Free Wordpress Blog Resources
When you set-up your Wordpress blog, you’ll need a “theme” which outlines the way that your blog looks like.
Here are where you can find some popular, free templates for your Wordpress blog:
- chris.lineages.co.uk
- themes.wordpress.net
- blogging.typepad.com
- www.freewebsitetemplates.com
- http://redalt.com/External/plugins.php
- www.johntp.com/2006/04/06/wordpress-plugins/
A Word About Plugins
What is a plugin? A plugin is a software addition that adds extra benefits and features to your website. Some plugins add advertising, and monetizing to your website. Others add links and feeds and other special features. Listed below are the plugin categories that Wordpress allows:
- Administration
- Business and Monetizing
- Design, Layout and Styles
- Graphics, Video and Sound
- Links
- Odds and Ends
- Outside Information
- Posts
Here’s a few examples from these general categories showing plugins that serve each purpose.
Administration Plugins – These plugins help you administer your website more effectively. These include spell check, crawl page generation for posts and a host of other capabilities.
Business and Monetizing Plugins – These plugins have the ability to build in a shopping cart, sell items from CafePress, and create surveys that give you financial credit.
Design, Layout and Styles – These plugins include customizable post listings, auto-archiving, recent comments, most recent updates are showcased on the website, and recent posts.
Graphics, Video and Sound – Coolplayer will allow multimedia content to play, and user audio on-line.
Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous) – These plugins include financial information, weather, geomapping data, user forums, date and time information.
Links – These plugins include Blog links, link checker, Google Pics, Incoming Links, and random linking system.
Outside Information – These plugins import external data from outside the Wordpress website. Data like Amazon.com, Media Press, and Blog It information.
Posts – These allow for cellphone-based blog posts, Bible posts, browser blog and exceptions, and many other types of posts.
The best part is that there are a huge amount of plugins that you can download and use free of charge. To find plugins, simply do a Google search for “Wordpress Plugins” - you’ll be amazed at how many you can get.
