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Useful Plugins for WordPress - Part 2

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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.

DashBar [k] | LINK

We’ve been making extensive use of this plug-in as of late on multiple blogs. It’s a very simple install, and once you are logged in it provides a very easy way to navigate the administrative and editing functions of Wordpress from within the site itself. “Displays a WordPress.com-like navigation bar above the public blog pages, but only for logged-in users who have sufficient Role privileges. Provides direct access to Dashboard, Write Post, Edit Posts (with dropdown menu to select post to edit), Awaiting Moderation, My Profile, and other functions appropriate to the current blog page, without having to manually go into the admin area. Also says which user you are, and provides a quick logout button, just like top of real WP admin pages.”

Google Site Maps | LINK

This little bit of code is a godsend for site administrators. A back-end tool lets you configure and automatically prepare and submit sitemaps to Google for your entire blog. Brad would have been well to mention it in his recent post, “Blogging for Fun and Profit — Part 1“, as anyone setting up a blog that intends to have it crawled by Google in the most efficient way possible cannot avoid this plug-in.

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Low Budget Project Management Tools

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One of the problems small businesses face is deployment of good software for MANAGING their own internal work-flow. We’ve been lucky enough to experiment with a couple of the major commercial PROJECT MANAGEMENT packages — and admittedly they are slick — but we’ve also been faced with the challenge of supplying low cost alternatives to businesses that require functionality, but need to do so on a restricted budget.

How can a company not invest in such a basic tool, you ask? Many businesses today are barely doing such work, let alone at scale or using collaborative tools. And small, young businesses may not always have the up-front capital in the short term to invest in those tools that would improve their PROJECT MANAGEMENT in the long term.

We have made use of one particular open source package that is available for FREE and installs on a basic web server setup, even low cost hosting packages already maintained by many small businesses. The package is dotproject, and is available for download FREE from the link provided.

The package boasts the following goals, as stated on their site:

  • Clean, simple and consistent user interface;
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT functionality - not another CMS, groupware environment or all things to all people collaboration tool, but a PROJECT MANAGEMENT environment;
  • Open source / open access / FREE usage.

And we agree, that from our experience installing and training clients to maximize their collaborative PLANNING using a web-based, open-source solution such as dotproject they can improve work-flow and increase profits. Many of our clients continue to use the dotproject software even after a commercial package would become economically feasible.

Note: We have NO AFFILIATION with this software or it’s developers. We provide this review because we have made use of a product that we think is well-developed and extremely useful, and we would like to show our appreciation and support.

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