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WordPress is one of the easiest to use and most powerful blogging platforms around. \u00a0The versatility of WordPress is its greatest feature, it has the ability to act as a blog and also as a static web site. \u00a0The ease of use when it comes to both updating your site as well as maintaining it is phenomenal.<\/div>\n
One of the WordPress features that holds the bulk of the power of the software package is the utilization of plugins. \u00a0Plugins allow your blog to perform or display specific functions and are highly customizable in almost every way. \u00a0They are also easy to use as generally all it takes to put them into use is activating them in the admin screen of the WordPress platform.<\/div>\n

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Here is a look at some of the most valuable plugins you can use to enhance your blog.<\/div>\n
Akismet – Probably the first plugin you should activate, it helps keep spam comments from needing to be moderated.<\/div>\n
All In One SEO Pack – A great SEO plugin that gives each post its own Title, Keywords, and description.<\/div>\n
Subscribe To Comments – This plugin is a nice way to get an RSS feed for the comments to each post.<\/div>\n
WordPress Database Backup – This is essential as it helps lessen the chance that all of your blog info will be lost. \u00a0This plugin automatically backs up all of your database information and emails them to you at the exact time each day or week you specify.<\/div>\n
AdRotator – This is a simple to use plugin that allows you to enter a list of banner or box ads, even text ads, that will be displayed on your site. \u00a0Then, each time a new page is opened or the same page is refreshed, a new ad appears in that one spot that you have specified. \u00a0This can also be used for cycling random photos or quotes too.<\/div>\n
Sociable – A very cool plugin that puts links to all the popular social networking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg at the end of each post. \u00a0This is very handy as it allows your readers to bookmark them right there at the site of the post they are already reading.<\/div>\n
Related Posts – This is a powerful plugin that allows readers to view other posts that you have written and they might be interested in.<\/div>\n
Google Sitemaps – A nice plugin that helps to insure that Google knows about each and every post and page that makes up your site.<\/div>\n
NextGen Gallery – A very easy to use photo gallery plugin that allows you to place single images, slideshows, and full blown galleries into posts and pages.<\/div>\n
Using all of these WordPress plugins, and others as well, you have the ability to convert your standard blog into a web based masterpiece. \u00a0The plugins provided for use with the WordPress blogging platform are the single best reason to choose WordPress as the package that runs your blog. \u00a0With the wide variety of options available through the thousands of available plugins made for WordPress, it will be no time before you have one of the best blogs on the internet working for you.<\/div>\n

WordPress is one of the easiest to use and most powerful blogging platforms around. \u00a0The versatility of WordPress is its greatest feature, it has the ability to act as a blog and also as a static web site. \u00a0The ease of use when it comes to both updating your site as well as maintaining it is phenomenal.<\/p>\n

One of the WordPress features that holds the bulk of the power of the software package is the utilization of plugins. \u00a0Plugins allow your blog to perform or display specific functions and are highly customizable in almost every way. \u00a0They are also easy to use as generally all it takes to put them into use is activating them in the admin screen of the WordPress platform.<\/p>\n

Here is a look at some of the most valuable plugins you can use to enhance your blog.<\/p>\n

Akismet<\/strong> – Probably the first plugin you should activate, it helps keep spam comments from needing to be moderated, and will save you hours and hours of time, over and over again.<\/p>\n

All In One SEO Pack<\/strong> – A great SEO plugin that gives each post its own Title, Keywords, and description. If you want get your blog ranked by the search engines, get this pluging!<\/p>\n

Subscribe To Comments<\/strong> – This plugin is a nice way to get an RSS feed for the comments to each post.<\/p>\n

WordPress Database Backup<\/strong> – This is essential as it helps lessen the chance that all of your blog info will be lost. \u00a0This plugin automatically backs up all of your database information and emails them to you at the exact time each day or week you specify.<\/p>\n

AdRotator<\/strong> – This is a simple to use plugin that allows you to enter a list of banner or box ads, even text ads, that will be displayed on your site. \u00a0Then, each time a new page is opened or the same page is refreshed, a new ad appears in that one spot that you have specified. \u00a0This can also be used for cycling random photos or quotes too.<\/p>\n

Sociable<\/strong> – A very cool plugin that puts links to all the popular social networking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg at the end of each post. \u00a0This is very handy as it allows your readers to bookmark them right there at the site of the post they are already reading. You can see the plugin in action below this post.<\/p>\n

Related Posts (YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin)<\/strong> – This is a powerful plugin that allows readers to view other posts that you have written and they might be interested in. Massively increases your pageviews, and decreases your bouncerate (<\/a>read more about bouncerate<\/a>). And again, you can see the plugin in action below this post (check out the suggestions I would say! ;-) )<\/p>\n

Google Sitemaps<\/strong> – A nice plugin that helps to insure that Google knows about each and every post and page that makes up your site. Call it a necessitiy. It is one.<\/p>\n

NextGen Gallery<\/strong> – A very easy to use photo gallery plugin that allows you to place single images, slideshows, and full blown galleries into posts and pages.<\/p>\n

Using all of these WordPress plugins, and others as well, you have the ability to convert your standard blog into a web based masterpiece. \u00a0The plugins provided for use with the WordPress blogging platform are the single best reason to choose WordPress as the package that runs your blog. \u00a0With the wide variety of options available through the thousands of available plugins made for WordPress, it will be no time before you have one of the best blogs on the internet working for you.<\/p>\n

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