A very brief explanation of what WordPress is will be announced along as a list of major plugins used to enhance ones experience with WordPress. Making WordPress go beyond being just a blogging tool.
WordPress was designed to be a blogging tool to create blogs online. Blogs are best described as online journals of ones day written in an informal way. However WordPress has evolved with its many free WordPress plugins to have the ability to create static web page and even a free shopping cart plugin which can be used to change WordPress to a full blown E-commerce site.
Here is the list of many free WordPress plugins making WordPress more then a blogging tool.
- Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not.
- Gravatars - for those cool photos next to comments.
- intouch - for the contact form.
- No Self Pings - prevents WordPress from sending pings for stuff I link to from my own site.
- Social Bookmark Links - the drop down menu for bookmarking a post.
- Subscribe To Comments - lets readers get email updates on comments.
- Google Sitemaps - to help Google find all the new pages.
- WordPress Reports - adds my Google Analytics and Feedburner stats to the WordPress dash.
- Text Link Ads v2 - allows me to add sponsored messages to the bottom of my posts.
- Ultimate Tag Warrior - for tagging posts that are outside a category.
- WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 - lets readers get new posts via email instead of RSS.
- Sidebar Widgets - added by the developer so even I can update my sidebars.
- wp-cache - not used this yet, but if I get slashdotted, this will help stop the site from slowing down by caching pages
- Might Adsense - This plugin allow you to add Google ads to your blog without modifying the template.
- Meta Tag Plugins - A list of plugins used with WordPress to create a meta title, meta description and meta keywords.
The following are free WordPress plugins that are used to create static pages and to implement a full blown shopping in the WordPress structure.
- Wp-E-commerce - Shopping cart plugin for WordPress suitable for selling products, services and or fee online.
- Wp-E-commerce Gold - Upgrade shopping cart plugin for WordPress which handles multiple merchant accounts such as: authorize.net and dps.co.nz.
- Static Front - Used specifically to create a static front page, thus creating a website fell rather than a blog feel.
Please be sure to check for updates often as plugins update they remove any previous bugs and create new features making the plugin better. Suggested would be to frequently check for new update on WP e-Commerce because it is constantly making new better features for its shopping cart. To see more blogs like the one please visit Computer Gaming Blogs.
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