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Blog Plugins: The Essentials



There are literally thousands of blog plugins available for WordPress and the temptation is often there to install one because it is ‘nice’. However every blog plugin you install adds just a little more to the load time of your blog.

For efficiency, you should only the plugins that you really need. That then raises the question, which blog plugins do you really need?

Talk to 100 bloggers and you will get 100 different answers. Blog plugins should be installed based on your needs. Their are two considerations – what is good for your reader and what is good for your blog. My top blog plugins include:

Akismet -  Spam is always a problem. At least with Akismet you have some help

All In One SEO Pack – Almost every thing you need to help with your blogs SEO

Google XML Sitemaps – Create a sitemap and submit to the search engines

Related Posts - Help your readers find previous posts related to the current one

WP Super Cache – Creates a cached version of your blogs pages for faster loading.

There are many others that could be considered essential, some like the automatic upgrade blog plugin are useful for upgrades but otherwise take up unnecessary space.

What blog plugins would you include in your ‘must have’ list and why?

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Knock! Knock! Anyone Home At Feedburner?



Since being acquired by Google, Feedburner seems to be a backward slide into Googleism.  Many may not be familiar with Google’s lack of information, read any of their blogs and you only get a slight insight into what they are up to – Feedburner is saying even less.

There is no information coming out of Feedburner now. There have been no ‘Publisher Tips‘ since August 2007 and nothing on the official Feedburner ‘Blog‘ since May this year. Sounds like every other one of Google’s blogs – an occasional post that really only repeats what everyone has already worked out.

Up until the last post in August last year the Publisher Tips pages where publishing content fairly regularly, about every two to three weeks. It is close to 12 months with nothing more said. Perhaps they have run out of tips? It is all very quiet and given the following statement from their announcement of the acquisition last year, it seem the take over has not really been for the best:

We are confident that we’re going to continue to have fun and innovate for customers as rapidly as possible. We are confident and hopeful that you’ll look at your feed dashboard soon and say to yourself “Well, *that* was a good idea!”

They certainly haven’t continued with anything. It does seem strange that the regular posting of information from Feedburner dried up shortly after the acquisition. Either that, or there is no longer anyone home at Feedburner?

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