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Last Updated on January 25, 2017 by Work In My Pajamas
My obsession with WordPress Templates is slowly subsiding, and now I’m moving on to WordPress Plug-Ins. I’ve found if you want to add some special function or feature to a WordPress blog, simply google what you want, and someone smarter has already thought of the concept. Here’s just a few of the cool plug-ins I’ve added recently that I recommend…
WP Contact Form v.2.0WP I wanted a contact form so I didn’t have to divulge my email address online for robots to harvest and spam me (more than I already get). An example of this form is on my Contact Us page of this very site.
EventCalendar 3.0 I wanted a calendar in the sidebar that would show future events, not just previous posts. This is working nicely to display upcoming events for my local Kiwanis Club.
Captcha From ProtectWebForm This plug-in is cool. Eliminates comment spam by adding a captcha check to suspicious IP’s. I was getting bombarded with comment spam on my House for Kim Blog and Shoeaholics Anonymous Blog (only I knew it as comments were moderated, but it was a pain to delete them from the back-end). Since adding this plug-in a few days ago, I haven’t had one spam comment!
Dean’s Permalinks Migration With this plugin, you can change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website and doesn’t hurt your google pagerank. I installed this on several of my blogs changing the permalink structure to contain the category instead of the date. i.e. This link http://stealthestyle.com/2007/01/17/steal-jennifers-style is now this link http://stealthestyle.com/celebrities/jennifer-aniston/steal-jennifers-style/ Better, wouldn’t you agree?
And last, but not least, for today anyway…
Sidebar Widgets Lets you easily manage your sidebar with no HTML knowledge required. Does not work with all templates. I installed it on my Shoeaholics Anonymous Blog, but since I know HTML code, I tweaked it some.
I found another simple contact form that I like – PXS Mail Form.
I suggest cforms for a contact form – even lets you have multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.