Want to cache the remote images in your blog posts? Looking for an image cache plugin to cache hotlinked images? Get Hot Linked Image Cacher, a free WordPress plugin that can automatically cache all your hot linked images. Once activated, Hot Linked Image Cacher search for hotlinked images within your blog posts and automatically cache those remote images. Cached images are kept in an automatically generated folder inside WordPress upload directory. When image cache is successful, links in your blog posts are also updated to reference the new local copy of the image. So, no manual work required from your side.

By default Hot Linked Image Cacher saves local copies of hotlinked images found within the new blog posts only. But you can easily cache the images for an existing post by specifying the post id number. You can also perform image cache on all blog posts by entering ‘ALL’ in the post id field inside the plugin control panel. Before starting cache, Hot Linked Image Cacher presents before you a list of domains to download the image from. Just check your domains and proceed to cache the images of your choice. This option is helpful, specially when you want to cache images from a particular website or domain.

Hot Linked Image Cacher WordPress plugin supports both curl and allow_url_fopen. So, it should work on any server running PHP. Try it today!

Download Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/

Blogger recently introduced some cool new features to it’s blogging platform. One of the new features is Blogger Stats, which is currently available only on Blogger in Draft. Blogger stats is a fully integrated stats feature that makes it easier than ever to get all sorts of traffic data for your blog. And the good thing is this new feature lets you access real-time stats right from the comfort of your Blogger dashboard. So, with this powerful feature in hand, you can actually avoid using any third party tracking codes on your Blogger powered blog.

The new Stats feature shows different traffic data in a simple, easy-to-understand graphical user interface. In your stats area, five different tabs (Now, Last Day, Last Week, Last Month and All Time) presents traffic data for different time period. You can see which posts are getting the most visits (popular posts) and which sites are sending traffic (Referring URLs and Sites) to your blog. Blogger Stats also displays other important data such as popular Search Keywords, Pageviews by Browsers, Pageviews by Operating Systems and Pageviews by Countries.

How to access Blogger Stats? As Blogger Stats is an integrated feature, you don’t have to sign up for any third party service, or embed any code in your template. Log in to Blogger, open Blogger in Draft, and you’ll notice a new “Stats” tab for your blog(s). Open that tab and you will see your blog visitor stats in near-real-time. Access the data, analyze and enjoy blogging.

Want to add YouTube videos to your WordPress blog? Want to do something nice with the videos on your blog? Take a look at my list of free YouTube plugins for WordPress. From simple video embed plugins to advanced video search and import tools, you will find all types of plugins here. Just go through the list and you will be amazed to learn how many different ways are there to use YouTube videos on a WordPress blog.

List of YouTube Plugins for WordPress:

1. WP YouTube: This plugin helps you in presenting your YouTube videos without the effort to paste the whole embed-code. You only need the YouTube ID, the rest is handled by WP YouTube. You can set options to manage all the YouTube videos at the same time. With the new profile editor it is even possible to set different settings.

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2. Smart YouTube: Smart Youtube allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed videos into your blog post. It also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code, allows you to view videos in full-screen and most recently supports YouTube playlists.

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3. YouTube with Style: One of my favorite YouTube plugins. It will let you embed YouTube videos without the default player. Yes, YouTube with Style adds a custom video player. With this plugin, you can add a video via the post media manager. You can search, preview and automatically insert videos without leaving your site. Alternatively you can use the YouTube shortcode to add a video to your blog post. You can also add a widget to your sidebar with videos from your YouTube account.

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4. TubePress: This simple plugin displays YouTube and Vimeo galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar. With TubePress, you can easily embed individual videos with all associated meta information (description, length, author, etc). It’s easy-to-use shortcode syntax lets you insert galleries throughout your site with no coding. It is available in eight languages: English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. TubePress is also available as a stand-alone PHP library.

