What plugins to use?
Plugins, Wordpress October 31st, 2007This is an important and very valuable question, and a lot of people do not know the answer to. But do not worry, I will explain you here in some more details about plugins and which ones I recommend.
First of all, what are plugins? A plugin is small piece of software that you upload and activate in WordPress, and that will give you extra features to WordPress. This is actually one of the main reasons why I suggest people to install the wordpress software on a hosted server. It allows you to install and activate all kinds of plugins, which you cannot do when you set up your account under WordPress.com.
The procedure for uploading and activating the plugins is quite simple, but I do recommend one thing: PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS OR README FILE BEFORE UPLOADING. I do speak out of own experience. I have uploaded one day a plugin without looking at the readme file, and was standing in front of a nightmare. So, read the readme file or installation first and carefully.
On top of this blog, you find the page ‘Used Plugins’. This is the place where you can see which plugins I use and recommend. If you want one or more of them, just click on the name, and you can download the plugin.
The sites that I recommend to look for plugins are the following:
- WordPress Plugin Database
- WordPress Plugins Offical Page
- WordPress Plugins Database
- WordPress Plugin Sort by Function at softplug.net
If you know of another interesting and good website that has a selection of plugins, please let me know by using the comment form with this post, and if the evaluation is good, I will add it to list and put your name in brackets to thank you.
I hope that this is helpful to you and happy blogging.
Coach Erwin
November 1st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Hey Erwin!
Help!!! I’m working on installing the Plugins and I’m not understanding what to do. Specifically, I am trying to install the exec-php plugin, that is required to be able to install the AskMe plugin… and so on, and so on!
I read in the Read Me file that I am to 1. Extract the files. Copy the exec-php directory into /wp-content/plugins/
What exactly does that mean? Do I only put the exec.php.php file into the folder on the server? What about all of the other files that came in the download?
Your help is appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Lee
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Hi Lee,
First of all, it is great to hear that you read the ReadMe file.
Concerning exec-php, you need to copy the folder ‘exec-php’ into wp-content/plugins/
Once you have done that, go to your admin panel, Plugins and click on ‘Activate’. And done!!!
I hope that this is helpful, otherwise, contact me and let see what I can do for you.
Coach Erwin