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A freely available eCommerce plugin that enables shop facilities on your WordPress website.

A simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

Anti-bot CAPTCHA widget that helps digitize books by providing snippets of books for people to enter the text for. Owned by Google.

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

An Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps.

Websites embedding Google maps.

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.

Filter & sort magical layouts

Cascading grid layout library

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.

BuddyPress helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more.

Website using Instagram integrations or links.

Website with links to Instagram profiles or pictures

Display Instagram photos from any non-private Instagram accounts.

Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

This site uses the viewport meta tag which means the content may be optimized for mobile content.

Websites with cart functionality on them

PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.

Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.

Websites using Google technologies

A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Forum software that runs within a WordPress blog.

A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.

A pingback is one of four types of linkback methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

Websites using https protocol.

The DOCTYPE is a required preamble for HTML5 websites.

This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.

The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.

When running in a browser on a mobile phone, "format-detection" meta tag determines whether or not telephone numbers in the HTML content will appear as hypertext links. The user can click a link with a telephone number to initiate a phone call to that phone number.

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".

Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.

A scheme.org entity that represents an article, such as a news article or piece of investigative report. Newspapers and magazines have articles of many different types and this is intended to cover them all.

A scheme.org entity that represents a person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph, a open protocol supported by Facebook