Ever since I had the discussion about blogging with a friend – check out the last post about top blogging tips for some interesting pointers – I’ve been taking this personal blog I’m gradually building more seriously. It is still a very casual blog with lots of fun stuff in it, but it also needs to be valuable so that I can continue to entertain you all. WordPress is a very good blogging platform as it is, but it is the plug-ins that make taking on specific blogging-related tasks much easier to do.
After a thorough search through WordPress’s catalogue of plug-ins, I decided to install Tweet Old Post. Tweet Old Post is basically a WordPress plug-in designed to scan through your old blog posts and publish it on Twitter. It is a fantastic way of introducing old articles to new viewers and it completely eliminates manual pasting.
The Google XML Sitemap plug-in is another great WordPress plug in to install. I know the navigation of my personal blog is not the best, so to help both visitors and search engine crawlers – in this case, Google crawlers – to navigate through my personal blog easily the Google XML Sitemap plug-in automatically generates a detailed mapping of contents, pages, and other resources.
WordPress Database Backup is also an essential plug-in you should install if you are using WordPress like me. There is no need to worry about the site crashing because of broken database since this plug-in will make backing up your blog a lot easier to do. The good news is, restoring the backup is just as easy.
And of course, NextGEN Gallery. This is one of the best gallery plug-ins – if not THE best one available today – that will help organize pictures and media files using a very intuitive backend or admin interface.