Expertos en WordPress

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Keyword Insertion Plugin for WordPress

Dynamically Insert Keywords from Google, Yahoo and Bing Directly Into WordPress Pages or Posts. Works Great for PPC Landing Pages, Affiliate Links, Sales Letters and More!

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Building Websites with WordPress

How-to eBook on Building Websites using WordPress fast, easy and cheap

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WordPress Wiz EBook Guide

My WordPress eBook guides readers through the steps of setting up and maintaining a WordPress site using instructions written for newbies and pros alike. Attractive sales page and 60% commission payouts.

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Testimonials Plugin for WordPress

Easily Manage, Create, Edit, Delete Testimonials directly from your WordPress Dashboard. Simple to Use interface blends fluidly with the WordPress design.

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WordPress Quick Cloner

Simplest, easiest way to copy WordPress site to new domain in less than 15 minutes. Anyone can do it without need special knowledge. Affiliate can earn 75% commission on each unit sold.

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WordPress Salesletter Websites Creator

This unique software is a WordPress Theme that users can create professional salesletters (Dan Kennedy, Michel Fortin, Yanik Silver style) as well as it has the option to expand their site to add a blog, contact us page, affiliate pages and hundreds more.

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PLR WordPress Video Tutorials

Private Label Rights to 24 WordPress Video Tutorials. Learn WordPress Quickly and Easily.Our step-by-step WordPress video tutorials make it easy to set-up, manage and market a blog or full-featured website with WordPress. Put these Videos on your site.

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Wordpress How To Video Course

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Gana el 50% por cada venta - Todos hablan sobre Wordpress y este curso muestra como usar Wordpress para hacer negocios en Internet o simplemente para crear un Sitio Web propio.

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The Ultimate WordPress Guide. Grow Your List With WordPress

Free WordPress Guide. Oto: 164 page ebook with step by step instructions and over 200 snapshots. Learn how to create a profitable WordPress blog that will build your list and make you money. http://mywpblogguide.com/affiliates.ag.php

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WordPress User Manual Plugin

A comprehensive video and online manual WordPress plugin that developers can give to their clients. It has over 30 high quality video tutorials. An Online manual with over 100 pages. It automatically updates with each new version of WordPress.

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Eazy Theme - Premium WordPress Theme

Earn 75% on a great selling premium WordPress theme.

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Wordpress Easy Ads

Wordpress Easy Ads makes monetizing your Wordpress an absolute breeze. Pays 50%. Sign up at http://www.wpeasyads.com/affiliates.php Insert Adsense, CB, Cpa, Aweber and More into any Blog post or page Instantly.

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WordPress Stallion SEO Ad Theme

The best WordPress SEO Ad theme on the market. There is no better WordPress SEO theme Gauranteed. Built in ad networks include AdSense, CB, Chitika, Kontera and Infolinks plus custom ads.

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Ganancias WordPress

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Premium Theme for Wordpress

New Sales Copy! Wordpress theme exclusive to CB. Converts well. 65% Commission, 0% return rate. Redesigned sales page, conversion are up for paid traffic. Would love to see an affiliate promote this.

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Wordpress Plugin - Category Ads

http://categoryads.net - Show different ads for each different category of your wordpress site. Easy to use wordpress plugin.

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WordPress Sales Theme

Create high converting sales, landing and squeeze pages using WordPress in seconds. This is extremely powerful template using full power of WordPress 3.0

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Addazon Amazon WordPress Plugin

The easiest way to monetize your WordPress blog with Amazon products.

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Learn WordPress Quickly with Video Tutorials

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Recommended WordPress Plugins You Can't Live Without

One of my favorite things about blogging using WordPress is the unlimited ways you can customize your blog. This customization can be accomplished from the countless number of plugins you can install on your blog. However, it can be a daunting task to go through all of these plugins and figure out which ones you REALLY need. That is why I wanted to create this post and show you EXACTLY which plugins you will need.

If you are an active blogger and use this as part of your social media strategy these recommended WordPress plugins can be especially helpful. If you are unaware of how to install a new plugin the process is rather simple. Go to the navigation on the left side of your WordPress dashboard and click "Add New" under the Plugins section. Type in the plugin name that I recommend and then locate it in the search results. Once you find the plugin click install, activate the plugin and you will be good to go.

If you want to get the most out of your WordPress blog then you MUST install all of these plugins...

1. Akismet - This plugin checks all of your comments for spam.

2. All-In-One SEO Pack - This nifty little plugin enhances your search engine optimization (SEO) capabilities, allowing your blog to rank higher in the search engines.

3. Comment Luv - This plugin helps to drive more traffic back to the commentor's website. This increases the interaction on your blog amongst your active readers and new visitors.

4. Facebook Share - Relatively new plugin that allows your readers to share your blog post on Facebook.

5. Google Analytics For WordPress - Essential plugin used to track all of the activity on your blog. With Google Analytics you can view the amount of traffic that comes to your website, sources of traffic, time spent on each page and a number of other useful metrics.

6. Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin is used to generate an XML sitemap of your blog which in turn makes it easier for search engines to index your blog and blog content.

7. Onlywire - This is one of my favorite sharing plugins. Onlywires allows you and your visitors to share your blog content to up to 33 different social bookmarking websites all at once. This increase backlinks to your blog and the relevancy of your content to the search engines.

8. Optimal Title - Makes your content titles more easy viewed and scanned by search engines.

9. Popularity Contest - This helps to rank your posts by popularity. In general this can elicit a positive response from your blog readers and get them to read your more popular posts.

10. Simple Tags - Plugin used to manage all of your blog tags (keywords). This plugin also helps to have your tags get recognized by search engines more quickly.

11. Smart Update Pinger - Plugin that is used to control the amount of pings your blog sends out. It pings only when you publish a new post, not when editing.

12. Subscribe To Comments - This plugin allows readers to be notified when new comments are added to a post entry. This increase the interaction among readers and new visitors.

13. Tweetmeme ReTweet Button - Very cool plugin that allows you and other readers to tweet the post to Twitter. This increases the likelihood that more people will be able to view your blog post.

14. WP Related Posts - Generates a list of related posts for your readers. This increases the amount of time a specific visitor can spend on your blog. The more posts read the better!

15. WP Super Cache - The more plugins and content you have on your blog the slower it will load. This plugin takes care of that problem and allows your blog to load faster for your visitors.

Joey Fratantoni's recommended WordPress plugins are crucial for your blogging success. Check out Joey's blog for more great tips and resources for blogging, online marketing and home business development.

Top WordPress Plugins to Install Right Now

Given the huge variety of plugins available for WordPress I thought it would make sense to discuss my top WordPress plugins which I believe you should install right away. A plug-in is, simply put, a small software add-on with a specific functionality which will make building your site much easier and, not unimportant, optimize your money-making opportunities as well (often free of charge). Here are some my key picks:

* Easy Privacy Policy - In case you want to benefit from Google AdSense and make money, one of the requirements is having a Privacy Policy page. This plug-in will automatically create one for you!

