{"id":2579,"date":"2011-10-03T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:48:20","slug":"wordpress-plugins-making-most-of-the-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wordpress-plugins-making-most-of-the-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins \u2013 Making the Most of the Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While we talk about the advantages of the different content management systems<\/a> frequently, their strength is far more determined by how you use them.\u00a0 Each CMS has a world of plugins that programmers all over the world have created.\u00a0 Some of them are powerful enough to negate any problems inherent in your CMS of choice, and add functionality to it that you may have never considered.
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\nThis is the first in a series of articles that will go over some of the best plugins we found out there for the most popular contention management systems.\u00a0 We start today with the king of CMS’s, WordPress and WP Plugins<\/a>.\u00a0 Note that we are going to be focusing on for-pay plugins in this article.\u00a0 Free plugins have their place, and we will cover those eventually as well.\u00a0\u00a0 This is for the webmaster who is willing to shell out a little cash for the best.<\/p>\n

1) Events Calendar Pro<\/strong><\/p>\n

This sleek calendar system gives the webmaster an easy-to-use interface with which they can create professional-looking calendar and event pages.\u00a0 Among the options available are the ability to integrate Google Maps into the event page, and using \u201cPretty URLs\u201d.\u00a0 The calendar of events can be displayed in a number of attractive, easy-to-read formats.<\/p>\n

2) All in One Shortcodes Plugin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Much of what you’ll want to do with your WordPress site might benefit from some simple stylistic addition.\u00a0 You may not want to pick up a book and spend a few hours learning the code necessary, though.\u00a0 This $20 plugin lets you do these easily.\u00a0\u00a0 Buttons and text boxes of all different sizes and styles,\u00a0 image and text sliders (meaning content that rotates through a limited set every few seconds), embedded video, and social bookmarking are all available.\u00a0 It’s a veritable WordPress Swiss army knife.<\/p>\n

3) Custom Widget Areas for WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most useful additions to a standard WordPress account is the ability to make customer sidebar sections, or widgets.\u00a0 This inexpensive package allows you to do just that.\u00a0 The webmaster is presented with an enormous variety of options for what to display where, and how.\u00a0 Widgets can be included in main body text, and all pages down to 404 error code pages can be customized.<\/p>\n

4) uPricing \u2013 Pricing Table for WordPress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is a bit specialized, but the right user will really appreciate having it.\u00a0 This little package lets the user make a business-quality pricing table.\u00a0 Tables are often one of the first things a new HTML editor learns how to make.\u00a0 They soon learn thereafter how much worse a bad-looking table can make your web site appear.<\/p>\n

5) Twitter Ultimate-WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, no article about improving your website would be complete without somehow working modern social networking into it.\u00a0 Of the available packages we looked at for the most popular social hangouts, Twitter Ultimate-WordPress Plugin seemed to provide the best functionality for the least cost ($8 as of this writing).\u00a0 It allows the user all sorts of controls over whose tweets are displayed when, and how often.<\/p>\n

There are even more good plugins, and we’ll go into them when we later cover some of the free ones available for WordPress.\u00a0 For now, this should give the WordPress webmaster looking for some very nice enhancements to their site an excellent starting point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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