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WordPress Consultant – Dallas

OK, you just did a Google search looking for someone that could help you with a WordPress blog or website. Do I have that right so far?

Now if I’m looking for someone that can help me on a WordPress blog or website, I would prefer someone that knows how to get a site to rank on page one in the Google organic results pages. I’m also going to bet that you found this article on page #1 of Google using the the keywords WordPress Consultant Dallas, or possible using web designer dallas or even WordPress blog design. Some of the other nearby cities could also come up on with this search, such as Plano, Richardson, McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Carrollton, Grapevine, Irving, Arlington, Fort Worth, Mesquite, Garland and many other North Dallas cities. Point being, you found me on page one of Google, so it would make sense to work with someone that could get YOUR site ranked the same way.

You see, I’ve learned a lot about search engine optimization since working with WordPress, and can tell you that it’s the best platform you can use to build your blog or website. It has great SEO capabilities, and Google just absolutely loves it. If you build your posts correctly (which I show my clients how to do), you will get ranked for the keywords and keyword phrases in your target market.

So building your website is not the only consideration you should be concerned with, how to get it ranked quickly in the search engines should be a high priority.

If you’re still reading this, then give me a call. We can discuss your site and determine if we’re a fit. If we don’t click, then no hard feelings. I know other good WordPress consultants in the area that I can recommend.

WordPress Consultant – Dallas / Plano

- I can be reached at (469) 766-8188. Just ask for Bruce.

Anik Singal Affiliate Classroom 2.0 FREE Report

Anik Singal’s Affiliate Classroom 2.0 launches today at 12:00 PM EST. This has already proven to be a very HOT launch for affiliate networkers and internet marketers, and the race to get the message out has been very competitive. Bonus offers are being offered as an incentive to sign up with over 3,000 listeners signed up to see the Affiliate Classroom 2.0 webinar held last night.

Anik and his team have reached their goal of raising $30,000 for charity by donating $1.00 for every person that signed up to download his FREE report called 3 Amazing Affiliate Business Models!

Anik claims that the Affiliate Classroom 2.0 is like an online University for affiliate marketers.

Building on it’s predecessor, the affiliate classroom 2 will have more features and training.

Some of the new additions include:

• Releasing over 50 courses on affiliate marketing, from COMPLETE Beginner to Advanced.
• TOOLS – “one stop shop” – Affiliates will now have EVERY tool they need (including keyword research and even a site builder)
• Proprietary online STEP BY STEP Training system that actually tracks student’s success…
• Testing/Certification – all included

How to add a video to WordPress

Adding a video to WordPress can be done in many ways. There are tons of video plugins such as the Revver WordPress Video Plugin, Smart Youtube plugin, WP YouTube plugin and many more.

For this example, I’ll use the Smart YouTube plugin for this tutorial.

Check out the video tutorial here. I’ll be showing how to insert the video below (the SNL skit of Juila Childs)…pretty funny.

How to use Windows Live Writer on your WordPress Blog

Windows Live Writer is a tool I never really considered using with WordPress until I had a chat with some fellow developers at a Dallas WordPress Meetup. One of the developers said that all of his clients use it so they don’t have to actually log into the WordPress administration to post a blog. He said he’d rather keep them out of that area if at all possible, so as not to screw up anything.

Well, I began to think about what he said, and it sort of made sense. So this is my first stab at using Windows Live Writer to actually make a new post on my own blog to see how it works.

The installation of Windows Live Writer only took about 5 minutes, and the interface is really nice. Here’s a screenshot of the post I’m writing now.

I’m not sure just yet how this will come out in the blog, but it sure is easy to write, insert images and edit my post.

I can even insert a table into my post…think I’ll give that a shot now.

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
test row 1	another test	one more test
test row 2

Ok, that was easy enough.

There are also some plugins available for Windows Live Writer, but I’m not going to try that on this post. I’m beginning to get anxious to see how this will all look.

Think I’ll do another post later, and add a video into the post, or a map. This is pretty cool. If this looks good in the post, I can see why anyone would like using it as their main method of posting.

All for now! If you have experience with Windows Live Writer and WordPress, please make a comment below to tell us how you’re using it and what kinds of results you’re getting.