* Google XML Sitemap - This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. A must have plugin in my view!

* All in one SEO Pack - Optimizes your blog/site for search engines, hence will increase the chances of getting good traffic to your site. Another must have plugin!

* Cbnet Ping Optimizer - This one will prevent your site from becoming marked as a ping spammer by the likes of Google. Every time you edit a post/page and hit the "save" button WordPress will normally send out an unnecessary ping to the search engines. This will plug will prevent that from happening.

* WordPress DB Backup - Makes it easy to make a back-up of your WordPress site. Highly recommended to have in your plugin collection!

* Microkid's Related Posts - Enables you to manually select related posts to your posts to increase the chance your readers stay on your site and check out some of your other content.

* Kontera ContentLink - This plugin will automate your Kontera links across your blog and will make you money (don't forget to put in your Kontera Publishing ID in the settings!)

* Amazon Reloaded for WordPress - A great plugin if you are planning to promote Amazon products on your site through their affiliate program. You can browse Amazon products in WordPress and directly create affiliate text links and images for your site.

* Under Construction - A nice and simple plugin that will enable you to show an under construction" sign on your domain when you are still in the process of building your site.

* Sociable - Adds icons at the bottom of your posts through which your readers can share your post through social media like Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, e-mail, Twitter, RSS, and dozens more.

* Akismet - Deals with spam comments and acts like a filter. Really recommended if you have comment boxes, something you should have to promote interaction with your audience. This Plugin comes automatically with the latest WordPress versions.

* Recent Comments - This plugin enables you to show the most recent comments on your site in the sidebars. In my view a good way to promote interaction with your readers while also showing your blog is alive and kicking!

* SEO Friendly Images - this is another plugin for search engines optimization, automatically updating all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.

* Blog Copyright - Blog Copyright injects a copyright notice into the blog footer. The copyright notice automatically updates the year range as time goes on removing the need to ever revisit your copyright once the plugin is put in place.

* Subscribe to Comments Reloaded - This is a good plugin that enables people leaving comments to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your readers can use to unsubscribe to certain posts or suspend all notifications.

* Broken Link Checker - The plugin monitors your blog looking for broken links in posts, pages, comments etc, making sure everything works like it should be so your site works as it supposed to be.

* Popularity Contest - Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. Other Widgets exist to also display the ranking in your sidebar (like Popularity List Widget).

* WP-Email - WP-Email allows people to recommend/send your posts/pages to a friend, colleague, etc. Great plugin to let other people promote your site and its content.

* WordPress Firewall 2 - Keeps those hackers out of your WordPress blog/site so make sure this one is installed before you have to regret it.

To add any of these plug-ins, just go into WordPress, go to the Plugins section and press "add", look for the plugin and simply install!

These top WordPress plugins will optimize your site and make it easier for you to make some money with it as well. Let me know what you think, if I missed any good plugins in your opinion or if you disagree with my choice of top plugins.

Jeroen owns a blog on how to make money online, discussing topics including how to set up your own site, how to generate content, how to get traffic, and how to make money with your site through advertising and affiliate marketing. check out: http://www.howtomakemoney-from-home.com

WordPress Plugins - The Top 5 Most Useful

I know there are many different articles out there that cover WordPress plugins but I felt the need to create one based on my own experiences. I have compiled a list of the top 5 most useful WordPress plugins that I actively use on my sites.

W3 Total Cache

This plugin is the heavyweight in WordPress Caching plugins and is being used on the high traffic blog Mashable.com. W3 Total Cache provides the most options of any caching plugin that I have ever used. If you don't know what caching is let me explain that briefly first. Caching on a WordPress blog or any blog can be very important due to limited server resources or days of higher than normal traffic. Caching plugins will create static versions of your dynamic pages on your site so they can be served much quicker to visitors with less load on the server than dynamic pages.

W3 Total Cache also provides more functionality than just caching your content. It can also provide you with Database Query Caching, Minify your code, CDN, and Browser Cache. I want to talk more about the CDN or (Content Delivery Network) this feature allows you to use an already in place CDN like Amazon or create your own. You can actually create a self-hosted CDN network within your own server or on another server that you own via FTP. Why would you want to create a CDN on your site, because it will dramatically improve load time on the site or appear to when your users visit. A CDN allows a browser to load more objects and images in parallel than without.

Overall, if you haven't tried W3 Total Cache on your blog you are missing out, go ahead and give it a try.

Sharebar

The Sharebar creates a Mashable-like (looks just like the one found on Mashable.com) social media sharing plugin that follows along side your posts when scrolling. The plugin is completely customizable which gives you the freedom to ad any kind of button that you like. The plugin also allows you to change the background color, width, and positioning to better fit the design of your site. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Visitor Maps and Who's Online

The Visitors Maps and Who's Online plugin is a traffic statistics plugin for your WordPress installation. This plugin allows you to track which users are on your site at any given time, where they are from in the world, and much more.

The Who's online page that comes with the plugin displays information about every user that enters the site. It will display their IP address, location, browser type, whether they are a robot or person, what page they are on, and the last time they clicked something on the site. This information can be quite useful to determine what post or posts are popular on the site at any given time. It can also help you determine how many people are on the site at any given time of the day especially if one of your articles becomes quite popular.

WordPress.com Stats

The plugin WordPress.com Stats is also a traffic statistics plugin for your WordPress blog. The plugin provides you with a comprehensive look into your traffic data. With the plugin you get a nice graph that sorts your data into Days, Weeks, or Months. There is also a page that displays where your hits are coming from called Referrers, and Top posts and pages, search engine terms, and even clicks on your content. This plugin is a must have for any WordPress blog, if you use it now let me know what your experiences with the plugin are.

Lightbox 2

I don't have much to say about Lightbox 2 except for the fact that this plugin looks great! Like any other Lightbox plugin this one also allows users to click on your images which will then pop up and enlarge. Lightbox 2 however has a much easier to use GUI for the end user in my opinion than other Lightbox plugins.

If you use any of the WordPress plugins I have listed above leave a comment about your experience with any and I will try to help you if I can. If you haven't used them, feel free to leave questions.

Matt Jurek is the writer and owner of TekGoblin.com which is a Technology News and Review site. The entire original article can be read at the original site with pictures.

9 Great WordPress Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

WordPress itself is a great platform to run your own blogs but WordPress plugins make it a lot easier to control spam comments, SEO, check for broken links, place revenue generating ads and to back up your WordPress database to name a few. Without these plugins you would require technical expertise way beyond the average blogger, not to mention the time plugins save in doing things like creating a "Contact Us" page and sorting out all those spam blog comments.

Here are the 9 plugins that I now use on all my blogs.

Akismet is a popular plugin that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You can review the spam it catches under "Comments." Without such a plugin your blog could easily become full of undesirable comments that you certainly do not want your readers to read.

