Most of the available social voting extensions are themes. Extending WordPress functionality using themes is a clumsy way to implement social voting features. What if your site already has a nice design? You would have to customize the social voting theme instead to replicate your existing design elements.

WP Community Links is a plugin, which means it works independently from your theme. You don’t have to worry about starting from scratch. WordPress 3.0 introduces many new features that make your administration life so much easier (Navigation Menu, Custom Taxonomy etc.). WP Community Links takes advantage of these features to provide a consistent and user-friendly interface. Adding new categories, tags, and items to the navigation menu is easy and painless.

What make the difference

Unlike other social voting themes and plugins, WP Community Links does not allow users to use WordPress wp-admin area to post. This reduces security risk, and also let you customize the dashboard and submission form on the front-end. WP Community Links lets your visitors log in using their Facebook account. This eliminates the registration barrier and encourages your visitor to contribute more. When your users submit their content to your website, it will be displayed on their Facebook news feed (if they give the plugin permission to do so), thereby increase your site’s exposure.

WP Community Links uses Akismet API to identify spam contents. You can also enable reCAPTCHA, which further ensures that your social voting platform is not abused by malicious users. All the constraints are configurable in the admin panel (e.g. maximum number of submissions per hours, maximum number of login attempts etc.)

For just 30$, you can get best social voting plugin for WordPress what exist at this moment among free and premium plugins.

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Open your function.php file from theme folder, and:

Add this code to set to “none” the links for images:

update_option('image_default_link_type' , '');

Add this code to make like default option, link of images to the post:

update_option('image_default_link_type' , 'post');

The Events Calendar Premium plugin for Wordpress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

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Features

• Manage event details in the Events post type
• Upcoming Events Widget
• Provides full template to complement the 2010 theme out of the box (month and list view)
• Extensive template tags for customization
• Google Maps Integration
• Calendar Month view with tooltips
• Detailed List view
• In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
• Includes support for venue, cost, address, start and end time, google maps link
• Support for international addresses, time and languages

If you’ve been searching for a way to manage events, band gigs, concerts, charity events, conferences, tour calendar, or any other time based event inside Wordpress, this is the plugin you’ve been searching for! Install the plugin in minutes and start managing your events now!

WP Auctions – Auction Plugin for WordPress

WP Auctions is a plugin that enables you to host auctions on your self hosted WordPress powered blog or website. Forget about paying fees to anybody for listing auctions. Host your own auctions and keep 100% of your profits!

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Features

• Create, Manage and Edit unlimited auctions on your website/blog
• Choose from nine currency options accepted by PayPal (?) or use your own custom currency
• Delete fraudulent bids easily from your custom admin panel
• Re-list closed auctions anytime, or delete them completely
• Get notifications via email of new bids placed
• AJAX powered sidebar widget to show your auctions
• Use PayPal or send Bank Details or Address for Wire Transfers or Checks
• Show a personalized message when no auctions are active
• Use HTML to personalize your item description, even embed a video!
• Upload up to four images per auction (automatically re-sized to fit into the auction window)
• Set specific end date and time for your auctions
• Set custom bid increments for your auctions (eg. $10)
• Hold auctions for registered users only
• Show auctions in a “List” or “Featured” format via a sidebar widget
• Use a custom contact field instead of bidder URL (eg. Phone Number)
• Enter Shipping Price, Shipping To and Shipping From details
• Sell items on a Buy it Now basis only or as an option

WordPress Membership Plugin

This is a Wordpress plugin that helps you sell your content; you only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account.

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Features

• You don’t have to modify your template
• Paypal integration
• Premium posts only seen by active members
• Setup unlimited memberships
• A dashboard that shows your sales by month
• Manage your subscriptions
• Filter your subscriptions by Month and Memberships
• Subscriptions are paginated
• Easy setup
• Very well documented with plenty of images
• Works with Wordpress 2.7 and above (also 3.0)

You can easily select the posts you want to sell, manage the memberships you acquire and is fully integrated with Paypal. All you have to do is activate the plugin, setup your memberships and your Paypal account.

WordPress deposit system

The deposit system is similar to the one they use here on ThemeForest (and other Envato sites). The system enables the users to deposit their money in their accounts.

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Features

• Deposit system
• Deposit history
• PDF generation for individual deposits or complete list of deposits
• Switch between sandbox and paypal
• Full control via WordPress control panel

Twitter Widget Pro – Wordpress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for Wordpress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

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Features

• Ready to use out of the box
• The only premium Multiple User twitter plugin
• Include twitter avatars, names, times, and more in the options page!
• Caching support, both via wp_cache_set and via database options
• Graceful crashing support in case twitter goes down
• In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
• Ridiculously easy to use – install it in mere minutes

Here is a screenshot of WordPress theme option:

For more screenshots, Theme Options & Shop Backend, click here. For a full features description, read this PDF.

