AskThemes http://www.askthemes.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 5 awesome themes for video bloggers http://www.askthemes.com/5-awesome-themes-for-video-bloggers/ http://www.askthemes.com/5-awesome-themes-for-video-bloggers/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:39:00 +0000 admin http://www.askthemes.com/?p=20 Video blogging is getting bigger as the days go by and finding the right wordpress themes to properly showcase your videos is getting (in recent months) easier to find. Below are five free and paid wordpress themes for you to choose from.

Video Wordpress Theme

Created by one of the developers over at Woo Themes, this Video Wordpress Theme is perfect for video bloggers. The design is easily customizable and should work well with any genre of blogger.

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Videographer

Are you looking to blog while using your own custom videos or are you looking to build a niche website while benefiting from showcasing videos on the blog? Either way, you’re in luck with this theme.

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TV Elements

Jason created an amazing wordpress theme that really highlights your video content. This is definitely one of the cleaner designed wordpress themes for video blogging out there.

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Groovy Video

This is a cool wordpress theme from Woo Themes that really helps showcase the video content while giving you numerous layout color options.

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Video Elements

Here’s another one from Jason that features traditional and gallery style viewing and also allows visitors to click an image and view the videos in a cool pop up player.

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Twitter Tools

This is a plugin that is built by the King of Wordpress (yes, thats what we’re calling him – maybe a bit corny but its a fun play on his name :) ) – Alex King. A must have for full integration between your blog and twitter.

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Tweet Suite

Dan Zarrella is awesome and his tweet suite plugin is amazing. With everything from a “most tweeted” widget to a retweet button for your posts, this is an awesome way to integrate wordpress and twitter.

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Twitter for Wordpress

This is a plugin that displays your latest tweets in your wordpress blog. A great way to show your recent tweets in your widgetized sidebar without overtaking your blog content. Highly customizable as well.

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WP TwiTip ID

Here is a plugin that adds a slot to your comment form that lets people link to their twitter account when they add a comment to your blog. Looking for more traffic from people on twitter as well as more comments? this is a plugin to grab then.

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Tweetbacks for Wordpress

If people are talking about your post on twitter, wouldn’t you like to know? People comment on your blog to not only share their thoughts, but also gain that link back to their blog – and this plugin shows comment-like results for your posts if people tweet about it.

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You can view more information about the plugin (and download) here.

Benefits of All In One SEO plugin

  • Built in meta tag insertion into your blogs header
  • Automatically optimizes your title tags for search engines
  • On individual articles you can override your title and meta tag settings
  • Stop duplicate content by stopping the search engines from crawling specific areas of your blog
  • For wordpress 2.7.1 and newer, it works right out of the box without needing to adjust any settings

Drawbacks of the All In One SEO plugin

In my honest opinion, I do not think there are any. I do think it would be really awesome if the plugin could eventually work in a way to override peoples post title tags so they’re not using H1 tags too many times and set it so it makes themes more SEO friendly, but I understand that this is a bit of a big dream. We can all wish though can’t we?

Final Thoughts

ALL IN ONE SEO plugin is amazing and is a must have for ANY wordpress blog. If you don’t have it, make sure you go download it now.

If you have a plugin (or even a type of plugin) you’d like to see reviewed, just shoot us a comment and let us know)

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Below are links to five of the best wordpress contact form plugins. You can read more information about each of these plugins on their respective links.

Enhanced Wordpress Contact Form

This is a plugin built by Joost de Valk from Yoast and is a killer choice for your website. Built and adapted from another great wordpress plugin, this contact form plugin is the perfect choice for many wordpress bloggers.

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Contact Form 7

A really simple, easy to use contact form plugin, Contact Form 7 is on this list because of it’s functionality as well as the numerous languages it’s been translated into.

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Cforms II

The greatest thing about this plugin is the added contact forms you can add to your site (even multiple forms on the same page) that are all Ajax enabled.

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Contact Form III

Built off the same defunct plugin that the Enhanced Wordpress Contact Form plugin is based off of, this is another high value plugin for anyone wanting to allow people to contact them directly from their website, securely.

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Tiny Contact Form

Built with the same abilities as the above plugins, but this contact form plugin also allows you to add the form directly to your sidebar in a widget. How awesome? :)

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Below are links and a bit of information on 5 of the best mobile plug-ins for wordpress. Feel free to let us know which ones you use in the comments below.

Wordpress Mobile Plug-in

With over 47,000 downloads, the Wordpress Mobile Plug-in definitely needs to be at the top of the list.

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Wordpress Mobile Edition

Created by the King of wordpress, Alex King, this plug-in is one of the best wordpress plug-ins for mobile users ever created. There are screenshots and demos on the plug-ins page linked above and below.

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MobilePress

This is an awesome plugin that allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.

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iPhone / Mobile Admin

Interested in getting a great wordpress admin for your iphone? This is an awesome plug-in that makes the wordpress admin panel that much more sleek and easy to use – for blogging on the go :)

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Wordpress PDA & iPhone

Another great plugin for your wordpress blog that will help showcase your content in a simple manner and has a great developer who’s working on upgrades and better functionality all of the time.

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