PlagiarismDetect

This is a service that you have to sign up for. It is supposed to be one of the more thorough and correct plagiarism detectors, and has no limit on how many searches you can run per day (although they make you pay for them). You need to set up your account and then point the program at the web pages that you want to have checked. Each page that you scan is going to cost you 50c per try, and each time you search is can take up to seven minutes to get a reply. If you perform a lot of daily searches then you may wish to consider another plagiarism checker, because this one will end up costing you a lot of money. There are cheaper versions that will suit the bulk-batch checker.

ArticleChecker

You can use this service free online, which does kind of imply that it is not as good as its competitors. All you need to do is paste your blog posts URL into the text box that is on the site, and then you click the compare button to see if your blog has been copied with another All it does is run parts of your text through either Yahoo or Google and highlight any parts that are similar to other web pages. You cannot adjust the sensitive of this checker to make it more sensitive, but as a free checker you cannot really complain.

Copyscape

This program will cost you money to use, but the price is very reasonable, and they do not ask for a subscription. All you need to do is pay for credits and they will allow you to search for 2000 words of text. You paste your content into a small white box and it will check the content. They also have a service that allows you to check on a whole web page. All you need to do is paste the web page’s URL into a box and it will check the web page with others to see if it has been copied. You are often allowed five free searches before it asks you to pay.

They also have a batch search function too. You upload a few documents and it will check them all for you in one go. They also have copy sentry. This is a program that you pay to check your content routinely. They will check to see if anyone has started using your own content on their websites.

Duplichecker

This is a checker that allows you to past your text into a white box. It will then check the content to see is it appears elsewhere online. Just like Copyscape, you can also upload a document and have that checked. Or you can point the device at a URL and have it check that for you. You do need to register with the site in order to get full functionality.

Plagiarisma

This is a detector that supports over 190 languages, which means it is very good at helping you to find duplicate content, no matter what language you speak. You can check on Yahoo or Google for your content, and it has a number of accepted file formats (not just .doc).

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Reach out to people

Graphic design, just like any other profession cannot be mastered in a day. You can’t achieve anything all of a sudden. Knowledge is as vast as an ocean. Hence, you have to gather bits of information from here and there. Even the most popular graphic designers learned from others. They were inspired by their neighbors. Join design communities to learn from experts. By getting engaged with these communities you would have better knowledge. Learning from others will help you identify your hidden talent. Don’t isolate yourself in a lonely, ego-driven bubble. Reach out to people and become inspired.

Effective communication

Staying in touch with the client is very much essential for delivering the design which completely meets the client’s requirements. Though you are creative and skilled, you need to provide your customers with regular updates and the status of the design. This is because each and every client will have their own visions and ideas and some of them may change during the design process. So if you show the results of every stage of the design process, it will be easy for you to make changes (if any) instead of making changes after the completion of the entire design. Moreover, regular communication with a client makes him/her feel that you are devoted to their particular assignment. Effective communication with clients is a key for acquiring recurrent clients.

Listen to the client

Be certain about what the client expects from you. Beginners try to put as much efforts into the work as possible but lose patience when the client says that he/she needs a more simple design. So better confirm with your client about the desired style and level of freedom in the project execution. Ask the client if he/she could provide you with the samples of the work. Getting beyond the customer’s expectations is really good but you should be absolutely sure you have chosen the right way before investing your time in the design process.

Don’t think of becoming rich overnight

You have to be patient in this profession. Don’t do the job because the client wants you to do so. If you find the concept boring or whatever, it’s up to you to decide on the job. Whatever you do, do it with love and everything else comes natural. Don’t be surprised when one fine day a company or an agency approaches you for working on their design. If you’re thinking of becoming rich overnight then go to the casino. But even there you might lose everything which can also happen if you work for the wrong clients.

Demand the right mode of payment

Since you are a newbie in this profession, make sure to know the market first before offering something to your clients. Of course, in the beginning, you need to be smart enough to quote the price a little lower than other experienced graphic designers. It is also a good practice for beginners to send their client a sketch of the desired graphic design to express their style and skills. Always talk to the client about the mode of payment, and always clear this so you won’t scare them away. This is because clients don’t want to risk themselves even when they hire expert web designers.

Share your work on other sites too

If any aspiring artists want to share your design, keep your options open. Although there are some great graphic design sites that drive more traffic than others, you never know what will happen in the future. Showcasing your work on as many sites as you might earn more income and gain some popularity as well.

