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Plug-ins , this very very useful little things. For the sidebar the little add-on programs also are widgets called. (Ultimately, they are not very much different in function, it is also relatively small sections of code that just convenient and GAI are * safe home in the sidebar; be herumgepult it must not need the source code of the theme Finally shelling. not in the code for everyone.)
Some plugins have their own widgets on board to be able to spend something in the sidebar. Here's an example: The plugin ' StatPress "includes, among other things, which pages are visited and how often. About a widget in the sidebar of the blogging man can for example publish these results. Another example: Akismet (see below) filters out spam comments - in a widget then the number of filtered spam will be announced.

Plugins and widgets to make the life of a blogger using WordPress much easier. The functionality of the blog is (depending on the selected plugins partially or significantly) enhanced. Many of these add-ons work "out of the box", as the French say, that "right out of the box". Some are created must be a little obvious, but the perpetrators of these snippets give detailed information about it quite often.

There are many bloggers who share their experience with plugins and widgets you. Here are some examples, as a kind of inspiration and warm-up:

• Top Ten Wordpress Plugins in 2008 (with head teacher)
• Important plugins (at Cindy's blog on lawn)
• The most popular WordPress plugins in the German blogosphere (in software guide)

Not everything that exists is, for every blog alike. I raise no claims to infallibility, nor do I revel in absolute fantasy. I blog now a quarter of WordPress (previously I've worked with beta blogger). I'm still excited about the possibilities of this platform. And after I finally got my theme "environment" was the way I had imagined, it is now increasingly to the fine tuning ** with plugins and widgets.

What I consider it essential

Akismet :
One of the most effective spam filter at all. Here has been fished out plenty of spam. But the legal framework of the use seems to be uncertain in Germany. The problem: There are so good comments coming into the pot, but the poor can be sent to the spam Nirvana, data sent to a server in the USA. This compares certain parameters, these stores, but the Akismet user has no influence and do not know exactly what is stored as long why. ( Details on data security guards blog .) From my rErfahrung with the plugin but I can say that it filters very reliable and comments like this effectively keeps the neck. In all the concerns I continue to use him, but will set a clear reference to data protection.

All-in-one SEO Pack :
SEO - the acronym stands for Search Engine Optimization , Search Engine Optimization so. Time, be honest: Who wants to publish something on his blog, also read. (Optional heard or seen when it comes to podcasts, music or pictures.) Two visitors a day make the blogger carbon not fat. Because it helps a plugin that a largely decreases the work, even more real. But you can, if desired, belonging to the turn of the screw optimization optimization tools. Where knowledge of English is indispensable.

Exec-PHP :
PHP is basically the engine of dynamic Web content. As anyone who can read, is not difficult to recognize is given, a WordPress Theme from a majority. Php files, flanked by. Css, cascading styling sheets so that indicates the sound design. If one wants to install a scrap of PHP articles and / or the sidebar, it will be miserable without Exec-PHP differences Tern fail: Since WordPress denied any cooperation in the standard version. With this plugin, but it is simple PHP code to insert snap - and even running the story. The simple little text widgets will suddenly become powerful tools.

Warning ExecPHP installed in the head of the editor

But beware: WordPress has indeed *** This WYSIWYG editor. When writing is to help to understand the structure and the later appearance of the entry. For PHP code editor, but this is very dangerous. But let's be honest: Did you ever go to the article like this publication as the editor? No? Well, we do not feel it too.
It can certainly be the inexperienced user of some help to understand the gross structure, but it is not necessary. For this plugin it is even fatal, at least for the PHP code. The ratz is then, that breathes away when an article from the WYSIWYG interface (for WordPress is the "graphic") out of stores. But I have learned from experience that one can certainly meantime times change in the graphical view, if you can not just forget to come back before being stored in the HTML editor - some buttons (for example, to underline) there are in HTML editor not.

This can leave you with the buttons missing but - with the plugin AddQuicktag , with which it goes further in the next part .

A final personal thanks goes to Cindy that she has helped me in searching: The idea, in the search of the blog meadow times the name of the plugin , which they used, I was looking for, but always in the wrong version in the fingers, got enter, I am not come to my shower head.

nzunehmender I diotenanwender. * GAI = G rößter a nzunehmender I diotenanwender.

** This widget is LEO , following the way, translates as "thingy", "gimmicks" or "device". Not meaningful as the English name. Significantly, was the first (sub) title of my blog "artifice mätzchen photos and other blogs." "Other Antics" has to this day as a synonym for category "Miscellaneous".

*** WYSIWYG: Stands for "What you see is what you get". Freely translated: Guckste already in writing, how it looks later.

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