Tom Ewer's roundup of his favorite WordPress plugins that you may not have heard of. If you've been a WordPress user for more than a few weeks you’ll know all about the usual suspects — the plugins with millions of downloads and loads of top ratings — but there is a goldmine of diamonds in the rough lurking just below the surface that you may never have heard of.

Plagiarism and content theft are nothing new. Many folks don’t seem to have any problem stealing other people’s work. As a webmaster, you should not tolerate that. There are many things you can do to remind content thieves about your rights as a publisher and keep them from stealing your content easily. Using these 6 WordPress plugins is a good place to start.

"Gravity Forms is the best WordPress plugin ever because it never stops getting better."

Enables easy use of the Genericons icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML or a shortcode.

Replace eShop's default shipping methods with live calls to Canada Post, Correios, UPS, Fedex, and USPS.

Post Tiles gives the ability to display posts as tiles. The tiles are color coded by category. The appearance is similar to windows 8 (Windows Metro).

Browse posts/pages by their images, displayed randomly on an infinitely scrollable page. The images link back to where they are attached.

A WordPress plugin that allows you to embed realtime information about plugins or themes from WordPress.org into posts and pages simply by pasting in the URL to the plugin into your post or page.

Finding the perfect theme has always been a bit of a chore. But now, your work can be eased by "There is a Theme for That" - where you can find 1750 themes from over 100 theme companies.Themes can be searched based on keywords, category, purchase options (single themes vs theme clubs), popular features, and price.

If you've been watching WordPress for years, you will have noticed various design trends that come and go. WordPress is old enough now that it has gone through a number of these cycles. From minimalism to complexity, from sidebars to single column, here is an outline of the latest WordPress theme design trends for your perusal.

For anyone who might be looking to create a lifestyle site - something that gathers images, videos, and traditional blog posts about a certain sub-culture in one place, WPLift team gathered together 30 WordPress themes for lifestyle blogs.

Magazine styled WordPress themes are very popular these days. Many Magazine themes come with many features such as slider, different color scheme, custom widgets, shortcodes, color picker, and more. So let’s take a look at 15 such fresh responsive magazine themes for WordPress.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a plugin that deals with users contact methods. Basically when you edit a user in the administration, there’s a “contact information” block. You'll learn how to add your own fields there, and how to show (or not) these new fields on the registration page.

For better security WordPress post editor does not allow you to add executable code into your posts. In this post, you will see how you can better manage these content blocks. The goal is to manage all reusable code snippets at one place, so that they can be used selectively inside your posts.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a plugin to get the popular pictures from Instagram’s main feed.

An ad for your sidebar is often done easily by creating a graphic, dropping it in your text widget, or using the image widget, then hyperlinking it to another page or site for more details. But not all of us have the luxury of creating graphics or once created, being able to edit the ad when needed. In this video you will see how to create a simple, editable ad, using the text widget and without knowing html.