1) Create Google+ Business page: http://www.google.com/+/business/

2) Grab URL & Find Unique Number

3) Go to Badge Config Page: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/config

4) Choose your style and preview

5) Get the code

Sample:

There are many WordPress plugins out there, but in this article we’re focusing on the most essential. Below is a list of 10 plugins that every WordPress website could use.

1) All in one SEO Pack
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Features:

• Advanced Canonical URLs
• Fine tune Page Navigational Links
• Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
• ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
• Nonce Security
• Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

2) All in one Webmaster
Link: http://netcrunched.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/

3) WP Super-Cache

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:

• Users who are not logged in.
• Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
• Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

4) Google XML Sitemap
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

5) WP Google-Buzz
Link: http://netcrunched.com/plugins/wp-google-buzz/

Google Buzz with official Google Buzz Counter. Beautiful Google buzz integration to wordpress + 8 different admin panel options (Settings -> WP Google-buzz) + 14 diff button images + Shows Counter + mouse over effects.

Features

• Shows Google-buzz button before/after post content
• Google Buzz Counter (Using official Google Buzz APIs).
• Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists(‘add_wp_google_buzz’)) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>.
• 14 different beautiful Google Buzz button images. All images are transparent.
• rel=”nofollow” option for buzz links
• Show/Hide option to show Google Buzz button on page.
• float = left/right option
• Popup window option

6) Akismet
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.

7) WP Page-navi

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

Example: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last »

8 ) Broken Link Checker
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

Features:

• Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
• Detects links that don’t work and missing images.
• Notifies you on the Dashboard if any are found.
• Also detects redirected links.
• Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
• Link checking intervals can be configured.
• New/modified posts are checked ASAP.
• You view broken links, redirects, and a complete list of links used on your site, in the Tools -> Broken Links tab.
• Searching and filtering links by URL, anchor text and so on is also possible.
• Each link can be edited or unlinked directly via the plugin’s page, without manually editing each post.

9) Contact Form 7
Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

10) Twitter Goodies
Link: http://netcrunched.com/plugins/twitter-goodies/

Twitter style Twitter Goodies Profile Widget + Twitter Goodies Search Widget + Twitter Integration (wp to twitter) plugin. All in One plugin for Twitter Goodies.

Features:

• NEW: Twitter Goodies Search Widget option available (v1.1.9)
• Major Release feature: Twitter Integration (Automatically tweet your post/page immediately to Twitter when you publish/edit it)
• Load all Tweets and Scrollbar option
• Add Twitter Goodies to any Pages, Posts and Widget area.
• Admin Panel options to set widget title, widget width, widget height, twitter username, 5 different set of color combination
• Auto-Refresh Tweets (Continuous flow of Tweets)

I hope you like your post. Please provide your favorite plugins here in comment section to get best out of here.

If your WP development knowledge is limited, your best option is to download and install plugins. They are easy to install and manage and will give you all the power and security you could ever hope for. Of course, no plugin is powerful enough to protect you from everything, we can only minimize the possible intrusions. Below, we have twenty plugins that will help you protect your WordPress installation.

1) WP Security Scan

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

Description: Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

• passwords
• file permissions
• database security
• version hiding
• WordPress admin protection/security
• removes WP Generator META tag from core code

2) Secure WordPress

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/

Description: Little help to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.

• removes error-information on login-page
• adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual)
• removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
• removes Really Simple Discovery
• removes Windows Live Writer
• remove core update information for non-admins
• remove plugin-update information for non-admins
• remove theme-update informationfor non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
• hide wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
• Add string for use WP Scanner
• Block bad queries

This plugin requires the worlds #1 web server, Apache, and web host support for .htaccess files.

3) Chap Secure Login

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chap-secure-login/

Description: Whenever you try to login into your website, you can use this plugin to trasmit your password encrypted. The encryption process is done by the Chap protocol; this is particularly useful when you can’t use ssl or other kinds of secure protocols. By activating the ChapSecureLogin plugin, the only information transmitted unencrypted is the username; password is hided with a random number (nonce) generated by the session – and opportunely transformed by the MD5 algorithm. In the first login there will be an error, but don’t worry is only a tecnical error. Indeed in the next login’s operation, if the values are correct, there will not be errors, but you give mind because the password will sended in unencrypted way.