Bruce

UPDATE: Ok, the post looked good after publishing, except the screenshot did not show up. It appears that I did not configure my FTP setup within Windows Live Writer.. I’ll do that later. So I uploaded the file via FTP and inserted the image. Also, the spacing between paragraphs was much bigger than what it appeared in the writer, so I took out the extra spaces. Other than that it worked just fine.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade – WordPress Plugin Makes It Easy

OK, I just upgraded this blog from WordPress v2.6.5 to v2.7.1, and it was one of the easiest upgrades ever…thanks to Luke Gedeon. I thought that I could do an automatic upgrade from my hosting account, but it said that I could only upgrade manually. So I did a Google search to see if anyone had an “easy WordPress upgrade”, and low and behold I came across Luke Gedeon’s site with the answer I was looking for…How to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 – The easy way! I followed Luke’s instructions…and it was a piece of cake. The plugin was created by a very creative Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz. Thanks Keith!

WordPress Automatic Upgrade Tutorial Video (this is a video tutorial of me upgrading one of my sites)

Below are Luke’s instructions…he said on his blog that anyone could copy them and spread the word, so I’m taking him up on it. Thanks Luke!

It is time to upgrade to WordPress 2.7

If you are like me you probably like to wait a few weeks months years to install the newest software. Upgrades take time, you have to learn new stuff, and new software usually breaks.

WordPress 2.7 is a little different. I have never seen software go through such a thorough vetting before release. Hundreds (possibly thousands) were testing this well in advance of release and multiple thousands were using it by the time of the official release.

All that testing does not make it any easier to install, though. Or does it? One of those testers built a plugin to make upgrading super-easy.

The Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin will take you through each step of the upgrade process. It gives you a one-click option to create backups then puts your blog in maintenance mode, installs the files, and finishes the upgrade. After installing the plugin, (plugins are much easier to install than the full WordPress application) you have 5-10 clicks and you are done!

So let’s get started:

1. Click here to download the plugin.
2. Upload the file you just downloaded into the /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
3. Unzip the file. (If I have lost you at this point, let me know. This is different for each host, but I can help you individually. Just ask.)
4. Goto your wp-admin and click the Plugins menu and the Plugins sub-menu
5. Find “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” and activate it.
6. After activating the plugin you will see a pink bar at the top that says “Click Here to Automatically Upgrade WordPress to latest Version.
7. Anybody care to guess what the next step is?
8. Yup, Click on that link and enter the twilight zone.

After this you will have to click “Next Step” several times, and whenever it gives you a chance to download back-ups, do it. (two different parts need to be backed up) You will also need to click on the link to upgrade your database.

Please let me know who things work out for you. I want to hear all those, “Wow! That was easy!” exclamations. I also want to hear about any trouble  along the way, so maybe I can update these notes to make things even easier for others.

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Oh! Share this post with as many people as you possibly can. You can use social bookmarks like del.icio.us or rating sites like digg. Even better, you can copy this post onto your blog or write a post linking here. Let’s try to make this easy for as many people as possible.

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Breakthrough Business Strategies

Thanks for stopping by Michele’s radio show. Below are some of the tips we discussed on the show for setting up your WordPress blog. Our wish is that you have a successful and abundant 2009 and that your business exceeds all of your expectations. Best wishes for 2009!

Breakthrough Business Strategies – BlogTalkRadio.com

Date: Monday, January 19, 2009

@ProsperityGal (Michele on Twitter)

http://blogtalkradio.com/twochickscreating

http://blogtalkradio.com/breakthroughbusinessstrategies

@Deauxmain (Bruce on Twitter)

http://www.deauxmain.com

Must Have Plugins to Start Your WordPress Blog:

• All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – Generates a fully customizable sitemap
• Dagon Design Secure Form Mailer – WordPress version of my secure php form mailer script
• Exclude Pages from Navigation – Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
• Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
• Google Analytics for WordPress – A free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.
• Sociable – Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade – WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the WordPress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the WordPress upgrade instructions. View my WordPress Automatic Upgrade Video Tutorial.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories. Now with RSS feed support!

Recommended WordPress Themes:

• Revolution2 – Professional WordPress Themes (These are the ones I have been using)
• WordPress Remix – Premium Theme that offers WordPress as CMS experience
• One Theme – Premium WordPress Themes
• WooThemes – Premium WordPress Themes (also have some FREE themes)
• iThemes – Premium WordPress Themes
• WordPress Themes – 542 FREE themes last time I checked

Recommended Web Hosting

Bluehost ->

Good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Information

seomoz.org – The Web’s Best SEO Resources – Tons of SEO information and tools. You will need to sign up for a free account.

