My Favorite Wordpress Plugins Part 2
Here’s the second part of my posts on my favorite Wordpress plugins and why I like them…
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer – This is a great plugin to stop your wordpress blog becoming seen as a spam blog.
In its standard form your wordpress blog sends a ping out every time you make a post or even an alteration to your posts (even if it’s just a simple spelling correction) the problem is all those extra pings can cause big problems for your blog.
So to avoid the unnecessary pings problems this plugin only pings the services one time when you post something new and that’s it.
MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup – A great plugin for creating a unblockable pop up for your blog. Who says you can’t blog and build a list at the same time.
There’s some great options you can use this plugin like the “black out” feature, where the whole screen is blackened out leaving only your pop up in view which makes your pop up even harder to avoid.
WassUp – No, not the Budweiser catch phrase, but just as cool. This fantastic plugin records everything in that happens in your blog for example, what country your readers are coming from, what posts they’re reading, what keywords your readers are using to find your blog in the search engines and much more.
Once you start using this plugin you’ll wonder how you ever got on without it.
What Would Seth Godin Do – This plugin places a little message at the bottom of all your posts. You can use it anyway you like. From banner ads to a reminder that your reader should subscribe to your RSS feed.
WP-Spam – There is nothing more irritating than trawling through a load of spam comments on your blog. Why idiots do this is beyond me?
But, anyway back to the plugin. Get this plugin up and running and you can say goodbye to all that those time wasters.
Odigo Listen Button – Fantastic plugin to turn your blog into a podcast. After you fill in all your details with Odigo, they visit your blog (read the last 10 posts on your RSS feed) and then turns those post into audio.
Now your readers can simply download your blog posts as Mp3 files to listen to on an Mp3 player or you can download them yourself and use them later on as an audio product which you could sell or give away to build your list.
Popularity Contest – This plugin (although it doesn’t work on the newest version of wordpress) is great for showing your blog readers your most popular posts.
A new reader coming to your blog might get lost wondering what to read, but this plugin solves the problem for them by giving the most popular posts.
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Examples and pictures are on the plugin forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4