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How to Install Word Press Plug Ins

by mreed on May 5, 2009

960692_questionsAnyone with a Word Press blog knows that there are a lot of plug ins that they can get. Plugs ins are important, and they are alternatives to changing the code. Codes are already written when it comes to plug ins, so you don’t have to worry about changing the code. That’s not something that a lot of people are very comfortable doing, so it’s best avoided.

Installing a plug in, though, is very easy. The first thing you need to do is go to Word Press and pick the plug in that you want to use. There are a lot and some of them are very similar, so take your time and get what you want. Download that plug in to your computer. It should come as a zip file, so extract it and keep note of where you put it. On your Word Press site, click ‘one click install.’ Then click browse and find the plug in on your computer. You’ll then click upload. When it’s done uploading you should be able to go to the plug ins area of your Word Press site and find it there.

Click activate and it’s both installed and functional until you decide to deactivate it again, which you’ll be able to do at any time by going back to the plug in area and clicking the deactivate button.

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Utilize the Power of WordPress Plug Ins

by mreed on April 18, 2009

482677_keyboard_3If you’re using Word Press for your blog – and a lot of people are –  you know about plug ins. However, are you using them to your advantage and their full potential? If you’re not, it’s time that you utilized their power, because they can really do a lot for you.

One of the things that Word Press does with its plug ins, and that other blogging platforms generally don’t do, is provide ways to work with social networking sites. These plug ins can automatically put a tweet on Twitter when you post something new, and can help make it a lot easier for people to follow your blog and bookmark things. When they do that, you get more traffic, because the bookmark is a ‘vote’ for your site that says it has some great content on it.

People see these things on the social networking sites of others and they go and see what the content is. Then, they might bookmark it, too. When that happens, more and more people start to see it, and the search engines see that you’re getting good links back to your content, so your ranking rises higher and higher. It’s a great way to get attention to your blog and keep your power as a blogger growing.

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