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Best Real estate WordPress Themes

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:54:51 +0000

WordPress was originally intended to be a blogging platform, but now it is really good for any kind of website. If you are a real estate agent who wants to sell a big new house, for example, you might want to display a large photograph on the front page for real look of that house. You can do that in WordPress by selecting a special theme design for real estate. Then you can include thumbnails on the side for easier navigation so that your buyers can find your other Property for sale or on rent.

When you start to look at themes, you will notice that there are as many variations of styles as there are WordPress themes for Real estate. There are fixed width, variable width, two-column, three-column, free, and premium. Before deciding on a style, first consider your real estate content and readers. If your site is for a selling houses, commercial building and renting , you may want something more corporate.

Finding a unique style for your real estate site and its voice can be a challenge. It might make sense to hire a web developer and let her design a theme from the ground up, but this task may be as simple as finding the right theme and doing a little customization. Perhaps you or someone in your organization is familiar with cascading stylesheets (CSS) and a little HTML. In that case, you can easily take a theme you find in this list and change it to meet your needs. These themes are specially design for real estate related website.

1. AgentPress

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2. Main Street

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3. De Casa

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4. Open House

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5. Smooth

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6. Broker

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7. De Condo

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8. Home Owner

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9. Agent Theme

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10. iReal Estate

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11. Our Home

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12. SOFA Real Estate

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13. Villa Grande

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14. The Real Estate

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15. Realist

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16. Real Estate

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17. Elegant Real Estate

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18. Real Estate

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19. Free Real Estate Themes

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The Power of WordPress Custom Fields

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Custom Fields is the most powerful tools for customizing template files, these are special fields in the WordPress database that you can create yourself by giving them a name (which can be then shared by all other posts or pages) and assigning a value for the particular post.

Custom fields are actually post metadata that is associated with the post, it can open up an avenue for custom theme display. Custom fields is located in the Custom Fields module below the post editing box. If you would like to create a new custom field, you can create a new one. The most common use case for custom fields was associating an image URL with a custom field. In the latest version of WordPress, a new template tag, the_post_thumbnail(), is used to retrieve the first post attachment and render it in the layout.

Theme and plugin developers who want to use custom fields can do so by using the get_post_meta() function

When I started writing about this Powerful tool I found a very useful and well written tutorials, so I decided to compile these tutorials instead of writing my own. I hope you must find them very useful.

Tutorials and Resources for Working with WordPress Custom Fields:

1. Using WordPress Custom Fields: Introduction

This tutorial will introduce you about WordPress Custom Fields and explain you the basic usage of this power toll.

2. Using Custom Fields from WordPress Codex

This the official documentation of WordPress Codex on the subject of custom fields. It will explain more specifically and in detail about the subject, How to use this function for theme and plugin development, and you will find other related information.

3. WordPress Custom Field Tutorial from 8164.org

In this tutorial Jin Yang explains how to customize a blog post by using the Custom Fields. He is presenting the very cool trick about how to set post background using the custom field image.

4. Using WordPress Custom Fields: Part 1 – The Basics

Perishable Press has written about Custom Field in 2 Parts. In part first he explain the basic usage of Custom Fields And he explain how to add thumnail in sidebar by using the Custom Field.

5. WordPress Custom Fields: Part 2 – Tips and Tricks

Part 2 provide more detail on working with custom fields. The article covers topics like conditional display of custom field data, and showing data only if a custom field exists.

6. WordPress Custom Fields: Adding Images to Posts

This tutorial is the part of Justin Tadlock’s series and this tutorial will explain how to add images to your posts using WordPress custom fields.

7. Add Thumbnails to WordPress with Custom Fields

Tutorial9 giving the basics of custom fields and using them to show thumbnails on the front page or on the post page.

8. WordPress Custom Fields: Laying Text Over Your Lead Graphic

Derek Punsalan shows a really nice approach to use a custom field for adding a background image behind the post title.

9. How to Easily Get the Value of a Custom Field

A cool trick from WPRecipes in which they explain how you can use the value of a custom field, Also they provided the necessary code.

10. An Easy Way to Get the Contents of a Custom Field

Nathan Rice shows a way to get the contents of a custom field by using less code. he explains how to use this Function in functions.php file.