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Starting with WordPress 2.9 is no longer need to use custom fields and hacks to have thumbnails in your blog articles or even on widgets area, sidebars, footers etc. For instance, to make a thumbnails area for random latest 12 recent posts, use the following code:

<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=12&orderby=rand');
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<h1>Random Articles</h1>';
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php
$attachments = get_posts( array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'number_posts' => 1,
'post_status' => null,
'post_parent' => $my_query->post->ID,
) );
if ($attachments) {
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
<?php
$thumbnail_id = $attachments[0]->ID;
echo wp_get_attachment_image( $thumbnail_id );
}
endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();
?></a>
<?php endif; ?>

You need to keep in mind the thumbnails will have the sizes from your function.php call action settings, and that will not look ok in your sidebar. You can use a CSS style to make them to look how you wish. Example:

.attachment-thumbnail {
height:50px;
width:50px;
padding:5px;
background:#fff;
margin:5px 5px 0 0;
}

The home page layout can be used and like a landing page. Compatible Browsers: FireFox 2, FireFox 3, IE7, IE8, Opera, Safari and Chrome. You can see here a working demo. Theme have 2 grey color styles. Use the “Theme Switcher” function from blog category to test both of them.

Features:
• 2 Grey Color Styles
• Featured Projects Slider
• Nice Slide Gallery Page
• Last Twitter entries
• Dynamic testimonials
• Custom search results
• Working Contact Form
• Full Theme Options
• The new WP 2 .9 thumbnail feature
• Extensive Documentation

Usage: portfolio, image gallery, architecture, corporate business, landing page.

Style: dark grey, light grey, black & gray, clean and simple.

In the middle of November was released a new premium ecommerce theme for WordPress by Sarah Neuber. Click here to see the shop working. For membership test, you need to make an account  (with a valid e-mail address). You’ll love it. Once logged, you can play with a 100% customized interface without to see the classic WordPress admin panel.

Furniture Store theme and Clothes Shop Template it look like anything else but not WordPress. When is talking about ecommerce, this is a true quality. With a true CMS solution like Furniture Store a large palette of shops can gain power of WordPress SEO and its light and clean ways to customization. How offen is happen that to build for a client a shop on a classic open source ecommerce solution from where you use just 5% from facilities? What just mess the not tech savyclients minds and make you to losing time with client tutoring? You will discover that is more cheap to pay few dollars for a right cart solution then spending time writing instructions.

Is really nice to see that are developed new ecommerce systems, more light, and using just necessary administration options.

Live Preview and Purchase

In case you didn’t notice, Sarah Neuber released one week ago a new ecommerce wordpress template on ThemeForest. The template contains all layered and sliced psd’s from the design itself to the buttons and the promotional coupons on the homepage. Check the demo here. This cart is a custom ecommerce solution and not a widget / plugin one. The Wordpress Clothes Shop Template contain membership area and wishlist options for customers, along with other great features and a very good after sale support.

At the begining of this month was started a new WordPress Theme Club to bring the world of RocketTheme designs and forums to the WordPress community. For now are just few choice themes available, but of course, the Wordpress Theme Club will be expanding and adding to this portfolio of themes in the coming months (7 themes released in just half of month). RocketTheme have plans to release some more free GPL designs for both WordPress and Joomla in the coming months.

Click here to download a free Wordpress Theme released for this month! An assortment of 8 preset styles, both light and dark also accompany the template.

WordPress RocketTheme Template Club is based on existing Joomla theme providing you with the ability to create websites with Joomla! content management and Wordpress blog with same feel and graphics. Even you or your clients don’t use Joomla!, you can find there some nice WordPress themes with a different graphics breeze.

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0);
function comment_count( $count ) {
global $id;
$comments = get_approved_comments($id);
$comment_count = 0;
foreach($comments as $comment){
if($comment->comment_type == ""){
$comment_count++;
}
}
return $comment_count;
}

Test your website. If the comments number is decreased, is ok. Check that the comments are counted correct. Now, open your wordpress admin panel and try to write a new post (”add new post” form) and write something for test waiting after the saving of draft (you can see the status on the bottom right of your text editor).

If there appear an warning message like “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at…etc” it is usually because there are spaces, new lines, or other garbage before an opening tag in your function file. Don’t panic. Open the file in a classic text editor like notepad and delete the spaces and check that the very last characters are ?> and the very first characters are <?php.

