Pinterest is growing at a very good pace, both in terms of users base and traffic referrers. WordPress, one of the most best blogging platform is actively used by 40% of bloggers worldwide (via). And when these two platforms are integrated, it’s more than a boon for any blogger isn’t it??

After seeing the growth of Pinterest, have you ever thought of integrating it with your WordPress blog?? If No then it’s never late to do so . Today I present you some of the best and useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins to integrate your WordPress blog with Pinterest:

1. Pinterest RSS Widget

An Unoffocial Pinterest WordPress plugin which allows you to display your latest pins on the sidebar in the form of Widgets. This plugin also gives you an option of adding the pins to your WordPress posts and pages using shortcodes. [more]

Download

2. Pin It On Pinterest

This plugin places a “Pin It” button at the bottom of the post and allows to choose the required image to be pinned including the pin decription.

Download

3. Pinterest Pinboard Widget

A simple widget which displays the recent pins and uses the thumbnails from the Pinterest only. For performance purpose, the pins are cached every 15mins.

Download

4. Pinterest “Pin It” Button

This plugin adds “Pin It” button to the posts and pages. It allows the users to hide the button on certain category of posts or individual posts.

Download

5. Easy Pinterest

Easy Pinterest is a light weight plugin allows to add a Pinterest Widget of the recent pins.

Download

6. Block Pinterest

Download

7. Pretty Pinterest Pins

It displays the recent pins in a stylish way with captions in the form on widget.

Download

8. Pinterest for Galleries

This plugin adds “Pin It” buttons to each and every image of the WordPress Gallery.

Download

9. Pinterest Pin It Button

It is a simple plugin which adds a “Pin It” button and can be added to any part of the post using shortcodes.

Download

10. wpNoPin

This plugin blocks the sharing of images of the blog to Pinterest. Although this is pretty much similar to Block Pinterest WordPress Plugin , but it also allows to block Pinterest for specified posts or pages.

Download

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Happy Pinning and hit the comment section if you need any help Thanks for Reading

HTML5, the advanced version of HTML4.01 and also the killer of Flash was one of the most trending topic in 2011. We all must be thankful to Steve Jobs and Apple Inc for not supporting Flash on their products, which resulted in the development of  HTML5. Although it’s still under development, but most of the browsers like Chrome,Firefox,Safari,Opera and Internet Explorer are supporting HTML5 is their latest version of products.

All the developers are quickly adapting to HTML5 for it’s simple presentation of a site in the form of header, footer,aside,article and section tag. Hence developing websites using HTML5 is been very easy and also beneficial as most of the smartphones and latest browsers support HTML5.

Below is a video created by Topic Simple which gives a small introduction to what is HTML5 all about:

What is HTML5? (Video)

WordPress being one of the most popular blogging platform and used by almost 40% of bloggers worldwide (source). So today I thought out digging out the best html5 based WordPress Themes, but guess what most of the good looking themes were paid version, but I don’t want to ruin my readers by listing paid WordPress themes .

Hence I came up with  40+ best free HTML5 WordPress Themes and Frameworks.The below listed frameworks are pretty much useful for all the developers to start off with the development of a new WordPress theme

Below are the 40+ best free html5 WordPress themes and frameworks to make your WordPress blog more semantic:

1. Blogolife

Demo    Download

2. TwentyTen Five

Download

3. The Travel Theme

Download

4. Mixfolio

Demo    Download

5. Tidyfocus

Demo     Download

6. Busby

Demo     Download

7. FreeDream

Demo    Download

8. Swift Basic WordPress Theme

Demo    Download

9. Photum WordPress Theme

Demo    Download

10. Brave New World WordPress Theme

Demo    Download

Christmas , the festival which tends to bring lots of happiness and success to everyone once in a year and for a blogger it is a boon where in he/she uses it for generating traffic by providing their visitors with free applications,wallpapers,design resources and many more.

Christmas is meant to be the “Giveaway of the year”, So many web designers designed and developed their own Christmas WordPress themes to show their enthusiasm towards Christmas . Below are the 40+ best Christmas WordPress themes which each and every blogger must know and use :

1. Red Christmas

Features : 2 columns, Fixed width, SEO optimized, Widgets Ready, Gravatar on Comments

Demo   Download

2. Merry Christmas

Features : Snow Falling Effect, Widgets Ready, Footer Customized, Gravatar on Comments.

