bear with me for the moment…just exploring making a new, self-hosted version of the blog — so things may look kind of funny for a little bit as I make adjustments and tweaks here and there
I’d love to hear what WordPress plug-ins you like or don’t like as I make this adjustments. What have you found works well on your blog?
Looking great so far! I’d recommend for starters:
* akismet
* all-in-one seo
* Google xml sitemaps
* Google analytics
* wp touch
Thanks, Tim! I have Akismet and Google Analytics installed so far. I’ll have to check out the others you mentioned.
Looks like I need to learn a little coding to clean up the blog headers. Gets a little cluttered with all of the categories at the top — makes the “leave a comment” link hard to see.
Nathan,
I second Tim’s suggestions and I’d add a few more:
WP Greet Box
Feedburner
wp-backup
I’d also go and chmod your .htaccess file to 777 temporarily and fix your permalinks to a custom structure such as /%postname%/ to get human readable urls. The WP default is pretty poor for SEO and general usability.