WordPress Plugins
One of the things that makes WordPress such a versatile platform is the ease with which developers can create WordPress plugins.
WordPress plugins extend the basic functionality of WordPress allowing it to become so much more. There are WordPress plugins available for pretty much anything you could want on a blog or a brochure website including:
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) plugins such as the All-in-One SEO Pack or WordPress SEO by Yoast
- The Google XML Sitemaps Generator
- Easy to use contact forms with CAPTCHA anti-spam filtering such as the Fast Secure Contact Form
- The Akismet anti-spam plugin for filtering out spam comments
- Twitter follow buttons such as the Xhanch My Twitter plugin
- Menu plugins such as the jQuery Mega Menu
- LTW Testimonials
- Basic Google Maps Placemarks
- Dynamic Widgets - allows you to have different sidebars on each page by specifying which widgets show up on which pages.
- Image Widget - allows you to add images to the sidebar using the WordPress image uploader.
- Auto Excerpt Anywhere - automatically shows excerpts in your homepage, archives and search results. Developers website: http://www.josie.it/wordpress/wordpress-plugin-auto-excerpt-everywhere/