If you want to extend the functionality of your Wordpress blog, then you will want to install a Wordpress plugin that promises the utility you are looking for. The Wordpress blogging platform is an amazing tool by itself, but some people demand more from the platform so that it can be the perfect content management system for their needs.

For example, the Wordpress blogging platform cannot display Google AdSense ads automatically. If the blog owner wants to stream AdSense ads on his pages, he will have to fiddle with the HTML code of the said blog. With a specific type of Wordpress plugin however, like AdSense Manager among others, you can automate the display of AdSense ads on particular areas of each page of the blog.

Wordpress plugins are perfect for people who don’t have a deep working knowledge regarding how the blog works. Even veteran internet marketers will say that they’re not savvy enough to know each and every trick possible with Wordpress. By installing Wordpress plugins that fulfill the needs that users want to be added to the Wordpress platform, blogging – and content management for that matter – becomes a much easier task.

There are so many Wordpress plugins available today. In fact, a great number of Wordpress blogs make good use of numerous plugins to the point that they don’t look like blogs that are produced by the original Wordpress platform. They become absolutely stunning, outstandingly dynamic, and highly functional websites that rival the best products that complicated content management systems like Joomla and Mambo produce.

Not many people know how to install Wordpress plugins, however. This is what this article is all about.
Installing Wordpress plugins is actually very easy. If you know how to use Wordpress, it will only to take you a minute or less to learn how to install Wordpress plugins.

1. Download the Wordpress plugin you want to add to your blog.
2. Upload the Wordpress plugin to the wp-content/plugins folder of your website. You will need an FTP client like Filezilla or your web hosting services HTML uploader for this.

3. Go to your wp-admin page. Log in as needed.

4. Look for the Plugins section of your dashboard. Find the newly uploaded Wordpress plugin. Click “activate.”

The foregoing, of course, is the manual approach in installing Wordpress plugins. Newer versions of Wordpress, at least as far as the default theme is concerned, allow for the automatic installation of plugins from admin dashboard itself by going to Plugins>Add New and browsing the file to be uploaded and installed. The Wordpress plugin must be in .zip format for this to work. Some Wordpress themes do not carry such a feature, however.

Wordpress plugins are fantastic ways to make your blog better and more suitable for your needs, and with the absolute ease by which these plugins can be installed, you don’t have an excuse not to make the most out of them.

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A wordpress plugin for rating article, like WP Digg This.?

I am looking for a plugin that is similar to WP Digg This where readers can quickly “Digg This” to express their interest in the article.

Thank you.

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Wordpress plugin that creates a Thank You page following a new comment?

We have plugins that email users who submit a comment but is there one that takes the user to a new page, a Thank you page?

Thx

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Wordpress plugin, where can i get this one?

Does anybody know where I can get this plug in, its on this website http://thereifixedit.com/ the one which has twitter and facebook sharing on it. I cant seem to find it anywhere
ANy ideas?

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When you want to build a good platform for easy and quick creation of a website, you invariably tend to rely on WordPress. But when you want to establish a review site and get it running, you require WordPress review templates or premium WordPress themes belonging to certain niches. If you do a search in the internet, you can find many such professional looking WordPress themes and WordPress templates in various sites that will suit your niches.

Again the world of the internet is filled with WordPress plug ins and if you look through them, you will surely find one or quite a few that will meet your demands or the demands of a powerful affiliate.

In this article I shall discuss the 5 best WordPress review plug ins that you may find helpful.

Steve Smith’s FeedBurner Feed Replacement

Through this you can analyze your feed subscriber base and you can avail of the advertising program for listing your own ads or selling them directly on the feeds.

Mike Smullin’s AJAX Comments

Since AJAX is pushed and backed by Google developers, most people think it is a must have. Thanks to this plug in, you can post comments on your site without having to refresh your page.

Arne Brachhold’s Google Sitemaps

Perhaps you already know that sitemaps are hot property nowadays. This plug in automatically updates and creates as well as pings Google and a gzip version of the sitemap is also offered. You just have to install it and then you can afford to forget all about it.

Scott Hough’s WP Translate

This will drive traffic to your site and improve your reader base.

Jerome Lavigne’s Jerome’s Keywords

Once you enter a post, the keywords can be listed automatically and linked as well to related posts that feature the same keywords. It improves site navigation and is SEO and Technorati compatible.

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Yahoo! 404 – Page Not Found

Use the Escape key to return to the search box. Use the right arrow key to explore related concepts.

Use the Escape key to return to the search box. Use the left arrow key to return to the search suggestions. Use the up and down arrow keys to select concepts related to your query.

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Tweet Like A Pro

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Syndicate The $h!# Out Of Your Content Via RSS

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Twitter tips from the field

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Whats the Wordpress plugin to create a link directory?

I want to create a link directory site with wordpress, whats the plugin called to allow you to do this. Here is an example of a site that has the directory http://directory.easywordpress.com/

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Url shortener Tr.im saved from death, but still serves as a …

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AddThis Adds Tools for Movable Type and IE

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