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Useful Plugins for WordPress - Part 1

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You may have noticed that this little experiment that our faithful leader has cobbled together is (a) built in the form of a blog and (b) managed through a little content management system called WordPress. The system itself highly useful for website DESIGN because of two factors: first, there is an abundance of ready-made templates that can be implemented as-is and second, there are an abundance of plugins that add weird and wonderful functionality to the core system and help you customize you efforts. I’m going to review some of those here, as I get the chance.

The Multi-Topic Icon | LINK

One of my favorites on my own blog, the Multi-Topic Icon is responsible for displaying nifty little topic icons along the top or side of each entry. The plug-in doesn’t supply the icons so you’ll need to create your own in a program like The Gimp or Photoshop. You can click on any of the icons to see other posts that have been made in the same category. It helps add some colour to your blog.

Survey Fly | LINK

A lot of people have found a need to get some user feedback in their blogs. While comments and quick polls are great, some of the more professional systems need a little more. Survey Fly comes to the rescue with a collection of tools that enable the creation of surveys right inside your WordPress template and admin system that allow you to collect a variety of data types for your questioning pleasure. It’s still in “beta development” but thus far it works great!

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