Quick Tip – 5 Helpful WordPress Plugins
If you use wordpress for your blogging platform, then you know about plugins. They are extra components that you “plugin” to extend the functionality of your blog. Here are some helpful plugins that I have come across that will assist you in our journey to blogging success.
1. Theme Tester
Ever want to change your theme on your blog to a new, shinier theme? Of course, we have all thought about it. Well, what do you do if you don’t want everyone to see what you are doing? There is a cool plugin called Theme Tester. Once enabled, it will hide any changes and will save those changes only after the plugin is disabled. Give this one a try, I personally have used it and love it.
2. CformsII
Contact forms. Some may want guest to be able to send messages in a form instead of a email link. With a form, you can customize and enforce what the guest can send to you. The CformsII plugin is a customizable and powerful form builder plugin. There are many different setup choices with this plugin. Inputting a form is as simple as the click of a button.
This is a great plugin for those that receive or plan to receive a lot of traffic to their blog. The dynamic database backend and creation of pages can make a heavily used wordpress blog go down. This plugin will generate static html files from the dynamic wordpress blog. The static html pages will be served instead of dynamic content generation, which will speed up and lighten the load on your blog.
4. WP-Polls
This plugin makes it possible to put a poll on your blog. This plugin also includes a widget to easily post the poll to your blog. This plugin is highly customizable and very user friendly. I currently have a poll on my blog using this plugin.
This is wonderful addition that every blogger should have on their blog. Top Commentators will allow you to post the top commentators on your site. Commenting on other blogs is one of the best ways to get backlinks to your blog. By rewarding visitors with this feature you will increase the chances of more backlinks for your blog.
There you have it, five helpful WordPress plugins that will extend the functionality and stability of your WordPress blog.
If you have other plugins that you feel are helpful for WordPress blogs, please comment with them so that everyone will benefit with this information.
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I am glad that you provided this list, as 2 of the plug-ins on it are ones that I will probably be making use of at a later time. The Theme Tester plug-in sounds well-suited for trying out various themes that are available on sites where they are released, and the WP Super Cache plug-in looks to be useful for when server load starts to become an issue.