If you’re a blogger, you know that one of the beauties of WordPress is the sheer number of available plugins. There are the "old standbys" that many blogs use, such as WP Super Cache and All In One SEO Pack. But are you familiar with some of the lesser-known gems? Here are five WordPress plugins used on 40Tech.com, that may be new to you if you have a blog.
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It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter. Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:
Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats for Your Site – Although it appears to only provide you with data for your site that is at least a day old, Google Analytics can be used to give you up-to-the-minute stats. This post discusses how.
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It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter. Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:
Reduce Your Blog’s Bounce Rate with YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is a WordPress plugin to inform readers of content that is related to the content they are reading. It can help you reduce your bounce rate. Bounce rate represents the percentage of initial visitors to your site who leave after visiting one page, instead of staying to visit other pages.
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If you’ve visited 40Tech since its inception back in June, you may have noticed a few changes to the system for visitor comments. We’ve been searching for the "perfect" system, and we’ve tried out Disqus, Intense Debate, and JS-Kit Echo on this site and a test server. For a few reasons, 40Tech is now back to using the default WordPress commenting system, with some enhancements. What are the reasons for not going with one of the third- party systems? Let’s take a look at our experience with each of these three third-party commenting systems.
It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter. Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:
CommentLuv – With avatars not working properly with the Disqus commenting system on 40Tech, we’ve deactivated Disqus, and gone back to the standard WordPress commenting system. One side benefit is that we can now use the CommentLuv plugin. CommentLuv allows a commenter (commentator?) to plug his or her own blog, by automatically detecting the latest post on the commenter’s own site, and posting a link to it along with the commenter’s comment. If you noticed any comments disappear, it is nothing personal – it probably got lost in the Disqus deactivation (I noticed only one comment missing – one of mine).
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On a completely unrelated and somewhat trivial note, I’ve been wrestling with the use of the words "commenter" or "commentator" to describe those who leave comments on blogs. Most sources suggest that "commentator" is the proper word, but "commenter" gets some love, too, and actually seems more sensible to me in this type of setting. Can anyone shed some light on this?