Plugging Away at Plugins

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One of the greatest strengths of a WordPress blog is the huge number of plugins that you can, er, plug in to your blog.

This makes it sounds like a plugin is a small electronic device to plug in, turn on and presto! some type of electronic magic happens.

But plugins are software – so the magic is subtle. The plugin is a few lines of code. The beauty of plugins is that a non programmer can use them to effectively program your blog to work in a different way without knowing any coding.

Just install then activate – a couple of clicks of a mouse and your blog greets your first time visitor or does an automatic backup of your blog or translates one language to another.

OK I admit this is not magic but it is marvellous. So I am starting a long series of posts where I’ll be going over plugins – one by one.

Feedback is welcome. Some plugins are simple to use and some need a high degree of tweaking so what you may regard as a great plugin I may avoid as being too, much trouble.

Also people have different goals for their blogs. This is the companion blog to the Expert List Building Membership Site and shares the goals expressed in our PDF and other publications.

We’ll start tomorrow with a frame work. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”

At the end of the series – or at least after a few weeks I’ll pull the threads together into a convenient PDF that you can download.