Also, WP uses plugins, which totally rock the house. Talk about EASY content? Well, this is pretty damn easy. Here’s a list of must-haves (look for them here):
- Akismet is pre-installed w/WP. It’s an anti-spam utility for your comments. The only problem is that you must get an API from WordPress, which involves setting up an account. Last time I tried this for a client, I couldn’t get an account. No idea why, but no account means no API, which means no Akismet.
- Broken Link Checker is my favourite plugin to date. It checks ALL your posts for broken links every coupla days. ROCK!
- Events Calendar I installed this for the art folks. It works ok, but the interface is clunky. I hope to find a better one soon, but for now, it works.
- Add META Tags does just that. Rather than have to dig into the headers of the template (horrors!) you can just put in your tags here and they magically appear. Schweet!
- KB robots.txt makes you a nice robots file so you can order around the various web bots and spiders. It can keep the indexing ‘bots out of your private stuff and tell them when to return. Great for beginners who have no idea what a robots.txt file is.
- LiveJournal Crossposter and LJ Comments are how you LJ people see this post. It’s great to be able to crosspost to both journals at once. You can also choose not to crosspost and choose if the post is private on LJ. (You can make them private on WP, too, btw.) These are two plugins, not one.
- Simple Popup Images will put any image you’re posting into a pop up window if you desire. It’s a bit of functionality from MT that I liked. I’ve not used it here yet.
- WordPress.com stats gives you very thorough statistics of your blog, but like Akismet, requires that damn API key. Good luck getting one. (I sent a complaint email to support about this and some guy responded with a link for me. It worked, so if you get errors, etc, make sure to send them an email when prompted to do so.)
- Flickr will integrate your Flickr account into your WP blog.
- WPG2 will integrate your Gallery 2 photos into your WP blog.
These are only the ones I have installed right now. I’m sure there’ll be gobs more. The plugins are the most powerful part of WordPress. Use them!