Wordpress Plugin Photo Gallery –I get a question from a friend who loves to traveling and documenting his photo. He asked whether to make a blog with photo content easy enough for him as a newbie.

Convenience to upload and host photos or images on Internet is affecting to Internet trend, including how people making a blog. There are many bloggers who want to create a photo gallery blog. If you are using Wordpress you can easily find photo gallery plugin for wordpress. I told him that it was not difficult. Then I recommend to use NextGen Gallery wordpress plugin.

Indeed there are several plugins that can be used to make Photo Gallery. I chose to recommend most popular plugin, although each person has different choices and have their own best wordpress photo gallery plugin.

What is your best wordpress photo gallery plugin? Have you try NextGen Gallery? Drop your comment below.

Download NextGen Gallery Wordpress Plugin – Tutorial

Feel that the interaction on your blog quite intensive, and makes you think that you need to provide a social media networking features on your site it is worth for you to try BuddyPress.

Using BuddyPress is an easier choice than WordpressMU, because BuddyPress can work only on one wordpress installation. But most bloggers do not want to use BuddyPress, the problem is they do not want to change their theme and use default theme from BuddyPress.

Lucky Andy, BuddyPress developer, creates an awesome plugin that could solve this problem. Now you can use BuddyPress Template Pack that can help you to easily use your current theme with BuddyPress.

You can download BuddyPress 1.2.1 here!

Autoblog is one way that is often used by bloggers to make money quickly from the internet. Some problems did arise, a debate that questioned the controversy about autoblog. Some say that autoblos is a splog. One of the important in building your online business with autoblog is making it look natural and was written by humans (not by robot and write just for search engines)

Using thumbnails on your post not only helps your homepage look better, but also make it look more natural, because it requires additional work to make it, so it must be look like your hand involve it. If you want to try to build an autoblog you might be interested in this technique. AutoBlogged are software / plugins made to build autoblog on Wordpress, explain it to you. How to use the Thumbnail on your post by AutoBlogged:

About building autoblog, I think that you should do first editing process, giving an intro, and makes excerpt provided by AutoBlogged as a quotation. So it’s good for you to manage your post on draft status.

You want to make money with autoblog? Try AutoBlogged or you can read 7 Top Wordpress Plugin to Help You Build an AutoBlog on Wordpress Blog.

Wordpressapi.com has launched the Alexa Rank Widget wordpress plugin. If you are someone who really cares about your blog or website statistic you may care about the Alexa Rank. In a world of make money online Alexa Rank is sometimes used by some make money online programs to measure a blog. (especially paid reviews or if just want to sale add space on your blog)

If you want to make money through blog advertising on your blog shows Alexa rank might will more attract attention from advertisers. Alexa Rank Widget wordpress plugin is open source and can be downloaded for free.

Alexa Rank Widget wordpress plugin can help you to easily add Alexa Rank widget in wordpress sidebar. You’ll get option to choose how to showing the Alexa rank in side bar:  Squre – Button  (120 x 95) or Vertical – Vertical Banner  (120 x 240). All you need to do is set Alexa Rank Widget from the plugin admin panel to make a configration and choose your button.

If you want to use Alexa Rank Widget Plugin you can read more information and download this plugin on Wordpress Directory.

Wordpress Plugin release: Alexa Rank Widget wordpress plugin
Plugin Developer: wordpressapi

Some make money bloggers taught that one best way to get money from the internet is affiliate blogging. But have you felt curious when the affiliate marketers make money, how about the merchant who create and sell their own products? How much money do they get?

This post will not teach you how to become online marketers who make your own products. But if you want to create a simple affiliate system using Wordpress I found a plugin that can help you to turn WordPress into affiliate machines. The most interesting thing of this plugin is FREE!

Affiliate Plus Wordpress Plugin by Nico

Did you ever see the permalink structure like this?

http://themeforest.net?ref=sayasatria

yes, ?ref=sayasatria are affiliate links that will be a tracking tools for your affiliate. With this plugin the username of your affiliate member is a link that can be used to become an affiliate URL’s.