Demo  Download

3. Christmas Days

Features : 2 Columns, Widgets Ready, Flickr Integration

Demo  Download

4. Christmas WordPress Theme

Features : Adsense Ready, Search Template, 404 Template

Download

5. Christmas Gifts

Features : 2 Column, Left Sidebar, Widgets Ready

Demo | Download

6. A Day Of Meaning And Traditions

Features : 2 Columns, Adsense Ready

Download

7. Hello Snowman WordPress Theme

Features : 3 Columns, Widget Ready, Gravatar Ready, Right Sidebar

Demo | Download

8. WordPress Christmas 1.1

Features : 2 Columns, Widgets Ready, PSD Included

Demo | Download

9. Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme

Features : Ajax Powered Contact Form, Jquery Lightbox

Demo | Download

10. Christmas Cafe WordPress Theme

Features : 2 Columns, Blue, White, Winter Style

Download

Previously I wrote about a tiny Chrome Extension which allows you to to access your blog stats without logging into Dashboard. This extension is a time saver, but I wanted some more extensions which allows me to be more productive on WordPress.

So I found few more extensions which will surely help in saving your time and increase productivity on WordPress. Before having look at the below extensions maks sure you have :

1. Enable the Remote Publishing:  Got to your blog’s Dashboard-> Settings -> Writing -> Check both “Atom Publishing Protocol” and “XML-RPC ” as shown below :
2. Chrome Browser

Here are the 4 Best Google Chrome Extension for WordPress:

1. WordPress Stats

This is the extension which will save your time by providing you access to your blog stats. It supports both WordPress.com Free blogs and Self Hosted WordPress blogs. You can read it more about here ~>[How To] Access WordPress Stats via Chrome Extension

Click here to Install WordPress Stats

2. WordPress Checker

WordPress Checker checks for the New Comments, Spam Comments in your blog and notifies as shown above. You can add multiple blogs in the options of the extension by right clicking on the WordPress Checker icon.

Click here to Download WordPress Checker

3. Delectable

Delecatble turns your blog into a Delicious kind of bookmarking site by allowing you to post the current link of the page you are viewing with Title and tags. It also supports WordPress.com blogs and in this extension you need to add the login details and the XML-RPC url of your blog.

Click here to Download Delectable

4. RemotePress

RemotePress is a simple chrome extension which allows to write and publish the post without logging into the Dashboard. Currently this extension allows only publishing of post with Title and Body, but this extension will soon have many features, so make sure you install this and stay tuned with it’s upcoming features ;)

Click here to Download RemotePress

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If you’re a Firefox fan then have a read here => Top 10 Firefox Add-on for WordPress 

So friends, which chrome extension would you love to use more and why ?? Hit the Comment Section. Thanks for Reading

WordPress, an ultimate blogging platform which has helped many bloggers to blog and create a community out of it. While blogging we always tend to search for tools and plugins which helps us to clutter free our blogging style and hence increasing our productivity.

For any blogger, it is very much important to keep track of their blog stats using various tools and plugins. The most two important and widely used plugins for WordPress Stats are WordPress.com Stats and Google Anlaytics, although there are many but most of the bloggers depend on these two services.

It’s a burden for any blogger (using WordPress.com Stats ) to always sign into the WordPress Dashboard again and again to check the stats of the blog, So here is a tiny chrome extension WordPress Stats using which we can access our blog stats without signing into the Dashboard.

WordPress Stats provides us 4 major stats of our blog :

1. Referrers – It includes the sites which has sent us the most number of visitors.
2. Top Posts – It includes the most viewed pages of the blog.
3. Search Terms – They are the set of  keywords queried in Google and redirected to our blog.
4. Most Clicks – It is the list of links which most users have clicked on our blog.

Step 1 : Install the Extension

Download link

Step 2 : Configure the Extension

Step 3 : Access Real Time Stats

So now we can easily check our blog stats without having to sign into our Dashboard. This extension also supports free hosted WordPress blogs

Note : To use this extension we have to install WordPress.com Stats Plugin to our self hosted blogs.

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Thanks for reading Hit the Comment section for any clarifications

Google+, an ultimate product developed by Google for social networking to gain back their positions in the Social Network by beating Facebook. Google+ is already having 10 million members within 2 weeks of it’s launch and joins the race of Social Networking Sites.Google+, is not only attracting Facebook users, but also many web designers and bloggers. Bloggers are pitching on it continuously with their updates on their Google+ Profile to increase their traffic and also they are rapidly writing more about Google+ tips and tricks to explode their blog’s traffic. When it comes to web designers, they’re contributing to Google+ by creating icons, wallpapers, themes and many more.