Link Building Notes of an SEO Kindergartner – 19 pages filled with highly effective link building tactics shared by the coolest Mozzers

• Where to look for links
• How to get links

Using Voice Recognition or Speech Recognition Software for Blogging in WordPress

Most people speak over 120 words per minute but type less than 40 words per minute. What if you could speak your blog, instead of typing it. Think about using speech recognition or voice recognition software to make blogging easier. Once your software has been set up and trained to recognize your voice patterns, you can use it to dictate your blog posts. It learns to recognize your voice instantly and continually improves the more you use it. This can dramatically speed up the time it takes to get new posts up. Speech recognition software can type up to 160 WPM (words per minute) with 99% accuracy. Not too shabby, so give it a try.

• Windows Vista Speech Recognition – Free with purchase of Windows Vista operating system (built in)
• Nuance – Dragon NaturallySpeaking Speech Recognition Software -Starts around $99 and has many different purchasing options for Windows or Mac.

Screen Capture and Making Tutorials for WordPress

There are many times that you may want to take a screenshot of something to put in your WordPress blog or on your website. You may also want to find a way to make short tutorials, whereby you can record video of onscreen action, showing your users exactly what you’re doing. Well, I’ve found a great tool for doing just that. It’s called Jing. Jing is a free application that allows you to make screen captures or even video tutorials in 5 minute increments. Your captures or videos can be saved to your local hard drive or uploaded to Screencast.com. This software is made by TechSmith…the makers of Camtasia Studio. I love this application and encourage you to try it out to see for yourself.

• JingProject.com – Free software that adds visuals to your online conversations.
• Screencast.com – a TechSmith solution for business and academic professionals looking to manage and share videos, images, documents, or anything else online.

How to Keep Your Video Camera Steady – Even When You Are Moving

All to often we see videos that people make that would be pretty good videos, but the camera is so shaky it makes us drunk just to watch it. Steadicams (or camera stabilizers) are attachments used to capture smooth looking video even when the camera and camera operator are in motion. The camera operator may walk (or even jog), move through tight hallways and doorways, and even climb up and down stairs without shaking the camera.

There are professional video stabilizers on the market to remedy this situation…but they ain’t cheap. One is called Steadicam, and starts around $1500. Well, I found a way to make great videos without spending an arm and a leg on a solution to make your camera steady. It’s called Steadycam, and you can make one yourself for under $14.00. Johnny Chung Lee has a website devoted to showing you exactly what you’ll need to build it, and then shows exactly how to build it for under $14. Johnny does an excellent job and his design is brilliant. If you are not the handyman type, you can purchase the complete Steadycam for $39.95 from Johnny’s site…still a great deal. So check out the Steadycam and start making smooth moving videos today.

Rank Checker

Checking to see how my site is ranking in the search engines for my main keywords has always been a pain in the butt, but no more. I found a really cool Firefox plugin that checks my rankings in Google, Yahoo and Live with the click of a button. It does have a few setup steps, but once that’s done…it’s a snap.  You just put in your domain name, and list of keywords or keyword phrases, then press the start button. You’ll have your ranking results in minutes. You can also download your search resulting into a CSV file.

It’s a free rank checking tool for Firefox called Rank Checker, by SeoBook.com. Download the plugin for Firefox and start checking your site rankings today.

279 Days to Overnight Success

I came across a really interesting WordPress blog this morning by Chris Guillebeau at http://chrisguillebeau.com. His blog is The Art of Non-Conformity – Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work and Travel. He writes about how to change the world by achieving significant, personal goals while helping others at the same time. I found his e-book before I actually found his website. His e-book is 279 Days to Overnight Success, in which he describes how he became a full-time writer in under 10 months. I really like what Chris has to say, and encourage you to visit his blog and download his e-book.

WordPress Tutorials – for Newbies to Pros

Here are a few of my best links to WordPress Tutorials. These are great resources that will help the Newbie to the Pro.

Your ONE membership gives you access to members-only content for ALL our Plus sites:

• Psd Plus
• Vec Plus
• Net Plus
• Audio Plus

At $9 a month (or $22 for three months, or $78 per year) it’s a fantastic deal. And if you don’t love it, no problem, because your membership comes with a 100% money-back guarantee within the first month. But with over 3,000 happy members, we’re sure you’re going to love Plus!

