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WordPress Navigation with Breadcrumbs Plugin

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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 messing with the theme files, but the support details are excellent on the plugin page, so they should guide you through.

Author: Joost de Valk

Download the Breadcrumbs Plugin.

WordPress Blog Metrics Plugin

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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 to break down the averages of my overall output.

Author: Joost de Valk

Download the Blog Metrics Plugin.

WordPress Plugin 404 Notifier

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The wordpress 404 notifier might sound a bit weird, but it’s very, very useful.  As your blog develops, you may decide that the original way it was created needs to be adapted. So, you change some categories, or the permalinks structure.  No matter the size of your site though, the last thing you want are dead end links, or 404 pages, appearing after you do these changes.

Grab the 404 notifier plugin, and you’ll be emailed (or via an RSS feed) with a list of problems and 404 pages that need to be addressed to keep the site ship-shape and in working order.

An essential house keeping tool.

Author: Alex King

Download the 404-notifier plugin