Top Five WordPress Plugins
There are probably well over two thousand free WordPress plugins to choose from- plugins that provide endless power and functionality for your small business website.
In this short podcast I discuss what I feel are the top five most important plugins to have installed from the very beginning.
Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer.
“WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.”
Top 5 WordPress Plugins For Small Business Websites
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Ever seen the admin bar located on WordPress.com and wanted it on your own site? Well, this plugin is what you need then.
It replicates all of the menu links in your normal admin area at the top of your main site for logged in users (i.e. you). You can go right to the “Write Post” or manage options pages in one click from anywhere on your blog. No more having to go to your dashboard first. You can even have it replace your admin area menus if you want.
WhyDoWork.com Adsense is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. More then that, you can set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then X days
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search
There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a writer. That’s why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.
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Hi,
I’ll keep these in mind when I migrate my blog from WordPress.com to a self hosted blog (soon, I hope). There are so many to choose from, thanks for the link to the directory.
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Hi! I have the All-in-One Seo Pack installed to be honest I really don’t know how to configure or use it. The directions are to me quite vague. Any suggestions you have are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks
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@ Ms. Freeman,
Well- I guess I have my next video topic! I’ll post it tomorrow and you will be all good on the All In One SEO plugin. That, and the XMLT sitemap generator to me are the two most important plugins to master. Peace
I highly recommend all in one SEO pack. It makes our wordpress blog search engine friendly and easy to optimize or rank for a specific keyword. I just love the functions of wordpress plugins.