It may seem a little odd to see an article about the best WordPress-related posts on a Blogger blog, but for various reasons the WordPress platform inspires a sort of geeky passion that Google's blogging platform just doesn't. For example, I've never seen a post about "why your blog shouldn't be on WordPress"—though
Dharmesh Shah vilified BlogSpot.com with such a piece.
So, to help educate WordPress newbies and more experienced hands alike, here are a sampling of the best articles and posts written about WordPress tactics and tools in the last year.
7 Tips When Using WordPress As CMS by RubiqubeBlogger Adrian Diaconescu follows up on his earlier
WordPress CMS tutorial with this list of helpful tips for SEO, navigation and design.
11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have by Yoast tweaking websites
Internet strategist Joost de Valk details some of his favorite plugins for functions like feed management (
FeedBurner), rearranging pages (
pageMash) and internal search (
Search Excerpt). Unfortunately, Lighter Menus (a slick tool Joost recommends for creating drop-down menus)
doesn't work with WP 2.7. Bummer.
by Search Engine People
Jeff Quipp reviews the
DeliciousCount WordPress Plugin, which tracks the number of
Delicious saves of each of your blog posts to help you (theoretically) improve the quality of your posts over time.
9 WordPress Plugins You Need by Search Engine Journal
Yet another post on WP plugins, but
Jonathan Dingman has compiled a short list of some of the best here, including
SEO Slugs for optimizing post title tags;
MobilePress for “mobile-izing” your site to work with the iPhone, Blackberry, or other mobile devices; and
Subscribe to Comments for letting your readers do just what the name suggests.
10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7 by Technosailor
Noting that the WordPress 2.7 release is "a semantically, aesthetically and structurally different WordPress than you’ve ever known before. This is not your grandma’s WordPress!,"
Aaron Brazell details the most significant features of the new version, including navigation (vertical menus), the dashboard, and media and plugin management, among others.
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