Plugins for WordPress expand the functionality of your blog and allow you to do almost anything you can imagine. We’ll link you to the ones we like best. If you use different plugins, feel free to shoot us an email.
To install a plugin you generally just need to upload the plugin file into the correct directory (WordPress will show you where it is). Once a plugin is uploaded, you can then activate it.
Plugins by Pole Position Marketing
Some plugins we’ve developed for WordPress that should make your life easier. They’re free, so enjoy!
- WP-SpamFree Plugin – WordPress Anti-Spam: An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.
- Nofollow Blogroll SEO Plugin: A simple plugin that adds rel=”nofollow” attribute to non-homepage Blogroll Links. Improves SEO while still providing some link love to your favorite sites.
- Comment Technical Data Plugin: A plugin that adds additional technical information to comment notifications, including referrer and a lot more.
- WP Function Links: Use a shortcode to generate clickable links for website functions that do NOT cause a loss of link juice, keeping more link authority on your pages.
Additional Plugins We Like
You can find more plugins for your site in the WordPress plugin directory.
- Append Content: Allows you to post a snippet of text, call to action or ad beneath each blog post.
- Broken Link Checker: Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
- Dofollow: Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
- Google Analytics for WordPress: Makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog.
- JavaScript to Footer: Automatically moves JavaScript code to page footer, speeding up page loading time.
- KB Robots.txt: Manage your robots.txt file from within WordPress.
- Redirection: Allows you to manage 301 redirections, and keep track of 404 errors.
- Search Everything: Includes options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields.
- SEO Title Tag: Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page.
- Sharaholic: Adds a list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.
- Subscribe to Comments: Allows commenters to receive notification when additional comments are posted to the thread.
- UTF8 Sanitize: Handles the broken characters that might appear on your blog posts.
- What Would Seth Godin Do: Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches.