PLUGINS
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put
Google Analytics for WordPress
Get stats on all your wordpress pages
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
It makes upgrading just a few clicks away
All in One SEO Pack
Get your Google ranking higher by using the post title for the title of the webpage. Easy to customize everything to your liking.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Get Feedburner for your rss feeds. There’s also an option for users to subscribe and get email updates whenever you post something new on your blog.
Lightbox
My Sharpfolio theme already came with this and it’s awesome. It’s a great way of allowing your users to see a high quality image without making them navigate to a new page. No more pop up windows!
FEATURES
Permalinks!
Get rid of that ugly link name. http://www.jonathankruse.com/?p=124 means nothing.
Click on Settings(far right) and click on Permalinks.
If you change the common structure to "/%postname%/" Then your link will actually make sense and you can use that to help your SEO.
After permalinks change
http://www.jonathankruse.com/mediocore-clothing-website/
Change the size of images you upload
Go to settings (far right)
Click on Miscellaneous
You can change the thumbnail size and medium size to whatever you want. Now you don’t have to resize in photoshop.
That’s all I can think of right now. Are there any that you find useful?
15 Comments
ithew said 2 months ago
Last.fm records
flickr rss
twitter tools
seibei said 2 months ago
what if I change to permalinks now? will that mean every link to my blog will suddenly be invalid?
mitchbones said 2 months ago
This thread is relevant to my interests. Thinking about starting a blog in a few months.
Thanks Mr Kruse!
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure it forwards the pages to the new ones, but your page rank will be lost since it’s a new url.
You can always change it back to normal.
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
Awesome collection.
Todays the last day to enter my contest to win TMNT dvd’s action figures and Shark week dvd’s!
www.mediocoreclothing.com
explodingtoes said 2 months ago
the best thing you could do with wordpress would be to stop using it and start using expressionengine!
mwuahahahaha
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
examples of site?
Truman325i said 2 months ago
I jsut upgraded and added a facebook adder thingy, where it allows people to facebook publish my stuff with one click
explodingtoes said 2 months ago
http://expressionengine.com/
just look around
it does what pretty much no other CMS manages to do (from my experience) its hugely robust and powerful, but not overly complicated to learn. also, it lets you design your site with html/css and then add in the dynamic parts anywhere you need...so really you are implementing a cms throughout your design, whereas with things like drupal, joomla, and wordpress, you are wrapping a design around a cms.
godsloadedsociety said 2 months ago
this sounds like exactly what i need! i’m going to check it out. thanks a ton
Jon Kruse said 2 months ago
Sounds cool. I didn’t see anything amazing in their showcase but there’s a lot more room for a designer. Just when I figured out wordpress to.
Do you have any websites using this? I’ve heard you talk about web design before but I’ve never seen any of your stuff.
jsheldon said 2 months ago
Cool post, thanks Jon. I am new the the world of wp but these are helpful things to know as I develop my Ugmonk blog.
explodingtoes said 2 months ago
yeah, the showcase on the site isn’t necessarily dazzling to the eye, but the emphasis is on the dynamic capabilities and the underlying technology and ease of use it provides.
how good the sites LOOK is totally up to the designer.
i’ve just always hated building client sites around joomla and wordpress. while you can customize and skin them, there are still so many limitations and forced systems that you can’t avoid without a TON of trouble. WP isn’t as bad..but joomla and drupal are evil.
the need for a super lightweight CMS actually drove us to write our own at work, called Thrive, so we implement that for client websites but for my freelance work, now I implement Expression Engine. The install is super simple...just create a database and run the EE installer on the domain and BAM! youre up and running, then drop in your xhtml/css into a new template and setup your dynamic areas and youre gold. makes it suuuuper easy for me to allow clients to update areas of dynamic text, news, blogs, calendars, etc. Its awesome and I can’t talk it up enough!
I’ve actually been working on my freelance portfolio all day long and should have it up within a day or two. I’ll post the link in here and you can check out a ton of my stuff.
hideyourarms said 2 months ago
I just remembered how awesome the 'subscribe to comments' plugin is, it sends you an e-mail whenever someone else comments on the same blog post as you, I think every blog should have it.
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
RustyEight said 2 months ago
I just started using wordpress so this is mucho useful. Thanks