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JanRain RPX

JanRain RPX WordPress plugin allows connections to your web site by various means, including Facebook Connect, the Google, Yahoo, Twitter, MySpaceID accept as AOL, the Windows Live ID and OpenID. After installing the plugin, users can connect to a page and comment on your blog about these providers and suppliers have icons next to the commentators.

Facebook Status Updater

This plugin will automatically updates the status Facebook Fan Page, publishes Wall / Wall Group Home / twitter when you send a new message. We might have to wait a little, because it doesnt seem to work with Wordpress 2.9.2 yet.

Wordbook

Wordbook allows users to publish to WordPress blog updates of their Facebook profile Mini-Feed. You must connect your Wordpress blog with your Facebook account when to use this plugin.

Gigya Socialize

Gigya lets you authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL. Apart from this, you can update your social networking sites to your blog and invite your friends to your blog by visiting this link. After activation, simply go gigya website and get your API key and Secret key to use this plugin.

Facebook Fan box

This plugin allows users to add a fan box to their blog. The fan-box will appear as a sidebar widget. To use this module, you can simply create a fan page on Facebook, you will receive a unique key identifying your profile API and you’re done!

Fotobook

Fotobook lets users can access Facebook account and import photos, then link these images you can use on their blog. In this section, users can import photos from multiple Facebook account and displays these images on the sidebar. It is an easy instrument to use Ajax manage photo albums. Note: This link does not work with Wordpress 2.8.

WP-FacebookConnect

WP-FacebookConnect adds features to Wordpress with the Facebook Connect API. It provides single sign-on to your Facebook account to post comments on news content, a profile of Facebook, and use images as avatars comment.

Feed Facebook

This plugin creates a separate power supply on Facebook. If you do not like, such as Facebook face your blog feeds, you can then use this plugin to forage for Facebook to summaries only.

Facebook Dashboard Widget

This plugin uses Wordpress widget to attract and display your Facebook friends status, show your post and notificaton at your Wordpress admin dashboard. With this method, you can find these updates without login to your Facebook account.

Add To Facebook

Add To Facebook is a simple plugin that will add a link at the bottom of the current location, so readers can easily share the article with a friend on Facebook.

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1. WPCompressor - Increase loading time up tp 80%

We couldnt believe it! Just by this small plugin, which activates GZIP compression of your website without any changes to your server, you can reduce your site weight to 80%. It uses PHP to activate GZIP instead of .htaccess. wpCompressor automatically compresses the data output and boosts the speed performance of your blog. You can test your speed here.

2. Remove unnecessary Plugins & upgrade current ones

Remove all unused plugins wordpress site. Disable them and then physically remove from your web server. Plugins are disabled will affect the speed of a site for WordPress plugin will check whether activated or not. You also must keep up-to-date with the latest version of the plugin you use. Developer would have released a new version because they have modified the code in several ways to make this plugin work better.

3. Minimize PHP and database queries

I also have read great tip on Wpcandy’s simple ways to speed up WordPress. The article makes a lot of sense, cutting down on PHP and database queries.Jadi when the page loads on your site, and your browser must execute PHP query, it adds to the burden of time. If you change the query PHP with static HTML, every time the page is loaded, the browser you only read HTML.

4. Optimize and Repair your Database from myPhpAdmin

Every week or so you should login to your myPhpAdmin and optimize your db. Locate your Wordpress DatabaseTables, check all the tables in the Check Boxes, select the Optimise Tables Option and repair. You would be surprised how well this trick might work, it saved more than 10% of my current database size.

5. Use Reliable image hosting service

Try moving the common web images, CSS, JavaScript and other static files to Amazon S3 Storage service and you will notice the average CPU load / memory requirement of the web server will be reduced a lot. Read this step by step guide. Signing up for reseller hosting gives you more power for your own projects. You will have more control of system ressources.

You can also try WP-Offload . This plugin will boost the performance of your blog by seamlessly offloading static content like images, documents and movies. This will greatly reduce bandwidth consumption and the number of HTTP requests issued to your web server. Additional features such as remote image manipulation and thumbnail generation are provided.

6. Install WP Super Cache Plugin

This plugin will generate static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After the resulting html files, your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the relatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts and would not actually load content from a database at all, so the post will load faster with less stress on your server.

7. PHP Speedy WP

PHP Speedy WP can quickly and easily speed up your WordPress site and increase your blog’s response without too much effort on your part. PHP Speedy WP also allows us to automatically combine all the JS and CSS files into only two files - which in turn helps the opening page of times. CSS Background Images are automatically converted to URI.Dan this data will be useful in reducing the number of HTTP requests even further. And, importantly, is compatible with Internet Explorer, although the data do not support URI

8. Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API

The AJAX Libraries API is an attempt to make Web applications faster for developers in simple ways by becoming a content distribution network and loading architecture for popular javascript libraries including:

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

You can either link to the source code directly:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script>

Or you can use Google’s API:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script type="text/javascript">google.load("prototype", "1.6.0.2");</script>

By using the google.load() method, your application has high speed, globally available access to a growing list of the most popular, open source and up to date JavaScript libraries.