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5. Youtuber: A beautiful WordPress plugin that lets you embed YouTube videos in your blog posts by using simple ‘tags’. So, your blog posts always remains clean. This plugin replaces the video tags with valid XHTML code. With Youtuber WordPress plugin you can also adjust the width and height of all videos embedded in your blog.

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6. Daiko’s YouTube Widget: This WordPress plugin adds a sidebar widget to display a predefined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. To display selected videos you can make your own video list in the widget-control-panel. It comes with two player options: ThickBox player to display videos as a pop-up and default Daiko’s VideoPlayer Widget. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).

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7. [GWA] Google YouTube Video Bar: Ever wanted to add related YouTube videos to your blog posts? This plugin actually does so. It will add a Google YouTube Video Bar with targeted content to your content. Search results are obtained in real-time based on post tags or slugs by using the public Google YouTube Videobar API. You can also set a default keyword to show specific content. Options include vertical or horizontal bar and medium or small video thumbnails. Look of your video bar can be modified by using CSS.

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8. Automatic Youtube Video Posts: This plugin can automatically import and post videos from any YouTube account. According to your settings, it can publish new posts or save as drafts. You can also set it to automatically update your Twitter status using text you specify. The Automatic Youtube Video Posts plugin can also display YouTube video meta.

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9. TubePress.NET: With this plugin, you can easily create a niche videos site, search for a keyword and import all related videos from Youtube and post them into your blog. From the plugin admin menu you can choose parameters you would like to import. For example, the title, description, rating score, video length, upload date, author, number of views etc. You can customize the video player size to fit into your blog. There is a ThumbView option, which uses a thumbnail image of the imported video with a text description underneath. You can even choose to add Google AdSense ad units into the post.

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10. Berri Youtube Gallery: Berri YouTube Gallery plugin lets you show a YouTube video gallery with customized appearance on your blog sidebar. It is very easy to customize and you can insert an image in the video thumbnail. No special YouTube API is required. All you need to do is write the video URLs in the widget control panel and you are good to go.

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11. ZD YouTube FLV Player: With this plugin, you can easily display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player. To add a video use [zdvideo]url[/zdvideo] shortcode in your post or page, where url is the URL of the video. This plugin uses SWFObject 2.1 to embed the flash player. So, the xHTML generated is W3C Valid.

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12. Youtube VideoBox Plugin: With this plugin you can add unlimited number of sidebar widgets to display Youtube videos in XHTML valid format. Customization is easy and you can set the width and height for videos directly in your widget panel. Optionally it can give you the ability to chose colors in YouTube and enable or disable them in your widget panel.

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13. Viper’s Video Quicktags: This plugin adds some new buttons to the write screen of WordPress from where you can post videos by providing the video URL. It supports YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, MySpaceTV, Spike.com, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Flickr and WordPress,com videos. Supported video formats include Flash Video Files (FLV), QuickTime (MOV, etc.) and Generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.). You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page).

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14. Youtube with Fancy Zoom: This plugin lets you add YouTube videos with jQuery based fancy zoom effect. You can use it to display random videos on an widget or a video gallery on sidebar. Style can be easily customized using CSS.

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15. Simple Video Embedder: Let you easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites. The Simple Video Embedder plugin also works with self hosted FLV (Flash) or MP4 (Quicktime) videos.

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16. EasyTube: This simple plugin lets you embed YouTube and Google Videos using one simple tag. EasyTube also places a preview image with a link to the YouTube video in your RSS feed. You can set global options for your videos in the EasyTube option menu.

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17. My YouTube Playlist: This WordPress plugin adds a Youtube video and a list of thumbnails of your choice. The video thumbnails are clickable and replaces the video without reloading the page. Videos can be added to post by using shortcodes. The interface is fully customizable using CSS.

