for WordPress websites, you can install it for free, it will set your MeTa tags, description for home page as well as single posts. You can also make its setting according to your needs i.e if you want to noindex any specific page or you want to change the post frequency or priority for any content. Overall, it will cover most of the SEO for your WP site.

#3. Chap Secure Login (Security)

This plugin actually hides your password during the login to your WP dashboard, most of the WP sites are hacked using tools to catch the password, and this plugin therefore, make it very difficult for hackers to see your password.

#4. Facebook Page Promoter Lightbox (Social Media)

This plugin is very helpful if you want to increase your Facebook fan page likes/members via your blog/site, This plugin actually shows your FB fan page like box in a pop up box to the new visitors, you can make its setting to any period of time you want. Very useful for sites having less likes in the starting.

#5. Google XML Sitemap for Videos (SEO)

The best plugin for creating video sitemap on WordPress, you must install this plugin if you have YouTube videos embedded into your site, this plugin will make your job super easier. Here is the guide how to use Google XML sitemap for Videos.

#6. Google XML Sitemaps (SEO)

The sitemap for each and everything of your site on WP will be created and sent to search engines by this plugin (Google XML Sitemaps), this plugin is already used by millions of webmasters. So do use it from the starting.

#7. Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin (For avoiding spamming)

Spam comments is one of the worst things in WP, most of the time people use your comment form to post spam comments having their dirty links automatically, so you can easily stop this by using above plugin, this will actually add a Captcha which is only readable by humans, so no one will be allowed to post spam comments automatically using any bot/software.

#8. Login LockDown (Security)

This plugin actually does a simple job i.e making sure someone can’t try to login multiple times, you can only allow 1 to 3 time login attempts to each IP, so they failed to login then this plugin will block that IP for a specific time as per your setting.

#9. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) (Performance)

This Plugin will run a scan and will let you know how much memory and speed time does every plugin take while your site is being loaded in the browser, so you can remove some complicated plugins in order to make your site more speedy and fastly loadable.

#10. Primary Feedburner (Email Marketing)

This is a necessary plugin which will make your email list for your business, you can simply install & activate it and then copy and paste your FeedBurner URL in the box where it is asked, now from the widget area just add it in the sidebar of your site, visitors will subscribe to your upcoming posts via email.

#11. Replace WP-Version (Security)

This simple replaces your WordPress version, because mostly hackers try to find your WP version at the backend and then find the bugs in the plugins or somewhere and then attack, so this will change the WP version and hackers won’t be able to find the actual WP version you are currently using.

#12. Robots Meta (SEO)

If you want to noindex or nofollow any links, tags, Archives, categories etc which make duplicate content then you must use Robots Meta plugin to do this job.

#13. TablePress (Designing & Customization)

This plugin is best for you if you want to use Tables in WordPress pages or posts. You can simply create tables and then include wherever you want.

#14. W3 Total Cache (Speeding up)

This is one of the must have plugins, this will speed up your WordPress site and users will see a very fast site during browsing. It will cache everything i.e Database queries, Objects, Media, images etc when they are once viewed from a user’s computer, so it won’t let the browser request to the server again and again and using this plugin you’ll improve the loading time of your site by 20% to 40% very easily.

#15. Wordfence Security (Security)

This is another great plugin that looks after all security factors of your site i.e plugins, databases, malware attacks and many things more, you must use this plugin in order to be always on safe side.

#16. WP Smush.it (Speeding Up)

This is one more plugin that speeds up your blog by compressing your images and reducing their size to a reasonable amount. You can improve your blog speed by using this simple plugin.

#17. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (Relevant Posts)

This plugin is the best when you want to show the relevant posts below each post of your blog, this will display related stories to the visitors with a thumbnail of that post, if you want to increase your Page views then this plugin is the best solution for you.

#18. BackUpWordPress (Backups)

After all of your customization, optimization and security measures, you still need to always have a ready backup of your site, so whenever something goes wrong, you can easily restore the backup. This plugin does the job for you.

#19. Combine CSS (Speeding up)

This plugin will simply combine all of your CSS files into one, so the browser will only read the one file and will apply it on the page. It will save a lot of time and the page speed will be up.

