It has taken us over a year, and thousands of dollars - but now we are proud and excited to say:
Here is our first ever WordPress plugin!
It’s been tweaked and tested by many beta testers and some of them are hooked.
Why?
This plugin (which we have called Pro Blog Stats) gives you over 50 different statistics about your blog…all on one page, within your WordPress dashboard. With Pro Blog Stats, you no longer have to log in to all your different accounts (like Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook) to see your statistics.
The WordPress guys are busily working away on the next version, 3.2. Many blog owners are excited and it is expected to be available by the end of June 2011. Some will download and install the second it is available BUT…
With this new version there are some fundamental changes not just in look and feel but from a technical point as well. Your hosting company has to be ready.
The major change here is that WordPress 3.2 will require PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0 at a minimum.
How do you know if your hosting company provides such technology?
In this post, I shall share with you the plugins I have installed that I feel are ‘Nice To Have’
Contact Form 7
You can just use the contact page template that comes with your theme but if you want to add certain fields for your customers to enter data in, the Contact Form 7 plugin is simple and easy to use.
In this post, I shall share with you the plugins I have installed that I feel are ‘definitely worth adding to your blog’
Clean Slugs
You have to sign-up to Yoast’s newsletter to get this one but it is worthwhile. Itremoves common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from a post’s slug (url) and helps with SEO.
CommentLuv
It shows a link to the last post from the commenters blog. It rewards your readers and encourages more comments.
I’ve been known to be a plugaholic. I love WordPress plugins. At one time, I had almost 70 installed.
Even though I have deleted many, I still have over 40 WordPress plugins active.
In one of my recent posts…
Are You A Plugaholic, where I recommend having as few plugins as possible, John Soares from Freelance Writing commented and got me thinking about sharing the plugins I use in my next blog expert series.
W3-Total-Cache is the must have plugin for those who are serious about improving the load speed of their blog. It’s free…it’s easy to set-up and it could knock up to 2 seconds off your blog loading time.
View my latest video in my ‘improve your blog speed’ series. It shows you exactly how to set-up the W3-Total-Cache plugin:
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