4) Invisible Defender

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender/

Description: This plugin protects registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding two extra fields hidden by CSS. This approach gave me 100% anti-spam protection on one of my sites. The idea behind this plugin is simple: SPAMBOTs either fill every form field they find (generic spambots) or fill WordPress-specific fields only (spambots which will recognise WP or are targeting WP only). Therefore it is sufficient to add two extra text fields to form (one empty and one with predefined value), and check theirs values after form is submitted. 1st field (empty one) will be filled by generic spambots, and 2nd one will not be filled by spambots targeting WP only. With these two simple checks probably all spambots can be easily detected, so WP can return error “403 Forbidden” for them. These two extra fields are hidden with CSS rule, so they will not be visible for most users. Only users with text-based browsers (and very old ones which not support CSS) will see them, but don’t be afraid – plugin has special message for them. Not surprisingly, some spammers found Invisible Defender too and updated their spamming software to detect and bypass this plugin. Therefore I started adding new protection methods. First one is blacklist for heavy spammers; more will be added soon. Invisible Defender also shows number of blocked spammers in Dashboard, so you can see that it really works.

5) AskApache Password Protect

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/askapache-password-protect/

Description: This plugin doesn’t control WordPress or mess with your database, instead it utilizes fast, tried-and-true built-in Security features to add multiple layers of security to your blog. This plugin is specifically designed and regularly updated specifically to stop automated and unskilled attackers attempts to exploit vulnerabilities on your blog resulting in a hacked site. You can set up Password Protection for your blog using HTTP Basic Authentication, or you can choose to use the more secure HTTP Digest Authentication. The power of this plugin is that it creates a virtual wall around your blog allowing it to stop attacks before they even reach your blog to deliver a malicious payload. In addition this plugin also has the capability to block spam with a resounding slap, saving CPU, Memory, and Database resources. Choose a username and password to protect your entire /wp-admin/ folder and login page. Forbid common exploits and attack patterns with Mod_Security, Mod_Rewrite, Mod_Alias and Apache’s tried-and-true Core Security features. This plugin requires the worlds #1 web server, Apache, and web host support for .htaccess files. Has a user-contributed attack signature system modeled after the Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention system, Nessus Vulnerability Scanner, and the Web Application Firewall ModSecurity.

6) Admin SSL

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-ssl-secure-admin/

Description:

• Forces SSL on all pages where passwords can be entered.
• Works with both Private and Shared SSL.
• Can be installed on WordPress MU to force SSL across all blogs (only works if you have a Private SSL certificate installed) from WPMU 1.3 upwards.
• Custom additional URLS (e.g. wp-admin/) can be secured through the config page.
• You can choose where you want the Admin SSL config page to appear!
• Works on WordPress 2.2 – 2.7; it will not work on previous versions.

7) HTTP Authentication

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/http-authentication/

Description: The HTTP Authentication plugin allows you to use existing means of authenticating people to WordPress. This includes Apache’s basic HTTP authentication module and many others.

8 ) Login LockDown

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/

Description: Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery. Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Admisitrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.

9) Akismet

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

Description: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put in your template.

10) TAC – Theme Authenticity Checker

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tac/

Description: TAC stands for Theme Authenticity Checker. Currently, TAC searches the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code. If such code is found, TAC displays the path to the theme file, the line number, and a small snippet of the suspect code. As of v1.3 TAC also searches for and displays static links. Then what do you do? Just because the code is there doesn’t mean it’s not supposed to be or even qualifies as a threat, but most theme authors don’t include code outside of the WordPress scope and have no reason to obfuscate the code they make freely available to the web. We recommend contacting the theme author with the code that the script finds, as well as where you downloaded the theme. The real value of this plugin is that you can quickly determine where code cleanup is needed in order to safely enjoy your theme. I hope above list will help you to protect your blog 100%. Please provide your thoughts and comments in comment section.

All in One Webmaster is very simple plugin with out any complicated code. It adds your requested meta tags into header and java script code to footer of your blog. You are most welcome to advise on any improvement or bug. I created this plugin as of my personal interest only.

This plugin allows you to easily integrate them with your blog. It has option to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags). Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask. In addition to that it has option to add tracking code for Clicky, Quantcast, Compete.com, SiteMeter.com analytics!! Site-Verification-Option, Google XML sitemap submission.

Thanks for all your supports and using this plugin. Do let me know if you find any bugs with this. You may want to subscribe to my Twitter and Facebook page in order to get latest update/bug notification on this plugin.

More info: http://netcrunched.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/

See how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too. Read recent posts from the page Like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page. Get more visitors and more traffic to your site by getting more Facebook Fans.

