(10 votes, average: 4.4 out of 5)While I’m moving my blog from blogger to my own custom domain, I wanted to run my blog with wordpress as a CMS , frankly I don’t know much about wordpress but through web i found out that wordpress is one of the best CMS for blogging with lots of plug-ins available
lots of Articles helped me to learn how to use wordpress for blogging from scratch and how to use wordpress effectively with plugins, so i thought of sharing it with every one
Install wordpress
- Baisc Of WordPRess Download And Install
- How to Install WordPress on Your Own Server
- Video: Install a WordPress blog
- Install WordPress Locally - Part I
- Install WordPress Locally - Part 2
- Three tips to protect your WordPress installation
Worthy Plug-ins
- WP-PostRatings Plugin - Add Rating Star to Evry post on your blog
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Sociable - Social Bookmarking for WordPress
- Wp-Cache - The Best Worpress Plugin For Blogs Hosted In Shared Hosting
- Live Comment Preview
- Akismet - Protect Your Blog Form Spam
- cforms II - A Ready Made Contact Form For Your Blog
- FeedBurner FeedSmith - To Get More Accurate Results Form Feed Burner
- Popularity Contest - This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity
- Recent Posts - Returns a list of the most recent posts
- Recent Comments - Retrieves a list of the most recent comments
- Most Commented - Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments
- WordPress.com Stats - Same Like Google Anlytics but it’s embedded with your wordpress admin pannel
- WordPress Gravatar Plugin - outputs the gravatar based on the
- WP-Supercache - A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
- Maintenance Mode Plugin - Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in
- Global Translator - Translate your blog into multiple languages in a search engine friendly way.
- Slimbox Plugin - A lightbox Clone For Wordpress Blog
- 1 Pixel Out - Audio Player Wordpress plugin
- Democracy AJAX Poll - Add Poll To Yor Blog
- Welcome! - The plugin allows the user to display a nice welcome message to its visitors with fade out feature.
- Monthchunks plugin for Wordpress
- Syntax Highlighter - Highlight The Syntax code in your post differently
Plug-ins For Seo
- Head META Description - Insert HTML META description tag: excerpt/content brief for post/Page
- Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog
- SEO Title Tag - Makes it dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog
- All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for (Search Engine Optimization).
- Clean Archives - designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion
Tips
- Maintain permalinks moving from Blogger to WordPress
- Almost Perfect htaccess File for WordPress Blogs
- Robots.txt -How to create robots.txt file
- Collection of Robots.txt Files
- 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
SEO
- Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing
- Modify your title tag to be optimal
- Remove the hyperlink from the single post titles
Themes
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- 10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean Wordpress Themes
- Simple WordPress Themes
- 100 Favourite Wordpress Themes
- Download Thousands of Wordpress Themes in Single Download File
- 49 Most downloaded Wordpress themes of all time
Wordpress Themes Related
- WordPress Theme Hacks
- How to edit Wordpress themes using Dreamweaver
- 3 Important Things To Do On Your Wordpress Blog
- Canvas for Wordpress - Canvas brings the freedom to express yourself through design without needing to know CSS or PHP
- Multiple Wordpress Page Layouts in One Single Template
- Free Blank Wordpress Themes
- Secerts Of WordPress Theming - Part 1
- Secerts Of WordPress Theming - Part 2
- Secerts Of WordPress Theming - Part 3
- How to create a Wordpress Template or Theme
- How to create a WordPress theme: A guide for the design-challenged non-geek
More
- How to convert any web template into a WordPress theme
- Hack Attack: Set up and host a blog on your home computer
- 101 ways to get more traffic
- Three tips to protect your WordPress installation
- Blog Setup: 40 Practical Tips
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am
thanks for mentioning me
March 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Really handy list - I’m in middle of redesigning my portfolio site using Wordpress as a CMS and this is really helpful.
March 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Cool stuff. Thanks.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Thanks for the mention. Nice compilation.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:20 am
This is a killer compilation. Three Cheers
April 6th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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April 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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June 27th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
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