WordPress is, despite some of my earlier posts, still my favorite blogging platform. I still haven’t come across anything that I consider better or easier to use. I particularly like the range of plugins that available – there is a plugin for just about anything you can think of.
Here are another two plugins I have found and that I find very useful. This first plugin I had heard about and even had recommended to me but it has only been recently that I actually downloaded it and used it.
WordPress Automatic Update Plugin.
As the name suggests, this is a plugin that makes the transition from one version of WordPress to the next so much easier. The upgrade from 2.3 to 2.5 is very easy – no long winded uploading or deleting or fiddling around. If you haven’t upgraded to 2.5 yet, download this plugin first – it will make your life so much easier.
This second plugin is more in the way of making your blog even more search engine friendly.
This WordPress plugin has a range of tweaks that you can use to improve some of the functions of WordPress. It can certainly make your WordPress blog a little friendlier to the search engines. Some of its functions include:
- Remove “nofollow” from comment author links
- Remove “nofollow” from comment body links
- Open external comment links in new windows
- Open external post links in new windows
- Show post excerpts (instead of full content) on archive pages
- Add “nofollow” to the “Register” and “Login” links
The show post excerpts is particularly useful for preventing ‘duplicate content’ issues with the search engines. Adding some of these nofollows is again a little housekeeping that makes your site a little friendlier to the search engines.
I hope you find these plugins useful. If you have any decent plugins you can recommend, let me know in the comments = my comments are set to do follow – my fingers are set to delete when its spam.