#20. Combine JS (Speeding Up)

This plugin does a simple job by combining all of your JavaScript files into one file, so it makes it easier for browser to only one time request a single file and render it.

#21. Floating Social Bar (Social Media Sharing)

This plugin is also necessary because it will let the visitors share your posts over major social media networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. So you must install it as well.
Final Advice: 
I use all these plugins currently on my blog and they are working just fine for me. However, you can install all of them or some of them according to your own requirements. If you want to just install any of the above plugins then copy the name of the plugin and search in the plugin directory on your WP dashboard, you’ll find the plugin, now just click install and then activate that plugin. Its all very easy as 1,2,3. I hope you’ll get great results soon.
Kindly share this post with all of your friends on Social media and ask your questions in the comment form if you have any question related to this post or related to this blog.Thank you for Reading! Happy WordPressing :)

Sarfraz

5 Best Websites for Buying WordPress Themes


There should not be any further doubt that WordPress is the most commonly used CMS (Content Management System) for creating any type of website. Whether its a small blogger or a corporation, WordPress has become everyone’s #1 choice to start their business website with. After starting up a site/blog on WP, the site owner looks for the best and unique design which meets their specific requirements. And that’s why, WordPress designers have built thousands of premium themes which one can buy from different marketplaces as well as particular websites. So here on this page, I’ll share top 5 places from where you can easily buy the best theme which suits your WP site. You can buy your desired theme for your WP website very easily and these themes are something you’d really love in fact.

The first point to be noted is that; Premium WordPress themes are more professional than any other platform, they are the best in design as well as the functionality they have make them unique among others.
The second thing to be noted that you can never establish a long term business or website with a free WP theme, you must buy a premium theme if you want to present your website in a unique way. Using Free WordPress themes are not recommended by me. Because they are not well-coded, not well designed and more importantly not SEO optimized by default, while when you pay to someone, they provide you a great thing in return.
The third point to be noted that; There are some specific companies who have their own websites and they sell their WP themes directly to their customers, while there are marketplaces which are open for all the companies and designers, and every can offer their theme for selling using these marketplaces. So I’ll give you 5 best places to buy premium WP themes, this includes companies as well as market places.

#1. Themeforest.net (MarketPlace)

Themeforest.net is the best and largest marketplace for WordPress themes, there are hundereds of designers who create unique WP themes and offer them for selling using this great platform, not only WP themes, but you can also find HTML templates,Blogger Templates, Joomla Themes, different CMS scripts and many other kind of website themes and templates using themeforest.net. You can find a theme for your WP blog/site of any category. Just make a search if you are not able to find the theme easily.

#2. WooThemes .com

This website actually provides you a large number of WP themes that may match your “Idea”. You can have many categories over there to search your desired themes from. While browsing this website you can find WP themes for Ecommerce websites, themes for blogs, themes for companies and many other kind of quality themes.  You can also use their WooCommerce plugin for free which handles all of your E-shopping tasks.

#3. StudioPress.com (MarketPlace)

This is another market place to buy and Sell WordPress themes, you can find so many themes for your WP blog. Whether you have a business website or a personal blog, this website will provide you themes related to your category or your business. Do try it out if you want to have awesomeness and professionalism.

#4. MyThemeShop.com

This is another WP themes provider which is a company actually and provides a list of professoinal WP themes, you can browse their themes by visiting the website at “Mythemeshop.com”, I’ve already bought all of their themes and I’m using them on my blogs. So I’ll highly recommend you to get your theme from their if you want to have SEO friendly themes for your blog/site, here is the link to visit this website:

#5. Theme-junkie.com

This is the last website in our list which you can visit to buy professional and Search Engine friendly themes for your WP website. I’m using their theme “Freshlife” on my website “onlineustaad.com”, and its working just fine in terms of pasibility and simplicity. While it’s looking professional too. If you ever needed a great WP theme then must visit the above website.
I just shared few themes providers which I’ve used personally myself, but for a complete list of marketplaces you can visit this link to find more websites:
Moreover, you can search on Google.com for finding more websites to buy WordPress themes just by entering this pharse “Best marketplaces to buy wordpress themes”, however, as I mentioned the above listed websites are used by myself and I’m satisfied with their service. You can go your way which you understand is better for you.
Let me know if you have any question regarding this post or you just want to say something in Advance :)

Sarfraz

How to create a video sharing website like YouTube?

