September 11, 2009 | 
OK, you have your Essential Plugins, your Traffic Generating Plugins ( TGP’s) and your Helping Hand Plugins;
Time for Fine-Tuning WordPress Plugins.
Sure; your WordPress blog can function fine without them, but for some of us: Finer is more like it. We like to chase after a Great Blog . We try to have a Unique blog, those plugins make it much easier than going through lines and lines of code; if you “been there done that” you know what I am talking about!
While Some of them do require accessing certain files on your server and making changes in them, some of them will replace plugins you might already have and some of them need more effort than your usual plugin; but The end result in your WordPress blog is worth the trouble.
Here they are in no particular order:
AskApache Google 404
Weird name, Great plugin!
For better S.E.O and to make your blog more visitors friendly; your blog needs 404 (Page not Found) page; while some of WordPress templates do come with it, most of them do not. You can use your template 404 page or use this plugin as 404 page; does require .htaccess file modification and Google API (Free) to work:
Author Description:
“AskApache Google 404 is a must-have WordPress plugin that uses some ajax and a couple tricks to display a very helpful and SEO Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site.”
WP Tweaks
I can see some of you smiling in joy: A Tweak Plugin…for WordPress? ….Let me have it!
Tweak your Admin Dashboard, Comments and Pings ( Disable self-pinging is a must ), Post. Nofollow, S.E.O , Security, themes and appearance and more. All the goodies that you need to take care of in one spot!
Author Description:
” WordPress Tweaks is a powerful yet simple plugin to help you push the boundaries of WordPress by fine-tuning its many aspects. This multi-purpose plugin specializes in simple toggle-on/off changes. It adds many useful settings pertaining to comments, posts, SEO, security, the administration back-end, and much more. Some tweaks can even replace plugins that you may already have installed. The WordPress Tweaks plugin works by adding a “Tweaks” page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox.”
Hackadelic SEO TOC
The name says it all: Table of Content for you page that is SEO Friendly, never mind the Hackadelic part, he is a great guy.
Do you have long posts or pages? Do you use Page breaks a lot? This plugin will hunt for any <– <h2> –> element that appears in that post or page and list them neatly before or after your content, and you can switch it on and off.
Author Description:
”Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents plugin: A freely positionable, AJAX-ishly collapsible, CSS styleable, fancy table of contents box for WordPress posts and pages.”
Theme Tweaker
Some of WordPress themes you see around are just great, but the colors in them tend to be flashy, dull or even wrong altogather. This plugin will let you change any color in your theme without actually editing the Stylesheet. Oh Yah: You can make Child Themes too!
Author Description:
“Theme Tweaker displays the existing colors from your current theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale etc. Furthermore, Theme Tweaker allows you to preview or activate your changes. Finally, you can save the modified stylesheet locally and upload it into your blog server to deploy your new color scheme.”
Plugin Home PageMYCSS
It is All About YOU! This plugin will give you mycss.css Stylesheet to use in your blog, you changed the colors, the fonts why not change the CSS too. Author Description:“ MyCSS is a WordPress plugin that allows you to attach your personal CSS stylesheet to your blog, regardless of the theme you might be using. This is useful for users who want extra control over the presentation of individual blog entries by using self-defined CSS classes without worrying about compatibility issues when switching theme from one to another. “
wp-Typography
I’ve told you already: We like to re-fine it even more, Web Typography and HOW your words look in any browser is part of that! Author Description: ” Improve your web typography with: (1) hyphenation — over 40 languages supported, (2) Space control, includes: widow protection, gluing values to units, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses, (3) Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks, dashes, ellipses, trademarks, math symbols, fractions, and ordinal suffixes, and (4) CSS hooks for styling: ampersands, uppercase words, numbers, initial quotes & guillemets.” Plugin Home Page
WP Reset
I call it : The Push Me if you panicked plugin, and although it does not tweak or tune your WordPress; you should have it ready just in case you did some serious mess with the codex and none of your efforts to fix it worked.
It simply resets your WordPress Databse to the state it was before you broke it!
Author Description:
“Resets the WordPress database back to it’s defaults. Deletes all customizations and content. Does not modify files only resets the database.”
No Home Page, But you can install WP Reset from your dashboard.
To Be Continued
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