Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress

It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much redundant and no longer supported, so this post takes a fresh look at the best Social Bookmarking solutions for WordPress. The plugins you see below are not in any order, just a collection of the plugins we love.

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Top 10 Content Slider Plugins for WordPress

No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles and content. And on top off all that, with the correct image selection and well chosen content they look great as well. When you take the most popular current web trend (the sliders) and mix it with the most popular CMS (WordPress), you just know there is going to be a bunch of free plugins you could easily use. And that is what we focus on in this post, 10 of the best free Content Slider WordPress Plugins.

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The Ultimate WordPress Shopping/Ecommerce Toolbox (Plugins and Themes)

There is not much left that you can not do with WordPress. With every new update it becomes ever more powerful and there are a multitude of plugins and themes that can unleash its full potential that leaves its rival CMSes in its wake. And nothing more epitomizes its power, versatility and ease of use than the ecommerce solutions it offers. Almost two years ago we published a popular article called 10 Powerful Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress , and upon review we realised how much out-of-date it is.

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12 Amazing Buddypress Themes and Getting Started Guides

Out of the box WordPress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are there limits? WP does have its limits – What if you did want to take things further and develop an all singing all dancing social network site that has the potential to rival Facebook (I maybe pushing things there) or, on a smaller scale, build an inhouse corporate social community/network and communication tool… Enter WPMU and, more specifically, BuddyPress to the rescue.

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Best of the Web #43

Welcome back everyone, hope you had a good Halloween if you celebrated it, if not, hope you had a great weekend anyways.  In keeping with the season of spookiness, there were a lot of Halloween roundups last week, so we’ve got a few related posts included in this edition of Best of the Web. Aside from the Halloween posts, there was a great post by SixRevisions showcasing some jQuery techniques, as well as a web design tutorial by @abduzeedo using Pixelmator.  And as always, there are some great inspirational and showcase posts for your viewing pleasure. Check back later this week as we’ll have some more awesome artist features! Thanks, have a great day all! Stunning Pictures of Jellyfishes How to Create a Basic House Icon in Photoshop 30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations 40 Most Useful WordPress Plugins 55 Amazing Halloween Wallpapers to Charm Up Your Desktop The Most Freakiest Digital Art Collection for Halloween Season Web Design in Pixelmator 10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

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Best of the Web #39

Well, September is over and we’re already on our way into October.  Since last week marked the end of the month, a lot of month-end roundups took place across the design web.  My personal favorite is the roundup that I included here by SmashingApps, which had some really nice resources. Also included are some really inspirational sets, a really nice planet tutorial effect by PSDTUTS, and of course, some useful resources. Hope you find them useful, and as always, if you want to contribute or have a suggestion or comment, don’t hesitate to contact me. Thanks, and have a great week! 25 Black, White and Minimal Web Designs 52 Jaw Dropping Photomanipulations 20 Lifelike Stills Which Are Actually Paintings 65 Must See Resources to Discover in September Create a Shiny Earth With Photoshop 3D Layers 10 Essential WordPress Plugins for New WordPress Installations 70 Photomanipulations that Will Blow You Away Inspirational Night Photography 28 Excellent Examples of Gradient Effects in Web Design

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