Be creative and don’t copy others

Never copy the works of any artist. Try to be creative from the mind itself. By doing so, your work will be unique and well accepted by the world because the design is of the few things that attract much interest worldwide.

Never give up

If you get upset by anyone or anything, dust it off and start from the scratch. You have to consider the progressive nature of the design industry and realize that you won’t achieve success overnight. The great digital artists and designers out there are the dedicated ones because they keep trying something fresh, being confident about what they do. So, if you are confident and focused in your work, people will recognize it and they will want to hire you. Branch out and contact other experts. Keep updated with the latest trends in digital art, design, art and fashion.

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Google Analytics is the tool many small businesses rely on to analyze web traffic. It really is excellent at what it does, but there are several more options in the proverbial toolbox. So what makes a “great” alternative? Well, since Google Analytics is free, we’re going to define great as something that is free (or at least very inexpensive), delivers many of the same basic functions, and offers a few perks Google’s software lacks. Here are a few capable options that fit the bill.

1. Open Web Analytics

As the name suggests, Open Web Analytics is an open source tool that allows you to track and analyze website traffic. Because it is licensed under General Public License (GPL) rules, it can be tweaked at the source code to incorporate specific functionality. At the basic level, this means you can use REST, Javascript, or PHP-based APIs to integrate the software into your website. The program comes with built-in support for a number of popular web publishing platforms, including WordPress and MediaWiki.

Open Web Analytics is completely free to download and use. With features such as the ability to track activity across e-commerce sites and mobile apps, it’s no wonder that many call it the open source version of Google Analytics.

2. Clicky

Clicky specializes in real-time web analytics that give you an easy way to monitor, analyze, and respond to performance data. This particular tool earned its claim to fame with an intuitive dashboard that shows you the activity across your website as it happens. One of its most interesting features is Twitter compatibility, which not only comes in handy for monitoring social trends, but tweeting directly from the interface. Also included is an API that lets you incorporate your own data and integrate with platforms such as WordPress.

Clicky is available free with basic, yet useful features. It also has a variety of paid plans that allow you to track multiple websites and unlock other exclusive features.

3. Woopra

Another real-time platform, Woopra claims to deliver the most comprehensive look into visitor behavior. What makes this tool unique is the emphasis it puts on the customer. The software creates rich profiles that track the activities of each customer throughout the sales cycle. It also has a search feature that makes it easy to find information about specific prospects, and built-in segmenting capabilities that are useful for creating targeted groups based on your own criteria. Finally, the software integrates with your CRM platform — music to the ears of the sales team.

Woopra has several interesting pricing options. The startup package is available for under $100 a month, but you can try it free for 30 days.

4. Yahoo Web Analytics

As you probably know, Yahoo is a longtime rival of Google; challenging its position in search, online advertising, and even analytics. Yahoo Web Analytics serves up details on the demographics of visitors, in addition to behavioral data you can use to make better predictions. You can also create custom reports organized with key metrics in easy reach, and access tools that aid in the measuring of email, PPC, and social media marketing campaigns.

Born from the company’s acquisition of IndexTools, Yahoo Web Analytics is quietly one of the  best Google Analytics alternatives out there. It stays competitive all the way to the price — free.

5. Piwik

Last on our list is Piwik. This is another open source application that gives you the power to customize and visualize your data to your liking. Piwik bundles over 500 features in one powerful package, including a user-friendly dashboard, conversion goal tracking tools, and a set of unique metrics for e-commerce applications. There are also some impressive administrative perks. You can track unlimited websites, assign unlimited users, and even brand the interface as your own under the white label option.

To top it all off, Piwik is totally free. The developers say the software has been downloaded well over a million times. That figure pretty much speaks for itself.

Whether you need a different perspective, deeper insights, or just have a vendetta against Google, rest assured that there is much more to explore in the world of analytics. From simple utilities that analyze data at the log level to robust hosted solutions that track the consumer from unique visitor to paid customer, you are not alone. You may find these alternatives suitable for replacing Google Analytics, or partnering up for added effectiveness.

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Guys at WPTemplate created an infographics about WordPress Plugins, the most downloaded and most used plugins out there.

Here are the top 30 most popular WordPress plugins available to give your blog a real boost. If you feel like the descriptions are just boring and necessarily not factual all the time, checkout the numbers. They can’t be faked. The number of downloads and the ratings guide you as the parameters to judge their efficiency.

Hope you like the infographics, I will post more of this in the future. Feel free to comment below!

