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Top 5 Essential WordPress Plugins

Monday, January 12th, 2009

WordPress is definately my favourite new toy at the moment and I can not for the life of me understand why I did not start using it long before now.  In the past I have always opted to develop my own software from scratch, often simply to see if I could manage it but more and more I am finding myself opting for an existing piece of software and just adding a few customisations to meet my requirements, as in the case with WordPress.

Now that I have had a chance to play around with it properly and have a look to see what other people like and dislike about it I have compiled a list of what I consider to be the Top 5 Essential WordPress Plugins.  Each of these are listed below and keeping with the spirit of Lots Of Freebies you will find that each of the plugins are absolutely free:-

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dofollow or nofollow – Update

Monday, December 29th, 2008

It would appear that Word Press uses the “nofollow” attribute as default on all outbound links which are included in comments (which I didn’t catch right away).  This seems a little odd that WordPress is still using nofollow by default  but my understanding is that this is meant as a method of reducing spamming on blogs. 

I do not believe there is any harm disabling the “nofollow” and converting to a “dofollow” approach as comments require authorisation by default and you can also install any number of spam fighting plugins if you are experiencing spamming on your blogs.

We have now ensured that any links on your comments are followed through to the destination site by using the NoFollow Free plugin.  If you intend to use this on your own WordPress blog then ensure you enable the options (once the plugin in uploaded and actived) via Settings -> NOFF, otherwise the comments will still use the “nofollow” attribute.

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