Top Wordpress Plugins I couldn’t live Without for Newbies

Braydon — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:14:51 +0000

I’m very new to Wordpress and I’ve been playing 5 years of catch-up over the past 4 weeks and believe that I have some authority when it comes to this particular subject because I still consider myself a Newbie. These plugins I highly recommend to make your life easier, post faster, save you time and help market your blog to it’s full potential. These are the top 10 or so must have plugins for wordpress that I’ve personally researched, use and highly recommend. I hope this list saves you a ton of time from doing all the work and research yourself as I did.

MyAvatars - Neat little plugin for coolness factor.
All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your wordpress blog for search engines. SEF URLs, title, meta, and more. Can’t live without!
WP-PageNavi - Adds a very useful and easy navigation structure to the bottom of pages.
TinyMCE Advanced - Adds 16 more features to the Wordpress default TinyMCE text editor which now becomes two rows plus one hidden row.
WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Always good to have daily backups.
Adhesive or StickPost - Lets you feature a post aka ”sticky”, so that the it will remain at the top of the page.
Share This - Allows visitors to add posts to various social bookmarking sites or e-mail to a friend.
Popularity Contest - Keeps track of your posts, categories and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
Feedburner Feedsmith - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner.com (a free service that helps to promote your blog) while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
flickrRSS - Allows you to easily display Flickr pictures on your weblog.
Advanced Admin Drop Down Menu - Kinda self explanatory. I couldn’t live without this one. It no longer takes you 10 clicks to complete a simple task in your admin area. I think that Wordpress should not ship without this plugin built in.

KayuPress is Premium Web 2.0, 3 column ‘wood textured’ Theme with 125×125 ads ready

Braydon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:03:42 +0000

This theme was design by my very talented friend and fellow WordPress Theme designer Moses Francis exclusively for me. This is one of the first very professional Wordpress Web 2.0 Premium themes I’ve promised. It’s loaded with features, especially easy to customize.

KayuPress (Kayu means Wood in the Malay language) is a 3 column theme with idtabs (by Sean Catchpole) and comes ready for 125×125 ads, flickr photos, feedcount and tons more.

I’ve partnered with Moses to bring you some really Outstanding Wordpress Themes in the future as he’s a well establish designer. He’s already working on his next one and secretly told me that it’s going to be one of the best themes he’s ever created. It’s hard to believe because he’s created some great themes, but I believe him and can’t wait to see it.

Plugins
KayuPress is good to go out of the box, nothing required but I highly recommend you use the following plugins to get the best out of it:

I’ve compiled the plugins into a single zip file, but please visit the respective author’s site for more information about the plugins as they can better answer your questions and offer faster solutions. [Download Plugins]

Photoshop File
Moses is selling the layered PSD (Photoshop) source files of those of you who wish to unleash your extreme editing skills on KayuPress for only $9.95, please contact him directly if your interested.

**If you want to another type of wood background, i suggest you look at the superb PSDTuts “Ultimate Wood Texture Tutorial”.**

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Top Wordpress Plugins I couldn’t live Without for Newbies

KayuPress is Premium Web 2.0, 3 column ‘wood textured’ Theme with 125×125 ads ready