Old Post Promoter comes handy in many situations. Maybe you are planning to take a long trip but want to give your visitors the chance to read some of the older posts they may have missed. It lets you choose a cut off date for your older posts. You certainly do not want to promote posts that are more than a couple of weeks old. What’s nice about this plugin is the fact that you can choose the position in which your older posts get moved to.

You should not use this plugin if you display dates in your permalink structure. To get the best out of this plugin, you should add your time-less posts to a certain category and only push those to the front-page of your blog. Overall, this is a pretty neat tool to make your blog feel fresh if you are not around for a short while and can’t find other people to cover for you.

Publisher can be used to set up an e-book store or a portal to sell your digital products through. The home page is designed to give you the chance to promote your top products more effectively. It has 5 color schemes. This theme provides support for the ejunkie system. 7 page templates and 30+ shortcodes are offered in this template.

PayPal is integrated into this theme that makes life easier for publishers. Adding new custom fields is a piece of cake. The options page gives you the chance to change the design, SEO, and navigation options on your site. Publisher for WordPress does support a side-blog. The auto-install feature is a timer-saver too.

Publisher won’t work for every site. But it should be more than enough to get you started with your own digital store. It is professional-looking and fast.

Your ALT attributes should describe your images. You do not want to use these to spam the search engines. SEO Friendly Images can handle title attributes for your images too. It has 4 special tags you want to get yourself familiar with to optimize your attributes.

Why would you want to use this plugin? For starters, it can make your website’s code W3C compliant. It may give you a small SEO benefit (very small). ALT attribute hold more weight than image titles. But don’t use them to stuff keywords on your site. All in all, SEO Friendly Images is a time-saving tool for people with a ton of images on their sites with no ALT attributes.

There are various ways that hackers can compromise your website. You can always create a check list and secure your website step by step. Bulletproof Security takes the pain out of the process. This plugin tells you the status of your system and the steps you need to take to protect your site. It enhances your website’s security using .htaccess directives.

BulletProof Security may be a powerful plugin but it takes care of simple steps for you too. For instance, it turns off WordPress version and errors. All in all, this is a pretty neat plugin to have installed on your site to add more layers of security to it.

Attention Bar is developed for those of you who want to grab the attention of your visitors with your announcement right away. It is fairly easy to use. Just choose your message and the amount of time you intend to keep your announcement running on top of your blog. This plugin takes care of the rest for you.

The fun part about this plugin is that you won’t be disturbing your visitors with these types of notification bars. Disabling your notification bar is pretty easy to do as well. So the next time you plan to run a giveaway or make an important announcement on your website, give Attention Bar a try.

Comparipress is a cool WordPress plugin that lets you add price comparison to your tech blog quickly. This plugin takes advantage of top affiliate programs available through CJ, LinkShare, and other top networks to bring your visitors deals they would want to see. Installing this plugin does not take more than a few seconds. You can choose the affiliate network you want to work with, the size of your comparison units, and their behavior.

This plugin has a ton of options for you to customize for your site. You can refine your products and show only the ones that you prefer. You can filter your results by setting a minimum price, maximum price, Amazon and Linkshare category. All in all, if you are a tech blogger and want to provide your visitors with deals on products you cover on your site, Comparipress is worth checking out.

Facebook Comments: adds Facebook’s comment system to your website, making your site more interactive in the process.

Simple Twitter Connect: a modular plugin that adds simple Twitter functions to your website. You will be in control of what you want your visitors to be able to do with their Twitter account on your blog.

LinkedIn InShare button: adds LinkedIn’s InShare button to your website without you having to do any coding.

WordPress Quora Badge: adds your Quora activities to WordPress. Includes the questions you have asked/answered and the items you have interacted with.

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FourSquare Integration: useful for those of you active in the Foursquare community. Displays your latest check-ins on your blog.

WP-Walla: useful for those of you who are still using Gowalla to discover local places in your area. It displays your check-ins on your site.

Tumblr: allows you to integrate your Tumblr account into WordPress to manage your Tumblr content more effectively.

The above plugins not only make your website more social media friendly, they provide your visitors with more ways to connect with you and share your content. Please do share your favorite social media plugins for WordPress.

Tweet Blender supports multiple authors, hash tags, and keywords. You can define the topic for the tweets you want displayed on your website and this plugin does the rest. Tweet Blender uses the tags you have used for your posts to find relevant tweets to include on your site.

Tweet Blender is a pretty cool tool to use to fully integrate Twitter content into your website. It can even include tweets from private accounts. You do want to pay close attention to this plugin’s performance. It should do fine if you are conservative when it comes to blending tweets. But if you think of super complex schemes, your server could take a performance hit.

Tweet Blender is quite versatile and saves you time bringing more Twitter content to your blog. Just try not to go overboard with it!

Feedback Engine is great for businesses but can work just as well for your blog. As long as you have a product people can give you their feedback on, this theme works. Your visitors can take advantage of this theme to report problems, suggest ideas, ask questions, and much more. The theme is quite sleek. The search capability with suggestion feature is superb. You have the option to create different sections for different aspects of your blogging business (for better organization). Communicating with those who have joined your community is possible through “mail broadcast” feature.

Feedback Engine has plenty of useful tools for your visitors to take advantage of. They can follow their favorite topics or use the advanced search option to find what they are looking for. The permissions system in this script helps you keep your blog protected and everyone’s role clear.

If you are looking to use your readers’ feedback to take your blog to the next level, Feedback Engine has you well covered.

When I joined Twitter, I already had hundreds of blog posts written on my sites. Like most bloggers, I started sharing only my new posts. But some of my older posts deserved some attention too. Tweeting older posts can be tricky. You do not want to post an ancient article. But you may have articles on your website that are still relevant today. Tweet Old Post is a handy plugin that lets you share your top older posts with your Twitter followers.

All you have to do is provide this plugin with your Twitter username, hashtags, and your post frequency. The rest is taken care of by this script. In order to make sure only your top content is retweeted, you may want to create a special category for this plugin only. That way you can exclude older post from getting tweeted. You also want to make sure you define a reasonable number as the maximum allowed age for your tweetable posts.

Need to exclude specific posts from your “tweetable” posts? This plugin allows you to do just that. In order to avoid turning off your Twitter followers, you want to set a conservative limit on the number of posts you tweet from your blog each day.

Tweeting your older posts can breathe new life to your older content and help you gain more readers and followers. Thanks to Tweet Old Post, you can put this idea to the test.