2 most important wordpress plugins for nontechnical bloggers
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Using the WordPress blogging software makes blogging a breeze for even the most nontechnical people. While writing the blog posts and moderating comments is easy through the admin page there are times when the nontechnical person has to do some things that are daunting to them.
WordPress constantly bugs you to upgrade to the latest version when a new version comes out. Upgrading to the latest stable version is a good idea since it means that you’ll have the latest bug fixes and new features. But to do an upgrade you have to overwite all of your WordPress files. You should back up your database before doing so, you might accidentally overwrite your theme. Doing all of this as a writer instead of a programmer is a nontrivial task. Thankfully, there’s a plugin for WordPress that allows you to automatically upgrade WordPress right from the admin page.
WP atuomatic upgrade will automatically back up your database for you and only upgrade the files you need upgraded. It’s a great tool that I use because it saves me time.
Another time you have to upload files is when you want to install a new plugin. There are hundreds of good plugins for WordPress and you’ll invariably end up instally a few of them. If you don’t like the idea of having to upload files to your server there’s a plugin that will let you install other plugins straight from the admin screen.
Easy Uploader is great because it saves you from having to ftp up new files to your server. Being able to ftp isn’t always available, and if you are wary of writing new files to your server you don’t have to worry about accidentally overwriting files already on the server.
