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15 Magnificent jQuery Plugins for WordPress Blogs

With increasing popularity of jQuery plugins choosing these great tools is more than a smart decision. We believe in the power of JavaScript and our today’s collection is another proof of the amazing flexibility and mightiness of the amazing jQuery plugins. Even if you are not a blogger or never ever use WordPress (though that would be quite weird given the fact that this very blog is powered by WordPress) we think that you’ll be able to find some useful web tools in our collection of jQuery Plugins for WordPress Blogs. These tools are all about efficient simple and spectacular methods of enhancing the functionality of your blog.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin is a perfect tool to set up rating system for your blog entries. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating.

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Apple-Flashy WordPress Sidebar

This jQuery plugin allows to implement originally displayed sidebar to your blog. By installing this great plug-in you’ll receive the stunning accordion effect similar to the sidebar on the Apple Startpage.

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Insights

Insights plug-in allows to insert Flickr Images, Youtube videos, search Google and insert Google Maps. You can do all these things due to the dynamic AJAX interface which loads the relevant information to your post in just a few seconds.

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March 25th, 2010 in jQuery, WordPress Themes

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It’s coming! WordPress 3.0 – Pros and Cons

Alright bloggers, web surfers and simple web enthusiasts, we’ve got some fascinating news for you all. Yes, Internet community can’t stop buzzing about the forthcoming release of the new version of #1 blogging software – WordPress 3.0.

TemplateMonster being the biggest provider of WordPress themes just couldn’t miss the chance to express its own vision of this great event – after all we love WordPress just as much as you do. The official release is scheduled for May 2010 but now we have opportunity to mark the major advantages that this release will bring.

So, WordPress 3.0 will include the following features:

MU or Multi-User option now will be available to all WordPress 3.0 users. In case you still have no idea what it’s all about we can tell that this is one of the best features that will allow you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions – from a single admin panel. Alright, admit it – we all have at least a couple of blogs to work with, right? So MU is a very good – and anticipated – feature.
Another great innovation is the improvement of support for custom post types. These are great news for bloggers because it simplifies their work in creating and managing content, but it doesn’t mean that categories will disappear.
Menu management is one of the best improvements in 3.0 release because of the Custom Navigation menu system that will be included into the core – with drag and drop and other usability features brought to various types of menus. This menu enlightens widget management, submenus system and much more.
WordPress 3.0 will have a new default design theme that will be called 2010 – you can see the live demo of this design on official WordPress website. As you understand according to the new name of default theme every year WordPress will hopefully get a new default theme.