Over the last couple of months I haven’t been making that many changes to any of the WordPress powered blogs that I manage.
For the most part I’ve got the functionality that I need, so I haven’t bothered doing anything new.
One thing that I have been doing, however, is updating some of the older ones to get more functionality and to fix incompatibilities that crept in over time.
However I have added a couple of new ones:
- aLinks A WordPress plugin that automatically links keywords in your blog post. This is really cool. You can basically give it a list of keywords / phrases that you use in your posts and it will generate deep links to other posts automatically
- Landing sites When visitors are referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land on and then close the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines
- Google Sitemaps – I’ve had this installed for quite some time, but the latest version adds some new functions that make an upgrade worthwhile
- SiteInfo This plugin will generate an A9 compatible SiteInfo file for your WordPress blog
- WordPress Mobile Edition – Makes your blog a lot more user friendly for people browsing it using mobile devices
Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn’t tried Google Sitemaps yet and was impressed by their backend. I still need to do a lot of work to get ocaoimh.ie into shape but that’s to be expected for a new site!
aLinks is something else I’d like to try. I wonder if I can add a check for people coming from Google searches so it doesn’t annoy my regular users..
Donncha – if you have a look at the source of the “Landing Sites” plugin you could probably work something out…
The sitemaps thing does give some useful info which is kind of nice 🙂