11. How to Display Multiple Values of a Custom Field Key

Well explained article on how to use custom fields in situations where a post may have multiple values of a custom Fields.

12. Display Inline Ads with Custom Fields and WordPress

For this purpose there a few plugins are available but plugin always cost you a load on your blog database, so better way to do it manually. In this Tutorial they explain how to use Custom Fields to add Adsnse or other ads to specific post.

13. How to Add Videos to Your WordPress Sidebar

This is another post in Justin Tadlock’s series. In this article he shows how you can add YouTube videos to your sidebar, controlled by custom fields.

14. WordPress Custom Fields: Listing a Series of Posts

Justin Tadlock shows how make a list other posts from the series by using custom fields. The end result would be similar to a related posts plugin, except you would have more control over which posts are listed.

15. In Praise of WordPress Template Tags: Part 2

Darren Hoyt explain how to use custom fields to display Template Tags.

16. WordPress Tip: 3 Awesome Custom Field Tricks

Chris Cagle’s covers three things you can do with custom fields: 1) a custom “read more”, 2) awesome thumbnailed recent posts, and 3) post-specific CSS overrides.

18. Jazz Up Your Site: 28 Ways to Use Custom Fields

Raj Dash’s explains the potential of custom fields.

19. Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

Function explains in this tutorial how to create the custom write panels that will allow you to accomplish the same things as custom fields.

20. Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress

They have compiled a list of 10 useful things that you can do with custom fields in WordPress. Among them are setting expiration time for posts, defining how blog posts are displayed on the front page, displaying your mood or music, embedding custom CSS styles, disabling search engine indexing for individual posts, inserting a “Digg this” button only when you need it and, of course, displaying thumbnails next to your posts.

Plugins for Working with Custom Fields:

There are a number of plugins that enhance the use of custom fields. Here is a list of useful plugins that are compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

1. Custom Field Template

The Custom Field Template plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page. The template format is almost same as the one of the rc:custom_field_gui plugin.

2. Custom Fields Shortcode

You can use this plugin to show custom fields in your posts by using shortcode, with no modification required for your theme.

3. Custom Field Images

With this plugin you can easily add images to your posts, pages and feeds. There is also functionality to display recent posts as images instead of text links.

4. Custom Field Taxonomies

Custom Field Taxonomies will allow you to enhance the capabilities of your site by making some of your custom fields act like tags.

5. Advanced Custom Field Widget

The Advanced Custom Field Widget is an extension of the Custom Field Widget by Scott Wallick, and displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content.

6. Custom Field List Widget

This plugin lists all values of a choosable custom field name, groups the values of of a post and (hyper-) links the values to their posts as a sidebar widget.

7. WP Custom Fields Search

This is a search plugin for wordpress, designed to filter posts in a more structured way than the default wordpress search. Specifically it allows multiple form inputs to be configured to search different aspects of a post, i.e. one term could search the post content, one the post title and one could search a custom field associated with the post.

8. More Fields

More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. For example, if you write about books, you can add a box where you can enter title and author, etc. The boxes can be placed either to the right or to the left on the Write/Edit page.

DramaDose

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DramaDose is a weblog about theatre.

The 3-column, rich red template gives a dramatic effect in keeping with the theme. At the same time the text is clean and readable.
The footer has an interesting silhouette of an audience watching a theatrical performance in action.
Wordpress custom template design, by Gisele Jaquenod.

Common Uses for WordPress Plugins

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The beauty of WordPress is its extensibility. It is possible to make WordPress do just about anything you can think of with plugins. This is the list of Plugin categories to help you expand your site. It has included the specific plugin names to make it easier when you want to extent and searching fr the plugins.

1. Social Networking

With the help of Social networking plugin, Visitors can publish about your site on their profile page while clicking on any particular social media icon from your site. Thats is why Social networking plugins are the hottest topic for plugin developers. Here is the list of major Social media Plugin for WordPress but never install all of these because it will cost you load on your website. So Be careful on your selection.

Digg Digg:

Will let you quickly add the Digg button to your posts with commands for left or right float, before and after content and a few other tweaks.

Digg This:

This particular Digg plugin only adds the Digg button if it detects that your post has been submitted to the popular site.

