The Comm100 WordPress Live Chat Plugin is designed especially to easily install Live Chat functionality onto any WordPress Site. This chat plugin enables you to track and communicate with your website visitors in real time. It can be used by support team to improve customer service, as well as by sales team to increase sales. Yes, live chat plugins can be a deadly effective sales tool. There is a reason why your favorite store has sales clerks!

Features

• Real-time visitor monitoring and tracking
  You can track the visitor’ navigation history in real time, such as how many times a visitor has come to the site, which pages the visitor visited each time and how long the visitor stayed on each page, etc.
• Efficient online chat tools
  Your customers can get access to immediate help just by clicking the chat button. And the operator can handle multiple chats simultaneously.
• Fully customizable chat buttons and windows
  You can set up different chat plans for different pages within one account. The chat button and windows are fully customizable. Take chat button for example, you can choose the type of the chat button, image, text, or monitor only. If image button, you can make it static or float; you can also set the image.
• Intelligent auto chat invitation
  You can reach out visitors proactively via auto chat invitation. You can set up multiple auto invitation plans based on your needs and configure the chat invitation rules based on the visitors’ behavior, such as time on website, time on current page, current page URL, referrer page URL, search keyword, visit times, etc.
• Insightful performance reports & analysis
  Comm100 Live Chat provides a series of reports, which enables you to clearly know the performance of your support team, such as customer rating report, operator performance report, operator online time report, etc.
• Integration with other Comm100 products
  The integration with Comm100 Ticket enables you to easily convert live chats or offline messages to tickets for effective follow-up. It can also integrate with Comm100 Knowledge Base, Comm100 Help Desk, etc.
• Integration with third-party applications
  It can integrate with Salesforce CRM, which makes you to manage leads or contacts from the website.
• Mobile apps
  Comm100 Live Chat offers full functional apps for almost all major mobile platforms or devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android devices and Blackberry phones.

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Slider Revolution is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to create both full-width and responsive sliders. The plugin utilizes state of the art effects that doesn’t drive down the user’s ability top optimize their website for Search Engine Optimization purposes.

The slide displaying system offers users the capability to show videos, captions and images that can also utilize 3D transitions. The plugin also harnesses super-simple drag and drop back-end for simplicity. On top of the bevy of options and customization available, this plugin works at full capacity with Firefox 10+, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Simple transitions and basic slider features work well with IE8 and IE9.

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How much do you rely on your website logo?

Does it sit at the top of the screen, unloved, acting as a placeholder, or do you use it everywhere, from Twitter to Facebook to email signatures and business cards?

If you rely on the latter tactic, you might have spent a lot of time working on the logo or even paid someone to create it for you. As such, you will want to make the most of it, and using it on every bit of publicly-viewed piece of your website and surrounding projects is one way to do this.

However, when your readers login to your website to leave a comment, what do they see?

Do they see your website logo greeting them on the wp-login screen – or does it simply say “WordPress”?

You’re Not Just Another WordPress Site

You don’t really want to display the WordPress logo, do you? After all, who cares that your website uses the best, most flexible blogging platform in the world?

What you want to be doing is spreading the love for your own website, unifying the “back end” of it and making it as much a part of your blog as the front-facing pages.

If anything, seeing the WordPress logo might confuse some readers, making them think that you have diverted them elsewhere. Certainly some might dislike the “gap”, and take flight if they can see “the join” – don’t give them this opportunity to see through the polish and magic of your WordPress blog!

What you need to do is replace the WordPress logo on the login screen with one of your own, one that will confirm to the user that he or she is signing into or signing up for an account on your blog.

Preparing Your Logo

Now that I’ve convinced you to bring your own logo into the WordPress login screen, it’s time for you to prepare.

Your blog logo might be huge – if this is the case, you will need to shrink it down so that it looks good on the login screen. The image will need to be resized to 323 x 67 pixels; you can use a wide variety of tools to resize it, such as Microsoft Paint if you’re using Windows.

If you opt not to resize the image, then the logo will look squashed. You really don’t want this to happen – the idea of this exercise is to add a layer of added professionalism to your blog, to join things up with your branding. Get the image sizing right, and the login screen will look great!

Use a Plugin to Customize the WordPress Login Screen

Several plugins are available for WordPress users to completely revamp their login screens.

Custom Login – this plugin will display a logo as well as enabling you to change the colours on the login screen and even add background images. It also has a space to display messages or announcements to your readers.

Erident Custom Login and Dashboard – this is a similar option; while it doesn’t include the ability to display announcements there is the facility to change the footer text on the WordPress Dashboard. You might decide to brand the dashboard screen if you have other contributors to your blog.

Want to Be Taken Seriously? Lose the WordPress Logo!

While WordPress doesn’t exactly have a bad reputation, the presence of the default logo adds an air of unprofessionalism to your site.

You might be running one of the world’s biggest websites, but if your readers login and see the WordPress logo then immediately some of the magic is lost. This isn’t because WordPress isn’t highly thought of – it’s because it is so commonly used. Your website suddenly becomes “just another blog”.

Use these tips here to stop this from happening and secure your blog’s branding – and if you have any WordPress login screen customization plugins you think we should know about, let us know!