All in One SEO Pack is Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. You can use this plugin to tweak the default options for title, description, keywords and duplicate content.

Broken Link Checker checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. There is nothing worse getting traffic to your blog and then sending them to a web page that no longer exists. Without this plugin it would takes quite some time to regularly check all the links on all your blog posts and pages.

Google AdSense, Chitika and Kontera plugins allow you to monetize your blog and make an income from an information blog.

Contact Form 7 allows you to create a "Contact Us" page with a form people can fill in for further information or questions about your products.

Google XML Site maps plugin will generate a special XML site map which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. Another time saving plugin.

Pretty Link will shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. No more ugly affiliate links that you have to hide under hyper-linked text.

StatPress gives real time stats for your WordPress blog. This is my preference for displaying my blog stats.

WP-DBManager manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of the database. This is probably one of the most overlooked plugins for WordPress as a backup is only needed when your blog has been hacked or has failed due to technical issues. Relying on your hosting account for backups may not be a good as you think because blogs need to be backed up regularly as they are constantly changing with new posts being added regularly.

These are only a few of the many plugins available to use on your blogs. You need to consider the nature of your blog,the niche you are blogging in and other things like are you using you WordPress blog as a blog, a sales page or just a website?

You must also be aware that some plugins for WordPress can conflict with one another and cause problems with your blog. From my experience I have had I am yet to have a problem using the above combination of plugins but one must remember that plugins are always being updated and conflicts may arise with future updates.

For more information about WordPress plugins check out my blog at http://www.kerriesheehan.com. If you are looking for more information about making money blogging check out http://www.kerriesheehan.com

How to Install WordPress Plugins With Your cPanel

Most plugins only require the easy install. However if you have bought a plugin or if you have a special plugin you will need to install it via your cPanel. This is the "back office" as set up by your web-host, like Blue Host or Host Gator, and where you probably installed WordPress.

Have you downloaded your WordPress plugin?

First you need to download your WordPress plugin. If you have bought it, they should have sent you a download link. If the plugin is part of a membership site, they have it on their site somewhere.

Has the plugin passed qualifications?

Make certain it is a quality plugin that is not going to cause problems. It could cause problems with WordPress, for your readers or otherwise. Thus you want to check any plugin against a qualification list.

Do you know what your cPanel is?

Once it passes, you will need to log in to your cPanel. When you signed up with your webhost, you should have been given a special page or site on your webhost where you log in. The cPanel is basically your back office, and gives you the site owner access to a variety of different tools.

Where is the File Manager?

Towards the bottom you should see a box that says something like Software and services. Look for "File Manager," this will allow you to upload the plugin with relative ease. Once in the File Manager, make certain you are in public_html.

How do I find my WordPress site?

Next you will need to search for the name of your blog. You may or may not see ".com" or anything after the name. If your blog is a sub/directory under a name like example.com/blog/ you will need to click plus sign for "example" then plus sign for "blog."

Where will I upload this WordPress Plugin?

Now click plus sign for the file called "wp-content" Click the file "PlugIns" in that file will be some pre-installed plugins. Go toward the top. Click Upload, browse and upload in the new window.

Is my WordPress plugin installed now?

Go back to your "File Manager" page. You may need to refresh, then you should see your plugin name with a box beside it. Click the name to highlight it. Then look for "Extract" a box icon. You should see a blue file with the name of your plugin. Log out of your cPanel. Now when you log in to your WordPress account you should be able to find your plugin and activate it.

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The 32 Essential WordPress Plugins Every Blogger Must Have

If there is one thing that bloggers can't resist, it's reading about the essential WordPress plugins that other bloggers use!

It's almost like if you're a professional chef and someone shares a killer recipe... you can't just not look, right? Or a woman sharing a tidbit of juicy gossip; it's impossible for other ladies to ignore.

It's taken me the past 10 months of actively trying to improve my blog to come up with this list. This isn't just some list that I Googled and haphazardly through together; this is every single active plugin that I have on my blog right now.

Enjoy my list of essential WordPress plugins!

Akismet

One of the most basic plugins for any WordPress user. If you're not using this, you'll be sifting through thousands upon thousands of unwanted spam comments. This plugin takes out the garbage so you never have to see it!

All In One SEO Pack

Does all the crazy annoying SEO junk for you. Gives you a simple form to fill out with each post (title, description, tags) and then automatically optimizes it for you. I love this one because my descriptions show up on Google the way I want (and they rank FAST).

Broken Links Remover

This one can be a lifesaver. On blogs with dozens or even hundreds of posts, it's a tall task to click on every link and make sure they're still going where they should. This plugin gives you a list of every single link on your site that's not going anywhere. Another must-have!

Cbnet Ping Optimizer

So, every single time you update your blog, it automatically sends a "ping" (basically an update) to the search engines. This lets them know to send back their "bots" and index the new content.

But, if you're updating a lot, your site is sending out a lot of "pings", and the search engines might think you're just spamming them to get your site indexed. This plugin helps to optimize your pings and make you appear less "spammy".

CommentLuv

Very cool plugin that promotes a more social, interactive atmosphere! Basically, when someone leaves a comment, they also leave their website URL. This plugin goes to their website and automatically picks up their last blog post and shows it in the comment they just left. People are much more likely to leave comments if they're getting love back to their own blog.

Comment Redirect

When someone leaves a comment, they're automatically taken to a page of your choice. You can take them to a thank you page, or (if you're bold) straight to a capture page... it only does this for the very first comment they leave so it's not annoying.

Digg Digg

Puts all those cool little share buttons at the top of each post. Gives you a list of several social media sites and you pick which ones you want to show up. Also displays how many times your post has been shared, so your readers can see some proof that you are indeed popular.

Edit Comments

Have you ever written something stupid, and then realized you couldn't edit it? And it's on the internet for everyone to see? This simple plugin lets readers edit their comments for up to 30 minutes.

Exclude Pages From Navigation

For when you want to include a "secret" page within your blog that you don't want the general public to see! You can create a page that is only accessible with a direct URL; it doesn't show up as a post, tab, or even in your sites navigation. Perfect for exclusive content you only want to share with certain people.

Fast Secure Contact Form

Not only an easy way for readers to send you a message straight to your email inbox, but gets rid of the spam robots from leaving you messages as well.

Favicons

It puts a little image in the tab in your browser. It gives your site a little more personality, and a little more recognizable as well. Plus, when a reader leaves a comment, it puts up a little image of them as well. I couldn't find this plugin in the back office of WordPress, so click on the title for the download page.

FD Feedburner Plugin

When a visitor wants to subscribe to your feed, this plugin redirects them to Feedburner.com. Within Feedburner, you can add pictures, allow your readers to share certain content, and customize other features. It helps your feed to stand out among others that your readers may be following.

Feed Subscriber Stats

Shows on your dashboard how many people are subscribed to your feed through Feedburner.

Google XML Sitemaps

This is another SEO plugin that most humans don't understand but Google and Yahoo loooove. Basically, it makes it easier for search engines to index your blog. That's always good.

