Over the last year or so I’ve seen more and more WordPress plugin developers adding their plugin menu to the top level of the admin menu rather than as a sub level. I find this growing trend very frustrating as it clutters up the admin area needlessly. At the moment I have just as many plugin menus in the top level of the WP Mods...

Quick Notice Bar is a free WordPress plugin that lets you add a bar at the top of your pages to promote offers, make announcements and more. Setting up your notice bar only takes two minutes. You just need to define your message, link label and link URL. The background colour, text colour and font can all be changed here too. The arrows...

Do It With WordPress owner Dave Clements contacted me recently about his latest project Win WP Stuff. The site lists the latest WordPress competitions online. It’s a good place to try and win a free plugin or theme. According to Dave: Win WP Stuff is a new website whose sole purpose is for listing giveaways where there are WordPress-related...

Gorilla Themes have kindly donated 5 copies of their professional real estate WordPress theme Smooth Pro to WP Mods readers. Each of these standard package licenses are worth $69 each. Smooth Pro boasts a lot of great features such as an advanced property search widget, 5 colour schemes, social media integration and the ability to add...

Like the vast majority of bloggers, I use Feedburner to serve the RSS feeds of my blogs. There are many benefits to using the service. It lets you keep count of the subscriber count, allows readers to subscribe via email and you can change the feed URL at a later time without losing any subscribers. The RSS feed is vital to the success...

Smooth Pro is an advanced real estate WordPress theme from Gorilla Themes. Of course, Gorilla Themes are no stranger to the Real Estate market, with no fewer than 9 other real estate themes available. With each new release they are adding more and more great features. Visually Smooth Pro looks great. The header is a little basic with...