Useful WordPress Plugins
WordPress is an excellent blogging platform; I’d have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone. However, there are a few plugins which will make life as a blogger easier, as well as a bit more fun.
As soon as you start getting popular, the amount of comment spam you get will start to go up. Akismet can help get through it - it checks comments against its own webservice to see if it’s likely to be spam or not. You can still retrieve comments, telling Akismet they’re not spam with a single click.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
If you’re a podcaster, podPress could be of real interest. I see many bloggers and podcasters using WordPress to detail what’s in their podcast, maintain a seperate feed and link to the MP3 file. Plenty of useful features and an inline player for folk who don’t want to download.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/
I think Flickr is fantastic and post up any photo I take which is interesting. Whilst it’s easy to paste in the code to show a photo on a page, flickrRSS will display the most recent photos added to your flickr account in your sidebar by checking the RSS feed. Not essential, but it can add a lot of colour to the design. Since adding it here, I noticed the four photos shown for a while have had 170+ views, whilst the rest have had less than 10.
Download: http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
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