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January 18, 2007

WordPress Plugins

If you are using wordpress or are planning on installing wordpress sometime in the near future, here are some great plugins that you may not know about that will help make your wordpress blog more powerful and user friendly. I will give you a short overview of what each plugin does but I won’t give you any instructions on how to install or configure the plugins. You can download or view the documentation from each of the respective plugin websites.

User Sitemap Generator

The user sitemap generator plugin is a human viewable map of all the posts and pages that you have on your blog site. When the user clicks on the sitemap link on your blog, he or she will get a list of links of all of the posts and pages on your blog site. If you want to see what the installed sitemap looks like, you can click the sitemap link on the sidebar, under “Highlights”. This plugin is available here. user-sitemap generator:

Google Sitemap Generator

The google sitemap generator plugin is a map that allows the google spider to find all of the posts and pages when it crawls your blog. Simply put, it is a sitemap for the google robot. google sitemap generator:

Spam Karma2

Spam karma2 is a plugin that prevents users from spamming your blog through the comments system in wordpress. You really should install this plugin, otherwise you could end up with a blog full of adverts instead of content rich information. Without it, you could find yourself constantly deleting spam comments on your blog. comment spam filter:

New Visitor Invitation

The new visitor invitation plugin will display a message on your blog the first time a visitor comes to your blog inviting him or her to subscribe to your email alerts, or RSS feed. This message will be invisible to return visitors. This plugin is a great way to remind your first time visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed. new-visitor invitation:

FeedBurner Plugin

The feedburner plugin detects and sends all of your traffic information to feedburner and will detect all ways to access your feed so that you can track all of your subscribers. This is a plugin that you really should install. You can get more information about feedburner from the feedburner site. http://feedburner.com and you can get the plugin here.
feedburner (RSS tracking):

Mighty AdSense

Mighty AdSense is a plugin that will automatically insert your adsense ads in your posts and on your blog pages so that you don’t have to copy and paste your adsense code every time you post to your blog. The plugin will insert it for you. The nice thing about this plugin is that you have the option of displaying your adsense ads where you want them to show on your blog pages. This is a must plugin if you have adsense ads on your blog. You can get Mighty AdSense: here.

StatCounter for WordPress

StatCounter is a must have plugin. This plugin is installed to your wordpress blog and sends your stats to an outside source where all of the stats for your blog will be kept. You will need to register a free account with statcounter. You will have to read all of your stats from statcounter. Simply login, to your statcounter account to get your stats. This is an excellent tool that allows you to see where your visitors are coming from, how long they are staying, whether they are returning visitors or not, and way more statistical information than I can tell here in this post.
StatCounter for WordPress:

All of the above plugins are open source and are free of charge. These plugins will make it easier to manage your wordpress blog and will allow you to see first hand how your blog is performing.

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