WordPress Plugins List – 100+ Popular Plugins
February 13, 2009 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
Okay, this is probably the best plugin (ScribeSEO) I’ve come across in a very long time. It with help you optimize you pages and posts within WordPress. It gives each page a score…like 63% out of 100%. Then it will give you detailed things you can do to improve your score and get it to 100%. Awesome plugin and very easy to use.
Check out my new Website Workshop Webinars using WordPress
Below is a list of WorPress Plugins that can come in handy when building your site.
This list is sortable by the plugin name…just click the little arrow next to “WordPress Plugin” to sort.
Please visit our WordPress Widget List also.
| WordPress Plugin | Description |
|---|---|
| All in One SEO Pack |
Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). |
| WP-SpamFree | Powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! |
| DMSGuestbook | DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features. |
| WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart | A very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. |
| WP-Affiliate | Easy affiliate link masking and more. Now Featuring: Commission Junction Search Capabilities! Click Tracking! Download It Now! |
| WP Security Scan | Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities. |
| Admin Management Xtended | Adds AJAX-driven options to some admin management pages with CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility without having to open the edit sc |
| Events Calendar | Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. |
| TDO Mini Forms | This plugin allows you to add custom posting forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to submit posts. |
| Plugin Central | Dashboard plugin update notification, update all plugins at once, move your plugins from one blog to another with plugin install. WordPress 2.5+ only |
| Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button | Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and over 100 more. |
| MobilePress | MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. |
| Advanced Category Excluder | The No.1 category manager, and content separator plugin to enable CMS like functionality, search engine optimization, and create real sub pages |
| Dagon Design Sitemap Generator | Generates a fully customizable sitemap |
| WP-Cumulus | A terrific flash based animated tag cloud called WP-Cumulus developed by Roy Tanck. |
| Dagon Design Secure Form Mailer | WordPress version of my secure php form mailer script |
| Twitme | This plugin allows you to automatically post your new posts on the twitter website. |
| MailPress | Allows you to send beautiful emails with style ! Last release for WordPress 2.6.x |
| Exclude Pages from Navigation | Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. |
| Google Analytics for WordPress | A free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. |
| Sociable | Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. |
| One Click Plugin Updater | Provides single-click plugin upgrades in WP 2.3 and up, visually marks plugins that have update notifications enabled, allows to easily install new plugins |
| Page Flip Image Gallery | Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog. |
| Codestyling Localization | You can manage and edit all gettext translation files (*.po/*.mo) directly out of WordPress Admin Center without any need of an external editor. |
| WordPress PDA & iPhone | This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser. iphone is still in beta testing state. Soon more updates will follow. |
| Platinum SEO Pack | Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO |
| Last.Fm Records | This plugin shows cd covers for cds your listened to, according to last.fm. It can behave as a widget. |
| Interactive Video Plugin | Easily add full interactive video capabilities to your blog. |
| Embedded Video | Easy embedding of videos from lots of portals or local video files of many file formats with optional generation of a corresponding link. |
| All in One Video Pack | Easily add full video capabilities to your blog. |
| Adminimize | Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu |
| Add to Any Subscribe Button | Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader or feed emailer. |
| WordPress Flickr Manager | Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts. |
| WPlite | WordPress, without the fat. |
| Quick Shop | QuickShop has two shopping-cart widgets, automatically adds buttons to your posts, and includes a TinyMCE editor button. |
| WP YouTube | WP YouTube now supports a profile editor, where you can set up different settings, but only one profile is needed for all your YouTube videos. |
| Flash Video Player | The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup |
| Smartlinker | Smartlinker is a toolbar on the WordPress TinyMCE editor that enables you to hyperlink words and phrases in your blog. |
| Featurific For WordPress | An effortless but powerful interface to Featurific Free, the featured story slideshow. (Similar to the ‘featured’ widget on time.com, msn.com |
| Add Me Dichev | Renders social bookmark buttons after the post. Bulgarian social networks are included too. For the full networks list see the plugin details. |
| Events | Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options. |
| Category Page | Use pages as category archive header, or list some posts from a category into a post/page. |
| All in One Adsense and YPN | Automatically insert Google Adsense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. |
| Emo Vote | Encourage your users by letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather than voting. |
| Picturesurf Gallery | Picturesurf Gallery allows you add an image gallery to your blog post in seconds. |
| RelatedPosts | This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show the via tags related posts of a post (for example via a sidebar widget). |
| ComicPress Manager | ComicPress Manager ties in with the ComicPress theme to make managing your WordPress-hosted Webcomic easy and fast. |
| Plugin Manager | View, download and install plugins from WordPress.org Plugin Database from an AJAX’ed interface with a single click of the mouse. |
| Easy Admin Color Schemes | The Easy Admin Color Schemes plugin allows users to easily customize the colors of the administration interface for WordPress. |
| Category Icons | The No. 1 plugin to assign icons to categories. |
| WP Page Numbers | A simple paging navigation plugin for users and search engines. Instead of next and previous page it shows numbers and arrows. Settings available. |
| Yawasp – Yet Another WordPress Anti Spam Plugin | To block Spambots this Plugin replaces the names of the default comment form fields with random names. |