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So how do you break into the world of freelancing online? Let me be honest with you – it isn’t a piece of cake and it is definitely hard work. However, if you are prepared to provide your inputs, you should be able to get good returns on the time and effort that you put into it.

The first and easiest way to scout for good freelancing opportunities is through freelance marketplaces online. These are marketplaces that bring the buyer and seller together. They handle all aspects of payment between the buyer and seller and therefore very convenient to use. Two of the biggest online marketplaces are oDesk and Elance. It isn’t an easy choice between them though – they have their own pros and cons and you need to decide between oDesk and Elance.

The second way is to go through online jobs postings in your field. There are several places where such freelancing gigs are posted. For example, to find freelance writing gigs, you can go to boards like ProBlogger. This is dependent on what you want to do though – there are different places for web programmers, designers, and writers.

Although it might help to get your feet wet through the above methods, in the long run, you want to be on your own, so you can work on your own terms and charge clients what you really think your work is worth. This is easier said than done though. It is absolutely essential that you quickly build your own website where you showcase your samples and example work and promote this in various ways. You should have potential clients visiting your site and hiring you instead of you writing to them. That’s the hallmark of a successful freelancer and entrepreneur.

In conclusion, freelancing online for additional income isn’t hard but isn’t a piece of cake either. Yes, it is hard work but well worth the efforts in terms of money and experience. And remember to get started on your own sooner than later.

Sid is a freelance writer and blogger and his latest blog is GeeksMakeMoney.com

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What I wanted to do is to add the Post Formats function into an existing theme, since most of the webmasters I know loved their current theme. I did turn to WordPress Themes Directory to check out other free themes that uses Post Formats, I picked Twentytwelve and check out the code and used it on my current theme.

Today I will show you how to add the Post Formats function into your current theme, and take advantage of using it. It’s really simple to do, before we start make sure you back up your theme. I suggest that we work using local server since it’s faster.

What is Post Format?

According to codex:

Post Formats is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.1. A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post.

How to add Post Formats in your theme?

I assume that you’re current theme doesn’t support post format, and you know your way on wordpress hook, php and html / css.

We will base our code from the twentytwelve code, and we can start from there. The post format we will create are image, video, quote and link.

Let’s Start!

I hope you already back up your theme by now.

Open your functions.php and paste the code below.

// adding post format support
    add_theme_support( 'post-formats',      // post formats
        array( 
            'link',    // quick link to other site
            'image',   // an image
            'quote',   // a quick quote
            'video',   // video 
        )
    );

To check, log in into your dashboard and create a new post, you’ll see something new on the right sidebar below publish. To select, just click the radio button before you hit publish.

Open your index.php, copy the code inside the loop and create a new file named content.php and paste it there. Here’s your loop now on index.php.

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
     <!--loop code here-->       
    <?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>               
<?php endwhile; ?>

You can read more about the get_template_part here. Next create the following file, content-video.php, content-image.php, content-link.php, content-quote.php.

content-image.php

To post for image format, just insert the image in the editor and use a proper title.

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying posts in the Image post format
 *
 */
?>
            <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

            <?php the_content(); ?>

content-link.php

To post for link format, just include a link in the editor.

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying posts in the Link post format
 *
 */
?>       
            <?php the_content(); ?>

content-quote.php

To post for quote format, just put the quote in the editor.

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying posts in the Quote post format
 *
 */
?>        
            <h2><blockquote><?php the_content(); ?></blockquote></h2>

content-video.php

To post for video, just put the url in the editor. I found the code for video on wp.tutplus.

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying posts in the Video post format
 *
 */
?> 
            <?php if(strlen( get_the_title() ) >0 ): ?><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php endif; ?>  
                    <?php  
                    $parsedUrl  = parse_url(get_the_content());  
                    $embed      = $parsedUrl['query'];  
                    parse_str($embed, $out);  
                    $embedUrl   = $out['v'];  
                    ?>  
                <iframe width="620" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<?php echo $embedUrl; ?>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

To style those post format, you can add your own div’s and CSS styling. You may also need to use body_class(); on your header.

Save all those files on your root theme folder, now every time you wanted to post image, quote, link and video you just have to select from the post format UI in the dashboard.

This is really a neat feature, I saw a couple of themes on themeforest and they are using post formats with different layouts. If you’re planning to sell your theme, you need to add this and take advantage of it!

I hope you’ve learned something new, and feel free to ask if you’re confused or if you have other way to make this better.

