[Blog Tip] Enhancing your users experience - Wordpress plugins
 

http://www.justjace.com/2007/09/11/e...press-plugins/

So, I get a lot of people asking me what does "enhancing your users experience" mean? I think this is something that everyone interprets differently, but to me it means anything on your blog that will make a user have more fun or interact more with your posts. Yeah, that sounded corny, but it really does work, and let me tell you some plugins that I use to accomplish this.

I am using all of these plugins on my blog, so if you need to see anything in action, just poke around this site.

Add This Social Bookmarking Widget - This is an awesome little widget that gets placed at the end of each post, it lets your users easily add your posts to their favorite social bookmarking sites. Want an example? Look below this post

Link To Me Textbox - This is a cool little plugin that places a "Like this post? Link to it from your site" box below every post. Here is an example on my Adult RSS Feeds post.

Related Entries - Very useful plugin that will place a list of related posts under the current post.

Spam Karma - This is a comment spam plugin for your Wordpress comments. This is nice for both users and blog owners, because it is a "learning" plugin for spam that will work with you when stopping spam, and the more comments you flag in the admin, the more it learns what is and isn't spam.

Subscribe To Comments - This plugin lets users subscribe to comments, so any time new comments are posted for that particular entry they have subscribed to, they get emailed. This let's users get nice discussions going with other users.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Simply put, this plugin installs a "tags" system to your wordpress blog that lets users find other posts on each particular topic easier. Examples from my blog: RSS Feeds : SEO : Social Bookmarking

Post Ratings - This allows users to rate each post. It has a lot of options to configure, so be sure and read the manual.

Post Views - A simple plugin that shows how many views a particular posts has gotten. NOTE: After you install this it will take a few loads before it starts displaying, it confused me at first, but I went to sleep and woke up and it was working perfectlyy

I use a few others that are also good

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another great thread.. was looking for plugins to add on my site.

i have most of the ones jace mentioned on www.bustedblog.com

oh by the way, are these plugins will work on WP 2.x.x versions?

those are SEO plugins for the most part, I haven't touched on that yet. The SEO post will probably be the finale :) haha

I use the latest wordpress version and have not had any issues

thanks jace! will add these plugins to my new sites. thanks for sharing again! :thumbsup

nice article. hehe was trying to contact you a few week ago for the free wordpress seo install looks like you stopped doing it hehe :P

Jace, I just wanted to say you're always a huge help. And Thank You for that. Even went I sent you my beta feed script, you gave me a great suggestion, which I had implemented. Again, thanks for that. You are a huge asset to GFY.

I stopped doing all the blog installs for the most part, just don't have time anymore

if you read my blog every day this week I am basically telling everyone everything that I did in the installs...a new post every day until Friday

np, i like being helpful :)

:Kissmy

Excellent thread, very helpful, thank you!

thanks again

I've added the LinkToMe box on a few blogs and integrated social bookmarking links with the popular feed sites ... but has anyone really seen a big benefit from this - at least for a clearly adult blog?

Obviously, if your posts are all sponsor feeds or gibberish (spammy keyword text with almost nothing of value for a surfer), then you probably won't get many people voluntarily Digg-ing, etc.

For those that actually have a truly good blog with original content and value in their posts, have you seen much traffic using these plugins or through social bookmarking?

Just curious.

the social bookmarking one I have, but in all honesty I would LOVE it if smeone would do the AddThis plugin for porn social bookmarking sites

and the linktome is for internal links mainly, but I have seen a couple people use it on my mainstream blogs, but not many....but the big value of that one as I see it is for internal linking purposes

BTW, helpful little tool I found the other day

http://adult.socialposter.com/

i'm going to add that booking marking widget. that looks good

the ONLY thing I don't like about it is, that you can't control where it is places

although, I bet if I got into the code a bit and looked around I would be able to see how to adjust that

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