I mainly receive a request on what value to put for “Facebook Page Name“? Please find here below some points:

Choose whatever is after http://www.facebook.com/….

I hope this helps.

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What is Sitemap?

A blog sitemap is a collection of links outlining the structure of your entire website. These links make it possible for your visitors to navigate quickly and easily to any section of your website as long as it is listed properly in your sitemap. The purpose of a blog sitemap is to make finding posts and pages easier by listing all of them in one place.

There are a number of advantages that are associated with having a sitemap. So much so, in fact, that not having a blog sitemap is actually harmful to the productivity and functionality of your website.

How to customize Sitemap in Thesis Theme?? Below code will create exactly the same sitemap as this: http://netcrunched.com/sitemap/

1) Put below into Thesis Custom File Editor’s custom.css file:

.custom .sitemap h3 {margin-top: 0;}
.custom .sitemap ul {font-size: .85em; }
.custom .mysitemap { float: left; width: 30%;}
.custom .rightsitemap { float: right; width: 70%;}

2) Put below into Thesis Custom File Editor’s custom_functions.php file:

/* SITEMAP AND ARCHIVES PAGES */
function custom_sitemap() { ?>
<div>
<div class="sitemapl">
<h3>By Month:</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
<h3>By Category:</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('sort_column=name&title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="sitemapr">
<h3>Last 50 posts:</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=50'); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<?php }

remove_action('thesis_hook_archives_template', 'thesis_archives_template');
add_action('thesis_hook_archives_template', 'custom_sitemap');

3) Create New Page -> Select Template -> “Archives” -> Publish.

Please do let me know if you see any problem in this code.

Never fear. I’ve taken a moment to round up the best WordPress resources from past 3 weeks and present them here for your enjoyment.

1) Top 10 WordPress Plugins For More Traffic - Blogging is a good way to share information. We desided to share some useful plugins for one of the best blog softwares these days.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/top-10-wordpress-plugins-for-more-traffic/

2)  Top 10 Latest Powerful WordPress Security Plugins and Tips & Tricks - After putting in all of the time, and perhaps money, into your WordPress website or blog, its now time to secure and protect it from outside enemies and general bad guys: hackers, spammers and all round tossers.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/top-10-latest-powerful-wordpress-security-plugins-and-tips-tricks/

3) How to change footer color in Thesis theme?

Link: http://netcrunched.com/how-to-change-footer-color-in-thesis-theme/

4) Must have top 10 plugins for your WordPress blog - There’s good reason why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform. It’s easy to use and has tons of great features. But what’s really made this open source software excel is its passionate community. Yes, WordPress has lots of features built in, but it doesn’t have everything. The WordPress community fills this need. It’s full of talented developers that are constantly creating plugins to extend the features and make it even better.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/must-have-top-10-plugins-for-your-wordpress-blog/

5)  Best top 5 WordPress Plugins for SEO - With WordPress SEO Plugins you can more optimize your blog for search engines, here is a list of BEST SEO WordPress plugins for year 2010.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/best-top-5-wordpress-plugins-for-seo/

6)  Power of Social Bookmarking: 5 Best WP Plugins - Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/power-of-social-network-bookmarking-5-best-wordpress-plugins/

7)  The Power of jQuery: 8 Wonderful WP Plugins - jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! But what happens when you combine the power of jQuery with WordPress, the possibilities are infinite.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/the-power-of-jquery-8-wonderful-wp-plugins/

8 ) 5 best WordPress plugins to increase Adsense revenue - Most of the Webmaster depends on Google Adsense for revenue from their blogs/websites. Adding Google Adsense in WordPress Blog is little bit difficult. In order to help new Webmasters, I have collected some of the best Adsense WordPress Plugins those are available on WP Registry.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/5-best-wordpress-plugins-to-increase-adsense-revenue/

9) Top 5 WordPress BACKUP Plugins - Do you backup your blogs? If not, you should! All the efforts you put into writing, advertising, marketing and administrating your blog can go to waste if appropriate reservation measures are not taken in time. Even though many hosting companies make backups of your account, it is still a must to have your own ones. As you never know when a disastrous failure can take place, having several restoration points is reasonable.

Link: http://netcrunched.com/top-5-wordpress-backup-plugins/

10) Top 5 best Tracking Plugins for your wordpress blog- Stats Tracking is One Of The Most Addictive And Time Wasting Activities You, As A Blogger Can Participate In!

Link: http://netcrunched.com/top-5-best-tracking-plugins-for-your-wordpress-blog/