Popularity Contest

Keeps track of which posts are the most popular according to your visitors' behavior. You can even change up the values to make commenting or visits more heavily "weighted" when figuring up the most popular. After you install this plugin, head over to the widgets and drag the "Popularity Contest" widget wherever you want it.

PopUp Domination

My favorite and one of the most essential WordPress plugins that I use! It creates that awesome looking pop-up opt in form that comes up on my blog. It allows for very easy customization, and even allows you to decide exactly how often it pops up for each visitor. Costs $47, but well worth it to get higher opt-ins.

Pretty Link (Lite Version)

A very, very useful plugin! It lets you cloak links and then tracks how many clicks have been made. It's not a super-detailed tracking system, but it's free! It's useful if you have some long, ugly affiliate link that you want to track as well. Your links are your domain, followed by whatever ending you want to put in. For example, mine look like who-is-erin-smith.com/FP or whatever else at the end. Pretty nifty (plus people are more likely to click on it if the link looks like a blog.)

Related Posts Thumbnails

This one is great for keeping visitors on your log much longer. At the end of each post, pictures and descriptions for six other related posts are displayed. I've had many comments from readers that they couldn't leave my blog because they kept clicking on those thumbnails and jumping to other posts.

ReplyMe

When someone leaves a comment, they have an option to be notified of follow-up comments. Normally, this means they will be notified of every single comment that comes after theirs. But, with this plugin, they are only notified if someone replies to their specific comment. Helps keep your visitors from receiving a bunch of unwanted mail, and only receiving one or two useful messages when they get a reply.

Robots Meta

Another boring SEO plugin... It just cleans up unnecessary junk.

SEO Friendly Images

Zzzzzzzzz... more SEO. Helps your images get found by search engines (like in Google Image Search)

SEOPressor Unlimited

Another SEO plugin... but NOT boring! Probably the most essential plugin I have because it makes all the "on site" SEO stuff super duper easy. It makes a list of all the things you should do inside your post to make it rank (like certain tags, keyword density, no follow links, etc) and gives you a percentage out of 100. This one costs $37 for one domain, or $97 for unlimited domains... has been worth every penny for how many posts I've had rank on Google.

SEO Slugs

BORING! (but darn useful) Cleans up the URL for individual posts (takes out words like "a" "and" "an") so the search engines like it better.

SexyBookmarks (by Shareaholic)

Comes up with a bajillion different share links to social media and social bookmarking sites. They show up at the bottom of each post and they look snazzy.

Thank Me Later

This plugin automatically sends out a Thank You email to everyone who leaves a comment. It allows for some variation on the message. Overall, great for reader satisfaction and keeps them coming back!

Top Level Categories

More SEO junk. It takes the category out of the post URL's. It makes it look cleaner, plus it focuses more on the keyword in the post URL.

WordPress EZ Backup

ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL WordPress PLUGIN!! Sorry for the all caps... but one of the worst days I had last year was when I went to my blog and all that was there was the shell. All my posts, pics, videos, EVERYTHING was gone. Helps you recover a disappeared blog in no time flat. Helps keep blood pressure down, too.

WordPress Thread Comment

Allows you to reply to a single comment. When you find a specific comment you want to reply to, your reply will show up in the same box as the original comment. Basically, it makes it obvious who you're talking to.

WP Frame Breaker

Have you ever clicked through from a 3rd party site to a blog, and the 3rd party site's header takes up half the page? Well, you don't want that happening to you. This plugin gets rid of the frames that referring sites sometimes put on your blog when sending visitors through.

WP Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a tracking resource that keeps track of everything you want to know about your visitors: where they come from, what posts they enter and exit on, how many unique visitors, and a million other things. This plugin makes it easy to incorporate Google Analytics on to your blog.

WP Greet Box

Another "reader satisfaction" plugin that basically greets every visitor who shows up. It puts up a different message depending on where your visitor came from. If they found your site on Google, a message pops up saying something like "Welcome Googler..." You can edit these messages.

WP Super Cache

Makes your blog super duper fast! Not only is it less of a pain for your visitors, but it also helps your blog rank better.

Whew! I know that's a lot of plugins! Like I said above, this list of plugins is taken directly from my back office and I use every single one of these. If you use all of these, I guarantee you'll be able to get more opt-ins, get your readers to stay longer on your blog, have more repeat visitors, and have more posts indexed by Google. Sound good?

Hope my list of essential WordPress plugins helps!

Erin wrote this article about the Essential WordPress Plugins to help the internet marketer know how to create a profitable, lead-generating blog. Erin has helped hundreds of people generate leads for their business. If you want to learn how to generate 30+ leads a day for free, visit Erin Smith's MLM Secrets.

Improved WordPress Experience With Premium Wordpress Plugins

WordPress has offered people from across the world with an easy, cost-free, and open-source blogging platform since 2003. Considered the best and most popular blogging tool at recent times, WordPress has also provided opportunities for developers to create premium WordPress plugins designed to address the needs of millions of WordPress users.

What are plugins? WordPress plugins are simply defined as prepackaged codes that can enhance the features and functionality of a website or blog. Various plugins offer a wide range of advantages for WordPress users. For one, plugins can help optimize a WordPress blog so that it gets a high ranking in search engines. Second, plugins can monitor site statistics such as page views and visitors. Third, plugins prevent comment spam from flooding a blogger's WordPress account. Other useful WordPress plugin features include photo galleries, advertisement manager, and social bookmarking. WordPress plugins make it easy for bloggers to add functionality to their blogs without the need for tedious and complicated coding. With the many benefits a blogger can get from free WordPress plugins, it is no wonder that developers take them a notch higher-that is, they develop various premium WordPress plugins to suit different blogging needs.

Although premium WordPress plugins has not yet fully taken over the prominence of free plugins, the former's importance cannot be underestimated. Compared to free plugins, premium plugins give more assurance that they are appropriately supported, updated, and improved.

In fact, there are a number of premium plugins considered by many as the best there are on the market. Most of these good premium plugins have useful features for search engine optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, and advertising purposes. Premium-designed WordPress plugins for SEO provides users with full control over their blogs from the WordPress dashboard. For affiliate marketing purposes, some premium plugins enable the blogger to manage his or her affiliate links using the WordPress dashboard. In addition, affiliate-oriented premium plugins make it easy for bloggers to put advertisements into their blogs. On the other hand, plugins that are made for advertising help users manage the advertisements on their blogs by automating paid reviews, text links, banners, and collecting payments for the blog owner. Some premium plugins allow bloggers to create a number of full-featured review websites.

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Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins That Make Your Blog Badass

What is the best wordpress plugin? If you guys are brand new to the idea of blogging, a wordpress plugin is simply just an add-on that you can put into your blog. There are all sorts of various plugins at your disposal. But only a really handful of wordpress plugins are actually USEFUL to converting more of your readers into buyers, email opt-ins or loyal readers.