9. Optimize your images with this great tool

Shrink O’Matic AIR is a great application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. This will be able to handle JPGs, GIFs and PNGs. Simply drag and drop images and they will be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.

10. WP CSS

This plugin GZIP and strip whitespace from your CSS file. This plugin allows you to confidently use @ import in the CSS file and not have to worry about what happens at the end user. This can be seen through the style.css file and put all @ import files into it. You also can set the cache expiration time. In addition you can also add CSS files to a specific page or post and put them all into one file.

11. Display page loading time + number of queries

Here is a simple code that can be inserted in your template. This code is useful to know how long it takes to load your page, or how many sql query is executed.

<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds

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About the author

Yanuar Prisantoso is a 25 year old web developer in Onebitmedia, he has experience in the web design and web development industry and is very interested about jQuery and interactive on his blog, Denbagus. You can follow on Twitter or contact him through his website.

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Tagaroo is designed to make your WordPress blog better for you, better for your readers and more accessible to search engines. As you’re writing, Tagaroo analyzes the text in your post and suggests intelligent tags for the things and events you’re writing about.

You can use these tags in your post - but even better - you can use these tags to automatically get great images from Flickr to include in your post.

Tagaroo works as a plugin by Calais and makes tagging fun and easy, makes your posts more visually compelling and helps search engines find your content.

What is so special about it?

Metadata in and of itself is not too interesting. Where things get more interesting is what you can do with it. For right now we’ll just provide a few examples of what publishers are doing and planning to do:

Tag your complete historical archives in hours

Perhaps you’re a complete convert to the value of tagging your content and are doing a great job with new material. But what about the tens of thousands to millions of pieces of historical content you have already produced? Several organizations are in the process of feeding their entire historical archives through Calais and automatically generating high-quality tags and metadata. Doing so, they translate a stale content asset into one that can be actively searched and integrated with other content assets.

Improve user search and content searchability

At best, keyword-based search solves a portion of your users’ search needs. Incorporate semantic metadata into your search solution and you can dramatically improve the user search experience – and this doesn’t need to be complicated. Simply process your content and append the resulting metadata to your search index. As a simple example, your users can now search for “IBM” and “Management Change” to receive a complete listing of IBM-related hirings, firings, promotions, transfers and new positions – something barely achievable with keyword-based search.

Improve syndication segmentation

If you syndicate your content to others, you can now offer syndication options based on the highly accurate information contained within your metadata. For example, a business-related feed limited to acquisitions and management changes can be automatically generated.

New information-driven products and services

You know what your clients need. Calais provides the framework for developing value-added products and service for your clients. Content-driven analytics, interactive segmentation, search engine optimization – you’re in the driver’s seat.

Smush.it offers an API that performs these optimizations (except for stripping JPEG meta data) automatically, and this plugin seamlessly integrates Smush.it with WordPress.

Features

• stripping meta data from JPEGs
• optimizing JPEG compression
• converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs
• stripping the un-used colours from indexed images

How does it work?

Every image you add to a page or post will be automatically run through Smush.it behind the scenes. You don’t have to do anything different.

Installation and Use

Download the WP Smush.it plugin and extract in your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate the plugin and you’re done.

• Build a community
• Login using your Facebook account
• Send comments to Facebook profile feed
• Invite your friends to the blog community
• See last visitors

There are a few more solutions out there for other blogs and website on the offical facebook connect wiki.

Also worth reading is Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes providing a great video tutorial.

The Future of Open Source CMS can sure be predicted based on how they are being used currently. They have requested 23 cool Web Designers & Developers to share their thoughts on this same topic.

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Main features

• Live notifications.
• Easy participation by multiple contributors.
• Posting from the front page of the blog - without using the WordPress Administration Panels.
• Comments on the front page of the site with in-line editing (no page refresh) with AJAX.
• Threaded comment display on the front page, as well as on single post pageviews.
• Live tag suggestion.
• Show/hide feature for threaded comments.
• Keyboard shortcuts for faster posting and navigation.
• Feeds for the blog, comments, authors, tags, searches, and more.

Create more than just blog posts and pages. Add new content types with only the fields you need. Customize exactly how each content type’s list and detail pages appear. Automatic pagination, filtering, public forms, access control and more are possible with the Pods CMS plugin.

Benefits

• Automation: Don’t waste your time adding custom fields to blog posts. With Pods, select the content type of the item you want to add, and all its fields are automatically created for you.
• Validation: Pods can ensure that a column’s value is not empty and is of the proper type (e.g. a valid date)
• Consistency: The same fields are shown for all items of the same content type, and fields can optionally be marked as required
• Relationships: Columns in one content type (pod) can be set as relationships to items in another pod
• Display: Pods lets you create custom pages (with wildcard URL and full PHP code support), and reusable widgets for modifying column values
• Searching & Filtering: Searching and automatic dropdown filters can be enabled for any list view
• Automatic pagination: Pagination can be enabled for any list view
• Form creation: Public forms can be easily added and customized

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