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18. YouTube Embed: This simple plugin will help you in embedding YouTube videos in your WordPress theme. With this plugin you can add videos to your blog with a function call, a short code or with a sidebar widget. The default settings for your videos can be easily changed from the YouTube Embed options page in your blog administration panel. YouTube Embed: works with all the current YouTube API parameters, including HD video, and produces XHTML valid output.

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19. VideoGall: With this plugin you can easily create a video gallery with beautiful ShadowBox effect. You can add videos from different sites through the admin panel. Videos can be categorized and displayed according to their categories. VideoGall plugin also lets you edit or delete already added videos.

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20. YouTube Poster: With this plugin you just select the videos that you want to place on the blog and press a button. All the videos will then be placed as separate blog posts. The plugin executes a search on YouTube by keyword and category. It displays a list of all videos found. You check off the videos that you like and then the program will create blog posts for each video.

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21. YouTube Sidebar: Let’s you add videos to your sidebar. You can add more than one video to each post, display Google AdSense ads when there are no videos to show. Ability to activate or deactivate videos on pages, archives or categories.

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22. WP YouTube Lyte: This WordPress plugin inserts “Lite YouTube Embeds” in your blog. The videos look and feel like normal embedded YouTube, but don’t use Flash unless clicked on. So, WP-YouTube-Lyte will deliver an entirely flash-less YouTube experience while reducing the download size & rendering time on your blog.

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23. Youtube Thumbnailer: This plugin runs through the posts in your blog and finds embedded YouTube videos to set videos thumbnails. The thumbnails are saved in a custom field named “thumbnail” or anything you change it to in the settings page.

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24. Lightview Plus: This plugin implements lightview (similar to lightbox) of Nick Stakenburg into your blog and automatically changes all image links and select video links, so that they will open with lightview. Right now, Lightview Plus plays videos from YouTube, blip.tv and Vimeo. You can add videos as usual by using the “Embed Video” button in your editor. The rest will be done by this plugin automatically.

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25. WP JW Player: This plugin gives you a customizable flash player with embed function, RSS feeds which allows you to publish videos and text content at the same time. It supports both self-hosted and YouTube videos. It can also fetch rss feeds (default Google News) related to a certain keyword.

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Note: This list is without any specific order. So, don’t think that those on top are better or those on bottom are worse. Though all of them are related to same topic, different plugins serves different purposes. So, pick the ones that meets your requirements perfectly.

If you are looking for a real estate WordPress theme, you may try Open House V3, a powerful real estate theme with full WordPress 3.0 compatibility. Open House V3 is suitable for both agents and realtors who want to build their websites on WordPress platform. It comes with integrated Google Maps (Google Street View) for your listings and PO files for better theme localization, translation and internationalization. Other features of Open House theme include carousel property slider, photo gallery, 8 different color styles, easy listing management, individual agent pages, agent photo upload, banner ad manager etc.

Open House V3 Theme Features:

• Premium Real Estate WordPress theme.
• 8 different color styles.
• Single or Multiple Agents.
• Agent photo uploader.
• Individual agents page with listings and bio.
• Unlimited dropdowns for category search.
• Google Maps integration.
• Banner ad management.
• Carousel property slider.
• Easy listing management.
• Financing calculator.
• Image auto resizer for thumbnails.
• Threaded comments.
• Gravatar Support.
• IE, Firefox and Safari compatible.
• Compatible with WordPress 3.0.
• English, Spanish and Portuguese languages.
• Logo PSD and Font files included with theme.
• Demo-Content.xml file included.
• Manual and tutorial included.
• Unlimited support via forum.

Theme Price:

Basic Package: $79.95
Developer Package: $139.95

Demo & Download Link:

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Want to increase speed of your WordPress blog? Not happy with your current WordPress cache plugin? Try W3 Total Cache. Trusted by many popular and high traffic blogs, W3 Total Cache is a performance optimization plugin. Unlike other WordPress caching plugins, it improves overall site performance by improving your server performance, caching everything on your blog, reducing the download time of your theme pages and by providing transparent CDN (Content Delivery Network) integration. It not only reduced page load time, but also saves your bandwidth with the help of minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds.

