Wordpress Features

As Wordpress comes with only the basic features preinstalled, you would probably want to customize your blog, add the bells and whistles on to make your blog uniquely yours. This is where Wordpress plugins come in. These little goodies are created by others and can range from useful to quirky. With such a large selection, here are some plugins every beginner can do with.

    The Related Posts plugin allows readers to click on posts of the same type or with the same keywords. This might increase their time spent on your blog and having a list of related posts is not only informative but might even help them to find what they were looking for if the first post did not meet their needs. It can be placed anywhere in the post but a good place would be to put it right after the last line of your post.

    Jerome’s Keywords plugin allows you to create a link between each blog post and the keywords you make. This creates a tag system with tagged posts automatically submitted to Technorati, boosting your blog’s coverage. You can create a tags list, show tags on every post, or even create a tag cloud menu to help your readers navigate easily through your blog.

    If you are the kind of blogger who wants full control over every aspect of your blog’s appearance, the FCK editor would be a handy tool. The standard posting menu is replaced with the FCK editor giving you more options in how your posts are displayed.

    Run a business from your blog? Need to have an easy way for readers to contact you? The contact form plugin helps you create a tailor-made contact form on your blog and its CSS supported system allows you to design it to match your blog.

    Where there’s honey there will always be bees. Create a buzz about your posts by installing the Recent Comments plugin. This lets you display a list of the latest comments on your blog on any post. This promotes readers to comment and interact on your blog – if a reader hesitates to comment, they might see the list and feel more confident about expressing their viewpoint or to jump into the discussion as well.

    Now with all that talk going on your blog, you would not want spam comments clogging up space. Protect your blog against it by using this plugin. It blocks spam and comes preinstalled with Wordpress. Furthermore, with this protector on your blog, you need not have to moderate and shift through your blog’s comments constantly. It can be used together with the Math Comment Spam Protection which requires the commenter to answer randomly generate simple math questions.
 
    There are new and more innovative plugins being created everyday and the best thing about it is that they are created by blog users just like you – making them blogger friendly!
 

With thousands of Wordpress themes now on the market for free and for money you can bet it’s hard to decide on the top Wordpress themes, but I believe I have come up with a great answer to this burning question. Now there are many free Wordpress themes that are very nice and I use many of them but they can’t justify being number one on the list.

To be number one the theme needs to have some exclusiveness, but at the same time still be available to the general public. I’ve seen some very incredible Wordpress themes that are unique to just one person’s blog but in this case we won’t be choosing from that.

I have looked through the top Wordpress themes on the internet that cost anywhere between $20-$200 and I have come up with the top Wordpress themes. It was a fairly difficult decision to come up with a winner for the top Wordpress themes but after viewing themes for a long time I decided on choosing the Revolution Wordpress themes.

There are currently eight Revolution Wordpress themes for sale and each one of them are very well designed and thought out. Each one of theme are designed for a specific niche blog and I feel that the designs were kept simple enough to use and didn’t go overboard on the options. The two themes I like the most from the Revolution series is the news theme and the sports theme which are somewhat similar but both very nice magazine style blog themes.

Magazine style Wordpress themes have been very popular and I have seen them on lots of blogs recently, but most of the free magazine themes aren’t very well designed.

Now I don’t have much coding knowledge so this is why spending a few bucks on a well designed Wordpress theme is worth it. With a revolution Wordpress theme you will stand out and look like one of the top dogs of blogging.

Now this exposure is excellent when starting out a blog and this is why I give the Revolution Wordpress themes the number one Wordpress theme.