250+ Super Cool Wordpress Tutorials – Newbie To Pro –

- This is a great resource for WordPress Tutorials. A great collection that will not disappoint you.

110+ Massive Wordpress Video Tutorial Collection

- Another good collection of WordPress Tutorials. Check it out. Awesome stuff.

Twitter for WordPress Plugin Tutorial

I like the Twitter for WordPress plugin, so I made a quick tutorial on how to install it in under four minutes. It’s really easy to install and configure, so please take about 3 minutes and watch the video.

WordPress Database Backup

 

A few weeks ago I was experimenting with a new plugin when something went wrong. I was getting an error page when trying to view my WordPress plugins. After trying many things to get it to work I had to use something that I thought I’d never need…my Backup. I have been doing automatic WordPress backups for a while now, and really wasn’t 100% sure it would work if I needed it. Luckily it did. My backups are done weekly and emailed to me. I had to find my latest backup and restore it using phpMyAdmin in my cPanel. It worked like a charm. I lost my most recent post which was done between backups, but I was grateful that was all that was lost.

So the lesson I learned was to ALWAYS have a recent backup handy. If you post daily, you need to backup daily or twice daily. If you post more often than that, you probably need to backup hourly.

Here is a video tutorial of how to install the WordPress Database Backup plugin. It’s quick and easy, and may save your butt like it did mine.

How to add a video to WordPress

There are tons of ways to add a video to WordPress, but I’m going to show you how to do it using the Smart YouTube plugin. It’s really simple, so just take a look at the video tutorial I made on How to Add a Video to WordPress.

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WordPress Training

WordPress training for small business owners and individuals is now taking top priority in what my I will be doing in my business. As a web designer and someone who knows WordPress pretty well, I’m beginning to see ways that I can help small businesses take advantage of what WordPress has to offer.

WordPress is the best tool that I know of for getting found on the web today. It’s super search engine friendly, meaning I can post a new article now, and 10-15 minutes later you can find that new article on Google.  My pages get ranked so much higher and faster in the search engines than any other type of website I’ve worked on. And what’s really nice about it, is that I can teach others how to do it.

So I designed a series of training webinars that I’ll be hosting to teach people how to use WordPress as their web design software of choice. If you have been paying a webmaster to update your site, you really should take a look at the course I’ll be teaching. Once you learn this skill, no one can take it away. The WordPress tutorials that you will have access will take you from using tools of the trade for building websites, to customizing your website so that it has a unique look, specifically designed for your company. The tools that I use, are all FREE, so you will learn what they are, how to install them, and how to use them.

Take a look at my program, and if you decide to take control of your business by learning to build and maintain your own website, you will be set free from ever having to depend on someone else for this part of your business. I look forward to meeting and working with you.

Click here to see the WordPress Training program in detail.

WordPress Plugins List – 100+ Popular Plugins

Okay, this is probably the best plugin (ScribeSEO) I’ve come across in a very long time. It with help you optimize you pages and posts within WordPress. It gives each page a score…like 63% out of 100%. Then it will give you detailed things you can do to improve your score and get it to 100%. Awesome plugin and very easy to use.

Check out my new Website Workshop Webinars using WordPress

Below is a list of WorPress Plugins that can come in handy when building your site.

This list is sortable by the plugin name…just click the little arrow next to “WordPress Plugin” to sort.

Please visit our WordPress Widget List also.

