There are a lot of reasons to optimize your Wordpress website or blog. Wordpress by itself it a great CM platform, but its the add-ons and plug-ins that really make the difference. Wordpress has evolved to include many of the features and functions that were once plugins, and are now deriguer in later versions of WP.
However, optimizing your Wordpress CMS will only help strengthen its rankings in the SERPS and while there are various ways to ensure this, one of the best ways to help yourself along, especially if you don’t have a webmaster; is to use this list of Plugins: Read more
Here is the list of the most important plugins for Wordpress. Keep in mind, however, that there are many, many plugins available for a wide variety of tasks, so feel free to check them out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.
Make sure any plugin you use has at least three stars; if it doesn’t but you really want it, make sure you do the research.
Also, check to see what version of WP you have. When you follow any of the links below to download a plugin, double check to make sure it’s compatible with your version of Wordpress.
With plugins, the process is pretty simple in general:
- Download the file;
- Extract the files from it if its zipped to your Plugins folder on your computer;
- Upload the files to your wp-content/plugins folder;
- Activate it in the Wordpress manager under “Plugins.”
Here are the top 20 Wordpress plugins you can’t live without: Read more
Click and Drag! Photo by Bri C
So I found out something really cool yesterday when I was writing my Onlywire post. I had a FF window open because that’s where all my Roboform keywords are and I was searching for free stock photos with Chrome. For the hell of it, I just tried dragging and dropping the photo from Stock.xchng, open in a Chrome browser window, into the post I was writing in Wordpress (version 2.6.1), open in a FF window, and voila! IT worked.
