Improving Your WordPress Blog: Five Essential Plugins

“WordPress is a full-featured and simple to use publishing
platform, and it just gets better with each release. But even as
good as the standard WordPress release is, you can always make it
just a little bit better. In this guide, we’ll look at five plugins
that will help protect your blog from spam and malware, simplify
keeping backups, and even help you make a little cash off your blog
if you’re so inclined.

“The WordPress community has developed thousands of plugins and
themes. If you haven’t tried out WordPress plugins yet, you owe it
to yourself and your blog to give them a try. They’re amazingly
easy to set up and can boost the functionality of WordPress by
quite a lot. Reckless Assumptions

“Before starting, a few reckless assumptions. This is aimed at
people using WordPress who have a bit of experience with the
platform, but aren’t expert users of WordPress or PHP developers
who can knock up any feature they care like wrangling into
WordPress.

“This guide also assumes that you’re running a recent release of
WordPress, preferably the most current stable release (which would
be 2.9.2 as of publication).”

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