I am myself have never used it, I’m only interested if a time you come up with ideas to make your own product and sell it, of course make your own affiliate to manage would be more fun and save money. When I saw ThemeForest affiliate link and find this plugin I immediately thought that this plugin may be used as a basis for building a sophisticated affiliate website.

What You can get with Affiliate Plus?

If you already have an idea to create a product and plans to recruit affiliates to help market your products then you can try Affiliate Plus WordPress plugin. This plugin easily change your blog or website link into an affiliate link by adding the parameter and the username. Automatically after login your affiliate will get their affiliate url link.

Affiliate Plus Settings

As a merchant here you can make some settings:

• Override cookie: select if the cookie should be overridden if one already exists
• Cookie expire: number of days untill the cookie expires, 0 to let it expire after session end (ie.closing the browser window)
• Redirect URL: URL to send users to after they log in (does not affect users with admin privileges)
• landingpage URL: URL to send visitors to after arriving at your site through an affiliate link
• affiliate tracking parameter: name of the parameter to use for affiliate tracking (ie affid, sendby, hearedfrom) default value is affid, which means user phil should send visitors to http://blogicthink.com?affid=phil
• Show referral ID on signup page: select to show referral ID on the signup form.
• Show affiliate details on user page: select to show ‘referred by’ ‘number of referrals’ and ‘affiliate URL’ on the users profile page.

Then on affiliate side they will find their affiliate URLs on profile page. Their can use the link and see how much new use referred by their affiliate ID. Their can see ‘referred by’, ‘number of referrals’ and ‘affiliate URL’ on the users profile page.

As a merchant you too can see that on Users -> Autors & Users. If you are interesting to make money online as online marketers and sale your own product online merchants also build your site simply, cheap and easy to use you can try Affiliate Plus WordPress Plugin.

Thanks to By Nico from http://www.blogio.net/blog this plugin will very useful for online marketers and make money bloggers. Read more info about Affiliate Plus Wordpress Plugin

If you not ready to build your own affiliate-merchant site, but also interesting with make money blogging you can learn from Gobala Krishnan about how he make a Six Figure Income with Blogs and Affiliate Programs

PhpBay Pro wordpress plugin allows you to populate your website with that link directly into eBay as eBay Partner network. You can make unlimited number of websites for your eBay Partner network campaign. On this PhpBay video tutorial, David will show you what he has done. In this case, David shows you how he builds a Barack Obama Memorabilia website.

He uses PhpBay Pro wordpress plugin to populate the site with rich keyword text linked to eBay auction site. So if peoples come to his website and click on the link and buy something from eBay auction site you can get some money.

If you want to build an eBay Affiliate Auction site like David and make money online, you can use PhpBay Pro wordpress plugin and watch this video tutorial. Thanks to David for making this great video tutorial. People (especially entrepreneurs and online businesses) will get benefit from it. Again, enjoy this video!

Get PhpBay Pro Wordpress Plugin and start make money with Your Own eBay Affiliate Auction Site!

Further Resource:

• PhpBay tutorial

Banner Advertising is a method to make money blogging. For those of you who have a blog with good traffic, you can use this method to generate extra money from your blog. For those of you who use Wordpress as a blog platform you can use a WordPress plugin to make this process easier.

If you don’t want to join Blog Advertising Network to manage your advertising, you can choose to manage them by yourself. One plugin that allows you to manage your own advertising banner is MyAdManager Wordpress Plugin.

Manages 125×125 ADs. No middle men required!

MyAdManager is Wordpress plugin that designed to allow your blog visitors who are interested to advertise on your blog to self service adding ads banner process: start from determine ads name, ads images, URL pointed and payment process through paypal.

In this post you can learn step by step to install and use MyAdManager on your Wordpress blog:

• Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

• Setting Your Ads: Primary Settings and Buy AD form Settings

Here you can set how many ads to display horizontally and vertically. Set margin around Each AD, Cost per AD for 1month and 1 week. You also can choose to Enable Paypal payment form. if you anable this option you must add your Paypal email for transaction.

