Blogging Expertise

Always as exciting when new plugins are released for WP, isn’t it? New functions that can make the look of your dear baby smoother. Yes, blogging is more than a cold site, it’s your own site that you take care of. You feed it, you update it, you gain from it. Your baby.

So what’s out there this time?

Plugins

Let’s begin with some handy plugins. Add Related Posts to Your Feed is something I’ve seen in some sites already and really like it. New readers arrive all the time and few take the time to read everything previously written. They just enjoy the current ride. That’s why by adding related posts to the feed of a new one can help readers notice older posts and you get more page-views. It requires Ultimate Tag Warrior though, so make sure to install it before.

For you that want to get some extra income through all possible ways, there’s AdSense Attachment. It works like this: if you have images in your posts that are “linked to page”, they’ll be shown with ads around them when clicked. Great for blogs that mainly compile and add information from the net.

If you don’t like tabs in your admin interface, try Tab-U-Later that ought to eliminate those.

Themes

Two themes are also floating around. The first one is Reality tales, a light colored, 2 column graphical theme, with clean coding by Ekta Paneri. If you’re interested in my personal opinion, it’s a beautiful theme. A blog should be thin, clean and different, which “Reality tales” is.

The next one is called Green Grass, a two column theme featuring green grass in the header. Nothing very new, nothing very special, still very nice. It has a great color-theme and font. Very clean as well.

So that’s about all, the new updates of WordPress. Pick your favorites and implement them—it will certainly freshen up the site.