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Social engagement is a crucial and vital aspect for any website and should be considered by every webmaster. Among my favorite WordPress plugins is Shareaholic which makes the integration of social sharing into a WordPress blog easy. Once the plugin...
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, is one of my must-have-plugins in my collection of plugins and is an essential tool for every serious blogger and webmaster. The configuration itself is quite comprehensive and includes basic as well as advanced options:
GD Star Rating is one of my favorite WordPress plugins – not just because it has a plethora of options and settings (uber-geek-factor), but also despite it’s overwhelming amount of options it is really simple to install and configure. At first,...
In today’s post of popular WordPress plugins, I am featuring a simple, yet efficient plugin – Feedburner. Instead of adding rewrite-rules to your .htaccess file, the Feedburner plugin redirects feed requests directly to Feedburner. Configuration is really simple and you...
Easy AdSense is one of those WordPress plugins you need to have to generate Google AdSense traffic on your site. The AdSense plugin stores all your configuration centrally without having to change the ad-code in themes or widgets – configuration is...
I previously used b2evolution as my blogging software and one very painful aspect was the managing of comments. Granted, WordPress’s native commenting system is lacks many features Disqus has. The installation and configuration of the Disqus plugin is really simple, since...
My blog has been in existence since 2004 and started off as an experiment into SEO, link-building and website promotion. It all started in the English Beergarden in Munich during one of my consulting projects in Europe where we started...
After my migration from b2evolution, one of the first “install-and-forget” things to do is to install the Akismet plugin for WordPress. Akismet eliminates comment- and trackback-spam on your blog and once you have installed the plugin and requested an API...
Once you are stuck on b2evolution, it becomes a daunting task to move your content to another blogging engine. I have always envied the WordPress bloggers and the WordPress eco-system of plugins, but never made the transition due to the...
Anyone migrating from b2evolution or any other blogging software which does not fully support importing into WordPress will feel a world of pain to get the original blog’s content right. If you don’t pay attention, you will receive many 404’s...
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