• Add your ad

You can pointing the banner ads and set this as your home (internal ads) or outside (external/another ads by your visitor or advertiser). For the home ads I recommend you to create special page to add special advertisement ads form. For example you can create http://yourdomain.com/advertise. It’s easy, you just need to check Enable Paypal payment form radio button on Buy AD form Settings. You can do this by adding [myadmanager_show_form] on your advertising page.

For optional you also can use alternate landing page for successful or thank you page for advertiser after successful payment.

Here how your banner ads appear on your MyAdManagers plugin admin

• add MyADManager Widget

After that you can add the MyADManager Widget in your sidebar or wherever you want to display the Ads.

Save your MyAdManagers widget and after that you can see the ‘Buy Ad-Space’ banner on sidebar. When the visitor comes and click the banner they will send to advertise page. This page is self service advertising that can easily done by visitor just in minutes. here how the form look like.

Advertiser will able to define their url landing page, image to use, ad name, and ad package. Like you have set on ad price (you have to option; weekly or monthly basis) advertiser choose the option package and price you provide.

• Payment via Paypal

If advertiser agree with the price and want to complete the process, their can confirm or just go back to edit ther ad banner. After confirm advertiser will send to paypal page.

To see all of transaction have done you can go to MyAdminManager -> Transaction Log.

What do you think? I have made money with this plugin from direct advertising. I hope you can make it too If you interesting to use MyAdManager Wordpress Plugin you can download here!

Happy blogging

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Twitter is Rock! Twitter is an easy way to connect with your friends online. How do bloggers use twitter? Twitter can be a good tool to get easy blog traffic. So, integrating your wordpress blog with twitter and post update each other is a desire by bloggers.

For WordPress users, in this post we announce you one of the most popular Wordpress Twitter Plugin: Twitter Tools!

Twitter Tools is Wordpress plugin by Alex King that creates integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Twitter Tools allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

Twitter Tools Installation

1. Download the twitter tools plugin archive and expand it.
2. Put the ‘twitter-tools’ directory into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for Twitter Tools.

Note: This plugin contains another Wordpress plugins also developed by Alex King and release on CrowdFavorite.com

Twitter Tools – Bit.ly URLs – Use Bit.ly for URL shortening with Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.

Twitter Tools – Exclude Category – Exclude posts in certain categories from being tweeted by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.

Twitter Tools – Hashtags – Set #hashtags for blog post tweets sent by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.

4. Go to the Twitter Tools Options page (Settings > Twitter Tools) to set your Twitter account information and preferences.

Want to use Wordpress Twitter Plugin: Twitter Tools for your blog? Download here!

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WordPress Calendar plugin allows you to share your schedule that you create with the world using your blogging software. One of the contributions of this plugin is KieranOshea.

About Calendar plug-in for WordPress

Calendar plug-in is a simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world on your website.

Calendar plug-in is an events calendar for WordPress that allows you as a blog or website owner to publish a monthly appointments breakdown and also important dates for your blog readers to view. This plugin will useful if you want to let people know what you are doing at the time that to give people an idea what days you are free. This plug-in also good enough to provide about events information to users of a WordPress powered site and for instance communities.

The example use of this calendar plugin

• Allows your visitors as the viewer to be able to see the activity that you was doing.
• If your visitors want to meet you, or also have a job to do or asked you for a meeting or social event your visitors can immediately see the days where you can be free.
• Show the event description by the mouse-over

Features in Calendar plug-in for WordPress

This Calendar has rich feature and also will continue to become better as development continues.

You can download Calendar plug-in for WordPress here!

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ReviewAZON WordPress Plugin allows you to bulk add Amazon products and reviews to your Wordpress blog quickly and easily using ReviewAZON Manage Bulk Reviews feature. You can add as many products as you wish and have them post immediately or at a scheduled day or interval.

With ReviewAZON WordPress Plugin you can also have them post to a single category or a group of categories just by assigning them before you upload. This is a huge time saving feature that every Amazon affiliate has been asking for since adding Amazon affiliate links is a pretty painful process.