WordPress Plugin	Description
All in One SEO Pack	Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
WP-SpamFree	Powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog!
DMSGuestbook	DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features.
WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart	A very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog.
WP-Affiliate	Easy affiliate link masking and more. Now Featuring: Commission Junction Search Capabilities! Click Tracking! Download It Now!
WP Security Scan	Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.
Admin Management Xtended	Adds AJAX-driven options to some admin management pages with CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility without having to open the edit sc
Events Calendar	Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events.
TDO Mini Forms	This plugin allows you to add custom posting forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to submit posts.
Plugin Central	Dashboard plugin update notification, update all plugins at once, move your plugins from one blog to another with plugin install. Wordpress 2.5+ only
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button	Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and over 100 more.
MobilePress	MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.
Advanced Category Excluder	The No.1 category manager, and content separator plugin to enable CMS like functionality, search engine optimization, and create real sub pages
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator	Generates a fully customizable sitemap
WP-Cumulus	A terrific flash based animated tag cloud called WP-Cumulus developed by Roy Tanck.
Dagon Design Secure Form Mailer	WordPress version of my secure php form mailer script
Twitme	This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website.
MailPress	Allows you to send beautiful emails with style ! Last release for WordPress 2.6.x
Exclude Pages from Navigation	Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
Google XML Sitemaps	This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
Google Analytics for WordPress	A free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.
Sociable	Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
One Click Plugin Updater	Provides single-click plugin upgrades in WP 2.3 and up, visually marks plugins that have update notifications enabled, allows to easily install new plugins
Page Flip Image Gallery	Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.
Codestyling Localization	You can manage and edit all gettext translation files (*.po/*.mo) directly out of WordPress Admin Center without any need of an external editor.
Wordpress PDA & iPhone	This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser. iphone is still in beta testing state. Soon more updates will follow.
Platinum SEO Pack	Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO
Last.Fm Records	This plugin shows cd covers for cds your listened to, according to last.fm. It can behave as a widget.
Interactive Video Plugin	Easily add full interactive video capabilities to your blog.
Embedded Video	Easy embedding of videos from lots of portals or local video files of many file formats with optional generation of a corresponding link.
All in One Video Pack	Easily add full video capabilities to your blog.
Adminimize	Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu
Add to Any Subscribe Button	Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader or feed emailer.
WordPress Flickr Manager	Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts.
WPlite	Wordpress, without the fat.
Quick Shop	QuickShop has two shopping-cart widgets, automatically adds buttons to your posts, and includes a TinyMCE editor button.
WP YouTube	WP YouTube now supports a profile editor, where you can set up different settings, but only one profile is needed for all your YouTube videos.
Flash Video Player	The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup
Smartlinker	Smartlinker is a toolbar on the WordPress TinyMCE editor that enables you to hyperlink words and phrases in your blog.
Featurific For Wordpress	An effortless but powerful interface to Featurific Free, the featured story slideshow. (Similar to the ‘featured’ widget on time.com, msn.com
Add Me Dichev	Renders social bookmark buttons after the post. Bulgarian social networks are included too. For the full networks list see the plugin details.
Events	Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options.
Category Page	Use pages as category archive header, or list some posts from a category into a post/page.
All in One Adsense and YPN	Automatically insert Google Adsense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.
Emo Vote	Encourage your users by letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather than voting.
Picturesurf Gallery	Picturesurf Gallery allows you add an image gallery to your blog post in seconds.
RelatedPosts	This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show the via tags related posts of a post (for example via a sidebar widget).
ComicPress Manager	ComicPress Manager ties in with the ComicPress theme to make managing your WordPress-hosted Webcomic easy and fast.
Plugin Manager	View, download and install plugins from WordPress.org Plugin Database from an AJAX’ed interface with a single click of the mouse.
Easy Admin Color Schemes	The Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress.
Category Icons	The No. 1 plugin to assign icons to categories.
WP Page Numbers	A simple paging navigation plugin for users and search engines. Instead of next and previous page it shows numbers and arrows. Settings available.
Yawasp – Yet Another WordPress Anti Spam Plugin	To block Spambots this Plugin replaces the names of the default comment form fields with random names.
XmasB Quotes	Add random quotes with image to your Wordpress blog with this widget.
WP-SimpleViewer	Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.
BBcode	BBcode for your Wordpress Blog, but with an easy to use editor.
Quote Rotator	Creates widget for adding quotes (or other content) on the sidebar. Content will rotate through.
Invite Friends	This plugin give the ability to anyone how registered to your blog, to invite more people, even if the registration is closed.