| XmasB Quotes | Add random quotes with image to your WordPress blog with this widget. |
| WP-SimpleViewer | Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs. |
| BBcode | BBcode for your WordPress Blog, but with an easy to use editor. |
| Quote Rotator | Creates widget for adding quotes (or other content) on the sidebar. Content will rotate through. |
| Invite Friends | This plugin give the ability to anyone how registered to your blog, to invite more people, even if the registration is closed. |
| wpSearch | wpSearch is a very powerful search plugin for WordPress. It is based on the open source search engine “Lucene” which means its fast and relevant. |
| Organizer | You can use this plugin to view, copy, rename, delete, resize image and get html code of files in upload folder. |
| PlugInstaller | Install and uninstall plugins from your admin interface without uploading the plugins via FTP and automatically check for plugin updates. |
| MyCaptcha | Allows you to display a captcha on your comment form to avoid spam. |
| Custom widgets | With this plugin, you can configure where widgets are displayed on a per post or per WP Template(Using conditional Tags) basis. |
| WP-PluginsUsed | Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page. |
| Daiko’s Text Widget | Adds a text widget that is capable of displaying php-code. Conditional tags are included to specify where to show. |
| WP-Crontrol | WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what’s happening in the WP-Cron system. |
| TGFI.net SEO | Override titles, descriptions and keywords with page/post level input. Designed for use with WordPress as a CMS with the blog not on the homepage. |
| List of Posts from each Category plugin for WordPress | Displays a list of the post titles in each category. |
| Wp-UnitPNGfix | This plugin includes the `unitpngfix.js` javascript file if the browser is IE6 or lower. |
| WP-Hashcash | Client-side javascript blocks all spam bots. XHTML 1.1 compliant. |
| Downloads Manager | This Plugin adds a simple downloads manager to your blog. |
| WP Easy Uploader | Easily upload any type of content without the need for FTP. You can even upload plugin and theme archives, and the files will be extracted for you. |
| outbrain | A WordPress plugin to deal with the Outbrain blog posting rating system. |
| diggZ-Et | Automatically displays a “digg” button for each post. Full admin options available. Can hide buttons in several ways. |
| WP CSS | GZIP and strip whitespace from your CSS files. Add specific CSS files to post/pages. |
| p2pConverter | This plugin allows you to easily convert a post to a page and vice versa through an easy to use interface. |
| Google News | Displays news items from selectable Google News RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed. |
| Meet Your Commenters | Displays web pages and social networks’ profiles of your commenters in the dashboard. |
| FV Community News | Let Users Submit News To Your Site. |
| WP-Vidavee | Easily upload and publish video in your WordPress blog. |
| Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes | With Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes easily create unique color schemes for your WordPress administration panel and adjust to your preferences. |
| Site Maintenance | Puts the site into maintenance mode by sending a ’503 Service Unavailable’ status to all unauthenticated clients. |
| Quick SMS | Quick SMS allows visitors to your blog pages to send you SMS messages direct to your mobile phone, wherever you are. |
| WP-ShortStat | Track your blog stats. Visit Dashboard|ShortStat. Based on Shaun Inman’s ShortStat and Jeff Minards’s plugin wp-shortstat 1.2. |
| Galleria WP | Galleria WP is a multi functional image gallery plugin for WordPress2.5. Galleria WP uses jQuery Javascript frameworks. |
| Favorites Menu Manager | Control what goes into the favorite actions menu in WordPress 2.7+ |
| SociBook | Adding social bookmarking links to your blog! |
| Clker.com clip art | Search and add Clker.com clip art images to your posts. |
| Auto BlogRoll | Instantly generates a auto blogroll page for WordPress blogs based on the active theme. |
| Disable WordPress Plugin Updates | Disables the plugin update checking and notification system. |
| Snow and more | Snowflakes (and more) falling down your blog! Inspired by the unforgettable xsnow. |
| GoStats for WordPress | Use the powerful GoStats counter and reporting engine in your blog easy to install. Now with Optional Map Widget! |
| Nofollow Case by Case | Say no to nofollow but without losing control for comment links, pingbacks and trackbacks. Apply nofollow to your follow links wherever you like. |
| WP Opt-in | Collect e-mail addresses from users with a simple form. Send them an e-mail automagically. |
| Shockingly Simple Favicon | A shockingly simple favicon for your site. Put a favicon in your site without messing with themes code. |
| WordPress Multibox Plugin | This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images. |
| Nofollow Reciprocity | mproves your blog pagerank and search engines rankings (search engine optimization). |
| Anonymous WordPress Plugin Updates | Anonymizes the data transmitted during plugin update check. |
| Berri Personalized Care | This plugin for WordPress will give up to four personalized messages depending on the origin of the visitors of your blog. |
| Share+ by Grouptivity | Not just another sharing plugin. Share+ gives readers a simple way to save, share and discover your top content with friends, family and co-workers. |
| LastPostsImage | This WordPress plugin provides a customizable image always showing the last posts of your blog. |
| WP-Chop | NEW! Customizable Chinese seal chop widget for WordPress. Any colors. |
| My Custom Widgets | Plugin to create your own custom widgets . |
| Theme Switcher Reloaded | Theme Switcher Reloaded is an updated and much improved version of the original themeswitcher. Comes with a widget and can also switch themes via URL. |
| TreeMagic-Cypress | This software package is released by Ambient Webs LLC under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. |
| MEMEdex Polls | This plugin allows simple embedding of MEMEdex flash polls into your WordPress posts, or into your sidebar, by using a short tag. |
| TimesURL.at Sociable Plugin | Automatically add links on your posts to popular South African and International social bookmarking sites. |
| GZippy | GZippy re-enables gzip compression under WordPress. |
Page Links To or Points To – WordPress Plugin
February 3, 2009 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
I came across a cool plugin that is really easy to use when you want something in your menu or navigation to point to another URL instead of a page within your site.