Then, if you would like to separate the WordPress comments and trackbacks in two fields,  read this tutorial.

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3. WPA Storefront – 30$

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2. Click on “Select files” button

3. Browse to your folder images (put images in one folder)

4. Select all images (CTRL+A)

5. Click “Open” Button

6. Using “Media Library” tab button you can have access to all your images. Now you can insert one by one or like a gallery.

Joomla: Have a more expensive market. If you need to hire a freelancer to do some jobs on your joomla website, that will cost you more then on a wordpress user.

Wordpress: The freelance market for wordpress jobs tend to be cheaper then on joomla, that probably because wordpress is more used and competition is tougher among freelancers.

Theme market

Joomla: Even online are some great websites that deliver nice themes, at this point isn’t comparison with wordpress. The free joomla themes available are outdated like look and feel. On websites what sell templates joomla templates are cheaper then wordpress theme (are exceptions).

Wordpress: A lot of free quality themes are available, and that can be a start for any customization. Themes available for purchase are a bit expensive, even the warez sites are full of them. You can pay ~175$ for instance to have a theme what you see there was sold just few hundred times, but on internet probably is used thousand more times.

Design concept integration

Both of CMS need a ready prepared css/xhtml template. From here things are different.

Joomla: With insertion of few lines of code you did the entire job. Course, you need to change the way of call of images from template. The template files structure is simple and use just an index.php (what contain entire sliced template) and a configuration file (xml).

Wordpress: To call functions for wordpress cms inside of your template isn’t so easy like on joomla, in special if you are developing a more then a simple blog. The file structure of template contains more many files for each part of template (header, sidebar, footer) along with other function files.

Theme administration

Joomla: Weak Point. When they are, you need to edit the code of template using administration panel.

Wordpress: Great options here. When template is built to have administration options, is very user friendly the way to manage them.

Content management system

Joomla: With just few clicks in administration panel you can manage a very complex website from a social one to a director listing style website. If you buy a template, usually in inside of the zip file you will find a start package what contain the sql data to can import in your database to make the template to have same look like on demo server.

Wordpress: To can use it like a CMS, you need to be a good php programmer. Like end user, will be not that easy to understand the options of theme and make it to work like you saw on demo server of website from where you bought it, even you have instructions inside of package.

Website features

Joomla: Strong point. Many features and all are easy to be managed by module section from administration panel.

Wordpress: Weak point. The basic wordpress features almost doesn’t exist.

Localhost

Joomla: Great point. Except the SEF plugins, all are working on local machine. In case you don’t have wamp, xamp or other similar local servers, you can download JumpBox, what can deploy on your local machine a full working joomla system, even you are using a Mac, Windows or Linux computer.

Wordpress: You need to have installed a web server on your computer. Beware: many wordpress themes have functions what don’t work on local server but are ok when template is uploaded on ftp.

Hosting

Joomla: Are problems on some host solutions, even when they say: “joomla” ready on.

Wordpress: Usual there are no problems even exist a big vulnerability of script.

Size (FTP)

Joomla: Can be huge.

Wordpress: Very small.

Folder Structure

Joomla: Weak point. This is huge and complicated. Each side, from admin to front end, use many folders and files, for plugins, components, editors, themes, configurations, scripts etc.

Wordpress: Great point. Few folders contain the entire engine.

Flexibility

Joomla: Use modules and give you many possibilities to insert anything, from banners to articles, news, and that in any position builded. Also, you can choose what and where to appear, when etc.

Wordpress: Weak point. You have limited options here. In general you have available just a sidebar and a footer where you can put widgets. Those will appear on all pages. For customization of how widgets appear and on what pages, you need to have programming knowledge.

Content

Joomla: Even is not so easy to be manipulated by a beginner, are available a very large palettes of options regarding articles and content organization. Each menu item can have different content arrangement, with columns or not, with intro articles or not. The user can chose what articles can be listed on front page or on a specific module.

Wordpress: Weak point. You don’t have many options here. You can find complicated themes what offer many possibilities to organize your content, but those are expensive, or on free ones, you need to hire a programmer to skin the layout according to your needs.

Menus

Joomla: Can have how many menus you want and in many positions with options of on what pages to be active.

Wordpress: Weak point. You have just the menu of template (pages and sometimes depending on theme, categories)

Advertising

Joomla: Have built in a very good advertising system for banners. On joomla components website you can find a lot of plugins what can increase the monetization of your website, even is talk about adsense or other things.

Wordpress: Nothing built in (just if you are not considering the blogroll like a part of advertising). You need to install plugins to can have banners on your website. For adsense, wordpress is a more recommended solution then joomla, because are more and better solutions available then on joomla components.

