5 Great Word Press Plugins July 2010

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5 Great Word Press Plugins July 2010

Posted by: Power Pix / Tags: Blogging, SEO, WordPress

Here is a list of great plugins that you may find useful incorporating into your Word Press website.

Shopp

The Shopp plugin has been around for a little while and continues to be our plugin of choice when integrating an e-commerce solution for Word Press. They offer extra modules for common gateways and shipping providers, and with the ability to modify the page templates as child templates, you can style it almost any way you want.

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

Simply Exclude

There may come a time when you need to exclude categories and pages from your feed or navigation menu. Simply Exclude by Paul Menard, makes this easy.

Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include categories, tags, authors and pages from the 4 actions used by WordPress. is_front – When the user views the Front page. is_archive – When the user views an category or tags Archive. is_search – When the user views a search result page. is_feed – When a Feed is viewed/requested.

Secondary HTML Content

Here is a handy plugin that can help you manage multi-column content. Say you want to add some content to a sidebar, but only have that specific content show up on a certain page.. this plugin makes it easy.

Add up to 5 blocks of HTML content to WordPress pages andposts. A perfect solution for layouts with distinct content “blocks”, such as a sidebar or multi-column view. When editing content, the secondary WYSIWYG content editors will appear beneath the standard content editor.

Syntax Highlighter Evolved

Ever need to post some code for a tutorial? or maybe as an example? The Syntax Highlighter Evolved plugin helps make this process simple while also adding nice formatting, and of course syntax highlighting.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<pre><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	<title>PHP Code Example</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>PHP Code Example</h1>

	<p><?php echo 'Hello World!'; ?></p>

	<p>This line is highlighted.</p>

	<div>
		This	is	an
		example	of	smart
		tabs.
	</div>

	<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>
</body>
</html></pre>

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes.

Headspace2 SEO

Headspace2 SEO is a powerful plugin that helps you manage page titles, descriptions, meta tags, and a whole lot more. This is one plugin you don’t want to miss!

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

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