Sometimes it is just easier to post something on Facebook instead of creating a new post in WordPress. With this Facebook to WordPress plugin you can automatically export your Facebook content to WordPress. A manual export function is available as well.

Features:

• Import Facebook Posts, Photos & Videos through an automatically or manual process
• Automatically inserts photos & videos in your WordPress post
• Downloads all photos locally in your WordPress Media Library
• Set posts to Draft status and publish them later
• Quick inline editing of Post Title, Content, Status, Author, Date & Category during manual import process
• Ability to scan through all your previous Facebook post during manual import process

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With this WordPress Booking Calendar plugin you as the administrator can create a calendar for one or more services and make them available for booking. Your customers can then easily place reservations. Both customer and administrator will receive notification via emails. perfect for your restaurant, bike rental, gym-classes and other bookings.

Features

User:

• time slots availability immediately visible
• multiple reservations possibility
• easy to use interface

Admin:

• unlimited number of calendars to set
• customizable number of available reservations per slot
• each calendar has its own independent set of settings
• set you closing days
• choose how many days before the user has to book the slots
• mandatory fields of the booking form
• booking form captcha
• Paypal integration
• date format configuration (choice between US and UK date format)
• time format configuration (choice between 12-hour am/pm and 24-hour time format)
• notifications to admin and customer sent throughout the system.
• possibility to set notification email texts, for example: booking confirmation email
• no coding skills required

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Several years ago I collaborated on a comic book project with an artist and well-known comic book editor. The aim was to run the end product on one of my websites; supposedly this should have been simple, but in actual fact was littered with problems.

Using WordPress to host an online comic is a great idea, but you need to place the reader front and centre of your plans. The reason for this is simple – you want your readers to experience the comic strip in the best way possible.

While many blogs offer comic strips as downloads, it is quite obvious that hosting them in the pages of the blog offers the most seamless presentation. Whatever your preference, there are several ways in which you can ensure that the comic or serialised graphic novel is given the best treatment.

Offer Downloads

The sensible option with online comic strips is to offer it for download. This might be in PDF format or in CBR/CBZ. All of these are easy to create. PDF creation tools are available free online (they might be downloadable or browser based) while CBR and CBZ files are simply image files named in sequence and zipped up using WinZip or WinRAR (hence CBZ and CBR).

By offering a downloadable option, your readers can enjoy your comic strip as and when they please, and they’ll let friends know!

Remember, however, to have your website URL embedded in the downloadable file. This way, should the comic end up on file-sharing websites, people will find their way back to your blog.

Use Plugins

Several comic book plugins are available for WordPress.

Manga+Press Comic Manager – this plugin offers the ability to manage any posts and pages that are running comic book images which can be added to your blog in place of standard post content.

Meanwhile Comic Easel brings all of that and much more to the job of managing comic elements of your blog, with additional taxonomies, translation plugins and various shortcodes.

There is also a WordPress theme, ComicPress which is designed and optimised for you to host comics in your blog. Unlike the other solutions, however, a ComicPress blog will be focussed almost completely as a comic site rather than include sequential art as one of many single aspects.

Embed the Comic as an Interactive Experience

Finally, there is the embedded option. This is available if you choose to create an electronic copy of your comic strip in PDF format and then use a converter service to create an interactive “flippable” version of the comic.

I’ve been looking around for several months for a suitable service that will host a comic in this format and recently discovered www.issuu.com. Using their upload tool you can convert a PDF document into an interactive magazine, ideal for reading on desktop computers, phones and tablets. The potential here is considerable, and as Issuu offer a free option you can take away the strain of hosting the comic on your own server!

Conclusion: Choose the Right Option for Your Readers

As slick as the presentation of the Issuu option might be, your readers might resent being forced to view the comic book in a particular browser on a particular computer.

Instead, you should consider offering downloads no matter which other solution you choose. Modern comic book fans love being able to read on tablets and smartphones, and as it is so easy to create a CBR/CBZ or PDF file these days, you would be foolish to miss out on this option.

Have you run a comic strip on your website? Did you use custom code to host it, offer download links, utilize a plugin or embed a HTML5 or Flash version of the book? Do you have any plans to run a comic on your blog?

Let us know!

Banner Manager Pro is a WordPress ad manager plugin that allows you to manage and sell advertising spots independently from the big ad networks. Work directly with advertisers and provide them with a variety of statistics about their ad’s performance.

Features:

• Sell banner spots: sell banner spots directly to advertisers.
• Multiple payment gateways: PayPal, Payza/AlertPay, Authorize.Net, Skrill/Moneybookers and InterKassa.
• 3 embed methods: PHP code, HTML code or shortcode into content, widget area, etc.
• Flexible banner sizes

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Get the Modern Blog Theme for ONLY $69.95
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The fully responsive and adaptive Modern Blog theme serves as the perfect fit for any blog, news, or online magazine site and scales from big screens all the way down to smart phones. Its state-of-the-art minimalistic and flat design shows your audience that you are up-to-date with today’s design trends.

The built-in options allow you to integrate your own logo and change the lead colors (red in the demo) easily, so you can adapt the theme to fit your identity.

It is simply the perfect theme for personal and professional blog, news, and magazine sites.

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