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5 Plugins Every WordPress Install Should Have

Every single time I set up a WordPress blog (and I’ve set up quite a few now) there are a few plugins that I find myself wanting or needing every single time.  It’s to the point that if I’m helping someone out on their blog and I go look at their plugins, I immediately wonder why they are not there!

These plugins vary from those that work behind the scenes to those that do their work out in the open:

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Yahoo Shortcuts

If you’re like me then you like to spruce up your posts with images, links and any tool that you can find that will help you do this is– and do it easily– is something that you’d want to try out.

Well, one of the great things about WordPress is that there are always people writing plugins and coming up with neat things– and this plugin is no exception. Yahoo has developed what is calls “shortcuts“. It’s a plugin that sits on your write post screen over on the right hand bar and watches what you write.

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Upgrade Your Blog

Recently I’ve gone through the process of upgrading and standardizing all the different blogs that I run. I’ve also helped a few others on templates, and even worked at tweaking a WordPress plugin or two.

So, this new series will take you through a few steps that I do to run my blogs– from plugins, to companion sites, to ad programs– the works– in the hopes of helping you no matter where your blog resides.