So what are they?

Let us get into the thick of it as they say... Now these are not just fluff stuff that will slow your blog down. These are actually the #1 things that can grow traffic to your blog and make your blog 200-500% better than where it currently sits if you're flying-solo without any at all.

Time to dive in!

Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins

1.  Facebook Share

This was the original facebook share button. A lot of blogs have gone away with this blog in favor for the "like" button on the blog. I say BOTH are important. Here is why the old facebook share button makes our little best plugins list.

It allows social proof to be seen a lot quicker and more dramatically displayed. As we know, readers are more enticed if they see that a lot of people are sharing an article or a piece of content. So by having that at the top, allows us to display the number of how many times we have been shared on facebook. Also the "like" plugin ruins a lot of the head space in your blog. Which is why I include it at the bottom of my blog versus the top.

The FB share button is still super effective and highly recommended!

2. Tweetmeme

This plugin is pretty much exactly the same as facebook share. The only obvious difference is that it is for twitter not for facebook! I am not a HUGE fan of twitter as any of you who follow me already know. I rarely use it, though I should, but a lot our readers do use twitter and absolutely love it. So allow them to spread the love across their 140-character-long diaries.

3. Facebook Like Button

I love the Like button, I include it at the end  of every blog post. The cool thing is it will tell you everyone who liked it, and sometimes it'll be someone the reader is friends with or respects if they are heavy in your niche. Which causes them to respect you and your content even more, and make it more likely to share your stuff with the world.

4. Commentluv

Let us be honest. Majority of people reading a blog, especially in the make money niches and network marketing niches, have something they want to sell too. To reward these people for commenting on our blogs, we become a "Dofollow" blog and allow their latest blog post to appear on our own blog. This allows them to do a little bit better advertising of their content when they comment to enrich our own.

I love commentluv, cause it builds really good backlink juice, which for you SEO nuts is awesome.

I actually have people hiring and outsourcing people to come and comment on this blog. No idea how many, but I am sure the fact I have commentluv is a big reason why! (Other than my AMAZING content!)

5. All In One SEO Pack

Even though it is constantly wanting to update itself which is semi-annoying, this is an awesome plugin for SEO junkies and any real-time blogger. Because it allows you to put in all the SEO info you need at one go. Put it in and you're done.

This is a requirement if you want be successful with SEO on a blog as far as I am concerned, and really easy to use.

6. Google Analyticator

This plugin is a behind-the-scenes deal, but basically using this tool you can quick updates on traffic coming to your blog. What is even cooler is going into the back office they have and you can see exactly where everyone is coming from. Whether predominantly from facebook, or from the search engines. Of course, the biggest traffic source you want is called "Direct".

Meaning people actually just come on the internet and type in your blog into the address bar! Because those are the people who are loyal fans and like what you have to say.

Other useful information are things like understanding bounce rates, and the most frequented pages on your blog. Don't get lost in the numbers, but do understand what they are saying about your blog so you can adjust and optimize everything.

7. Google XML Sitemaps

Also a powerful SEO plugin. This automatically creates a sitemap on your blog which helps with SEO. Basically the sitemap organizes everything more neatly and makes the Google spiders and gods go through your content and index it quicker and better. (Which means higher rankings on the search engines)

8. WP Ezinearticles

I really like this, no idea how helpful it TRULY is, but I believe it is worth to have on your blog even if you're not big into article marketing. Basically what it does is creates a little box in your wordpress "Add new post" section. When you are done writing your post, you can click the "submit" button and it will automatically send your blog post to Ezinearticles as a submitted article all in the span of a few seconds.

Saves a lot of hassle if you enjoy submitting articles like me.

9. ThatMLMBeat Beat It Button

I just started using this myself, it is a plugin similar to tweetmeme only instead of twitter it shares your content on ThatMLMBeat. A website community focused on blogging specifically in the mlm/network marketing and internet marketing niches. Everytime someone clicks on it, your post will get bumped up into the top and front page of their community.

Which is pretty awesome targeted traffic for most of us in this niche! You do need a ThatMLMBeat account, but that's for free unless you want the premium. Highly recommend it.

10. SSG Google Wordpress Audio Player

I LOVE this thing. This is one of my favorite wordpress plugins, if not THE BEST wordpress plugn on this list in my opinion.

You see, I hate doing videos but I love doing audios. (You know got that hot Alaskan silky voice haha) and doing interviews. I actually have a small library of interviews with many six-figure income earners in our profession I have been waiting to whip out and never had a chance to till I found my hosting solution. See I was messing with Amazons3 and all this other crap I couldn't figure out, till my friend Brandon Connell told me about this plugin.

It hosts all of your audio on your blog for free and it will also embed an actual audio player inside your blog post instead of your reader having to open up a new window for your audio (for free). Super useful.

Advice on the Best Wordpress Plugins...

Please do not look at this as a definitive list. I love blogging, but it is a constantly changing and evolving world. There is new plugins coming out all the time. And some plugins I know of that I use that I didn't mention here (but will soon in another post) used for different purposes. These are the basics, the stuff I believe every network marketing blog if not at least blog itself should have.

The greatest piece of advice I can give you on using and finding the best wordpress plugins is network with other active bloggers. Constantly be on the search for them. Developers are always coming out with new and cool things that you can use. So keep your eyes OPEN.

That way you will ALWAYS have the best wordpress plugins on your blog, and make your audience very happy and giddy to promote you all over the internet-worlds that-be. Goodluck and good wordpress plugin hunting/installing.

See the original top 10 best wordpress plugins post on my blog over at Greginmotion.com

WordPress Plugin Development - Stop Worrying About Customer Support by Developing WP Plugins!

WordPress Plugin Development - Customize WordPress To Your Desires By Developing Your Own WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugin development takes the hassle of tech support out of software development! Once you have developed your plugin for WordPress all you or your customer has to do is upload it to the plugins folder on their web server and activate it in the WordPress dashboard.

Talk about easy installation!

What You Need To Get Started In WordPress Plugin Development


A test environment (a WordPress blog set up specifically for testing purposes).
A firm grasp of PHP.
Knowledge of how WordPress plugins work.
An idea for a great and innovative plugin.

Let's discuss the above statements one at a time shall we?

Setting Up A Plugin Development Test Environment If you have a cpanel web host chances are that you can setup a new WordPress blog in less than a minute. What you need to do is create a sub domain that you will only use for testing purposes. Then after the sub domain is all set up, assuming your web host has the Fantastico feature, you install a new blog on your new sub domain using Fantastico.

All of this shouldn't have set you back more than a couple of minutes!

Side note: If you don't have cpanel or Fantastico you just have to set up a blog on a sub domain the old fashioned way.

To Develop Plugins You Need A Firm Grasp Of PHP Well, although it is an advantage it's not entirely true. You can actually just learn PHP as you go along, but there is no doubt that you would be better off going through some basic guides on PHP first.

