5 great wordpress plugins you should definitely use

Use these best plugins and make your blogs better

Make your wordpress blogging site more attractive, embed more features and make your site exceptional. Use the wordpress plugins and worry less about the functionality of the site. These plugins work on improving your content and provide value for readers and bring traffic for you to a large extent.

I don’t want to waste time, so lets get started

1. MashShare

MashShare is the free and famous social sharing plugin for wordpress.

Get your content shared more often by using this catchy social sharing plugin. This plugin makes it easy for your readers to find and hit the share buttons while reading your content. With a share and view count accompanying the share bar, your readers will also be getting a glimpse of your authority on the web.

2. Yoast

Yoast is the best wordpress plugin for SEO. It is a one stop solution for wordpress blog to perform better in search results.  Control your blog’s Meta descriptions and title descriptions.

Better your SEO with Yoast.

3. Contact Form 7

Contact form 7 can manage various contact forms at one time plus you can customize the form and the mail contents according to your requirements.

4. Google XML Sitemap

Although Yoast SEO plugin does include Sitemaps for your website, Google XML Sitemap is rather better and easy to use. You can simply disable Yoast SEO plugins’ Sitemap option and have this plugin do the sitemap work for your blog. Use this free plugin to help the search engines better index your WordPress blog.

5. WooCommerce

WooCommerce plugin is a popular WordPress plugin for starting an E-commerce network right from your WordPress website. This plugin comes from Woo Themes, a very popular developer for WordPress. A powerful dashboard widget and multiple payment outlets like PayPal, Amazon payments, cheque and cash. The elegant and intuitive storefront makes up a great asset for your self-hosted WordPress website.

Bhavesh Bhansali

36 keyboard shortcuts that we all want to Know

We all have learnt the Keyboard shortcuts in our school times, but we don’t remember all of them. We do remember the common keyboard shortcuts such shortcut for CUT, COPY, PASTE, DELETE, etc….

But, there are many things we try to with the help of mouse scrolling here and there again and again. For almost very function, there is a Keyboard shortcut.

Let’s go through it and suggest trying each and every shortcut while reading this article so you can remember it.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

1. CTRL+C (Copy the file or folder)
2. CTRL+X (Cut the file or folder)
3. CTRL+V (Paste the file or folder)
4. CTRL+Z (Undo the process)
5. DELETE (Delete the file or folder)
6. SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)

7. CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
8. CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
9. F2 key (Rename the selected item)
10. CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
11. CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
12. CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
13. CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
14. CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
15. SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
16. CTRL+A (Select all)
17. F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
18. ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
19. ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
20. ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
21. ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
22. CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
23. ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
24. ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
25. F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
26. F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
27. SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
28. ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
29. CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
30. F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
31. RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
32. LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
33. F5 key (Update the active window)
34. BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
35. ESC (Cancel the current task)
36. SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)

Bhavesh Bhansali

Blogger at Daily Digital Dose

Daily Digital Dose _ 2014 in blogging

Its the end of the year!!!

Yes, its the end of the year, but its not the end of my blogging!!! I have completed the first year of my blogging experience. I felt of sharing life experience, weird thoughts and valuable insights with you guys when I was pursuing my MBA. 

Never thought that you guys will appreciate me and follow my blogs.

Thanks to my fans and hope you feel the same excitement of reading my further blogs as you felt for previous ones!!!

Daily Digital Dose wishes you a happy new year!!!

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Content- The baap of all

Content- The baap of all

I have already said that Content is the king. Now let me share with you all that why Content is the baap of all.

You guys are aware of all the social media platforms available with us. Whatever the things are posted, shared and liked are all content.

Content is anything we create and share on different platforms to educate and inform our target audience or just for the sake of enjoyment.

Different types of content are:

• Text (Written words)
• Images
• Videos
• Audio

Social media platforms are growing not because population is growing, but it’s because people are creating and sharing recognizable and powerful content on continuous basis.

Example:

Facebook is growing very fast, not because of millions of users. It’s because people are sharing helpful content on Facebook which in turn invites and motivates more people to join Facebook.

YouTube – The video sharing platform and most liked platform. I already told you, Video is one of the most shared and liked form of content. YouTube’s subscriber list is growing just because people are creating and sharing videos on regular basis.

Most marketing campaigns are successful because of good and enjoyment content is the form of videos.

EG: ASL Ice Bucket Challenge Campaign (latest growing campaign)

These two platforms are not the only platforms which are surviving because of good and powerful content. Others such as

• LinkedIn
• Pinterest
• Googleplus
• Instragram
• SlideShare
• WordPress, etc… also are growing because of useful content being created and shared everyday

Now, you might think about “How to create excellent and powerful content”

Better Customer engagement and fan following will happen only if your content is powerful and useful for your target audience.

Videos and Images are the most popular form of content and helps the organization, whether big or local business to build the reach in an optimum manner.

Blogging is also one of the very important ways to engage customers. Create and share informative blog posts or educate your audience through your blogs, which I am doing.

It is a very effective and creditable way.

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It’s just blogging, not a rocket science

It’s just blogging, not a rocket science

I have seen people who want to write blogs, but stop themselves because they don’t know what to write.

Guys, it’s not a rocket science – Write whatever comes to your heart, whatever you want to share with others. Choose the one, you are good at. I am good at Digital and social media marketing and I share my views on that through my blogs.

There are lots of blog categories:

• Book reviews
• Movie reviews
• Informative articles
• Awareness tips
• Learning session in the form of blogs
• News articles
• Tech reviews, etc…

Write whatever you want to write, it’s just people should learn something from you, should get something useful from you.

Just an hour before, my friend called me and asks “Please suggest me some topic, I want to write a blog”, I told him write on Quantum science.

He told me “Shut up, I don’t know anything about Quantum Science”. After this conversation, he realized that we should write on topics we know, we care for and at last we love.

Only 3 things you should take into consideration, whenever your write a blog:

1. Content is the king

Write what people want to read and write on new and recent trends (Because they generated excitement in the minds to learn something new). If your content is good, people will follow you and recognize you and it’s just because you are sharing good knowledge with them.

2. Consistency

Blog regularly, at least twice a week. Consistent blog posts on excellent topics will grow your audience and thus your fans.

3. Distribution

If content is the king, then distribution of the content is the queen. What will happen, if you write an excellent blog, but you not able to shared it properly on social media? It will reach a smaller audience and even it may not reach your target audience. So make use of Social media properly and effectively.