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WordPress for the Masses - Part 1

Ever since I first started building CommerceCubes almost six months ago now I’ve been learning a ton about WordPress. I’ve been learning about everything from themes to Permalinks to plug-ins and everything in between and I’ve really been enjoying myself. Sure maybe it’s the “inter-geek” inside of me or that satisfaction you get when you figure out a problem but man is this ever fun. Anyways I wanted to take the time to highlight a few tools that I’ve come across in my searches and trials over the past 6 months that may help you in the development of your WordPress site.

DoFollow Plug-in - I am just trying this plug-in today after reading Cesar’s posting over at Flee the Cube about a few of his favorite plug-ins. What DoFollow does is allows search engines to “follow” comments that your readers leave on your site. The usual default is set to noFollow so that search engines don’t end up indexing comments made to a particular page.

Subscribe-To-Comments Plug-in – What this plug-in allows a customer to do is allow them to receive updates on a posting they’ve made with a reminder that is sent to the email account they use on the WordPress Site. It is similar to the idea that forums have where you subscribe to threads that you comment on to receive updates about a particular thread.

How To Blog - Theme Site – This is probably one of the best resources for those of you looking for a theme that you can download, add to your WordPress site and modify that I have come across. It is maintained by Emily Robbins and it boasts more that 900 themes. Outside of the WordPress Theme Viewer I don’t know if a better source for FREE WordPress themes.

I am always hunting around for new and interesting plug-ins and add-ons for wordpress and wordpress related sites so feel free to post some of your favorite ones here on CommerceCubes. As I find new ones that are of interest I’ll post brief follow up articles here. Have fun WordPressing!

Luc