If you haven’t joined Google+ yet, then join Google+ using the Google+ Chrome Application and if it’s not working then you can comment here to get it and after joining make sure you add Google+ Profile Button to your blog or website.

Google+ Interface is liked by many people and in bloggers point of view, it is very simple and elegant as it uses only 3 colors and very fast loading without any graphics. Google+ can replace the blogging for bloggers who are having their personal free blogs on several blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and many more.

So today while I was googling about Google+, I thought of adding few more keywords to it and searched with “Google+ WordPress Theme” and found 3 new and exciting Google+ WordPress Themes developed by Simrandeep Singh , Mayur Somani and Naeem Noor :)

1. WP Plus WordPress Theme

Features:

• Google+ Based Style
• xHTML and CSS Valid
• WordPress Custom Menus Compatible
• 3 Colums
• Fixed Width
• SEO Optimized
• Fast Loading
• Styled Sticky Post

Demo       Download

2. PlusOne WordPress Theme

Features:

• Google+ Interface Style
• Fixed Width
• WordPress Custom Menus
• 3 Columns
• Thumbnail Support
• Widgets More Appealing

Demo       Download

3. Reflex+ WordPress Theme

Features:

• 3 Columns
• Custom Menus Compatible
• Post Thumbnails Support
• Fixed Width
• Jquery Powered Read More Pagination

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Thanks for reading and hit the comment section if you liked these 3 Google+ WordPress Themes

Ok guys. Get ready for the yet another social war! Yes, you heard it right

Just before a day i.e. yesterday  Twitter  released their official Follow Button and  are trying their best to expand their social analytics. And there were rumors about Google’s next big release +1 Button getting released today.

But the rumor turned fact and Google has launched their social button +1 and coming back strongly on social space.

Google started rolling out the +1 button in March, you have been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads. It was under experiment tag and +1 button was not available for the social space!

In Google I/O 2011, Google speakers started spreading a word about Google’s +1 Button. They said, Google +1 button is weeks away from going online. And just after 2 weeks, Google released +1 button which can now be integrated and added to any website.

How To Add +1 Button?

Follow the below steps to add official Google +1 Button :

1. Place this piece of code in your head tag or just before you close the body tag. WordPress users can add this code in header.php file.

   <script src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>

 

2. As you can  see below is the screenshot of various available sizes of the Google +1 Button
   1. Small (15px) | Code:

      <g:plusone size="small"></g:plusone>
      

   2. Medium (20px) | Code:

      <g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone>

   3. Standard (24px) | Code:

      <g:plusone></g:plusone>

   4. Tall (60px) | Code:

      <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>



Note : Place this piece of code where you want the +1 button to render. WordPress users can add this code in single.php file.

 

For webmasters, Google has added a link where you can directly go and grab the button in couple of seconds.

The reason why we mentioned the above code is for English version is, +1 button is available is 44 different languages. To get the particular language based +1 button Google has added small additional code to script like below:

<script src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
{lang: 'en-GB'}
// ]]></script>

For non-webmasters, Google started rolling out +1 button for English-language searches on Google.com. If you want to +1 search results and search ads earlier, you can opt in through Google’s experimental search site. To see recommendations from your friends and contacts in Google search, make sure you’re signed into your Google Account.

Google has added +1 button mainly to share the content you read will be suggested to your friend who is connected through Google Account. +1 is as simple on the rest of the web as it is on Google search.

With a single click you can recommend that anything you found interesting to friends, contacts and the rest of the world. The next time your connections search, they could see your +1’s directly in their search results, helping them find your recommendations when they’re most useful.

Ok! That’s it. You have a +1 button with you now. Help Google is social space as they have already failed with Orkut and Google Buzz!

Please Share your thoughts and lets discuss above the negative and positive face of the +1 Button! Cheers

Twitter is one of the sensational tool which can make two strangers as friends in seconds. Twitter is a place where we get to know all the latest news around the world!

Just few months back Twitter came up with their own Tweet button which you can find in almost 75% of the websites who deals with Twitter for more visitors and today Twitter team announced another button which can fetch you more followers

Here comes Twitter Follow button which allows instant follow of Twitter accounts directly from the websites you visit every day. You can also see the profile and latest Tweets of the account you want to follow by clicking the username next to the Button.

How To Add Twitter Follow Button !!

Well there is a link which allows you to get Follow Button instantly. You can get the button by following this link.

If you want to manually add it just add the following code snippet in your blog. Open your single.php to add it in all the pages or you can also add in your sidebar.php.