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Since front end posting has been the fuzz over my clients, I took some ‘googling’ and found out certain plugins that might fit your need. These are well maintained and will make you’re life easier, plus not that much maintenance on your part.

Here are the WordPress Front-end Posting Plugins

Front-End Editor

The Front-End Editor plugin was created several years ago by the talented Scribu. It is one of the most well-known and widely used plugins for editing inline.

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Raptor Editor

The Raptor Editor has a beautiful interface that is very approachable and user-friendly for beginners. The Raptor Editor seamlessly integrates the WordPress media library as well for ease of uploading files.

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Front End Upload

The Front End Upload plugin, created by developer Jonathan Christopher, gets very high ratings in the WordPress plugin repository. It’s very easy to implement- simply place the shortcode on a page where you want to include the upload form. The plugin also includes settings for restricting the form to those who have a passcode, maximum file size, success message and customization of the automatic email.

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Div Layer Editor

The Div layer Editor plugin is a little different in that it allows you to Edit any WordPress theme from the front of your website. It makes it surprisingly easy for anyone to make theme changes, even if you’re not a master at CSS. Simply click on a part of your website to edit it. You’ll be able to save different versions of your themes as child themes, without having to use FTP or the dashboard theme editor.

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Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is always on the cutting edge and continues to innovate with WordPress in each new release. Among its many features is the ability to configure forms that create WordPress posts from the front-end, allowing you to collect user-generated content.

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WP Client File Share

When WP Client File Share is installed, users will get a “private” page to upload files. The admin can also post files for that user. All of this happens on the front end.

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Profile Builder

The Profile Builder Plugin lets you add front-end registration, profile and login forms. These pages are easy to create with the use of the plugin’s shortcodes. The admin has a great deal of flexibility in modifying and adding to the forms with a nice interface in the dashboard. The Pro-version has more features such as avatar uploads, custom redirects, additional styles and more.

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FV Community News

The FV Community News plugin was created to allow users to contribute content easily from the front-end, while the admin maintains full control of the articles that are being posted. It includes support for custom post types with featured images and tags, as well as widgets, shortcodes, AJAX form handling, customizable post form, and a nicely styled feed for community news.

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Post From Site

This plugin allows posting directly from the front-end. It creates a link on your website which, when clicked, will bring up a simple text-box. Users can enter a post title, content, add categories and tags, and upload images.

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 One Quick Post

This plugin allows users to write posts from the frontend using a shortcode in a page/post. Guest posting can be enabled, and it’s compatible with BuddyPress. It uses built-in WordPress Roles & Capabilities, so you can choose if a user can publish a post, edit it once published, delete posts, and many more.

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 WP User Frontend

Gives ability to the user to create new post, edit post, edit profile from site frontend. So users doesn’t need to enter the admin panel. Everything they need to do can be done from the frontend.

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If you’re requirements doesn’t fit using plugins, maybe you can do it by creating a custom plugin specific on your need. Here are some tutorials that helped me on my project.

How to Post From Your Front End With No Plugin

A wine rating site that we hope to launch soon. But one of the requirements for the site was that once a wine rater logged in, they should have access to a form to rate wines. I didn’t want anyone to have to fuss with the back end of WordPress.

Check out the tutorial!

Adding Posts to a Site’s Front-End Using AJAX

WordPress basically divides itself into two portions, the front end section where people can come and read posts or articles on the site. The other is the WordPress admin section from which one can create posts and pages.

Check out the tutorial!

Front-end editor in WordPress 3.3 is easy

Check out the tutorial!

WordPress front-end post form using wp_insert_post

At WordCamp Austin, I hosted an awesome Q&A session about the underbelly of Android and Me. One of the most requested bits of code was the form action utilizing wp_insert_post().

Check out the tutorial!

Submit WordPress Posts From The Frontend

If you’re looking to make adding new posts without having to log into the WordPress dashboard, or maybe to allow your visitors a way to submit some kind of content of their own, then here’s a way you can create a new post form and display it on a custom page template.

Check out the tutorial!

WordPress Insert Post from Front End

Hi, In this article I will show one example plugin for making post entry from wordpress front end.

Check out the tutorial!

There you have it, sometimes creating a custom coding is the solution to our need. But you need to make sure that you are ready for the maintenance work such as bugs and updates since your form will be used a lot.

What I did for the past project was to create a custom form, update it and learned from it again, update it once again. Which is tiring, but the good thing is I learned a lot updating it and reading from Codex.

I hope you’ll find this helpful, and if you’re in the same situation as I am before what did you do to fix your problem?

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