DiggZ-Et:

Allows you to automatically insert Digg buttons into the pages and posts of your choice. Also lets you choose where the button will show up in the post, amongst other options.

Dugg Widget:

Will place a widget in your sidebar that displays the last 10 posts from your blog that have made it on Digg.

FriendFeed Activity Widget:

Share your FriendFeed activity with readers on your blog.

FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin:

This plugin is used by Mashable and displays the number of times an articles has been marked as “Favorite” and will display the actual comments from the FriendFeed discussion on your site.

Stumble Reviews:

Allows you to add the reviews that appear on StumbleUpon for a given page to be displayed on that page.

Twitter Updater:

Send a Tweet to your Twitter account anytime you publish a new post to your blog, will automatically shrink it down via TinyURL.

WordPress Twitter Widget:

Displays your Twitter feed in your sidebar and can turn “@username” and other info into links, while also displaying user avatars.

WP-Profilactic:

Allows you to build a page around your Profilactic lifestreaming account so your blog readers can follow all of your links to nearly 200 possible social accounts.

obsocialbookmarker:

Allows you to add the submission links for multiple social sites such as Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and more.

ShareThis:

Easily adds the well-known green ShareThis icon to your blog, allowing people to quickly submit your articles to the most popular social sites or just email them to their friends.

Sociable:

This plugin allows you to add a dizzying number of social submission icons to the bottom of your blog posts. If you activated all of them, your blog posts would certainly be colorful!

Social Bookmarking RELOADED:

Adds numerous social bookmarking icons to your posts and/or pages, available in English or Italian.

Social Bookmarks:

Gives you 50 social bookmarking submission icons to choose from including all of the major bookmarking services and several smaller ones.

SociBook:

Adds over 60 social bookmarking sites to your site by simply clicking on the name of each you want.

SocioFluid:

While it does what many other plugins do by adding social bookmarking icons to the bottom of your posts, it keeps them small until the user passes their mouse over the icon and then enlarges. Is definitely one of the more visually interesting solutions out there.

WP PunchCard:

Puts 40 social bookmarking sites into as small an area as possible to conserve space in your posts. Supports the usual major sites and others such as Yahoo My Web, Squidoo and more.

Follow Me:

Adds a sidebar hub for your social networking profiles such as Digg, Twitter, YouTube, Mixx and more.

Meet Your Commenters:

Takes the information your commenters leave and shows you their social networking profiles in your dashboard so you can add them and get to know them more.

Retaggr:

Make a virtual business card for yourself that includes links to your most important social network profiles and include more information about yourself.

SocialBoaster:

Turns your Digg, Twitter and Delicious activities into a blog post that will be shared on your blog.

Social Homes:

Adds favicons to your sidebar for your various social networks so that your readers can easily find you on those social networks.

2. Mobile

WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin and a theme — the plugin detects if someone is viewing your site
on a mobile device and switches them to the special theme that is designed for mobile viewing. You can
update the list of devices detected.

WPhone:

With the help of this plugin administer your WordPress site through a mobile device, WPhone can help by giving you the choice at login of viewing the admin screens in a special format.

WPtouch:

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is a mobile theme for your WordPress website.

WordPress Mobile Pack:

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. This plugin offers a combination of viewer and admin interfaces, plus automated features like cached image scaling, splitting posts into multiple pages, and special widgets aimed at mobile users.

MobilePress:

This is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

WordPress Mobile Edition:

WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
Mobile browsers are automatically detected, the list of mobile browsers can be customized on the settings page.

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress:

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes.
Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.

Wordpress PDA & iPhone:

This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser. iPhone is still in beta testing state. Soon more updates will follow.

Mobilize by Mippin wordpress plugin:

The Mobilize by Mippin Wordpress Plugin is a configuration free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog. Mippin renders perfectly for every cell phone type. Even the iPhone renders your blog better and faster than going to the direct PC URL.

Wetomo Wordpress to Mobile:

Wetomo (Web to Mobile) is a service that allows publishers to display their existing web content to users on mobile phones and other handheld devices. This plugin detects when a user is on a mobile phone and automatically redirects them to Wetomo, which acts a a proxy between the mobile phone and the Wordpress site and adapts the web site content to the mobile phone capabilities.

