WordPress plugins and their usefulness do not really require an explanation, but in case you are new to the blogging world, let us enlighten you. In short they enhance your blog both in appearance, and its manageability. Both of these factors will serve you, and your readership.
The easier, clearer, and more appealing your blog is to read and manage by your readers, the more likely people will subscribe, follow, and spread the word about your blog. It also helps you stand out from the crowd, and considering there is around twelve million blogs, getting ahead is a challenge.
These plugins though, should help you do exactly that, and make you, and your readers, happier. Some of these plugins we have touched upon already, but reminders are always good, for well, reminding you.
Dedicated Site Plugins.
Digg Digg. This plugin enables you to add the Digg button to your posts. It also allows you to position the button which means you can position it in the best place for the post.
Digg This. This plugin is highly useful as it regulates you from making a complete fool of yourself. It does this by only allowing you to add a Digg button if it detects that you have submitted a post to Digg. This stops the embarrassment of returning a zero if you have forgot to submit the post in the first place.
DiggZ-Et. This baby lets you insert Digg buttons into any part of your post. It has a few other options too, which may come in handy, if you have that kind of blog.
Dugg Widget. This is cool because it allows you to insert the last ten posts that have made it on Digg into the sidebar of your blog. Not only can you keep track of what has been dug, it also gives you a cool way of boasting.
FriendFeed Activity Widget. As you can imagine and have no doubt deduced. This lets you share a post with friends. It is dead easy to use as well.
Friendfeed Comments. This plugin lists the number of times an article has been marked as a favourite. It also displays the comments from the friend feed section of your site. Nice!
Stumble Reviews. This plugin allows you to display any reviews from stumble upon that a page of your site has received. This is obviously a great way to promote your work.
Twitter Updater. This plugin allows you to send a tweet from your site, every time you update your blog. The tweet will show as a tiny URL. Kind of cool when you think about it.
WordPress Twitter Widget. This plugin displays your @username in your side bar, and any related avatars you may have.
WP-Profilactic This baby allows you to build your site around your Profilacticprofilactic Lifestream account, if you wish to do so. The advantage here is that your readers can view your social network accounts that you may have. As long as you have under two hundred that is!
These plugins as you have no doubt deduced are there to help you spread the word of your genius, via the genius of social networking. The beauty of doing this, is that it works. If you read any blog post relating to advertising yourself on the web, it is all via social media that you should.
Social media has become a selfulfilling prophercy, and this has meant it is not only preferable to market your work in this way, but essential. These plugins will help you do that, and you should look into utilizing them at the earliest opportunity.
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July 28th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
So many plugins for Digg! Where’s the love for StumbleUpon and Reddit?
September 5th, 2009 at 4:46 am
I like the friendfeed comments. I would like to see how many people have visited my site and which one does people likes most. This way I will be able to know which field does people love to know about or if I need to improvement in a particular area.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:59 am
How about Stumbleupon and Reddit? But you’re cool. Such article for digg plugins.
Great work, but much better if Stumbleupon and Reddit might be included for comparison.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Wow! profilactic has 190 sites supported. This is just so amazing! If I’m not mistaken we can find or socialize with many people through this.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Same here, just a newbie and as I read this article I realize that this wordpress this is really great and would like to use for my site. Thanks.
December 30th, 2009 at 4:11 am
So plugins are important as what I have learned from this section. I am so new to this and I’m afraid I do not know how to make things work.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
i never thought plugins are important until i have come to read this blog. i admit do not fully understand yet the functions of plugins but i think now i am having an idea so far.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:36 am
I am a newbie and I found out that wordpress is suitable for my site. But I have some problems after installing. I’ll try doing the same step again and hope I wont get the same outcome.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:51 am
never been too particular about plugins and all that because before i never thought of how useful these are. well, at least it is never too late for me to improve my blog.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Dugg Widget is useful for my forum sites. It can help my viewers keep themselves on track for the latest topics.
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:19 pm
hey there dave. It sounds like your are familiar dugg widget but i guess it is not the only plugin that provides viewers about your latest topics. But anyway, that could be one of which.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:38 am
It is so nice to visit here seeing this different plug-ins. I do not know much of them but ill try to understand every information you have shared.
June 24th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Getting traffic through social bookmarking. That’s something effective. You’ll get more audience.
June 24th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
getting involve in social networking sites for you to spread you genius work is very effective. Most people now a days are involve in different kinds of social networking sites.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Can I use any of those for my blogs? Dugg widget sounds interesting Dave. How was that?
June 25th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Without plugins, your blogs would look like a person who’s out of style.
June 25th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I really love reading comments from our audience. They can share something that we do not know or some info that we left behind.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Im using wordpress 2.01. Is it okay to use any of those plugins?
June 26th, 2010 at 3:55 am
Karen since your a newbie, read carefully the information shared. Go ahead and try those cool plug-ins. You have lots of choices.
June 26th, 2010 at 4:15 am
I didn’t know that I’ll get a tweet every time I update my blog. So ill get that twitter updater thing.
June 26th, 2010 at 7:25 am
Does this plug-ins working good? And will work to any wordpress version?
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
What stumbleupon and reddit? I haven’t heard of it before.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:58 pm
I guess they did not place stumble upon because as what I have knew that digg is much better than that.
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I guess althea is right. I suggest to use digg than stumble upon.
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:27 pm
It is nice to keep members updated through a wordpress plugin. That is why I believe in the power of social networking sites.