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Excerpt: Yet another of Joost de Valks handy plugins, this one is a great tool for adding a little extra to your blog and helping visitors who take the time to comment feel that bit more welcome. By installing the plugin, you can set it to direct first time commenters to a specific page, with a thank you message, or to any other page of your choosing in or outside of your site.  The great part about this is the extra value it adds to the commenter’s experience in exchange for taking the time and effort to leave their thoughts and respond…

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Excerpt: Another one from Joost de Valk, this little plugin is great if your site’s theme doesn’t have breadcrumbs installed.  Not sure what breadcrumbs are? Yoast describes them as : Breadcrumbs are the links, usually above the title post, that look like “Home > Articles > WordPress SEO”. They are good for two things: They allow your users to easily navigate your site. They allow search engines to determine the structure of your site more easily. As you can guess they are pretty important but this plugin is a backup in case your theme hasn’t already got them included.  It does take a little…

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Excerpt: A great little plugin from Joost de Valk for measuring and monitoring the amount of “work” you do on your blog during the month. Small and unobtrusive, it’s a handy little application that let’s you see which months you have done too much (if there is such a thing), and which months you’ve been a lazy slacker. :P. It can come in especially handy if  you run a multi author blog and want to see how the authros are maintaining their overall averages and input. It’s not a game breaker plugin, but I find it useful for some self-analysis on occasion, and…