How many hours in now? That is right, we are 56 hours of work into our niche site and it is “more or less” done. In week 4 it has been a busy week and we had a hard time finding time to work on the blog. Leah had her baby shower and had some other baby related things going on, which left me to take up the slack.
Plug-ins
In case you are new to wordpress, “Plugins are tools used to extend the functionality of the WordPress platform. However, they are only applicable to self-hosted blogs and web sites using the WordPress.org software” (from http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/). I am not going to explain how to install since this is not that kind of post. Instead here is a list of the ones I am currently using for my niche site.
- Contact Form 7: for my contact page I am using this form so that people can contact me without having to give out my email address.
- Disable Comments: I didn’t want people to be able to comment on my pages because it isn’t that kind of website. Also, I get enough spam comments on jasonloveslife.com. I would hate to have to clean out two sites from comment spam.
- Google Analyticator: This is how I am connecting the website to my Analytics account for tracking visitors.
- WordPress SEO: A plug-in that is allowing me to optimize my pages for Search Engines and hopefully getting me ranked higher.
