All about WordPress and Add-ons

Blogging is the latest form of interaction between people online. Blogs attract immediate and huge web traffic. Search engines also pay more attention to the blogs owing to their popularity and unbiased approach. To make blogging easy there are number of tools and many are being added everyday on the internet. WordPress is one of the content management software or CMS tools that make blogging simple for someone who is not even technically inclined. If you are looking for a self hosting tool for blogging WordPress is the right kind of platform for you.

WordPress is something every blogger looks for in terms of functionality. In terms of simplicity there is nothing to beat WordPress though it may look a bit intimidating in the beginning. To begin with you can just download the software containing script for WordPress. It will offer hundreds of templates from which you can choose the one that suits you the best. Whether it is business or music, art or technology you can blog about anything effectively using the WordPrss tool for which you don’t need any computer programming skill.

WordPress has the special feature of being compatible with all types of browser. Its other features include multiple page management system, instant updates, themes and links. Moreover, you can put any number of add-ons and plug-ins to make it work more effectively for you. As for outside visitors it is simple to navigate and they can browse easily. They can leave comment and you can later answer to them making you interact with each visitor personally.

To make WordPress perform even better there are small but highly functional software. These can be used as an extension of WordPress’ original function and there are practically thousands of add-ons to it. Add-ons make your site more interesting and more appealing giving you access to use your blog in a more interactive manner with your visitors.

Firefox add-ons for WordPress

While we are discussing add-ons Firefox has numerous add-ons which are related to WordPess. Firefox itself is an extension for Web browsing. One Click installer is an extension which helps you to install any plug-in or theme of WordPress from Firefox.

There are many other Firefox add-ons for WordPress out of which few are discussed here.

• WordPress Helper: It provides tools and helps to work with WordPress
• wordpress.com sidebar: This helps you to get quick access to your Word Press from your browser.
• Deepest Sender: This allows you to search deep within Firefox and find blogs to post in your account.
• Clipmarks: Instead of copy pasting this tool helps to directly place links to your WordPress.
• WordPress post: It helps to select the text from your browser place directly to the WordPress blog.

WordPress business add-ons

WordPress is a tool which is used for online business too. While promoting online commerce through AdSense, Word Press has some amazing add-ons which make it easy to work on. These add-ons will help you to manage your funds more easily.

• AdSense Manager: When you want to show the visitors that you are willing to put ads on your blogs for a price you can use this flexible add-on to your WordPress blog.
• All in One AdSense and YPN:  This add-on is open source and it is able to put Google AdSense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network ads automatically to your post.
• AdSense Revenue Sharing 1.1: This is most useful when you are working with number of people on your blog. This will help you to share up your profit from AdSense.
• Are PayPal: This add-on will help you to monetize your blog with PayPal.
• Who Sees Ads?: By using this add-on control your readers can see the ads placed on your blog.

WordPress Search Engine add-ons

The power that you can access with WordPress as far as your blogging is concerned is amazing. You obviously want the search engines to feature your blog site high in search ranking. So why not make your blog good enough so that they have everything that the search engines are looking for? You can have a very effective add-on for this. What you need to do is Search Engine Optimization by using a tagging add-on.

The tag are present everywhere to put all the text present online into categories. You can say that they are a replacement of categories. They segment the blog so that it is easy for the viewer to find it. They are quite flexible and are a must for SEO as pages with tags get good ranking on a search engine. If you have a well configured tagging add-on it will rank your page higher and get you free traffic from organic search.

Ultimate Tag Warrior Plug-in is one such tag plug-in. When you display your tags under your post, the plug-in will create a new page for each tag. Now when someone clicks on a tag it well open a page showing all your posts related to the tag. You can also move from one page to another very quickly.

WordPress RSS add-on

Another useful add-on is to help your readers to RSS subscribe to your blog. What you need is FeedBurner as an add-on. WordPress itself has a good RSS support built into it. FeedBurner makes it even more compatible. It will give transparency to your feed so that it can be accessed by any viewer. When the reader clicks on ‘sign up my RSS feed’ button they will get a nice organized HTML document on their browser, thanks to FeedBurner. It will also track your viewer of your RSS feed and you will know exactly how many people have viewed it. Once you have installed FeedBurner you will automatically get all you regular subscribers redirected to the new FeedBurner feed.

Related post add-on

Most of the readers online do not have the patience to go through a full fledged article unless it has really valuable and interesting material. To keep your readers focused on your WordPress blog you must have a great article. Also, you must have related post as the reader who is interested to have read it through will want more information. You should put your list of related post at the end of your article. This gets maximum click-ins. To have a related post plug-in you can choose WASABI Related Post Plug-in.

Another plus point of this is that you can join it with RSS feed. This way your post gets displayed to your feed and viewers get more choice.

Get comment on your post

Another add-on for your WordPress is to get comment on your posts. You can make them comment on your blog by highlighting all comments which are recent in all blogs. People may go to your older blogs and comment on them. This is good for you and you can display them as a side bar on your recent post. This way you will get more traffic from the search engine. The whole thing can be done easily with Brian’s latest comment plug-in. This will allow you to add visibility of the comments on your older posts on the side bar.

There are many more add-ons to make working on WordPress easy and interesting. Initially a person starting with WordPress needs some of the above discussed add-ons to start with. As the size of your blog grows and you become more experienced you can search online for some more add-ons. 

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