You Need To Know How WordPress Plugins Work Before Getting Started Again that would be a huge advantage, but it is entirely possible to learn as you go. In fact, if you're just getting into plugin development you probably don't know that much about how they work. My recommendation is that you find a simple existing plugin and try to figure out how it works. The "Hello Dolly" plugin is a great place to start.

Side note: A good way to learn is to make slight alterations to existing plugins and see what happens.

Great Plugin Ideas This is the only part I really can't help you with. If you're an "idea-man" it will come naturally, if not, you'll have to work harder.

Pretty much anything is possible. Let your imagination wander and find those golden ideas.

For more advice on web and WordPress development visit my blog at http://www.mostlyclientside.com

From Michael B Humphrey and mostlyclientside.com

Choosing the Best WordPress Plugins

If you already have a blog, chances are that you are using WordPress as your platform. If you're not, you should be. There is many reasons as to why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the Web today.

In terms of Internet marketing and getting rankings, WordPress offers the most search engine friendly blogging platform in addition to being very user-friendly. The other great thing about it is the amount of plugins which you can add to your blog.

If you are not sure what a plugin is, it basically adds new functions to a WordPress blog. A plugin is essentially a program written in the PHP programming language that adds a specific set of features or services to the WordPress blog. All you have to do to add a new feature or service to your blog is find a relevant plugin, upload it to your plugin folder and then "activate" the plugin on the dashboard. It's that simple.

That being said, there are literally thousands upon thousands of plugins out there (most of them are free) and if you are newbie, you may get tempted to add as many plugins as you can to your blog. The bottom line is that you only need a couple of them to get your blog going. In order to help you with which plugins to choose, I've chosen the top 10 WordPress plugins that you must have.

1. Akismet

Don't you just hate people leaving spam comments on your blog? I certainly do, and if you dislike such comments appearing on your blog, the Akismet plugin automatically does that for you. I don't have time to deal with spam and I hope you don't either.

2. All-In-One-SEO Pack

If you are looking for the ultimate plugin to transform your blog into an SEO optimised blog, then this is the one. It's quite simple to use and before long, you can be ranking for your keywords.

3. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

If there's one thing you don't want, it's for the blog to be banned from ping services. Every time you edit or update your blog, you automatically send a ping to let them know that your blog have been updated and that the changes will need to be indexed. However, you can get banned from ping services if you end up doing this too often. In order to avoid this from happening, you need to use the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin.

4. Remote Database Backup

Whatever you do on the Web, you need to have backups. Backing up data is one of those things that people don't take seriously until it happens to them. This plugin helps you backup your WordPress blog at any time.

5. SEO Smart Links

This cool plugin allows you to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Furthermore, you can set up your own keywords along with their own matching URLs. This is a must have plugin if you want to maximise the SEO benefit for your blog.

6. Sexy Bookmarks

This allows your readers to submit your articles to numerous bookmarking sites on the Web. This is a must-have in the current era of social media. Get your Sexy Bookmarks plugin today.

7. Frame Buster

This plugin will thwart any attempt to load your site in a frame. Optimal for getting images to rank on the search engines.

8. Google Sitemap Generator

If you want Google to index all the pages on your blog as quick as possible, then you need this plugin. It allows you to create a sitemap at a click of a mouse.

9. CommentLuv

This plugin allows your visitors to comment while adding a link to their own blog post. This will encourage them to comment and in combination with the Akismet plugin can get you genuine and informative comments on your blog.

10. WP Backlinks

This plugin allows you to track the links going back to your blog. For the purposes of SEO, you want to get as many sites out there linking back to your website, however, you want them to come from reputable and legitimate sites. The WP Backlinks plugin gives you the ability to control and verify this.

If you go ahead and add the plugins featured on this blog, you can ready to start dominating the Web with your blog. Keep in mind that it's the quality and frequency of content that you add to your blog that will determine its success. My hope is that you have found this article about the top 10 WordPress plugins on the Web very useful.

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Wordpress Plugins - Making the Most Out of Your Blog

Wordpress is a very successful piece of software that not only provides a platform to begin blogging it also has many addition features such as wordpress plugins. These wordpress plugins allow users and administrators to add additional functions to their blogs and will provide the tools to customise a blog or website to suit the theme and genre.

Anyone who is new to blogging may not be aware that they have free access to a variety of plug-in so it is worth having a look to see just what is on offer to you, you may just install that vital wordpress plugin that sends your blog to the top.

Wordpress plugins are located in the admin area of your blog, you will need to log into your wordpress blog to be able to access them and once you have done so you will see a tab labelled 'plugins' when you click on the tab you will be taken to a list of wordpress plugins that are waiting to be activated. You will also be given a description of that the plugin does and what version of wordpress you will need to be running for it to work. Once you have decided which plugin you want to activate simply click activate and your done!

You can also visit the wordpress website and download a heap of new and updated plugins directly from there. You will also be able to see which plugins are downloaded most often as well as read more information on each individual wordpress plugin.

Some of the most popular wordpress plugins available to download right now are Akismet, All in one SEO pack, cformsII, WP Super Cache, Google XML sitemaps and Wordpress Stats.

Google XML sitemaps is recommended as it creates compliant XML sitemaps of your wordpress blog. The plugin supports all of the wordpress generated pages so every time you create or edit a post the sitemap is updated and google and all other major search engines such as ASK and MSN are informed of any changes.

The plugin is simple to install, you simply upload the full directory to your wp-content/plugins directory using ftp. You will need to make sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz writable via CHMOD 666. You then activate the plugin from inside your blog (located under options) and begin to build a sitemap. You will not have to continuously rebuild the sitemap every time a change or update is made because this is all automatic.

Wordpress plugins make search engine optimisation a lot easier, It seems that search engines are quite fond of blogs as they are constantly being updated. You can make the search engines take more notice of your blogs by installing the relevant plugins.

Allen Jesson can provide you will detailed information about wordpress plugins, plus free access to Fruity Plugins, a wordpress plugin that gives you sticky zest & Link Love for your wordpress blog.

WordPress Plugins - Finding the Best Plugin For You

WordPress first appeared in 2003 as is now used on thousands of websites. It is a simple open source blogging tool which is offered in two ways, either the hosted option or the free software download option.

WordPress offers many additional features which are otherwise know as WordPress plugins. These WordPress plugins allow you to customise your blog to suit both the audience and the genre of your website.

There are so many WordPress plugins to choose from, if you are new to blogging you may not know which ones will work best for you. Here is a list and explanation on just some of the most popular WordPress plugins available.

