More WordPress Plugins..
As a follow-on to my previous post on WordPress Plugins, some of my friends pointed out I missed a few. A word of caution – select your plugins wisely, don’t go nuts as too many can slow your blog down.
Akismet
The must have spam catcher and it’s included in the WordPress distribution. If you haven’t activated it, do it ASAP before the spammers start hitting your site.
This plugin is responsible for placing the link to your latest posts on comments. Nice plugin, it crawls your site (from the info you submit while commenting), and get’s the latest URL, parse it as HTML beneath your name.Bad thing – To tweak the text that appears with it, there are no options menu, and you have to edit the code. Not too many are comfortable doing it.
WordPress 2.6 and higher, one new feature that has yet to bite too many people is post revisions. Whenever you save a change in a post in WordPress 2.6, it saves a copy of the old version as well as your changed version. If you hit ’save’ a lot while writing, that can add up to a lot of extra crud in your database. It was alot sloppier to fix it before this plugin. You simply install and activate:
Again, make sure you’re turned on plugins are actually useful, either for the additional functionality in your blog or your visitors pleasure. The more work your blog has to take when loading plugins, can slow down it’s performance.
Great plugin thats default configuration is good to go out of the box. Some capability to customize every part of what related posts automatically generate. You can insert related post in your posts, pages, and RSS feed. Great tool for building your blog’s internal linking, but also to increase reader loyalty.
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