Quick SMS:

Quick SMS allows visitors to your blog pages to send you SMS messages direct to your mobile phone, wherever you are. All you need is a mobile phone registered with one of the supported networks.

WP-WAP:

Browse your WordPress’s blog entries on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

MobileZone Free Wordpress Theme:

MobileZone is an ultimate web 2.0 free wordpress theme for mobile lovers. This theme is very selected for mobile related wordpress blogs. This is Magazine Style based Wp Theme with pre installed Twitter plugin.

3. Ad Managers

Ad management plugins for WordPress roughly fall into two categories: those that manage ads delivered
through networks and those that manage both network ads and ones from your own advertisers.

WP125:

This is a great plugin that can be used in two manners. You can selling your own ad space for 125 x 125 graphic ads or you can use it as affiliate sites banners.

Advertising Manager:

This is the plugin previously known Adsense Manager. This one will manage and rotate ads from Google Adsense as well as Adbrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN and Widgetbucks.

Smart Ads:

Smart Ads automatically inserts advertisements like Google’s Adsense above and below your post content. These advertisements are only visible when viewing a single post (single.php or page.php). Since it doesn’t make sense to fill small posts with ads, users can set a “Wordcount” minimum for their advertisements.

WP Tag Ads:

Start making money with your blog today with WP Tag Ads! WP Tag Ads is a way to display eBay auctions on your WordPress blog. This is a unique plugin that uses the tags on your blog entries to display eBay products based on those keywords on your post.

All in One Adsense and YPN:

This is a Free and Open Source Wordpress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

Ads For Old Posts:
This plug-in automatically inserts an ad block in your posts once they’re past a certain age.

OIO Publisher:
An ad manager that focuses on maximising your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space. The php-script can be used to sell and serve ads and it is also available as a ready-to-be-used Wordpress plugin.

Ad Management Tutorials And Articles

Which Ad Manager Plug-In Makes Managing Ads Easiest?
This article provides a great comparison of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, listing the pros and cons of each.

Blogtalks.net

A collection of articles about managing ads on your blog, including “How to track clicks” and “Tips for using OpenAds with WordPress.”

How to Integrate Advertising into Your Blog
A great overview of things to consider when integrating advertising in your blog, as well as some practical how-to information.

How to Set Up Google Ad Manager on Your Blog/Website
Comprehensive overview and set-up instructions for using Google Ad Manager on your website or blog.

Banner Rotator
Another PHP tutorial on showing rotating banner ads on your website. This one stores information about the ads and the views that each ad gets in a MySQL database.

Rotating Banner Ads Using a Database
An ASP tutorial on creating a database-driven banner-ad rotation script.

Dynamic Banner Administration
A comprehensive ASP tutorial on putting rotating banner ads on your website.

4. Search Engine Optimization

There are many plugins that can help you with this task, and the granddaddy of them all is All in One SEO Pack. for more detail look at this article. Some SEO plugins focus on particular tasks, such as SEO Title Tag, which let’s you create search-engine friendly HTML title tags (your page may be titled About, but the title tag needs more detail). If you want to have easy control over how search engines index your site, Robots Meta is a very powerful plugin. If you’ve just installed WordPress you might consider the SEO Automatic WP_CORE_TWEAKS plugin which helps you take care of lots of little things, like switching the default post category from Uncategorized, getting rid of the Hello World post, and other little details.

All in One SEO Pack:
One of the most popular plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of everything for you from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate content and more.

Automatic SEO Links:

Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be “nofollow” or not, and more. One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.

Google XML Sitemaps:

An essential tool in any blogger’s armory of SEO tools. While the name only mentions “Google,” this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

HeadSpace2:

This plugin allows you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin:

An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog. You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other feature

Nofollow Case by Case:

This plugin allows you to strip the “nofollow” command from your comments, and then you can apply it to only the comments you don’t wish to support.

Platinum SEO Plugin:

The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate content and a host of other features.

Redirection:

For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, but then you risk losing that page’s status in search results. Redirection helps you with your 301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors and more.

SEO Blogroll:

Do you worry that the people you link to in your blogroll are feeding off of your PageRank? With SEO Blogroll you can make separate sections for various groupings of links, with an unlimited number in each, and all of them will receive the “nofollow” attribute.

