Two WordPress Plugins To Help You Blog Smarter

Posted by Les Scammell on May 13, 2008
Posted in: Blogging, WordPress.

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.

WordPress Tweaks

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.

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6 comments on “Two WordPress Plugins To Help You Blog Smarter”

  1. Now that’s good timing, as I came online now to upgrade my WordPress account! I’ve only just moved to WP, so just started reading up on how to upgrade- but that lugin should make life a lot easier!

  2. WordPress is great, I love it. It’s got some limitations, but is so widely accepted, there’s plugins for freakin’ everything.

    I used to run all my blogs and projects on WP, but for Slap/Pop I decided to try Drupal… Drupal is amazing, seriously powerful. Although, there’s some blog-centric features that are missing out of the new versions (5.x and 6.x) like a simple blogroll… And there aren’t as many plugins, especially for the new 6.x branch, sadly. The upside is, it’s insanely flexible.

    I really love Drupal, it’s geek-factor is a huge draw for me, but I still find myself missing WP once in a while hehe.

  3. Hi Lou. I have to agree with you on Drupal. My http://www.just4families.com site is a drupal site. I like the challenge of producing one site with drupal and then having to switch to WP for this blog.

    I like the ability to see what I am doing live rather being in the WP admin area. With drupal, any changes you make to side bars or themes are visible straight away. Trying to work up the courage to upgrade to 6.0 which is supposed to be better with less security issues.

    thanks for your comments
    les

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