Top 10 WordPress Plugins To Improve Readers Experience
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Improving reader’s experience on our blog is one of the primary things we have to concentrate on. We also do a lot of design modifications so that blog is easily readable, navigational and fast loading. Here are a few tools and plugins which are useful for readers:
1. WP-Email: This Plugin helps readers to share posts on blogs which they liked with their friends or even to their email. The plugin is easy to use and configure. The documentation can be found here.
2. WP-Print: This Plugin displays a printable version of your blog when the reader requests for it. The user can directly take a print out from it. The documentation can be found here.
There is also another print widget by HP. This adds a print option to your blog posts. This plugin is available for WordPress and Movable type. This plugin can also convert blog posts into PDF files.
3. Convert to PDF: Converting your blog posts into PDF is useful when your blog has more content on tutorials and tips & tricks. Amit has written a post on how to save the blog posts to PDF file. Adding a “Save as PDF” button is really simple process. All you need is to add this link at the end of blog posts (for WordPress users).
http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=
Blogger users can update the cURL link with the post permalink. This generates a PDF file which can be saved to hard disk.
4. Related Posts: As the name indicates, this plugin will show the related entries for a particular post based on keyword matching.
5. WP-PageNavi: This plugin adds an advanced page navigation to WordPress blogs. The documentation can be found here
6. Subscribe to Comments: Subscribe to Comments 2.1 is a plugin that allows commentators on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is useful to have a good discussion going on in your posts.
Download Subscribe to Comments
7. Popular Contest / Top Posts by Category: Popularity contest will help you see which of your posts are most popular and the Top posts plugin displays your top rated posts categorywise based on comments or page views.
Download Top Posts by Category
8. Brians Threaded Comments: This plugin creates a “reply to comment” link for all the comments and allows readers to reply to a comment just below the comment itself.
Download Brians Threaded Comments
9. Related posts in your Feed: This WordPress plugin adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. For this plugin to work properly you need Related Posts plugin or Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin activated.
Download Related posts in your Feed
10. Live Comment Preview: Live Comment Preview Plugin is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. The preview is generated as the user types the comments.
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Posted on August 21st, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
MoneyNing
August 22, 2007 at 8:52 am
Great stuff! Thank you for sharing!!
Ronald
August 22, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I’ve upload and active that plugin, thanks John!
James Leger
August 22, 2007 at 1:44 pm
4 to 10 were the standard good ones that can be seen on most good blogs. The first three are seen less often and should be incorporated by more people I believe.
Ashok Arora
August 22, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Good list, I use only subscribe to comment and related posts plugin
Shankar Ganesh
August 22, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I think I should give the WP-Email plugin a try but how many readers email posts to people? I’m interested to know - anyone?
Dean @ Technical Itch
August 22, 2007 at 10:34 pm
#2 and #3 look promising. I’ll check those out later. Thanks.
Critical Consciousness
August 23, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Great list of plug-ins. Thank you. The WP-Email and the comment reply and subscribe plug-ins seem particularly useful.
I recently downloaded a comment edit plug-in that I really like called WP ajax edit comments.
And as I type this I got convinced that that live preview plug-in is pretty cool, too.
Thanks for the list
Shashank
August 23, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I use share this plugin which also has a option to email the post…great list.
Anish
August 23, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I have read your article and its really works for me.
The Credence Dot Com
August 24, 2007 at 1:38 am
thanks john, I was searching for pdf and related posts in feed plugin.
I am also looking for plugin for Newsletter just like you are having. Can you tell me which plugin it is ?
praveen
August 24, 2007 at 10:29 am
A good list of Plug-ins but few of them are realy used and others are used rarely.
NSpeaks
August 24, 2007 at 7:24 pm
4 and 10 have been combined into one plugin - Aisatto’s Related Posts(http://dev.aizatto.com/category/aizattos-related-post/) - displays related posts in feed as well as post. And threaded comments to use is real pain. Brian has forgot to update his plugin which has so many bugs
Cancel button does not work
No text of Comment is awaiting Moderating
Admin is not shown logged in comment form
Tab Key Bug
Above 4 are major bugs in Brian’s Threaded comments plugin.
Also brian’s comment plugin can’t be integrated into theme’s style. It implements its own default ugly style.
alice dyson
August 25, 2007 at 1:20 am
Thanks John
For writing to us again.
our senior citizens computer lab
members enjoy hearing from you.
Alice D -Baltimore.
Prognog
August 29, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I’ve heard of a couple of these, but some are new to me. Thanks for the list.
Govard
August 30, 2007 at 12:50 am
Related posts in your Feed - very useful plugin… recommend it for all…
Nirmal
August 30, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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When I had the WP-Email plugin on my blog, few readers had my post emailed. You can get the stats from the plugin.
Jauhari
September 9, 2007 at 8:04 am
This is the one that I looking for
Jimm
November 19, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for such a great list of plugins!
Referáty do školy
December 27, 2007 at 5:25 am
Thank you for this list
Really useful.
Icelebpics
January 2, 2008 at 11:34 pm
thanks for those m8
David Bradley
April 10, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Is there a Weirdpress plugin that would allow me to print a whole category as a single PDF file with a contents list?
db
ibrahim
November 27, 2008 at 7:40 am
thanks for this good tutorial