Loading speed

Joomla: Weak point. Always that was a problem for joomla. If you have some plugins installed the time of loading can increase a lot. A bad point is that many Joomla! websites aren’t loaded progressive. You can stay 10 – 30 sec in front of page without to see anything.

Wordpress: Is very fast and that is an important point. Even with more then ~10 plugins working the loading speed can be a problem, always will be more better then a loaded joomla.

Both CMS have plugins to manage the cache and solve the loading speed problem. On Joomla no one works with great results. For wordpress are few reliable solutions.

Updates

Joomla: Weak point. Even is no problem in updating the joomla installation, there are some issues when are involved plugins and components. Not an easy task to do.

Wordpress: Very easy. Direct from your admin panel. A bad point here is that many times updates bring more bugs then fixes and are too many updates in a period. That’s why is quite difficult to have always the latest wordpress release.

SEO

Joomla: Weak Point. The user have option to edit meta-tags, description and titles like those appear on search engines etc, but never will be a comparison point here with wordpress. In case you are using ecommerce or directory plugins, you need to install SEFs components what are not so easy to be used.

Wordpress: Great point. Wordpress is born for SEO.

Multilanguage

Joomla: A very strong free component (Joom!Fish) what give you opportunity to write translations for articles, components, tags etc.

Wordpress: Weak point. You can use just a Google translation plugin what isn’t for professional area or plugins like qTranslate with limited CMS area covering (you can translate just posts, dates, time format and missing message).

Ecommerce

Joomla: A very powerful free ecommerce component is released by Virtuemart. You have same option there like on any Creloaded , Oscommerce or other ecommerce scripts, except is done in a more user friendly way.

Wordpress: Weak point. On market are few free plugins what are not so great in look and is needed special skinning and programming skills. At this moment one of most comprehensive ecommerce solution for wordpress is developed by Sarah Newber, but the solution is integrated in wordpress and is not acting like a plugin.

Blogging

Joomla: Even have incorporated a blogging component, joomla isn’t used often for that. Probably that is a reason for that are just few plugins to fire up the blogging on joomla.

Wordpress: Probably most used blogging system. You can pick one of many plugins for comments and blogging, sharing etc.

Social website

Joomla: Can be a solution. At this moment are few good components developed – free or paid – what can transform your joomla website in a full social website.

Wordpress: Weak point. Custom work can do that, but the prices involved worth just if you have already a strong business there.

Director website

Joomla: Can be a solution. At this moment are few good components developed – free or paid – what can transform your joomla website in a full listing director website. Will be need some custom works on joomla system to enhance the search function to can get results from directory component. Also, you can meet problems on SEO. To fix them you need to buy some add-ons.

Wordpress: Can be just a light solution without big claims. Custom programming works can transform wordpress categories and comments system in a director listing website.

Forms

Joomla: Have a very good integration of them. The CMS have built-in contact forms what can be used on categories, drop down selections etc. Have custom fields what can be edited and placed along to the contact form. For more complicated forms you can use free and paid components.

Wordpress: Not so strong point. A standard wordpress installation doesn’t have any contact form. You need to install a plugin. The form customization isn’t that easy like on joomla.

Membership systems

Joomla: The basic one is built-in. Social and ecommerce components come with integrated membership systems. Not need to pay more.

Wordpress: Weak point. Even the basic membership is also built-in, if you are looking for paid membership levels for ecommerce reasons or for private sections, you need to pay for plugins and outside of wordpress solutions.

jQuery and Mootools

Joomla: With few clicks you can install them.

Wordpress: For installation you need to have programming knowledge’s.

Shutdown for maintenance

Joomla: Have built in an option to shut down your website for audience in time what you can work on it and see without problems all the changes.

Wordpress: Have built in a privacy option what can look like a shut down for maintenance just with few programming touches. Other solutions involve use of special themes to announce your visitors the website is under maintenance works. The problem is that you cannot see the progress of work. Some plugins offer you a way to restrict access of visitors on levels.

Migration

Joomla: Easy task. You just need to pack the files, dump the database and move them on your new host. You can use plugins what did that without pains.

Wordpress: Weak point. The files can be moved fast but you’ll have problems in moving your database which will keep old web address for articles. Eventually you can use the wordpress tool for export and import but it happen to have problems and there.

Community

Joomla: have a very big and active community. Very friendly. If you have problems, just write a post on joomla forums and almost always you will receive an answer.

Wordpress: have also a big and active community. Just that is not so friendly. You can post questions about an issue and remain with that, eventually somebody ask some cash for answer.

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