Wordpress Themes and Plugins

Posted by Hendra

January 15, 2008

Today i am still doing some experiment on my new published blog. Trying to familiar with some functions available in the admin page, adding that and removing this. I also downloaded some popular wordpress themes and plugins from wordpress website, try and see which one fit well in my website.

Actually I found much more links to other websites providing free downloads, but i don’t want to get lost again, i’ll learn slowly, view and try one by one, push my self to focus, close all unrelated information (other than what i’m currently focus on) and not making myself lost in the ‘jungle‘ again

Below are the most popular plugins according to the download counter and i conclude lot of people currently fell good and use it. If it’s good for most people, it might be good for me too, so i download-uploaded it and activate them all right away.

Akismet, it’s function to filter and checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or no, but you have to register and get Wordpress API first before using it.

Stats, great plugins from skeltoac, once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where my traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. Why i like this, it’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows me to see all my stats on a single page. This plugins function a bit like sitemeter (the one i installed this morning) with simple page less but effective information.

Google-sitemap-generator, this plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. I assume this plugins will be very usefull to make my blog easier to be found by search engine.

All in one SEO pack, it can Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines. I assume this pluggins will work something like google sitemap generator in different way.

Why do i install those two last plugins, you might ask. Well, hey, who doesn’t want to be at google and yahoo’s first page, and the best is, it’s given for free Do i understand how to use it? Currrently trying my best to understand, lol…

Next time i’ll post more information about themes and plugins that i used and how it benefits me and it could probably benefit you too.

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