Say you’ve got your WordPress blog. Now what?
How do you get to display all those cool things you see on some blog’s sidebars? Or how do you keep yourself off spam?
Look no further.
I’ve made a list with the 15 most useful WP plugins and there are lost of extras.
See what you can use from the following:
- Admin Menu – add admin menu links to the top of your blog
- Advanced WYSIWYG Editor -more styling options to the WYSIWYG editor
- Akismet -fight spam
- Contact Form – allows site visitors to contact you
- FireStats – statistics plugin for WordPress
- Google Analytics – adds Google analytics to your blog
- Google Sitemaps – sitemap generator – better search engine indexing of your blog
- Math Comment Spam Protection – extra protection against spam comments
- Related Posts -returns a list of the related entries on your blog
- Sidebar Widgets – adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu
- Simple Trackback Validation – eliminates spam trackbacks
- SpotMilk – enhances and beautifies your admin theme
- WordPress Database Backup – backs up your blog
- WordPress Reports -Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data
- Comment Quicktags + -Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form
If you need more, just go to CarolsVault – Best WP plugins and pick them up.
Posted by Carol – This entry has originally been posted on CarolsVault.com
5 users commented in " WordPress Plugins For An Easier Blogging Experience "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHi Carol, many thanks for the article.
That’s a great list, I can vouch for Akismet, Sitemaps, Spotmilk, Analytics & of course Backup being absolutely essential.
I like the look of the advanced WYSIWYG editor as well, I’m off to have a look at that now.
Ooooooh more things to figure out!!!!
I am just stumped about adding buttons and so on for things like technorati and blogexplosion, etc.
I am still figuring out how to change things!!!
Oh and if you know anyone who wants to play around with some pics of cheerios..I am trying to figure out how to make a banner/logo for Crunchy Carpets…
Adding buttons is really quite easy (and you’ve given me another idea for an article!) Simply edit the PHP file where you want it to go (eg Sidebar) and paste the HTML in. Keep backups & nothing can go wrong…
Have you tried Paint.Net (free) for your banner. Erika is very good at that kind of thing, just take her quiz….
Plugins really can make a huge difference. I have a whole post on which ones helped me increase traffic the most – the bottom line is, be sure to install related entries, subscribe to comments, and dofollow.
I’ll install related entries once their server is working again. Not heard of dofollow, I’ll shall have a look, thanks.
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