For the Shopping-Bargains Blog we use the WordPress blog publishing platform. WordPress is state-of-the-art blogging software that is very popular and free. WordPress is also very flexible, follows web standards and can be extended via a huge selection of plugins and themes. There are thousands of free and publicly available WordPress plugins and themes.
Listed below are five WordPress plugins that we recommend every blogger install when using the WordPress platform. While all five are free, some include options for making small donations (usually via PayPal) to the plugin authors to reward them for the development of their plugin. We encourage rewarding developers who have given to the blogging community by creating useful plugins like the following.
1. Akismet
Comment spam is a big problem most bloggers are forced to address. Spammers have developed lots of ways to post links and bogus comments on other people’s blogs in an effort to boost the popularity of and traffic to their sites.
Askimet is a powerful tool that effectively and automatically fights this behavior. In my opinion, no WordPress blog should be without Askimet. It keeps an enormous amount of embarrassing and sometimes illegal “comments” off your blogs.
2. WP-DB-Backup
Security experts tell us we should backup our files and databases often. That advice is true for our blog databases as well. However, in spite of our best intentions, it’s hard to [click to continue…]
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