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WordPress 2.8 is out now. WordPress is my favourite blogging platform and my blog runs on it. It has more than 13 million users in total and the self-hosted WordPres.org has been downloaded more than 5 million times. See a guide on how to install WordPress.

Plugins are a big part of the WordPress community. Over the years I have used many of the best WordPress plugins. WordPress plugins help you make a better blog and get more reader interaction. There are in total 4,245 plugins and these have been downloaded 22,152,788 times.

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WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatever functionality you need for your specific blog!

Many people have asked me for my list of top WordPress plugins. Of course I’ve written quite a few WordPress plugins myself, but I’d thought I’d share with you what I think are the best WordPress plugins out there.

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WordPress is one of the most popular publishing platforms currently out on the market. It’s free, highly-customizable, and very easy to install and use. Because of its popularity, you’ll find a wide array of resources that discuss WordPress development, administration, as well as plenty of user guides to help you get started quickly.

In this article, we take advantage of the merits of learning by way of watching video tutorials and screencasts. Video tutorials allow you to learn by following along with the instructor in real-time – a format that’s very effective for many people.

You can use these video tutorials a couple of ways: to learn about WordPress yourself or to send to your not-so-technology-inclined clients as a reference to help them get started. You’ll find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools.

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We bloggers write posts, optimize them for search engines, spread the word in the social networking & Bookmarking sites & Do yet more stuffs only to achieve one goal named VISITORS. And those visitors count only if they return again. And if they return they are bound to leave some footprints there, which is called COMMENTS.

This is their dedication expressed in words. In the meantime those comments adds more value to the posts thereby making it more informative for the future readers. Lets see how we can encourage our readers to Comment more on our blog posts

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WordPress needs no introduction in designing field. It usually known as a synonym for blogging. When working on a WordPress blog, your posts often take the important place. However, the comments on the posts are often just as important as they create quality and valuable discussion. on the other hand if you have default WordPress comment box then there is no fun in commenting for readers as well as writers.

It really helpful for you and your visitors if your blog have well managed comment space. In which a reader can find various details about past and present comments which can improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.

This article focuses on organized collection of Most Wanted WordPress Comments Page Hacks which helps you to create a user-friendly interchange between you and your readers.

One of the greatest things about blogging is the immediate feedback a blogger can get from his or her readers. Still it’s often possible that your readers don’t give you a wink about their likes and dislikes. Unfortunately, there is no way for you to find out about visitors thinking towards your blog or its design. It always essential to play safe and give others what they like. Out of many solutions the inspirational one is only promising and optimistic way to achieve desired changes. Below we present over 30 excellent WordPress Comments Page Hacks which will definitely make your blogging life easier.
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Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes. We’ve previously showcased more than 40 Wordpress tricks and hacks you can perform on your blog but we quickly realized there are still a lot of impressive Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great.

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It takes time to search for nice looking Wordpress themes, let alone nice and yet free Wordpress themes. We constantly keep our eyes on great and free Wordpress themes released, bookmarked them and put on a showcase when we think it’s too much to keep.

This following entry comprise of nicely design Wordpress themes, magazine alike as well as high quality premium themes you don’t have to pay a penny for. This week for Wordpress, we present – 41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes.

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We understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books.

It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use.

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If you are looking to buy a web hosting account to host your Wordpress blog, you might wanna hold that thought first; Also if you are hosting your blog on a free Blogger, or Wordpress.com, here’s an excuse to get yourself a self-host Wordpress blogging platform. This week in our giveaway contest, we are giving out 5+1 hosting accounts (1 year) for free and you don’t have to pay a single cent for it.

This giveaway is a courtesy of WPWebHost, only for Hongkiat.com readers. And if you’ve observed closed enough, we are too hosted with WPWebHost. Details on winning the Wordpress hosting account are as follows.

In short, here’s what on the table to be won:

• 5 WP Freedom Plan (50Gb/500Gb Bw/50 domains). More info.
• 1 WP Buddy Plan (100Gb/1TB Bw/100 domains). More info.

WPWebhost has Wordpress-savvy supports working behind both these plans, so if you come across any Wordpress technical problem, chances are, they already have a solution for you. WP Buddy Plan is specialized for Wordpress Multiuser (MU) hosting. If you are thinking of running a multi-user blog, you don’t want to miss this.

How to Win

Just comment in! If you are looking forward to win the WP Buddy Plan (for Wordpress MU) please specify in your comment.

Contest starts today, closes 24th Wednesday June. Exactly one week from now. Good luck guys

Update: Thank you for all your participation. The contest will now close and we’ll announce the winners soon!

Update (30th June 2009): We have winners, and here they are:

• Prasanth Chandra (awaiting response)dlv
• Steven
• Thefinalhome
• Chardy
• Jonathan Farley
• Boris Rorsvort (Buddy Plan)

Once again, congratulations and thanks for participating guys! More contest coming up soon.

Getting familiar with keyboard shortcuts not only help you get the work done faster, but also more efficient. If your daily job rely heavily on using Windows, here are some 100+ Windows Keyboard Shortcuts you might want to check out. If there’s any nifty shortcuts we have missed, appreciate a heads up.

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