wpSearch	wpSearch is a very powerful search plugin for Wordpress. It is based on the open source search engine “Lucene” which means its fast and relevant.
Organizer	You can use this plugin to view, copy, rename, delete, resize image and get html code of files in upload folder.
PlugInstaller	Install and uninstall plugins from your admin interface without uploading the plugins via FTP and automatically check for plugin updates.
MyCaptcha	Allows you to display a captcha on your comment form to avoid spam.
Custom widgets	With this plugin, you can configure where widgets are displayed on a per post or per WP Template(Using conditional Tags) basis.
WP-PluginsUsed	Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
Daiko’s Text Widget	Adds a text widget that is capable of displaying php-code. Conditional tags are included to specify where to show.
WP-Crontrol	WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system.
TGFI.net SEO	Override titles, descriptions and keywords with page/post level input. Designed for use with Wordpress as a CMS with the blog not on the homepage.
List of Posts from each Category plugin for WordPress	Displays a list of the post titles in each category.
Wp-UnitPNGfix	This plugin includes the `unitpngfix.js` javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower.
WP-Hashcash	Client-side javascript blocks all spam bots. XHTML 1.1 compliant.
Downloads Manager	This Plugin adds a simple downloads manager to your blog.
WP Easy Uploader	Easily upload any type of content without the need for FTP. You can even upload plugin and theme archives, and the files will be extracted for you.
outbrain	A WordPress plugin to deal with the Outbrain blog posting rating system.
diggZ-Et	Automatically displays a “digg” button for each post. Full admin options available. Can hide buttons in several ways.
WP CSS	GZIP and strip whitespace from your CSS files. Add specific CSS files to post/pages.
p2pConverter	This plugin allows you to easily convert a post to a page and vice versa through an easy to use interface.
Google News	Displays news items from selectable Google News RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed.
Meet Your Commenters	Displays web pages and social networks’ profiles of your commenters in the dashboard.
FV Community News	Let Users Submit News To Your Site.
WP-Vidavee	Easily upload and publish video in your WordPress blog.
Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes	With Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes easily create unique color schemes for your WordPress administration panel and adjust to your preferences.
Site Maintenance	Puts the site into maintenance mode by sending a ‘503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients.
Quick SMS	Quick SMS allows visitors to your blog pages to send you SMS messages direct to your mobile phone, wherever you are.
WP-ShortStat	Track your blog stats. Visit Dashboard|ShortStat. Based on Shaun Inman’s ShortStat and Jeff Minards’s plugin wp-shortstat 1.2.
Galleria WP	Galleria WP is a multi functional image gallery plugin for WordPress2.5. Galleria WP uses jQuery Javascript frameworks.
Favorites Menu Manager	Control what goes into the favorite actions menu in WordPress 2.7+
SociBook	Adding social bookmarking links to your blog!
Clker.com clip art	Search and add Clker.com clip art images to your posts.
Auto BlogRoll	Instantly generates a auto blogroll page for Wordpress blogs based on the active theme.
Disable WordPress Plugin Updates	Disables the plugin update checking and notification system.
Snow and more	Snowflakes (and more) falling down your blog! Inspired by the unforgettable xsnow.
GoStats for Wordpress	Use the powerful GoStats counter and reporting engine in your blog easy to install. Now with Optional Map Widget!
Nofollow Case by Case	Say no to nofollow but without losing control for comment links, pingbacks and trackbacks. Apply nofollow to your follow links wherever you like.
WP Opt-in	Collect e-mail addresses from users with a simple form. Send them an e-mail automagically.
Shockingly Simple Favicon	A shockingly simple favicon for your site. Put a favicon in your site without messing with themes code.
Wordpress Multibox Plugin	This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images.
Nofollow Reciprocity	mproves your blog pagerank and search engines rankings (search engine optimization).
Anonymous WordPress Plugin Updates	Anonymizes the data transmitted during plugin update check.
Berri Personalized Care	This plugin for WordPress will give up to four personalized messages depending on the origin of the visitors of your blog.
Share+ by Grouptivity	Not just another sharing plugin. Share+ gives readers a simple way to save, share and discover your top content with friends, family and co-workers.
LastPostsImage	This WordPress plugin provides a customizable image always showing the last posts of your blog.
WP-Chop	NEW! Customizable Chinese seal chop widget for WordPress. Any colors.
My Custom Widgets	Plugin to create your own custom widgets .
Theme Switcher Reloaded	Theme Switcher Reloaded is an updated and much improved version of the original themeswitcher. Comes with a widget and can also switch themes via URL.
TreeMagic-Cypress	This software package is released by Ambient Webs LLC under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
MEMEdex Polls	This plugin allows simple embedding of MEMEdex flash polls into your Wordpress posts, or into your sidebar, by using a short tag.
TimesURL.at Sociable Plugin	Automatically add links on your posts to popular South African and International social bookmarking sites.
GZippy	GZippy re-enables gzip compression under WordPress.

Page Links To or Points To – WordPress Plugin

I came across a cool plugin that is really easy to use when you want something in your menu or navigation to point to another URL instead of a page within your site.

Page Links To allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.

After installing and activating your plugin, just go to the page you want to edit and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Just fill out the form show below to tell it where you want that page to point.

Get the Page Links To Plugin here.  Let me know if this helps with your WordPress Blog.

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