WordPress and WordPress Plugins
Feb 24th, 2008 by Leonard Ghazarian | 
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If you are looking for a blogging tool for your business, look no further than WordPress. I believe it’s the best one out there, and it’s FREE. You can use it as a hosted solution or download the platform and install it on your own hosting account. It could actually replace your entire site, and provide easy maintenance like a CMS platform. This site is actually powered by WordPress. Another reason to love WordPress, the many, many themes and plugins available for free to extend it’s functionality. You can easily add static content (pages) and posts to compliment each other. You could have your WordPress site up and running within 30 minutes, then slowly add the themes and plugins that are right for you.
Here are some of my favorite themes:
- Cutline Theme
- Blue Zinfandel Theme
- MistyLook Theme (used on this site)
Here are some of my favorite plugins:
- AdSense Manager: Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your Wordpress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colours. (used on this site)
- Akismet: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. (used on this site)
- All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. (used on this site)
- FeedBurner: This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. (used on this site)
- Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. (used on this site)
- Subscribe To Comments: Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. (used on this site)
- WP-ContactForm: WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. (used on this site)
- WP-EMail: Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend. (used on this site)
- WP-Polls: Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. (used on this site)
- WP-Print: Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. (used on this site)
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I am using the WordPress hosted version for one of my blog.
I am wondering if i can still use the plugins in this case. I know that you can probably do it on your own hosted account but am unsure if this still applies for the Wordpress hosted version like “abc.wordpress.com”. Will it work for my case still ?
Timmy - Unfortunately, you can’t use plugins on the hosted version. But you do have access to themes and widgets to customize your blog. The hosted version is nice to play around with and to see if you like WP, but to have full access, I highly recommend getting a hosting account and using the downloaded version of WordPress.
I agree that Wordpress is the greatest blogging platform out there today. Very good and essential plugins too!