flavors of WordPress
WordPress Plugins to enhance your blog,
flavors of WordPress
Many generous software writers are continually developing great plug ins for bloggers using WordPress open source software.
It’s as if bloggers keep adding to a virtual Wish List of Plugins and more free capabilities keep appearing, (numbering the in 1000′s).
If you want to build a site that is beyond a basic blog and you need help, need an answer, want to learn more in general on a topic, then do a WP search on those key words (on the WP website under Forums) and you will be browse a variety of discussion forums and lists for plugins that do various tasks. People review and rate plugins based on their experiences, and by reading the comments (and noting how many other people have downloaded that plugin) you can decide what plugins you need to fulfill your requirements.
12 plugins I have found practical:
AKISMET checks comments to see if they look like spam or not. Spam comments get filtered. You can review spammy looking comments and allow, edit or delete them. This is a terrific time saver. In 9 months, AKISMET has detected over 2000 spam comments and has only let 3 through. These three “looked normal” but were in fact spam.
ALL IN ONE SEO PACK maximizes your site features that Search Engines are looking for.
REALLY SIMPLE KAPTCHA gets called up from other plugins and was originally crated for-
CONTACT FORM 7, a simple and flexible plugin for e-mail contact.
TINY MCE-ADVANCED – a tremendously flexible editor for creating your posts . Read more about Tiny MCE Advanced.
COMMENT TIMEOUT closes comments on blog entries. Can be customized in many ways.
WORDPRESS ANALYTICS lets you use Google Analytics to track your WordPress statistics.
FEEDBURNER FEEDSMITH detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
GOOGLE SML SITEMAPS generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WP blog which is supported by 4 major search engines, (not Firefox alas).
MICROKID’S RELATED POSTS displays a set of manually selected related items with your posts.
IMAGE WIDGET accepts a title, an image, a link and a descriptions and displays them.
EXTENDED CATEGORY WIDGET replaces the category widget to allow for greater customization of the category widget.
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