Global Translator

This is a great plugin if you would like to offer your blogs content in multiple languages and at the same time create more pages that the search engines can index and subsequently get more traffic to your blog as a result. The plugin uses the free web translation engines out there to translate your blogs content into, at the time of writing 41 different languages.

The key difference with this plugin over its rivals is that it only ever sends one translation request per page per language …

MaxBlogPress Ping optimizer

The WordPress built in Blog Pinging system works but is extremely basic and does not really give you any options as to how you would like it to function nor does it provide you with anyway of knowning whether your pings are actually successful! This plugin from the guys at MaxBlogPress expands the wordpress functionality in regards to pinging substantially giving you control.

The mayor improvements over the stranded pinging in WordPress are:

• It makes sure that an article is only pinged when it is first published

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In this post I’ll be keeping an up-to-date list of all my favorite wordpress blog plugins. I have to confess I’m a bit of a plugins junky but I really feel that the plugins are one of the main reasons wordpress is such a good content management system to use for your websites.

Every time I want to do something with my wordpress blogs that can’t already be done with the base install, pretty much always I can find a free plugin to do it within minutes. If my …

One of the many great things about using the wordpress blogging platform is its ability to ping all the available Blog Ping Services around the web which in turn help you get your posts indexed in Google quickly.

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BUT, there have been loads and loads of these services created other the years and many of them have now disappeared or changed their URLS, which has resulted in there being great big lists of services people are using that mostly contain URLS …