The best tool for your WordPress blog
Although we are in time of social networks, which dominate Twitter and Facebook profiles of Internet users, many people also maintains a blog. Much does it with WordPress, a powerful blogging platform and extensible with plugins, and recently launched its version 3.0.
Of the plugins is what we’ll see in this post, in which we bring you the most interesting plugins, so that probéis and square on your blog. Yes, keep in mind that will need to have WordPress installed on your own server. This means that if your blog is loquesea.wordpress.com, you can not install plugins.
Socializing your blog
With all of Web 2.0, secure that your blog is not the only place where you are online. If you want to gather all that flow of information generated on the Internet in your blog, several plugins for it. For users of Twitter, Twitter for WordPress will display your tweets in a sidebar widget. If you’re on Facebook, Facebook Posted Items will do the same with your Facebook account. There is also something similar if you use Tumblr: Tumblr Widget, and your Google Reader shared, you can use Google Reader Shared.
When we want to send to the social networks of our blog content, the best plugin we can use is Sociable. This plugin adds the end of each post a list of social networks that we want, for anyone who wants can share it easily.
For those who want to connect your blog to Twitter directly, WP Twitter to automatically send all posts to Twitter. It is best that we can configure the format of the tweets, service to shorten URLs and on what occasions should be sent twitt (post created, edited post, page created, etc).
Following on Twitter, if the fans are very social network, the Connect Twit plugin integrate our blog with Twitter: login with OAuth, Twitter avatars, hovercards, a template to reproduce the auto related tweets and user names to the appropriate profile of Twitter.
Link | Twitter for WordPress
Link | Facebook Posted Items
Link | Tumblr Widget
Link | Google Reader Shared
Link | Sociable for WordPress 3.0
Link | WP to Twitter
Link | Twit Connect
Plugins to enhance performance and security
Yes, very nice blog … but I came five minutes ago and still has not been loaded. Lest we pass this, the best we can do is install the plugin WP Super Cache, which stores static pages of our blog in HTML. Thus, when someone is connected to the blog and ask for a page, WP Super Cache static page not give you that whole process again, saving time and server load.
In addition to performance, certainly also in our interest that our blog is safe. To do this we have several plugins. One is WP Security Scan, which tells us what we should do to improve the security of our blog and gives us tools to do so, as a generator and password, and a tool to change the prefix of the tables in MySQL.
Another interesting Login Lockdown plugin that prevents brute force attacks to guess the password. When it detects a certain number of unsuccessful attempts to enter the admin panel from a range of IPs, disable this option during the period of time to tell them.
Link | WP Super Cache
Link | WP Security Scan
Link | Login Lockdown
Who has been on my blog?
Curiosity pica, and many of us like to know who has been on our blog. To do this, we can use the statistics system WordPress WordPress.com Stats, with information about tours of post, author, etc. But if we want more complete statistics, such as Google Analytics, we can use the Google Analytics plugin for WordPress, which will integrate the Analytics code in your blog easily.
If in addition we need to know in real time who is on our site, we use WP-UserOnline adds a space on the desktop saying who’s online in the blog.
Link | WordPress.com Stats
Link | Google Analytics for WordPress
Link | WP-UserOnline
Plugins that make life easier
Although you can not say that writing a blog is very complicated, there is always some tools that help a little. For example, if we want to automatically appear related posts, one of the best options is YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), using an algorithm that will choose the most closely related entries and display them at the end of the text.
If we do not really like the WordPress editor, we can always improve it. Dean’s FCKEditor For WordPress added a comprehensive editing panel, the top image. You can also set up so that the comments are written with a version of the editor.
For those who write much code, surely Google Syntax Highlighter Easy facilitates their work, highlighting the code blocks in the language in which they are written. And if you’re a fan of mathematics, with WP LaTeX you can write complicated equations all you want, using the full power of LaTeX language.
Link | Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Link | FCKEditor for WordPress Dean’s
Link | Easy Google Syntax Highlighter
Link | WP LaTeX
Ending Spam
The threat is always there, and while you finish creating your blog and do not know anyone can get a spam bot and llenártelo. To avoid this there are two plugins that should be in any installation of WordPress. One of them is Akismet, developed by the people themselves WordPress, and filter any comments that may be spam, the truth is that it is very effective.
The other is WP-reCAPTCHA. Use reCaptcha system about which I speak in Genbeta, so that while keep the bots send comments help digitize books.
Link | Akismet
Link | WP-reCAPTCHA
And the list is finished, I encourage you to dediquéis him a while to try the plugins, to look more and tell us how you went in the comments. And if you think that missing a plugin, speak for all we know.
el all in one seo pro es muy bueno tambien, no tiene mucha relación con el articulo, pero recomendadísimo plugin.
saludos