WordPress, as I’ve stated before in this space, is a great tool for blogging. It’s easy to use, easy to install, intuitive and has all the tools and pre-designed templates one could hope for. Those tools come in the form of user-created “plugins” that add functionality to the core application. If you’re looking for templates, you can visit this WordPress page to find just about anything you desire. If you have some design chops, WordPress template design is pretty easy once you get accumstomed to the formatting and nomenclature specific to the WordPress app. - for those already familiar with PHP, it’s even easier to work with.

You can also find loads of plugins here. There are three primary plugins that we use for blogs on a regular basis, but I’ll talk about each of them in more depth in individual posts. Those three, however, are Akismet, designed to fight blog spam, “Share This“, for creating a social bookmarking buttons and “Ultimate Tag Warrior“, which easily allows the user to add now-omnipresent tags to posts. There are hundreds of other plugins, and I’ve used some of them. What plugins you’ll decide to use will ultimately depend on what you wish to do with your blog but, as I’ve said, just about everything imagineable is out there and, if it’s not, you can suggest and vote on new ideas for WordPress.

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