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The Best Blogging Platform and Plugins
It’s Facebook question of the week time (clap, clap, clap!).
Jeremy Whittaker, my Utah turned Germany friend, asks, “Could you give a rundown of the the best technologies for a corporate blog? I’m looking for the best platforms and plugins that make a blog rock.”
Sure, Jeremy! This is a question we get a lot so I have a handy dandy list already created.
The video has my favorite plugins and which platform you should use. After the video you’ll find an additional list of free and paid plugins that aren’t mentioned in the video.
If you’re curious about my personal Tumblr blog I mention, you can find it here (Del Williams calls it food porn).
And don’t forget to go to our Facebook wall and leave a question on the wall there. I need some questions. I also take dares (within reason).
Without further ado…the video. If you can’t see it in your Reader, click here and it’ll magically appear.
Free Plugins
- Advanced permalinks
- Anti feed-scraper message (alerts you if anyone steals your content)
- Best related posts (creates the links at the end of every post that is similar to the content you just published)
- Comment notifier (alerts people who leave comments that someone has responded)
- Dagon design sitemap generator
- Easy popular posts
- Exclude pages from navigation (we use this for paid content or private content)
- Feature comments
- Google analytics for WordPress
- Most commented widget
- Popular posts
- Post-plugin library
- Recent comments
- Recent comments widget
- Tweetbacks (shows tweets as comments on the blog)
- Tweet old posts
- WordPress database backup
- All-in-one SEO pack
- Democracy (allows you to create polls)
- Livefyre (commenting system we recommend to everyone)
- PostRank
- WP to twitter
- WPtouch
- OnSwipe (allows you to view the blog on the tablet as if it’s a magazine)
Paid Plugins
- Akismet ($5/month)
- Scribe SEO
- Scribe support script (free, but supports the one above)
- BackupBuddy
- GetClicky
Wow what a list Gini! Use some of them but will definitely check them out!
Cheers,Rajka
nice list of plugins what I want to add one of XML site map generator for Google webmaster tool submission
That's a great idea - I'll have to look that one up.
I will add a plugin - WordPress SEO by Joost. It rocks!
Thanks for this. Am looking to add some SEO plugins to my site! SoloBizCoach
By the way, Gini, which plug in do you use for your "share" buttons? The plug in I have now only allows visitors to share after they click on the actual link to the post. Since the entire post is on the landing page, there is really no reason for anyone to click on it...
feliciahudson I have the same problem too :)
YasinAkgun Do you find it as annoying as I do? ;-) Do visitors still share?
deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis Hi Sean. The plugin that was set up for me is Share and Follow. Are you familiar with it? Which plugin would you recommend?
Thanks so much for the list, Gini! Thanks, too, jgwhitt for the question. This is exactly what I need right now! I have a blog on my website that needs a lot of work. I had the entire site moved over to Wordpress a few months ago, so this is extremely helpful. I'm bookmarking this AND saving to Evernote. Thinking of which, I have a few "blog etiquette" questions I think I should post to Facebook. :-)
Sorry to be late to comment.This is a great answer to my question ginidietrich . I really appreciate it!
Definitely checking all of these out as I work on my blog. My problem is I spend more time fiddling with plugins and design than I do blogging, so I feel like I never get content out there. Guess I should just follow your list and get writing!
jennalanger Sigh...did we not just have this conversation in person? WRITE ALREADY!
jennalanger as Gini says, write write write! that's the message I'll be giving to a talk I'm due to give to a new intake of marketing students. If I could get away with it I'd force them all to set up a blog and write there and then! lol
YasinAkgun Can you please keep bugging me about this? I need a good kick in the butt, seriously. :)
Great post! I was actually debating between Wordpress and BlogEngine.net and leaning heavily towards Wordpress - I think you're swaying me. :) I've been experimenting with Wordpress plugins (including livefyre of course) and this list was very helpful. Thanks!
Yes! Yes! Yes! ginidietrich
Quick question - is your blog automatically set up with the "subscribe by email" widget that appears in your sidebar, or do you use a plugin? ginidietrich
Great, thanks. Am setting up a new blog and learning as I go! ginidietrich
I love this, Gini! Way to make it easy for would-be bloggers. I'm passing this on to my friends. Thanks for sharing!
scribblinghappy I think I'm going to have to take the comments and create a super list of everyone's recommendations.
ginidietrich agree - there are some great suggestions here!
I hate WordPress. :) Seriously, if yu are not using WP as your blogging platform - well, you are missing out on all the awesomeness.
Fav plugins: LiveFyre (another, if you're not using = missing out) Digg Digg, Tweet Anywhere Plus and nrelate Related Content.
Be awesome!
FrankDickinson I also love Digg Digg, though it won't install here (drives me nuts). And don't you be giving me a hard time about WP!
ginidietrich I hate WP too, not kidding, but it is the best and most common so it isn't like I would chose anything else, lol
ginidietrich are you getting a "fatal error 404" message - I was - went through and disabled all my plugins until I found the one it wasn't compatible with (WP minify I think it was) - got it all installed and setup and went back and activated all the plugins - works fine now!
Wordpress FTW! The new built in plugins from JetPack are quite nice.
ArthurAnswers I love JetPack.
ginidietrichArthurAnswers It is a plugin that provides some of the Wordpress.com functionality to self hosted sites. Has a lot of nice features.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/
TheJackB How is JetPack helpful to you? Oh, ginidietrich another one I LOVE is TinyMCE Advanced. It adds a ton of options to the WISYWIG editor, like superscripts, etc. ArthurAnswers
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PenPointer Livefyre has CommentLuv (well, a version) now
ginidietrich Ah, may be worth another look, in that case. Thx!
frankdickinson I'm not sure Gini on video is a selling point.
zcommunications I love my WordPress
ginidietrich So do we! :)
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ginidietrich cristerdelacruz I'm actually a bit #acronymchallenged, too. BUT, I love shortening words. So, 'special' is 'spesh,' etc. :)
kbkcomm I love that! "spesh"!!! :)
ginidietrich WORD. I do love FBQOTW. I do a little happy dance...it's the little things in life :).
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