SEO for Paged Comments:

With the introduction of paged comments in WordPress 2.7, there was a potential problem with search engines thinking you had duplicate content as the post would appear on each page. This plugin aims to take care of this issue for you until the folks at WordPress change things up.

SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings:

Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree. In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on.

SEO Friendly Images:

Images can be a great source of traffic as people search for images of various subjects, and this plugin helps you with making sure that you have “alt” and “title” tags on all of your images so that the search engines can properly index them.

SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin:

If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.

SEO Post Link:

The post slug is the blog title you see in a browser’s URL bar, and if it’s too long, search engines won’t take a liking to it. SEO Post Link comes with an already populated list of words to cut from a title when it turns into a URL to make your post addresses that much friendlier. You can set it so that it’s limited to a certain number of characters, cut short words, cut unnecessary words and more.

SEO Smart Links:

Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts, but it is time consuming and tedious to do it by hand. SEO Smart Links does this for you automatically when you tell it what words to link to what URLs, and it also allows you to set “nofollow” and “open in window” comands for the links.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget:

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a lot of people use tag clouds on their blogs. Since their inception they have been fairly unreadable by search engines, but with this plugin they will be converted to an SEO-friendly HTML markup that can be indexed.

SEO Title Tag:

Your tags are an important part of your site for making sure that search engines know where to place your posts, and SEO Title Tag focuses exclusively on this. Unlike some other plugins, and WordPress itself, this extension will allow you to add tags to your pages, your main page and even any URL anywhere on your site.

Simple Tags:

An extremely popular plugin that focuses on helping you choose the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions, auto-completion of tags as you type, an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing and a whole lot more.

Sitemap Generator:

This is a more customizable sitemap generator than most with options to support multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, choices on what to display, options to show number of comments and more.

TGFI.net SEO Wordpress Plugin:

This particular plugin will do most of the usual SEO work of optimizing titles and keywords, but it adds a unique twist as it is mainly directed at people who use WordPress as a CMS.

5. E-commerce

There are so many excellent open source shopping programs are available that it can be difficult to justify
all the work needed to create WordPress plugins that will match their power and sophistication. read more how to create and useful plugins for e-Commerce at How to use WordPress as an E-Commerce Store.

6. Podcasting and Videos

There is an excellent WordPress Plugin for video sharing, it’s well worth installing a plugin to help display and manage them. One of the most powerful for managing videos is wordTube. For more Video and Podcasting kindly read this article How to Add Podcast to your WordPress Blog.

7. Comment Enhancement

Comments are an important part of the interactivity and sense of community that you’re trying to make. One of the best plugin which keep your visitors connected to your site is to use a plugin like Subscribe to comments. The detail along with other Plugins are giving bellow.

CommentLuv:

Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.

Comment Redirect:

Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice. This plugin is a kind way to redirect readers to a thank you page.

Wordpress Thread Comment:

This Plugin is an enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Comment Relish:

Visitors love interaction, especially a personable approach at gaining their attention and spiking their interests. Comment relish is a WordPress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before.

WP Twitip ID:
Adds another field to the comment form to allow the user to include their twitter id.

Subscribe To Comments:

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address

8. Spam

By default, WordPress comes with an anti-spam plugin called Akismet for which you’ll need an API
Key from WordPress.com, for more detail read “How To Stop Image Hotlinking through .htaccess” and “Stopping spam with reCAPTCHA”

I suggest you search the WordPress.org plugins directory and get a feel for the variety of functions WordPress plugins can perform for your site.

References:

Fully Illustrated

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Customized Theme : Fully Illustrated v3
They are into Designing, illustrating, animating and creatively directing
Author: Adam Foster

Codefor

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This theme is designed and built by Adam Foster, Codefor is the online portfolio of Adam Foster, a front end developer & photographer – currently working for great fridays, a Manchester based digital agency.

Joy Stick Generals

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WebSite: Joy Stick Generals : They develop Action, super turbo games for iPhone
Theme Name: Joy Stick Generals v1
A wordpress theme created by Adam Foster for use on Joy Stick Generals only.
Theme designed by Mike: Fully Illustrated
Built by Adam Foster: Codefor.com

Canonical URLs effects on WordPress Blog

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Before explaining the effects of Canonical URLs on your blog, let me tell you the definition of this term according to Wikipedia “URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs are equivalent”.

