Category Archives: Wordpress Plugins

Tried and tested wordpress plugins that have proven themselves to be effective and in certain cases, essential for wordpress deployment, development and maintenance.

Share This WordPress Plugin

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The Share this plugin is a super easy way of adding the functionality for visitors to quickly and easily “share” or “pass” your information across to another network. This is something that your blog should offer to visitors in the most convenient and simple method possible to encourage the information to go “viral” as people pass the post on, in the manner of Chinese whispers, to friends, family and their extended network.

The simple icon image represents a single person or entity being the focal point and link to or connect with two other unique bodies to represent the process of having the same information being given to separate places.

Setting up Share this is relatively simple but in order to customise the plugin and display it in an effective manner you need to login to the Share This website, create an account and then edit the plugin to have it include the networks you want in the positions you want.

The system is very intuitive however and the setup will not take you long.  Once you have it configured on the website you are offered some code that you copy and paste into the plugin settings page, configure some other placement options and its done.

Author: ShareThis

Download the Share This Plugin.

WordPress SEO Slugs Plugin

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SEO slugs has nothing to do with the slimy little creature that you find in your back garden.  Rather, it refers to slugs as a “Title Slug” and in this case their removal from the post address or URL. Maybe your still wondering what I mean?  Let me illustrate.

When you create a post it will usually end up looking something like this:

http://www.justinparks.com/a-social-media-consultant-to-you

What SEO Slugs does is strip out the words in the URL that are generic and hence meaningless.  These are the words such as “and”, “a”, “to” etc. Thus the URL will look like this:

http://www.justinparks.com/social-media-consultant

Notice when you compare the two addresses that the new one has no “a” or “to”,“you” as SEO slug has removed them.

Now maybe your wondering why this is or would be any use.  Its actually quite logical.

The title URL you have is also a direct reference to the title and keywords you use in your post. By including “and” or “a” in the url you are needlessly lengthening it and “diluting”, for lack of a better word, the relevance of the other keywords which are more important.  In this case, the reminaing words in the title URL : /social-media-consultant

Once you install and activae SEO Slugs it begins to work automatically, you need do nothing else but post as normal.  If however you do, for whatever reason, wish to edit the URL/Address and include more words, then SEO Slugs will not overwrite them after you save your edit.

Author: Andrei Mikrukov

Downalod SEO Slugs WordPress plugin

WordPress SEO image plugin

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Of course, through out the course of creating and posting information on your blog you will want to use photos and images. These in themselves will need to be optimised for search engines and named and described for visitors (usually).

The SEO-image plugin does this for you and once configure, sets up all the images with “Alternative” and “Title” attributes.  Alternative text in images is the small segment of text you see when you hover your mouse pointer over an image on a website and this also serves to tell the search engines what the photo or image is along with the title.

The plugin can be set up and configure in different ways to suit the requirements for your site and the plugin.

Author: Vladimir Prelovac

Download the SEO Image plugin for WordPress.