Blogging Tips

PLUGINS

• Page Navigation
  Lester Chan has a plugin that will help you put a neat page navigation bar in your pages. It shows the next and previous pages in numbers and it also has the scroll next /prev keys. Very good if you have large number of pages.
• Capitalize your post titles
  Here’s a new wordpress plugin that capitalizes your post titles automatically. Good one for those who’d like to highlight their post titles for surfers.
• Related posts based on tags
  This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show via tags the related posts of a post. It contains a sidebar widget that displays a list of related posts via the tags. The number of related posts to display can be configured. The posts are sorted by the number of matching tags and then by the post date. It is also possible to insert the list of related post in a post via a placeholder.
• Expandable categories
  This one helps you to show your categories as an expandable/contractable list. Very good if you don’t want Google to crawl your content for duplicate content.
• WP 2.3 tags to Technorati
  This plugin converts your categories to Technorati tags. Easy to install, ready to roll in one click!

THEMES

• Freicurv
  A three column based theme with highlighted About me box and real estate for Ad-spots.
• Visualization magazine style theme
  A magazine style theme with boring colours but standard based design. Good for content rich websites.
• Skyscraper theme
  WordPress theme with customizable header and typical old style three column layout. Good for classic theme lovers.
• WpDesigner 7
  A very neat and professional looking theme from Small Potato giving readers the option to change the colour theme of the blog. Available in red,green and blue.
• Crzy Blu
  This is a WP theme with some cool ready made plugin integration. It supports simple tags, flickr, mybloglog and gravatar avatars.