I few months ago started a video sharing website now may be accessed at “Tuts2Learn.com”, which has been of course one of the hedaches for me to do :). However, I managed all the things and kicked it up within few days since I thought the idea of creating such website. Since, I started T2L, many people requested me to share the steps I took while creating that website or I should make a video tutorial on it. But to be really honest, I didn’t get time to make video tutorials on it, but I just thought I should share the steps with you which are must in order to create a video sharing website same like YouTube, where users will be able to create an account and upload media files such as Videos, images and etc. While, all video sharing sites have social networking features as well, because users need to send messages to one another and can make discussions with the video producers, so this is actually called Social media network as well as video sharing platform.


I must remind you one thing that, if you want to create such website by yourself then you must be a higher level web developer who knows how to code in PHP with itsadvance level programming and OOP. And a single developer can not  do it alone, there must be a team of developers to create such websites/scripts, because there are many parts in a script to be coded in PHP. However, average developers always try to find already existing scripts to create such websites. There are some well-known scripts which are used to create video sharing websites which look like YouTube, dailymotion and metacafe etc. Here we’ll discuss everything you need to know in order to create a VS website.

What are the requirements to create a Video sharing website?

Now lets have a look at the steps and requirements you need to create a video sharing website having social media networking features and a lot more. Please keep in mind that, video sharing sites are not normal sites, they are created by using some advanced technologies, and unlike other sites, they need more bandwidth, more desk space, more plugins and utilities to be installed before a video is rendered or uploaded. So make sure your concept is cleared before starting this kind of thing.
Requirement # 1: 
The first and initial thing for video sharing website is “Web Hosting“, you can’t start your VS site with normal shared web hosting, you’ll have to buy a VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting for your video sharing site. This is necessary, because the shared hosting can’t handle all the tasks at once such as uploading videos, encoding those videos in the background, Multiple uploads at once, playing the videos in the player to many users at once and there are many more tasks the server does at the same time. So the normal shared web hosting will get down automatically when it fails to manage the operations going on at different sides of the whole content management system. So finally, this is very necessary to buy a VPS or dedicated server for your video site which can handle of all the operations easily without going the server down for every single day.
Requirement # 2: 
The second thing to start a VS site is to have the appropriate script for it, there are many built-in scripts for video sharing websites which you can install over your server to create a YouTube clone website or you can create even a unique one with your own IDEA. In all cases, you must have a video sharing script to start the website with. There are PAID scripts :) as well as free scripts, but I’ll recommend you to use Paid Scripts, because they can provide you support and help if you need it later. The list of the free and paid scripts will be shared in this post later.
Requirement # 3: 
The third requirement for creating a VS site is; Your hosting server must have some additional features which are must for video sharing script, because the video sharing script actually doesn’t work if some of the plugins are not installed and some of the PHP configurations are not set up. The list of the plugins (Must be installed to run your VS site properly) are these but not limited to i.e ( I used these one actually):
  • FFMPEG – Used to convert videos from different format to FLV when they are uploaded
  • PHP CLI – Used to convert the videos in background which doesn’t affect the site
  • FLVTool2 – Used to repair FLV videos for better streaming in the media player
  • MP4Box – Used to convert MP4 videos for better streaming in the media Player
These are some PHP configurations in the server you must make in order for the video script to work properly:
  • safe_mode = off
  • max_execution_time = 1000 (recommended to prevent timeouts during video upload/conversion)
  • session.gc_maxlifetime = 14000 (recommended to prevent session expires during video upload)
  • open_basedir = (no value)
  • output_buffering = on
  • upload_max_filesize = 500M (recommended maximum video upload size in MB)
  • post_max_size = 500M (recommended maximum video upload size in MB)
So after you make the above configurations in your server (usually Cpanel) then the video script will properly work and the videos will be uploaded by the users and will be played by others.
After the above explanation, now we can make a summary for what we actually need to start a video sharing website very easily and quickly if we want, here is everything together you need to have before starting the website:
  • Web Hosting (Must be VPS = Virtual Private Server) 
  • Video Sharing script (Must be installed after you purchase VPS) 
  • Install Necessary Plugins (FFMPEG, PHP CLI, FLVTool2, MP4Box etc) 
  • PHP Configuration in the Server (As Mentioned above) 
Some web hosting companies provide you built-in setting for starting a video sharing website, after getting the web hosting you’ll just have to install the video sharing script and the website will be working instantly. But these companies are rare.

