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More Recommended Plugins

by Martin on 6 April, 2009

in Wordpress

A while ago I put up a list of recommended WordPress plugins, that I use on new blogs. They’re broken down by various categories: SEO related, security related and so on. Since then I’ve found and used some others, and my Twitter friend @michaeldcarney reminded me that I should update the original list. So here [...]

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I stumbled across a great way to naturally increase high quality back links to my blog yesterday: the Related Websites Plugin from Blog Traffic Exchange. Increasing back links has always been labour intensive, even when using those commenting tools that search out related blogs based on keywords you put in. You still have to check [...]

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My friend Bob Hartman pointed me in the direction of the Open Hook plugin for Thesis yesterday – and what a discovery it was.  For me, that is – Bob already knew about it.  I’ve written elsewhere about the Thesis theme and mentioned that, in order to maximize its powerful capabilities, one of the things [...]

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My Suggested WordPress Plugin List

by Martin on 1 March, 2009

in Wordpress

I follow questions about WordPress on Twitter, and one of the questions that keeps coming up is for recommendations on what plugins to install. I wrote a post here that explains why that’s quite a difficult question to give a useful answer to.  However, I’ve taken the plunge here and set out the plugins I [...]

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What Is Your Favourite Plugin?

by Martin on 15 February, 2009

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I’m often asked which is my favourite WordPress plugin.  A difficult question to answer since I have 20 plugins on this site and they’re all my favourites! Each of those plugins is there for a specific (but different) reason.  And within each reason, the plugin I’ve activated is my favourite.  

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Searching on WordPress Blogs

by Martin on 28 January, 2009

in Wordpress

Searching on WordPress blogs has always been one of their weaker functionalities. I’m not a techie, so I don’t understand the algorithms behind searching, but I do know that whenever I tried out the search feature on my own blogs the results were dismal. Which was probably costing me readers. So I went in search [...]

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Thank Me Later

by Martin on 16 November, 2008

in Wordpress

For those of us who know they should be thanking people for commenting on our blogs but who let this discipline slip because of the sheer logistics of it, I found a great tool today: The Thank Me Later plugin. You can customise it with your own ‘from name’, ‘from email address’ and whatever message [...]

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How To Set Up The All In One SEO Plugin

by Martin on 23 September, 2008

in Wordpress

Note: I re-read this article recently and found it needed updating, so I’ve added the update at the end. I got a question from a friend the other day on how to set up the All-in-One-SEO plugin for WordPress.  I figured that if she needed to know maybe others do too, so here’s how I [...]

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Just For You

by Martin on 9 August, 2008

in Blogging

MyBlogLog is a community of bloggers. It’s a great source of targetted visitor traffic, because not only can you add your keywords to your profile (the keywords you want people to find you with), but you can tell your profile viewers what your blog is about in your introduction and use RSS to pull in [...]

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The ‘un-aided’ process of upgrading your WordPress installation can be daunting and time-consuming, but here’s a simple and quick solution: the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. Here’s a simple, step-by-step process to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 in 10 minutes or less, and make all future upgrades simple and pain free: Firstly, locate and download the WordPress [...]

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