Plugins

Adding WordPress Plugins From The Dashboard

WordPress plugins add features to or enhance the functionality of your WordPress blog. There is now an easy way to install WordPress plugins directly from within the WordPress dashboard.


WordPress Links Categories In Different Sidebar Widgets

So far up to version 2.7.1, WordPress is still showing all the Links or Blogroll in just one sidebar widget. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could separate those links by categories? You can with a little help from a plugin.


Install WordPress Plugins From Dashboard

WordPress certainly has evolved over the past few years and version 2.7 has some drastic changes in the dashboard interface as well as additional functionality. Additions like built-in automatic upgrade and the ability to add plugins directly from the WordPress dashboard continue to make it easier for all to maximize WordPress.


Add Threaded Or Nested Comments To WordPress

WordPress has recently added new comment functionality to the core. You can now show nested or threaded comments. The feature I really like about it is the ability to directly rely to a comment or question on a post. Unfortunately for the reply to show directly under the comment you need to add either tweak your theme or add a plugin.


Checking WordPress Stats In The Dashboard

Statistics for websites can be helpful to give some insight as to what you are doing right, and what your readers like about your site. WordPress is no different and if you have the WordPress Stats plugin installed you can see a quick snapshot of your WordPress blogs stats on your blogs main dashboard.


WordPress Plugin Updates Not Working

Have you recently upgraded your WordPress blog and found that you can no longer automatically upgrade your plugins? There can be many different reasons for upgrade plugins not to work but here are two plugins to check for if you recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.7.


Another Reason for Using Less WordPress Plugins

When I first started working with WordPress I tried all kinds of different plugins to gain an advantage and make blogging easier. Over time I discovered that some plugins have a short life span and using them can actually make more work for you or end up being a pain to get rid of.


WordPress Plugins How Many Are Too Many

How many WordPress Plugins should I be using?

If you spend any time at all on blogging related forums this question comes up quite often. Just as often as the question comes up so to are the various different answers. After just going through a major headache of a nightmarish WordPress upgrade for a client I have came up with my own opinion on the subject.


WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Problems

As many know there is a WordPress Plugin for automatically upgrading WordPress. I have recently used it on one of my test blogs with no issues. But I have experienced issues using it for a client.


Get Top Search Engine Rankings With WordPress SEO Plugins

Self-hosted WordPress blogs are probably the fastest way to get to the top of the natural search engine listings. There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available but here I will discuss just a few that help with SEO and ultimately top search engine rankings.