The List of Web Hosting Providers for Video sharing sites:

Here are some websites which I think are the best for you if you ever wanted to start your first video sharing website, these are actually considered the best for VPS hosting, so you can check their packages and plans:
  • Arivxe.com (Best for VPS hosting)
  • Controlweb.com (Best for Dedacted & VPS)
  • BlueHost.com (For both)
  • VideoBam.com (Particular for Video sharing hosting)
You can choose any of the above web hosting providers for starting up your own YouTube clone website within few days. The first two companies are recommended by me for Video sharing websites.

The List of the Free & Paid Video sharing scripts:

Now after you bought a web hosting, you’ll need to have a Video Sharing script ready to start your website, There are many scripts available online on the web for starting a VS site, but some of them are paid, while few others are free to use. Here is the list of some:
  • Clip-bucket.com & .net (The most used free VS Script)
  • PhpMotion.com (The second most used free VS Script)
  • Clip-share.com (A paid script but great script)
There are many other free scripts out there in the market, but I’d only recommend you to use the above three ones, because the rest scripts have a lot of bugs and errors which can not be resolved by an average developer easily.

How I created Tuts2Learn.com?

First of all I thought to create a video sharing website for Pakistani users, due to YouTube was blocked in Pakistan by the Government (Which is still blocked), and after seven days of the idea, I implemented it in the shape of (Tuts2learn.com). I just searched on the internet to find the script, but finally I came to know about a website called (controlweb.com) which is actually owned by (Clip-bucket.com) and CB is owned by (Tune.PK), so I just purchased the web hosting (VPS) from them and they installed everything for me. That’s how, I easily created this website. However, later on, I changed some of the files according to my requirements and I got a Dashboard for managing the website after the installation had been completed. I’m using (Tune.PK) script on this website which is freely available at (clip-bucket.com).
Over to You: 
I’ve tried to give you each and everything for creating a video sharing website, this is now up to you, how and when you want to start your own video sharing website. However, if you got any question or have some suggestions then you are always welcomed to start a discussion below the post in the comment section. Thank you for reading this long post! 

Sarfraz

How to apply & withdraw money from Skrill

Skrill is formally known as Moneybookers. Just like Payoneer and Paypal it is the most reliable and faster payment transaction method. It allows the users send and receive payments around the globe with the help of an online deposit account (also called e-wallet). In your personal e-wallet you can transfer or receive skrill to skrill amounts, which is by all means better than sending or receiving cheque, money order or wire transfers. we’ll be sharing every step on this page in order to make you understand about the procedure to use Skrill in Pakistan for your online payments and transactions.



A little about Skrill Moneybookers:

The owner of moneybookers is Skrill Limited, a registered United Kingdom company of Money Service Buiness. The Financial Conduct Authority is responsible to manage, regulate the processing and licensing of Skrill around the globe. With Skrill, you can send and receive amounts around the globe in more than 40 different currencies. Isn’t it amazing to operate and transact with our clients or freelance contractors around the globe in their own currencies? Yes it definitely is, Skrill is a well supportive and quicker mode of payment, it takes only a minute to send and receive amounts using this medium.

Applying at Skrill:

Applying for a Skrill account is quite easy. You just have to follow these simple tips to ensure that your account gets activated and verified in a shorter time frame.

Step#1:

First you have to sign-up for an account with correct username, personal details, home address, contact number and other information inserted:

Step#2:

Once the singing-up process is completed, you would be taken by the system to your personal Skrill dashboard. Here let me tell you that you cannot send or receive any amount until you have verified the account.

Step#3:

The verification process consists of three simple ways; first they would verify your contact number by calling you or sending a verification code, which you have to insert back to the website, secondly you would have to attach either a credit card or bank account for verification, while the third process is they would send a letter with secret code to your home address.
Note: After creating an account, you must first verify your email to further edit your account.

