Role Manager

It’s the most important plugin once you are planning to take in more authors. This plugin will help you to assign different privilege level to different users. For example a editor will be allowed to open and edit all the posts but he will be devoid of deleting any.  You can also create custom profile with different roles.

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Author Comment

This plugin will highlight all the comment from the author on its blog post and make it easier and simpler to read comments and replies. The only requirement is that the author must be logged before he makes any comment.

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Pre-Publish Reminder

Each admin has a check list before he or she publishes the blog. Now you can share your check list with your co-authors and remind them to check few things before they press the button for review.

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Audit Trail Plugin

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

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Do make sure you give enough credits to the author by showing his name and link at the end of the post. Sure there are revenue sharing plugins too if you are willing to share your ad-space with your authors.

4 Must Have Plugins for a Multi Author WordPress Blog

Add Snow, Balloons and More to WordPress

The above plugin will allow you to add falling snowflakes effect to your WordPress blog. Users can also add extra features such as floating leaves, balloons and water droplets. The plugin allows you to manage number of snowflakes and other items. Users can also limit the cool animation to specific posts and pages.

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WP Christmas Plugin

The plugin simply displays snowflakes and two sweet Christmas snow man wishing all your readers Merry Christmas. The plugin will come to action as soon as you upload and activate the plugin and has no configuration page.

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Snow Storm WordPress Plugin

If you want to keep things simple you can opt for Snow Storm. It only adds falling snow effect to your blog. There is no configuration page hence the density of the density of the snow flakes can not be controlled.

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So go ahead and greet your readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in style.

3 Plugins to Add Snow flakes Christmas effects on WordPress Blog

When you click on the Tweet Button, a pop-up box containing a shortened link of the item, you want to share, will appear. You can add a line of text also. After posting on Twitter, the website may suggest you some accounts to follow.

It has made the task dead simple for the publishers too. Create a customizable Tweet button for your blog with a few clicks. Three types of Tweet buttons are available there under the “Button” tab. These are with vertical, horizontal and without retweet count.

Under the “Tweet text” option, you can add your own text. Otherwise the title of the page, you want to share, will be posted by default.

The URL of the page is the default one. However, you can suggest another URL too.

The new Tweet button is available in five languages like English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

A preview will be shown before you grab the single line code to use.

Just copy and paste the code into the HTML for your website wherever you want it to appear.

To create a further customized Tweet button, check out developer documentation.

Websites like Ask.com, CNN, Time.com and YouTube have already started to use this new Tweet button. Start using yours too.

Twitter Launches its Official Tweet Button: How to install on Blog?

It is a small plug-in that basically gives readers the option to zoom a part of the image when they take the mouseover the image. setting this plug-in is easy with only two options that you have to specify.

First of all you have to specify the default zoom then the mouse cursor is taken over the image. By default this is set to 2x zoom but can be extended upto 10x. Readers can zoom in or zoom out using mouse scroll. Second setting that you have to do is the window size within which the image will be magnified, by default it is 75 pixels i.e window size is 75×75 pixels. you can change this according to your convenience.

Image Zoomer is well compatible with the latest version of wordpress and works seamlessly, it can be disabled at any time from the plug-in options if you do not wish to use it.

Download: Image Zoomer

Zoom Part of Image on Mouseover of WordPress Blog Articles

However, if you use WordPress then using a plain text to show Twitter Followers’ count is preferable as a matter of beauty. There are some hacks developed which includes some changes in core files of WordPress installation but some of you may find it difficult to perform the hack so, ThemeSphere developed a plugin to work out this thing for you.

Twounter is a WordPress Plugin that fetches the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format. Twounter uses Twitter API to ensure that the plugin provides the maximum speed while fetching the number of followers.

Usage :

• Use the <?php echo twounter(’username’) ; ?> function in your template files to show the number of Twitter followers. (replace ‘username’ with your Twitter user name)
• If you want to show it inside post then,  use shortcode [twounter]username[/twounter]

Since the output is simple text, you can use your CSS skills to show it as you want.

Twitter Followers counter in plain text

Good thing about this Google Talk Widget is that you only need to have a Google account to add the widget, preventing your visitors from the need of a separate account.

With Google Talk widget, we can chat with multiple people simultaneously, having a tab for each conversation and offering the chance to show our state to help our users know whether we are reachable at the moment or not.

The style of Google Talk widget is similar to the Gmail interface, so it’s not very complicated to use, and the status to choose are: Available, Busy and Offline.

Once, HTML code is embedded, it is not necessary that your visitors install any additional plugin, we just copy the code and paste it into the desired location on our blog (sidebar preferably).

The Google Talk Widget is free and the only requirement is of course, have a Google account, through which we can have improvements such as integration with Gmail and the newly added invisible mode.

Press on Select the code button below and copy the code. Login to Blogger Dashboard and in Design / Template Elements page, add new Javascipt/HTML gadget. Paste this code and you are done.

For any problems with the embed code or installation, feel free to comment.

Add Google Talk on Blogger | GTalk Widget on Blogspot Blog

How to Add Recent Widgets on Blogger / Blogspot

Here’s the simplest Recent Posts Widget listing recent 10 articles of your blog. Summary of the articles is optional which can be triggered ON by editing the code.

1. Click on “Add Recent Post Widget Gadget” button, this will redirect you to Blogger “Add Elements” Page.
2. Select the blog where Widget to be installed
3. Edit Content and replace yoursitename from the code with your blog’s name.
4. Hit “Add Widget” button and you are done.

Widget is configured to show recent 10 articles but it is customizable.

Other attributes which can be edited are:

• var numposts = 10 ( where 10 is Number of Recent Posts )
• showpostdate = false (Make it true if you want to show Date of publish)
• showpostsummary = false (Toggle it true if you want to show Summary of article too in widget)
• numchars = 100 (where 100 is Number of characters in Summary)

I hope the guidelines are clear and you could add the Recent Post widget easily on your Blogspot blog.

How to Add Recent Posts Widget to WordPress

WordPress has by default “Recent Posts” Widget. Just Login to WordPress Dashboard and head on to “Widgets” under Appearance. Now drag the Recent Posts widget where you want it to be displayed.

Simple Recent Posts Widget For Blogger / Blogspot / WordPress Blog