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Top 10 Most Excellent WordPress Plugins for Internet Marketing
As many of you regular readers will know, I’m a very big fan of WordPress. It’s an excellent system with a myriad of applications. In fact, I run all my sites on WordPress, ever since David Cavanagh first showed me how easy it is.
The plugins – elements that can be added to increase the functionality of the site – are part of what makes WordPress so good.
Anyway, I thought I’d share with you the 10 top plugins that I believe every blog site needs to run effectively. There are other plugins out there that do similar things but from my own testing and plenty of trial and error, these are the best ones. To get them installed on your blog, simply go into WordPress, click ‘Plugins’ on the left hand menu and click ‘Add New’. From there, just type their names into the search bar (one at a time) and then click ‘Install’ next to the one you want.
So, here’s the list for your blogging/site-building pleasure…
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Major Problem Solved – Get Your Own WordPress Development Superhero
‘Oh, *$%@ing hell!’
I can’t remember exactly, but I’m pretty sure that was one of the first things I said at about 1:30pm on Saturday.
I was busy working on my website, I’d updated a plugin or two and was busy adding the video and form that you can see on the right of the blog. I refreshed the page to double-check that the front page was as I wanted it.
And then it happened.
The front page started redirecting to the ‘Confirm Your Subscription’ page. I had no idea why and tried looking through every bit of code I could find to see why it had happened.
In fact, I ended up spending hours on The Warrior Forum trying to find an expert. Even when I deleted the page, it kept redirecting to the page and returning a 404 error (the error that happens when a page can’t be found or no longer exists). The Warriors were helpful, but I didn’t have time to implement all their suggestions as I was about to go out. Also, I wasn’t sure how expert they were at WordPress.
By this stage I was raging with frustration… It appeared that my website was really screwed up and that I may start losing traffic and looking a little incompetent at the same time.