Features of W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin:

• Caching of pages and posts in memory or on disk.
• Caching of feeds in memory or on disk.
• Caching of search results pages in memory or on disk.
• Caching of database objects in memory or disk.
• Browser caching of CSS, JavaScript and HTML.
• Minification of posts and pages and feeds.
• Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript.
• Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS.
• Non-blocking JavaScript embedding.
• CDN integration with Media Library, theme files and WordPress.
• Imports post attachments directly into the Media Library or CDN.

Installation of W3 Total Cache is easy. Give 777 permission to your wp-content directory, upload it to plugins folder and activate from the “Plugins” page on your WordPress dashboard. Once activated, set permission of your wp-content folder back to 755. That’s it! Page caching will automatically start working in basic mode. Advanced options can be modified from the “Settings” section. W3 Total Cache requires no theme modifications or modifications of your .htaccess file. Note that for proper functioning, it requires at least WordPress 2.6 or later with PHP 5.

I am using W3 Total Cache on two of my blogs and I can say with confidence that it really works! It reduces page load time and saves a lot of my bandwidth. This plugin is compatible with all kinds of server environments such as shared hosting, virtual private or dedicated servers and dedicated servers or clusters. I recommend it to all.

Plugin Page and Download Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

As an Internet marketer you always look for ways to maximize your profit. Am I right? Did you know that live chat can help you make money online? Yes, with a good live chat solution, you can easily grow your profit further. Live chat or live support software are used by affiliate marketing and e-commerce sites to present a live salesperson to answer questions about products or services. Both big and small players use live chat software, as it is a cost effective tool that helps to sell products and services online.

How live chat can help you? Just think from a customer’s point of view. You want to buy something. You searched and found some sites that sells the product. You picked one and ready to buy. But before the checkout, you want to clear some doubts. How you gonna contact the seller? Yes, they have a phone number, but it is busy. So, you need to contact them by writing a mail or by using their contact form. It means you need to wait. Now think about a site that has live chat enabled. You used the live chat interface, engaged in a 1-to-1 chat with a customer support representative and within five minutes your doubt is clear. Now tell me, from whom you are going to buy that product. Definitely from the second site where the live chat option was there.

Live chat can help you acquire and retain customers. In fact, various studies have already proved that it can help increase conversion rate. Experienced Internet marketers knows it very well and a lot of them are using it to make money. So, for your a product/services sites, do consider a live chat software. If done right, it can make you a lot of money.

There are many live chat software available online. Some of them are free and others cost a little money. If you are wondering about a good live chat software, you should check Livemoz. They offers a free live chat software which comes with all the standard features of an enterprise-class live chat software. They also offer other value-added live chat services. For more information see http://www.livemoz.com/live_chat.

Are you blogging with a blog hosted on Blogger.com? If yes, this post is for you. Blogger templates are very easy to customize. Just use the template editor (and now the blogger template designer), do your customization, preview, save and you are good to go. But sometimes a small mistake may ruin your whole template. That’s why you must always backup your template before touching any template codes. Don’t know how to backup your Blogger template? Follow the simple steps below and backup your template within a minute.

Backup Your Blogger Template:

1. Login to your Blogger.com account.
2. In the dashboard find your blog and click the Design/Template link.
3. Then click the “Edit HTML” tab, which is right after “Page Elements” under the Design/Template section.
4. Inside “Edit HTML” tab you will find a “Download Full Template” link. Click that link and save the file in your preferred location.
5. That’s it. The backup copy of your blogger template is now in your hard drive. Just don’t forget the location where you saved it.

Now you have a backup copy of your template. During template modification if something goes wrong, simply go to “Backup / Restore Template” under the “Edit HTML” section and upload the backup copy to restore it. A simple precaution may save a lot of your time. What you say?