Light Background Button:

Follow @TWITTER_HANDLE
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>

Dark Background Button:

Follow @ TWITTER_HANDLE
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:1--></script>

Note: TWITTER_HANDLE is your Twitter ID/Handle

It’s very simple to add Follow button as compared to Tweet Button where you had to follow many other steps. And one advantage is, you can add how much ever Follow Buttons you like

Twitter said,

For publishers and brands, adding the Follow Button to your website and using Twitter to stay connected with your audience is a powerful combination. People who follow your account are much more likely to retweet and engage with your Tweets, and to repeatedly visit your website.

Hope you guys enjoy with this new button by Twitter which can eventually add more followers to your Twitter Account. Happy Tweeting

Hello friends , I’m very much glad to say that today WordPress completes 8 years of Blogging service and hence all it’s users are enlightened with regular use of this open source web application.

WordPress, the ultimate blogging platform which has turned many bloggers ( both part-time and full-time) enhance their blogging skills and hence earning $$ to quit their daily job.

Before blog was used as only personal dairy and hence was limited to access to only those persons who wants to share their personal information, but things have changed now, now bloggers blog to earn money  through various channels like Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing and more services and hence improvise their writing skills.

WordPress was first released by Matt Mullenweg in May 27,2003 as a fork of b2/cafelog. [via: Wikipedia ]

Matt Mullenweg : WordPress Founder

Matt Mullenweg started blogging in 2000 and was very much frustrated with the existing blogging  standards and hence started with his own idea of creating a blogging platform using the b2 codebase which was used by his current blog. Later in the year 2003 on May 27,2003 he released his own blogging platform “WordPress” and below is the screenshot of the WordPress.org site which allowed users to download the first release of WordPress 0.7 and WordPress 0.71 Gold is still available for Download in WordPress Release Archive.

Matt recently posted in his blog that he’ll be on his soapbox on Friday, May 27th 2011 (Today) at 12:00 noon to chat about the following points :

• WordPress Redesigning Journey of 7 years
• His views on Advertising and how it is employed with WordPress
• His philosophy on the decision making process when adding, removing or changing the functionality of WordPress
• His effort to fight against spam and the recent incident which WordPress experineced
• His thoughts and excitements towards HTML5 and Twitter

[via : Zurb]

To catch the live stream of the event you can subscribe to http://justin.tv/zurb

You can still know more about Matt Mullenweg from his own blog => Ma.tt

Thanks to WordPress

I would love to thank Matt Mullenweg for creating such a fabulous blogging platform and hence enabling us to express ourselves in the form of variant blogs.

Now I feel it’s time to show some Love to WordPress, here are few ways to show your true love to WordPress :

1. Add WordPress badges to your Twitter/Facebook Profile using Twibbon , as I’ve done with my Twitter profile => @gupshupblog
2. Cast your votes to WordPress for being the most free web application here.
3. You can create your own free blog at WordPress, by signing up at WordPress.com
4. Last but not least you can share this post with your friends and hence spread it

HAPPY BLOGGING

Before we start with our topic Tech18 Staff would like to wish Firefox a Many Many Happy returns of the day. We will wish all the best for its future.

Well finally Firefox back in news after a long delay with their work. Its already more than 2 months Firefox 4 Beta 7 got delayed. On released Sept 14th, 2010 Mozilla team released Firefox 4 Beta 6.

Finally wait is over and users will get Beta 7 tomorrow. In today’s weekly meeting Firefox team published the schedule of Firefox’s future updates. In meeting notes they added

FF4.0b7 will be released tomorrow (!!!)

Please add the relnote keyword for any issues that you think should be in the relnotes.

Some users would have already tested beta 7 which was included in build tree last week. And one more good news is, this beta will be feature freeze of FF4.0. Next 3 beta’s will just work on fixing defects/blockers to release FF4.0 asap.

FF 4.0 b7 will be the first version that reveals the entire feature set of Firefox 4 and will include the new JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine for the first time. Hope FF will hit new JavaScript milestones with JaegerMonkey JS.

Its not done yet! Firefox team even mentioned about the next beta i.e. Beta 8. FF4.0 Beta 8 will come out quickly after 3 weeks from now or by early December. Currently 87 blockers are in plate to be fixed to release Beta 8.

Firefox has to work hard and release Firefox 4 asap. Competition from Google Chrome and Internet explorer is increasing day by day and Firefox is already loosing its share every month to them. Hope Firefox will act soon and get back to browsers war.

Watch out this space for more updates!!!

Do you think Firefox will get back to browsers war and fight back against IE and Chrome? We would like to know your response