Why and How to Use Plugins With WordPress Blogs
By
David Writer
The whole world of WordPress was quite intimidating to me
initially because of the many possibilities and heaps of jargon it came
with. I trust these articles and videos from me are helping demystify a
lot of the stuff. This one is about this strange thing called plugins -
why and how to use them!
At the cost of sounding condescending I would say plugins are the reason why you would self-host a blog. They are the things that make your blog look professional in comparison with a Blogspot or free hosted blog. They are also the reason why search engines respect you more.
When you click on plugins in the 'appearance' tab of your WordPress dashboard you will find 'akismet' and 'hello dolly' as two defaults already present and waiting. They have specific jobs to do when activated. Akismet is a spam filter and by having it on you ensure spammers don't pollute your site with comments. Hello Dolly is a harmless piece of software that sticks interesting one-liners into the top right corner of your blogging back-office... just so you don't get bored working.
Now if you look above, you will see a button to 'add new' plugins. When we click this we can access a bank of free softwares written by nerds who love to support the WordPress platform in their spare time. They usually ask for donations, which we gladly make once we find the plugins performing well for us.
I will share 5 essential plugins that you could install to have your blog rank among the pros. They are:
1. All in one SEO pack
2. Easy privacy policy
3. Google XML sitemaps
4. Sociable
5. Tweetmeme
Each plugin has a purpose. All in one SEO pack helps you define titles, keywords and descriptions for each post so that your posts become easy to search by the search engines. This makes sure search traffic reaches your site more predicatably.
The Easy privacy policy is a great legal document. You can change the 'settings' to tailormake it for you. Google is looking for privacy policy pages to ensure it serves good sites to its users... and this plugin will make you look good instantly.
Google XML sitemaps help your site talk to Google in its own technical way. You need not know anything. Just activate and forget. Or check with some techie over a forum about how to optimize its settings.
Sociable and tweetmeme are both tolls that prompt visitors to take your content viral. While the first offers an array of bookmarking sites to tempt them with, the letter is a big inviting button to tweet your posts.
So that's why and how you use plugins with WordPress blogs. Look good and perform better!
At the cost of sounding condescending I would say plugins are the reason why you would self-host a blog. They are the things that make your blog look professional in comparison with a Blogspot or free hosted blog. They are also the reason why search engines respect you more.
When you click on plugins in the 'appearance' tab of your WordPress dashboard you will find 'akismet' and 'hello dolly' as two defaults already present and waiting. They have specific jobs to do when activated. Akismet is a spam filter and by having it on you ensure spammers don't pollute your site with comments. Hello Dolly is a harmless piece of software that sticks interesting one-liners into the top right corner of your blogging back-office... just so you don't get bored working.
Now if you look above, you will see a button to 'add new' plugins. When we click this we can access a bank of free softwares written by nerds who love to support the WordPress platform in their spare time. They usually ask for donations, which we gladly make once we find the plugins performing well for us.
I will share 5 essential plugins that you could install to have your blog rank among the pros. They are:
1. All in one SEO pack
2. Easy privacy policy
3. Google XML sitemaps
4. Sociable
5. Tweetmeme
Each plugin has a purpose. All in one SEO pack helps you define titles, keywords and descriptions for each post so that your posts become easy to search by the search engines. This makes sure search traffic reaches your site more predicatably.
The Easy privacy policy is a great legal document. You can change the 'settings' to tailormake it for you. Google is looking for privacy policy pages to ensure it serves good sites to its users... and this plugin will make you look good instantly.
Google XML sitemaps help your site talk to Google in its own technical way. You need not know anything. Just activate and forget. Or check with some techie over a forum about how to optimize its settings.
Sociable and tweetmeme are both tolls that prompt visitors to take your content viral. While the first offers an array of bookmarking sites to tempt them with, the letter is a big inviting button to tweet your posts.
So that's why and how you use plugins with WordPress blogs. Look good and perform better!
The author has a video explaining this visually at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIk27tCpUEw You can also find more on smart blogging at his blog here.
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