Step#4:

Once you receive the letter at home, unfold it and insert the hidden code back to the site’s verification box. In case bank verification is needed, they would either ask you to send the scanned bank statement or another reference code which is likely to be accompanied with your first withdrawal.

Step#5:

The time all these verification processes are completed, your Skrill is ready to be used for further transfers. You are no free to receive or send the amounts to your companions or business colleagues around the globe.

Withdraw Money from Skrill to Pakistan:

It is quite easy to withdraw amounts from Skrill to any Pakistani bank. You just have to keep in mind the following simple tips.

Step#1:

First you have to attach your bank (Standard Chartered and Faysal bank preferred)by inserting Swift Code and bank name’s correct spelling in the My Account > My Profile > List of Bank Accounts > Bank section.

Step#2:

Once you have inserted this information, your bank would get attached with your profile. Keep in mind that the spelling on your bank account and Skrill should be same otherwise no payment would be transacted by them to your bank due to security reasons.

Step#3:

When someone has sent you amount into Skrill and funds are available then you can withdraw the amount by going to withdrawal option available in your dashboard.

Step#4:

Skrill usually charges from $3 to $20 for every withdrawal depending upon how much amount you are going to withdraw.

Step#5:

Once you have verified your date of birth to the company, they would send your money within three to five working days. This balance would be available in your bank statement and now its time for you to enjoy your Skrill withdrawals.
You can further read some post relevant to this one: 

Sarfraz

Best SEO Link Building methods in 2014

Link building is a must part of any SEO project. I must say ranking your website is incomplete without doing link building. your website’s link building is done in an appropriate way. If you are confused about what are the best SEO link building methods then not to worry, we would here give you an updated overview of the best strategies. I am sure by following these easy to understand link building methods, you be able to enjoy the good blog ranking because Google continuously updates its algorithm strategies and this is why an SEO project handler should keep in mind the following link building strategies and methods.

Before going to know about the tips, have a look at following SEO tutorials: 

#1, Good Content matters:

I don’t know if you have noticed it or not but the quality of contents and articles is the key to success for every SEO project. It is a tip of SEO strategy that you should always create well engaged content and articles for your website. The importance of good and quality content can not be ignored in SEO link building, because it would become the reason for you to get maximum traffic from social media and other networks.

#2, Quality Info-graphics:

Google always prefer the blogs to rank higher which have best and quality info-graphics. For this reason, you have to create top notch and valid info-graphics for your blog or website. Try your level best to create best info-graphics with valid data source so that your web site gets ranked higher. Another must remember thing is that you should embed your code in a way that no one else can track or hack it. This would tremendously increase your blog ranking because it is a very effective link building method.

#3, Directory Submissions:

Google prefer the blogs and websites which have used quality directories in order to submit their contents. Thus, directory submission is yet another very effective SEO link building method. The blogs which implement quality directory submission strategies, usually get very good PR. So you need to use the web directories as per your blog niche and submit it as much as you can.

#4, Guest Posting:

Guest posting is yet another very efficient SEO link building method. Try you get information about the best websites or blogs with PR 1 to 3 in order to write guest posts at. Within every article / post you write at such blogs, you can insert your own website’s link in order to get direct organic traffic. Almost all the bloggers and SEOs make use of this link building ideas because so far it has been a proven effective method to rank the websites. It is due to the reason that Google and other search engines crawl such websites better and easier so their rankings go higher and higher.
But make sure, you guest post for quality blogs and you know the website owner better for whom you are doing guest posting, because recently Google’s head of web spam (Matt Cutts) hinted to not do this practice everywhere for the sake of backlinks, but yeah, it’s still a great method to create backlinks but with authority and interaction.

#5, Using Social Media Networking Websites:

You should try to use as many social networking communities and forums in order to build quality links for your website. This can be done when you create both personal and professional profiles at facebook, twitter, linked-in, google+ and other social networking websites, and once the profiles have been created then the next step is to join the comments and communications and leave your website link over there. The more you input your efforts in this regard, the better organic traffic would be generated to your website, and thus the better would be its ranking.
All these methods are quite easy and once you get to know their significant role in ranking the website higher, I am sure you wouldn’t miss the chance of following them so that quality links are built for your website. So how did you like my post? Please let me know with your comments.

Sarfraz

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