Top WordPress Plugins:

o All in one SEO pack - this WordPress plug in helps optimize your titles for search engines as well as generating automatic META tags. It gives you the opportunity to override titles and set any META keywords and description you want. Depending on the version of WordPress you are currently using ie 2.3 you can simply install this WordPress plugin and it will work straight away.

o Akismet - this is a fantastic tool which helps sort out the clutter of spam. Once installed, this WordPress plugin will check all of your comments against the Akismet web service to analyze if they look like spam or something genuine, it then allows you to review what has been found in the 'comments' section of your WordPress blog so that you can decide if you want to delete it or not.

o WordPress Stats - although there are many ways to capture data and stats regarding your website, most offer too much information especially if you are new to blogging. The WordPress stats system has been specially designed to focus on the most popular information a blogger needs.

o Twitter Tools - this plugin integrates your Twitter account with your WordPress blog. Twitter is a free micro-blogging and social networking service.

o Get Recent Comments - This plugin gives you full control over the appearance of excerpts of comments that are shown in your sidebar. You can determine the order, the number of excerpts and the length.

o DMSGuestbook - This guestbook can be easily customized allowing you to change not only the color but allows you to set mandatory fields where a user must fill out certain information. You can fully manage the user entries and edit/remove posts before they are shown.

o All In One Video Pack - This WordPress plugin offers every functionality you need for video and rich-media. It allows you to record/upload and import videos straight to your chosen post.

Each WordPress plugin has its own unique advantages and can really help to turn your blog into something user friendly. With so many plugins to choose from it is worth spending a bit of time searching through what is on offer and selecting the plugins that will benefit both you, your site and your readers.

New additions are constantly being added and developed so be sure to keep checking so that you do not miss out on something that could be of benefit.

Allen Jesson can provide you will detailed information about Wordpress plugins, plus free access to Fruity Plugins, a Wordpress plugin that gives you sticky zest & Link Love for your Wordpress blog.

Free WordPress Plugins

WordPress is one of the most used software applications today. It has become an essential part of any blog site. This wide popularity is attributed to many unique features depending on the WordPress plugin that you use. Nowadays, blogs serves many purposes. People primarily use their WordPress blog site to promote their products and services and thereby improve their sales. There are a lot of free WordPress plugins available which will incorporate various extra features to your WordPress blog site.

The plugins are programming codes that are written to enhance the features of the existing WordPress. Such plugins will not alter the basic WordPress program but modifies them with a view to incorporate additional features to it. Today, there are over 200 million WordPress users worldwide. It is difficult to catch up with each of these users and design plugins to satisfy their personalized needs. But, the number of plugin developers have also seen a gigantic increase and therefore resulted in the release of more and more unique codes which are targeted at a wider range of audience.

These plugins enhance the functionality of the WordPress. They can be customized according to the requirement of the user. There are plugins available which are designed to optimize the searches conducted by the blog. This can be a powerful marketing tool. Also, there are shopping cart plugins which can transform a standard blog website into a fully fledged online shopping site. There are also WordPress plugins aimed at reducing the number of spammers affecting your blog. Other applications include photo and video gallery, managing advertisements etc.

Some bloggers specifically employ WordPress plugins for affiliate marketing. Their affiliate marketing link can be directly posted on the WordPress dashboard thereby ensuring easy visibility to visitors and potential customers. They also provide the option for bloggers to post advertisements in the dashboard. Therefore the application of WordPress plugins has proliferated in online marketing and affiliate marketing.

The various free WordPress plugins available has definitely changed the total outlook of bloggers. They have improved the quality and functionality of such blog sites. Since the number of free WordPress plugins developers has increased abundantly, a blogger might find it difficult to select a good one. Certain things should be kept in mind before selecting your free plugin. One can always make use of the trial version before actually installing it. Proper research and innovation can yield very productive results.

Proper research and innovation can yield very productive results from these free plugins Free WordPress plugins

Wordpress Plugins

Maybe you always wanted a feature that hasn't been available in the latest release of Wordpress. What you can do is either install a 3rd party plugin or write your own custom code to extend the features of Wordpress.

Wordpress plugins are programming code that enhance the features of a standard

installation of Wordpress. A well written plugin will be basically "drag and drop"

without modifying the core code of Wordpress. As Wordpress has been designed in

a modular way, plugins allow you to customize your site to your specific needs

without modifying the core of Wordpress.

Ever since Wordress version 1.2 plugins have been available. Wordpress plugins can

be categorized according to the feature it provides. Here a list of various features

that you can implement for your web site through Wordpress plugins.

Administration: Install Wordpress plugins to customize features like Admin Tools,

Anti-spam, Comments, Meta, Restriction, Statistics, Syntax Highlighting,

Syndication, Tweaking, etc.

Design, Layout and Styles: Change the look and feel of your blog by implementing

plugins that modify Archive, Calendar - Event, Navigation, Randomness, Styles.

Graphics, Video, and Sound: Add plugins that create Audio - Mood and Images for

your blog.

Posts: Implement plugins for Editing Posts, Formatting Posts, and other

Miscellaneous Post related issues.

Links: Setup Wordpress plugins that change the default behavior of linking.

Miscellaneous: You can install miscellaneous plugins that shows weather

information or other outside information from external websites.

Installing a plugin for Wordpress is not difficult. Here are the list of steps that you

need to take to install most plugins. Some plugins may require additional steps.

1. Upload your plugin to the wp-content/plugins folder

2. Go to your Wordpress site using a browser and login

3. Click on the Plugins link from the main menu at top

4. Scroll down the list of available plugins to find the plugin you just uploaded

5. Click "Activate" to make your plugin active

Wordpress Plugin Sites

We found the following sites with a comprehensive list of Wordpress Plugins:

Wordpress Wiki - Plugins: http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Plugin

WordPress Plugin Repository: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/

WP-Plugins Download Interface: http://redalt.com/external/plugins.php

Wordpress Plugin Database: http://www.wp-plugins.net/

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WordPress Plugins - Do They Enhance Your WordPress Blog?

WordPress is a great platform for very simple blogs but in order to give them a more professional look and to make them function more efficiently themes and plugins are essential.

Basically a theme is what makes your blog look the way it does whereas plugins take care of a lot of the functions behind the theme. Think of the theme as being the outside look of your car, WordPress itself as the engine with the plugins being the things such as the lights, indicators, warning lights etc that are good to have but not essential to run the engine of the car. I am no mechanic but you get the idea.

What are WordPress plugins?

I guess the simplest explanation is that they are a bit of code that make things easier to do or allows you to do things that without the particular plugin are very difficult to do and beyond the capabilities of anyone other than a person with a technical knowledge of WordPress.

Why use WordPress plugins?

They allow you do to do things with WordPress that without them would be either time consuming and may also require technical expertise in WordPress beyond that of the majority of WordPress users.

What are some examples of WordPress plugins?

Akismet is a popular plugin that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You can review the spam it catches under "Comments." Without such a plugin your blog could easily become full of undesirable comments that you certainly do not want your readers to read.

All in One SEO Pack is Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. You can use this plugin to tweak the default options for title, description, keywords and duplicate content.

Google AdSense, Chitika and Kontera plugins allow you to monetarize your blog and make an income from an information only blog.

Contact Form 7 allows you to create a "Contact Us" page with a form people can fill in for further information or questions about your products.

