Using free resources and plug-in, WordPress developers create a user-friendly , engaging and effective websites easily. Prepared by xhtmlchamps.com

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3. WordPress Facts
• WordPress is popular online website publishing software which is
widely used for personal and small to large business websites.
• Earlier it was used maintain blogs, but now it has become a web
development software that has many resources for creating an
effective website.
• It is an open source tool and a Content Management System used for
developing customer-friendly websites.
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4. WordPress Facts
• It provides easy to use and understandable options for developing a
simple to complex website.
• It is extremely easy for the front-end developers to develop creative
and extra-ordinary websites within a very short span of time, using
WordPress.
• It is not only easy to learn and use WordPress, but also friendly for
users to edit, update and delete the web page contents.
• The free WordPress resources, support creating well managed CMS
based websites.
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5. Free WordPress Resources
Various plug-ins and resources are used to create WordPress websites.
List of resources include:
* Smashing magazine * Blogging Apps
* Plug-ins * Security & Backup services
* Email management tools * SEO tools
* Theme Design Gallery * Hosting Providers
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6. Smashing Magazine
• This is very helpful resource for the developers to know about
each and every resource of the WordPress platform.
• It is a company online website, that provides complete
assistance for the beginners.
• This magazine publishes most popular articles related to
WordPress.
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7. WorPress Blogging Apps
WordPress Blogging Apps and Software such as
Blogo: A WordPress editor makes it easy to write, edit and manage multiple blogs. It
enables you to write even when you are in offline mode and then publish the content
when you are online.
Writeroom: WriteRoom is the original distraction-free writing environment. It creates a
quiet place for you to write. Its distraction free interface keeps your text in focus. The
drop box sync keep the documents organized.
BlogPadPro: It is the most professional blogging app for running WordPress blogs from
an iPad. Blog online, in airplane mode or when there is no internet connection – just
sync your changes when done! Its features include: WYSIWYG editing, comment
moderation, creating and editing posts and pages, WordPress.com blog stats, adding
images & featured images, custom fields, sticky posts, draft posts and lots more.
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Apart from the ones mentioned there are many more are helpful tools and
editors for WordPress.

8. WorPress Plug-ins
About WP Plug-ins
• It contains powerful free resources for developing WordPress website with easy to
use pre-coded items.
• Page builders, forms, tables, videos, and multiple management tools for a user
interface website are available in the plug-ins.
Few notable WordPress plugins
bbPress: This plug-in helps you run any kind of Forums on your WordPress, with
member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.
BuddyPress: This is a powerful plug-in that transforms into a fully functional social
networking platforms. It provides all the features that lets you build a community on
your network.
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Akismet: This plug-in checks your comments against the Akismet
Web service to see if they look like spam or not.

9. WP Security and Backup Services
These are compulsorily used resources for maintaining website security to prevent
attacks and breaches.
Few popular security and backup plug-ins include:
Acunetix WP Security: This plug-in is completely free and makes it simple and
secures your site quickly. One can easily set up file permissions, establish database
security, hide the version of WordPress, prevent problems with the “admin” username,
and more.
BruteProtect: This WordPress designed solution is specifically designed for protecting
against brute force attacks. It also offers multisite protection, a dashboard for
monitoring attacks, auto remote updates for core files and uptime monitoring.
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iThemes Security: This is a very popular plugin choice for security. It offers
numerous ways to secure your site. For instance, this plugin changes your
login and admin URLs, removes the meta generator tag, renames the “admin”
account, and more.

10. WP Email Management Tools
These tools are useful to maintain customer relations and email marketing.
WordPress tools and resources are helped to find perfect coding methods for a
website with interactive proposals.
Some of these tools are:
Mailchimp: This is one of the best and freely available email management tool. It
provides a wide range of professional quality email templates with customizable
fields and features.
HybridConnect: This is an advanced email list builder, which is flexible, easy-to-use
WordPress plugin and it captures email addresses in several ways.
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Many Contacts: This is a simple, unique and a free drop-down email collection
bar that runs across the top of your website. The bar can be fully customized. It
includes enriched data collection that can be accessed through a Contacts
Manager dashboard.

11. SEO tools for WordPress
These tools are advantageous to maintain and optimize headlines, main body
content, and images.
Some of these tools are:
Yoast: This is the best SEO plug-in for WordPress that helps to easily optimize a
website with content analysis functionality. It auto-generates XML Sitemaps,
quickly cleans the permalinks and removes unnecessary bloat from the website
code.
All in One SEO Pack : This is a free plug-in that helps to automatically optimize
title, description, keywords etc of pages, for all search engines and also provides
an XML Sitemap support for Google and Bing search engines.
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12. WordPress Theme Design Gallery
 This gallery is available to select and use a particular theme for the web
page display.
 The overall control in coding the individual contents of the page is done
by the developer. But the snapshot of the theme is included with related
plug-ins.
 Templates can be easily dragged and dropped an artistic theme from an
extensive collection of themes.
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13. WordPress Hosting Providers
 The hosting providers are available to work online for a well
developed WordPress site.
 These can be used to hassle-free management of a website specially
the eCommerce sites.
 Notable WordPress Hosting Providers are : GoDaddy, Site5, iPage,
bluehost, DreamHost etc.
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14. Conclusion
 Employing all resources of WordPress emerges as a finest
development process for a website. They are used according to
the requirement and coding methods.
 All these resources are beneficial for building a perfect website
with the user interface.
 Methods of content management system are used very efficiently
with the help of WordPress apps and resources, in an efficient
manner.
 Required plug-ins can be attached and used, to perform various
interactive operations in a site.
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15. Thank you!
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