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1)Admin Collapse Subpages: jQuery-powered plugin that allows expansion/collapse of subpages within pages admin (/edit.php?post_type=page) menu.

2)WP-SpamCaptcher: Integrates SpamCaptcher anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment and registration spam protection. WPMU Compatible.

3)Authorize by IP: Authorize by IP is a tool that allows access to the wordpress website based on specified IP addresses.

4)Style Replacement: Change the style of your posts with options drop down menu. You can also implement a blog-azine with a different style in every post.

5)Real Sticky: Import a Sticky page to top of site.

For Reference : http://wordpress.org

WordPress is an open source blog tool which is based on PHP and MySQL. It is also used as a Content Management System(CMS). It has lot of features & advantages over the other CMS & Frameworks.

 

Features of WordPress:

Easy installation and upgrade.
Dynamic page creation
User Friendly Admin Panel
Easy & Effective SEO Tools
User friendly URLs
RSS Feed Generation
Import/Export data

 

Advantages of WordPress:

 

 Themes:

Readymade Free Themes

Custom Theme Support

Easy Theme Customization

 

Plugins:

Readymade Free Plugins

Custom Plugin Support

Easy Plugin Customization & bug fixing

 

Widgets:

Custom Widget Support

Drag & Drop the widgets wherever we need to show.

 

SEO Friendly URLs:

WordPress provide an option to set the URLs in required format, it is named as permalinks.

 

Custom Post Types:
Allow Custom Post Types. If we need a section called “Portfolio�, we can use the post type as “portfolio� rather than “Post/Pages�.

1. Limit the Number of Plug-ins that you Use ( You need to remove unwanted plug-ins from the blog. It may increase the page load time )

2. Optimize Images  – You can also optimize images before uploading them to WordPress. ( Use thumbnail images instead of full size images ).

3. Turn off Post Revisions

4. For a Minimalist Theme – You will need to simplify your theme or choose another ( Simple and Best [ Minimal amount of custom codes , images and graphics ] ).

5. Don’t Rely on External Websites – ( Load scripts, images and videos directly from your websites. Don’t rely on external websites  ).

6. Minimize Advertising – It might also be necessary to minimize your use of advertisements. If you are using image ads or javascript based ads which are hosted elsewhere, you will have the problem to load.

7. Avoid Flash Content : Unless you are running a huge and popular site , it is better to avoid flash content and any other plug-ins related to flash. They take more time to load.

8.Avoid Gadgets and Widgets.

9.Database Optimization.

Shortcodes are written by providing a handler function. Shortcode handlers are broadly similar to WordPress filters: they accept parameters (attributes) and return a result (the shortcode output).

The add_shortcode() function is used to register a shortcode handler. It takes two parameters: the shortcode name (the string used in a post body), and the handler function name.

A shortcode handler function should accept one to three arguments:

• $atts, an associative array of attributes
• $content, the enclosed content (if the shortcode is used in its enclosing form)
• $code, the shortcode name (only when it matches the callback name; see discussion of attributes below)

function TestShortCode_funcion( $atts ) {
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'one' => 'something',
		'two' => 'something else',
	), $atts ) );

	return "one= {$one}";
}
add_shortcode( 'TestShortCode', 'TestShortCode_funcion' );

This creates a "[TestShortCode]" shortcode that supports two attributes: ["one" and "two"]. Both attributes are optional and will take on default options [one="something" two="something else"] if they are not provided. 

For Full reference : Go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API