These are only a few of the many plugins you can use on your blog and it all depends on what you want your blog to do as to what plugins you need to install to make it work more efficiently and save you extra time in maintaining your blog.

So from the above you can see that plugins do enhance your WordPress blog. For more information on WordPress check out my blog at http://www.kerriesheehan.com. If you are looking for more information about making money blogging check out the Simple Cash Blog at http://simplecashblog.keries.com/

Blogosphere News - WordPress Plugins - What Plugins Are All About and How They Can Make You Money

Blogging is the latest trend to hit the internet. Everyone I know has a blog. Some people make new entries everyday, some people made one entry and forgot all about it, other bloggers blog to update friend and family on their lives. Most people blog to build a brand and make money.

There are three main blogging platforms. They are:

1. Blogger

2. Typepad

3. WordPress

WordPress is by far the MOST popular blogging platform out there. Look at the blogs that you currently read. Most of them will be on WordPress.

It used to be all about WordPress Themes. Now it is all about WordPress Plugins. If your blog is not loaded with the best plugins then it is nothing. It is on the bottom layer of all of the blogs in the blogosphere.

Here are some of the most WordPress Plugins that you can get:

1. SEO Package Plugin: Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

2. WordPress Super Cache Plugin: A very fast caching engine for WordPress blogs that produces static html files.

3. Google XML Sitemaps Plugin: This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

4. NextGEN Gallery Plugin: NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

You can also get WordPress Plugins that are guaranteed to help you generate money via blogging.

The Most Popular and Sought After Plugin for WordPress themes at the moment is the "Membership Plugin".

This WordPress plugin allows you to have different Membership Types.

Membership-Plugin has 3 default user group types:

1. Free

2. Trial

3. Paying

You can easily create as many free, trial and paid subscriptions as you need. Each subscription can be assigned to a separate membership level allowing you to offer your users multiple subscription options.

Interesting!!

There are countless other plugins. Too many to mention actually.

You will have hours of fun experimenting with different plugins on your blog!

This article was written by CiCi Brendan.
She offers the WordPress "Membership Plugin" on her website: http://www.BlogJournals.com

10 WordPress Plugins For Your Tech Blog

As a general rule of thumb most errors you'll encounter with your WordPress blog are the result of excessive or incompatible plugins. While many find the selection of essential plugins a conundrum I believe in testing each plugin one-by-one with the latest version of WordPress so I can isolate the problem to determine the cause of the slow load times, call function errors or php memory limit warnings. The most valuable tool I can tell you when it comes to plugins is that when possible look for existing code that can accomplish the same result.

Of course there are certain plugins that even I use in my WordPress Blogs. I've compiled a list below of the top 10 plugins that I use on a daily basis that I believe will help any tech blog:

* AdSense Now - There are many ad insertion plugins for WordPress, but if your tech blog is using AdSense - this is the plugin I recommend. It allows you to insert your ad blocks aligned left, center or middle in 3 sections of a post. It also gives you the option to suppress ads on pages, category pages, tag pages, archives and more.

* Audio Player - Being able to insert mp3 clips or podcasts into your blog can be a problem. Audio Player is a plugin that makes this process simple - simply create a music folder on your site via FTP and then upload mp3 tracks to the directory. You can insert the built-in audio player into any of your posts or pages with a simple line of code - painless, simple and easy.

* Facebook Sharecount - It's no secret that social networking sites like Facebook are effective ways to create a fanbase, but being able to harness that power relies on an easy way to share your great content. Facebook Sharecount will make it easy for visitors share your posts and monitor your content.

* Foliopress Descriptions - Once your tech blog has hundreds or even thousands of posts you will need a way to mass edit your descriptions. While the importance of meta descriptions is debated, I still believe that a hand written summary should be written for each post. Foliopress Descriptions supports post excerpt, These and All In One Seo meta description fields.

* Google XML Sitemaps - If you've read my previous post on how to get indexed by Google and Yahoo you know that having a sitemap is essential. This plugin auto generates your sitemap in a nice and neat XML file and let's search engines understand the content on your tech blog. After installing and activating the plugin Google XML Sitemaps will take care of the rest.

* NextGEN Gallery - Managing your images and photo galleries can be a pain, but NextGen Gallery makes this simple. With features like auto resizing, watermarks, thumbnail creation as well as gallery effects - NextGEN Gallery is a must have plugin.

* Star Rating for Reviews - When you run a tech blog sooner or later you will start receiving products for review. Creating a solid review is as much about content as it is about presentation. Star Rating for Reviews allows you to create ratings for the products you review or even rate different aspects of the product and averages the ratings to determine a final score. The possibilities are limitless with the plugin - a must have for anyone looking to review tech.

* TweetMeme Retween Button - If you look at the posts on TechBlogStartup you'll notice a yellow Retweet button aligned to the right. The power of Twitter is growing by the day so making it easy for your reader to ReTweet great content can prove very valuable. If you've installed Google Analytics like I explained in my previous post here, then you will be able to monitor just how many visitors enter your post through Twitter. If you are wondering why I haven't included ShareThis it's because I manually insert the code instead of using a Wordpress Plugin.

* WP Super Cache - If you've heard of Digg then odds are you've heard of the Digg Effect where an article on a website becomes so popular so quickly that the flood of traffic to the website causes the server to crash. Since WordPress blogs are built on SQL Databases they are highly susceptible to this condition, but installing WP Super Cache can almost eliminate this threat. The plugin builds a cache of your posts and creates a static html page so that the server load is reduced and your site can handle more visitors. If your tech blog is brand spanking new I would install the plugin but not activate it until I started to see spikes in traffic or one of my articles was picked up by a major tech blog like Engadget or Gizmodo.

* All in One SEO - Search Engine Optimization is a key ingredient to driving organic traffic to your tech blog. Writting great content is key, but after you have created that content you need to make sure that it targets keywords and includes some basic optimization to ensure it is search engine friendly. All in One SEO does this job very well. If you are using the WordPress theme I use (Thesis) then you will not need this plugin, but for pretty much every other WordPressTheme I recommend installing it right away so that you can start writing your custom meta descriptions

All of the plugins I've mentioned above can be downloaded manually and then uploaded via FTP to your blog or you can add them from within your WordPress Dashboard - personally I prefer the latter. If you are wondering why certain plugins are not listed on my top 10 list - I just don't find them essential to a tech blog. You will notice that I do somethings with TechBlogStartup that many people use Plugins or Widgets to do - eg. the top 6 articles aligned horizontally at the top of the site or the Recent Posts section in the side bar. For tech blogs that receive a large volume of traffic, limiting the plugins helps reduce the SQL memory load and if you've ever had a website crash you know just how important this is. Do you have some WordPress plugins on your tech blog that you think we should know about? Go ahead and drop your own list or links to the plugins in the comments section below so we can check them out.

Nick Marshall is the Editor in Chief of TechBlogStartup - the premier source for learning how to setup, market and monetize your tech blog.