Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. Simple Press fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.

• Download Simple:Press, it’s Free!

This newly found and unique tool is a FireFox Extension, which allows you to analyze and measure the Rankings potential of a Website or Page. The extension is provided by SEO Workers and is 100% Free!

The data is based on groups of information and includes:

• General Status of the server and last modified dates.
• Meta Tag Listings is a breakdown of title, desc, keyword tags.
• Meta Tag Analysis contains tips on improving your meta tags.
• A preview of how your page may display in the search results.
• Words used in the Anchor and Alt text for the displayed page.
• Keywords used on the page, single, double and triple words.
• A breakdown of the URL’s found on the Webpage.
• The Header returned from the server. (Found, 404, 301, ect)
• General spell checking of the Webpage.

Source of information and locator of kick butt tools: Search Engine Journal

Download the SEO Workers Analysis Tool

The SEO Toolbar is a FireFox Plugin that allows you to evaluate how strong a competing website is. The toolbar pulls and displays, directly below the Search Results information like: Google PR, links to domain, Yahoo links, directory links, site age, monthly unique, and domain value, directly into your browser window. The advanced information button breaks down the information even more, get details on .edu and other popular links, social links, and the ability to export the information.

Overall this an amazing tool for any level skilled web developer and it’s advantages are far to great to list. Download the SEO Toolbar FireFox Plugin, it’s free!

Friendly note: Turn the tool off when it’s not actually being used.

This handy WordPress Plugin from Blog Waffe that helps stop pingbacks happening to posts that contain links back to yourself.

We either own one or have seen Blogs setup within a directory, allowing the website to modify the front-page of the website. With a nifty Plugin by ilfilosofo.com you can now modify the front-page of a domain using WordPress, while still allowing WordPress to have control over the front-page. The Filosofo Home-Page Control Plugin can also be used on Blogs, which have been installed within the root directory of the domain.

Why modify the front-page of a Blog?
With so many different types of blogs, the reasons why seem endless. Some general needs may be a Warning Page, or the need for a different Page within the Blog to be set as front-page; like the About Page. Maybe the Blog is part of other services within the same domain, such as products being sold, forums, advertisements, and so on. Whatever the reason is, the Filosofo Plugin can help where other Plugins may have failed.

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Blog Comment Spam is an on going problem for all Bloggers using WordPress. With a handful of spam plugins for WordPress, mostly filter types, it seemed logical to hunt down a WordPress Plugin, which uses a security word to verify human posters.

A quick search on Google for “comment+spam+wordpress+plugin+image” returned exactly what was needed. Listed #3 was a link to Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin for WordPress, which has the anti-spam plugin what I was looking for.

The hacked up plugin does not require ImageMagick, a bonus in my eyes. Also, the displayed font can be modified giving you control over how easy or complex it is to read the security image.

The plugin installed quickly and most importantly it worked. Take a look below to view the plugin in action then jump over to Peters Useful Crap Blog and download the plugin.

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Have you ever wondered how to create your own WordPress Plugin? Well, wonder no more! “Mark On WordPress” created a wondering VIDEO tutorial on how to create your own WordPress Plugins in under 5 minutes. ~ Great Watch!

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• Syndicate feeds with AutoBlog WP Plugin and preserve categories, give author attribution, caching, and publishing control. I have used and tested this plugins, it’s easy to setup and use. Great to publish sponsor content with.

• Create your free account with rss2anywhere and starting posting feeds in intervals to multiple blogs. Supports most popular blogging platforms.

• FeedWordPress is an RSS aggregator plugin built for WP. It uses the WP Links Database to store its syndicated feeds allowing you to have more control of the feed layout.

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