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Five Super-Useful WordPress Plugins

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 13, 2009

“Here are just five of the over 6,800 different plugins the
WordPress community has dreamed up. (Disclosure: Automattic, the
parent company of WordPress, is backed by True Ventures, a venture
capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this
blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is
also a venture partner at True.)

“IntenseDebate – Add a ton of increased functionality to your
comments with this handy plugin. Create an IntenseDebate account,
install the plugin on your blog, then sync the two systems. You can
moderate and reply to IntenseDebate comments right from the Admin
panel, and make use of extra features like avatars, reputation
points, and more. IntenseDebate also syncs all your trackback and
pingback data for easy reference and linkjuice.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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