Since we launched our blog hosting package I’ve been asked by a number of people about ways of getting the most out of their WordPress blog.
I’ve also found myself documenting a lot of the more common questions that new users might have
One of the things I love about WordPress is the way you can extend its functions via plugins.
The vast majority of the plugins available do not require much configuration or technical knowledge to get running. You can simply upload them into your “plugins” directory, activate them and just use them.
So which plugins would you recommend to a new user?
I thought I’d start a list, so here’s mine (in no particular order):
- Tiger Style Administration – as it makes the admin panel so much more attractive
- Subscribe to Comments – make your blog more interactive
- Do follow – if you aren’t being hit by spambots why not allow people’s comments count?
- Bad Behavior – stop the spambots and other nasties
- Click Counter – one of the best. Keep track of how popular links are
- Adsense Deluxe – if you are running adsense on your blog this is the only sane way to manage it.
- WP-Amazon – nice way of managing amazon links
- wpLicense – Insert a creative commons license in your blog
- Terms 2 posts – uses the Yahoo API to find related posts
- Terms 2 tags – automatically generates technorati tags based on your entries using the Yahoo API
- FeedBurner Replacement – If you are using feedburner to handle your RSS then redirect all your subscribers to your feed using mod_rewrite and this plugin.
If anybody has other recommendations please share them 🙂
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