Canonical URLs, The word derives from the word canon, which describes law and genuineness. The problem with many blog platforms is that the same content often appears in different places on a site, with exactly the same presentation but an entirely different URL.

The Canonical URL for WPArena is now http://wparena.com. This doesn’t mean that we won’t get the visitors that type in the www’s. If you go to http://www.wparena.com you’ll see in the address bar that you were automatically redirected to http://wparena.com. This is why it doesn’t really matter which you choose.

URLs with www as well as those without it, They are treated as duplicate content by Search Engines and the version found to be non-authoritative is penalized. Canonical URLs redirects were added to WordPress in version 2.3 to help alleviate this problem. Now WordPress take it single URL either it is with WWW or Without it, What you have set in General setting of your blog. A Blog Address setting to use the www or the non-www version of the domain, both are equally fine, so it is merely a personal choice.

How Google searches your Blog:

Analyze the result of your blog by typing n Google search :
1. site: wparena.com
2. site: www.warena.cm
This will give you a result of how many pages Google knows about.

A concise representation of Google’s basis to create the order of the search results displayed on SERP:

For example, you can see that my site, has 845 results for the non-www version of my domain. It is a well-indexed site and those numbers are right on track. Yahoo! shows 8,770 results while Bing shows nearly 266 results. Here Yahoo search engine love to index pages with www and without it. It also index the pages of you links n other sites, it means Yahoo index your backlinks.

Google Webmaster Tools

Tell google which version you want to use for your blog and it should be same as you set in your WordPress Blog. If you tell WordPress one thing and Google another, you will prevent your site from being indexed.

To set up the proper URL redirection for your site, follow these steps:

WordPress Setting:

1. In WordPress Admin, choose General setting.
2. In Blog address field type your blog’s URL in the forrmat which you want e.g. http://wparena.com and save your setting by clicking on Save Changes.

Google Webmaster Tools Setting:

1. Log in to Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Click the plus sign next to Site Configuration to expand the Site Configuration menu. Select the Setting link
3. Under preferred domain, select the Display URLs as wparena.com option and save your setting to complete the process.

The All in One SEO plugin

This is an excellent plugin, it automatically takes care of much of search engine optimization. Download All in One SEO Plugin.
After activating the plugin, go to “All in One SEO” under setting, and change setting according to your requirment as follow:

1. Home Title

If you leave it blank, the normal Blog Title is used instead.

2. Home Description

If you leave the Home Description field blank, it defaults to the Blog Tagline set under General Description.

3. Home Keywords

Like Home Description, the Home Keywords field controls a meta tag. Make sure you list all your keywords as
comma-separated values.

4. Canonical URLs

Be careful while enabling this option and get more information on risks for using this feature at Canonical Url Errors with All-in-One SEO Wordpress Plugin.

5. Rewrite Titles

Select this option because the title tag will always be rewritten to make the most sense from an SEO point of view.

6. Title Formats

Be careful in this area because “placeholder words” are used to represent key data points.
By default, the following formats are used:

Post Title Format = %post_title% – %blog_title%
Page Title Format = %page_title% – %blog_title%
Category Title Format = %category_title% – %blog_title%
Archive Title Format = %date% – %blog_title%
Tag Title Format = %tag% – %blog_title%
Search Title Format = %search% – %blog_title%
Description Format = %description%
404 Title Format = Nothing Found for %request_words%
Paged Format = Part %page%

7. Use Categories for META Keywords

You have the opportunity to append the categories a single post is in, because these keywords can be appended into the meta keywords field as well, which will help search engine

8. Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page

The Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page option is not required because WordPress will automatically do this.

9. Noindex Options

Eeliminating certain pages from being indexed by the search engine and also help avoiding duplicate content penalties.

10. Autogenerate Descriptions

Selecting this option enables it to automatically create a description that fits the blog post.

11. Additional Headers

This is not important relevant to SEO, it can help you to insert extra text or tags into the header.

12. Log important events

It will make a log file for important events, making, deleting editing posts.

At the end we can conclude that WordPress handles canonical URLs automatically. Configuring the All in One SEO plugin will solve many SEO challenges.

References: seodesignsolutions, semperfiwebdesign

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