Why Wordpress plugins?

Wordpress is one of the best blogging tool i ever used, and it is a great niche CMS platform if it’s configure properly. The basic installation of Wordpress is simple and easy. However, without any knowledge of CSS, html and PHP coding, it will be difficult for anyone to configure the Wordpress blog to the way they want it to be.

However, by using Wordpress Plugins, you can extend the features and functionalities of the Wordpress Blog. Most of the time, you onlyneed to upload the plugin and activate it from your Wordpress Admin Control Panel, or cut & paste a few lines of codes and you are all set.

• The Theme and Side Bar

Widget
Widget Compatible theme
By combining the Widget plugin and the compatible widget template, you can easily switch around the layout of the side baromponents, the calendar, search, category and post. Don’t need to edit the template or the php files.

• Blog Layout

Angsuman’s Multi-Page
Create multi page for a single article.
Page Link Manger
Option to exclude page from site navigation.
Static Front Page
Make one of the pages to be static front page.
CMS (Content Management System)
It is a theme with incredible customizability to be a framework for building a blog.

• Anti-spam
  

Akismet
The default spam killer, need WP API key to work
Spam Karma 2.2 (SK2)
Very flexible configuration with other additional plugin to
extend Karma function.
AuthImage
Copy & paste 10 lines of code to your comment.php file.
Email Immunizer
Plugin will filter the email addresses within the WP files
and convert them into numeric character references to
combat the email address harvester.
Referrer Bouncer
A simple anti-spammers tool.
Non Numeric Name
Comments submitted with user id containing numerals
will be flagged as spam and discarded.
Impostercide
Multiple accounts with same email address? This plugin
will check the name, email, and URL to prevent spoofing.