Aug
26
Fantastic WordPress Plugins
Filed Under WordPress
WordPress is not only great blogging software but it can also be used as content management software (CMS) for web site management. What makes WordPress particularly powerful are the enormous amounts of plugins available to extend its funtionality. Listed here are some fantastic WordPress plugins that are essential for most web sites.
- Google Sitemaps
Without a Google compliant sitemap, your web site can be lost to the indexing power of Google. Help Google help you with a sitemap (if you haven’t already, you should be signed up with Google’s Webmaster services as well). Created by Arne Brachhold, this plugin will create a Google compliant sitemap and ping Google for you. - Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam
Part of the benefit of using any blogging software is the ability to solicit comments from visitors. If you don’t want to have to slog through spambot comments, download and install this plugin by Peter Keung which uses image verification to stump spammers. - WordPress Mobile Edition
Don’t leave visitors from mobile devices squinting at your garbled web page on their handheld. This nifty plugin developed by Alex King automatically detects a variety of handheld browsers to reformat your site into an easy to read format. - WP-SNAP!
If any part of your site needs to be organization in an easy to navigate alphabetical fashion then this plugin from Nathan Olsen is the ticket. - Event Calendar
Offer your visitors a calendar of events related to your web site. Visitors can see upcoming events or browse via a calendar. Plugin developed by Alex Tingle. - Boakes MostWanted
Show off your most popular pages with this plugin from Rich Boakes using StatTraq (a plugin you will need to install first). - IMM-Glossary
If you have a jargon-rich web site, then you will need to offer your visitors a glossary. This plugin automatically hyperlinks predefined words and offers up the definitions from a choice of three formats.
Read More
Fixing the URL file access disabled error Free Computer Wallpaper Microfiber Mop Customizing Individual Categories and Posts Related Posts Plugin for WordPress
Comments
Leave a Reply