Page Links To allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.
After installing and activating your plugin, just go to the page you want to edit and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Just fill out the form show below to tell it where you want that page to point.
Get the Page Links To Plugin here. Let me know if this helps with your WordPress Blog.
Page Links to Plugin for WordPress
WordPress Widget List
January 31, 2009 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
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WordPress – Best Themes and Plugins
January 18, 2009 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
Thanks for stopping by Michele’s radio show today. Below are some of the tips we discussed on the show for setting up your WordPress blog. Our wish is that you have a successful and abundant 2009 and that your business exceeds all of your expectations. Best wishes for 2009!
Two Chicks Creating – BlogTalkRadio.com
Date: Monday, January 19, 2009
@ProsperityGal (Michele on Twitter)
http://blogtalkradio.com/twochickscreating
@Deauxmain (Bruce on Twitter)
http://www.deauxmain.com
Must Have Plugins to Start Your WordPress Blog:
- All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – Generates a fully customizable sitemap
- Dagon Design Secure Form Mailer – WordPress version of my secure php form mailer script
- Exclude Pages from Navigation – Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
- Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – A free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.
- Sociable – Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories. Now with RSS feed support!
Recommended WordPress Themes:
- Revolution2 – Professional WordPress Themes (These are the ones I have been using)
- WordPress Remix – Premium Theme that offers WordPress as CMS experience
- One Theme – Premium WordPress Themes
- WooThemes – Premium WordPress Themes (also have some FREE themes)
- iThemes – Premium WordPress Themes
- WordPress Themes – 542 FREE themes last time I checked
Recommended Web Hosting
Bluehost ->
Good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Information
seomoz.org – The Web’s Best SEO Resources – Tons of SEO information and tools. You will need to sign up for a free account.
Link Building Notes of an SEO Kindergartner – 19 pages filled with highly effective link building tactics shared by the coolest Mozzers
- Where to look for links
- How to get links
Using Voice Recognition or Speech Recognition Software for Blogging in WordPress
Most people speak over 120 words per minute but type less than 40 words per minute. What if you could speak your blog, instead of typing it. Think about using speech recognition or voice recognition software to make blogging easier. Once your software has been set up and trained to recognize your voice patterns, you can use it to dictate your blog posts. It learns to recognize your voice instantly and continually improves the more you use it. This can dramatically speed up the time it takes to get new posts up. Speech recognition software can type up to 160 WPM (words per minute) with 99% accuracy. Not too shabby, so give it a try.
- Windows Vista Speech Recognition – Free with purchase of Windows Vista operating system (built in)
- Nuance – Dragon NaturallySpeaking Speech Recognition Software -Starts around $99 and has many different purchasing options for Windows or Mac.
Screen Capture and Making Tutorials for WordPress
There are many times that you may want to take a screenshot of something to put in your WordPress blog or on your website. You may also want to find a way to make short tutorials, whereby you can record video of onscreen action, showing your users exactly what you’re doing. Well, I’ve found a great tool for doing just that. It’s called Jing. Jing is a free application that allows you to make screen captures or even video tutorials in 5 minute increments. Your captures or videos can be saved to your local hard drive or uploaded to Screencast.com. This software is made by TechSmith…the makers of Camtasia Studio. I love this application and encourage you to try it out to see for yourself.
- JingProject.com – Free software that adds visuals to your online conversations.
- Screencast.com – a TechSmith solution for business and academic professionals looking to manage and share videos, images, documents, or anything else online.
How to Keep Your Video Camera Steady – Even When You Are Moving
All to often we see videos that people make that would be pretty good videos, but the camera is so shaky it makes us drunk just to watch it. Steadicams (or camera stabilizers) are attachments used to capture smooth looking video even when the camera and camera operator are in motion. The camera operator may walk (or even jog), move through tight hallways and doorways, and even climb up and down stairs without shaking the camera.
There are professional video stabilizers on the market to remedy this situation…but they ain’t cheap. One is called Steadicam, and starts around $1500. Well, I found a way to make great videos without spending an arm and a leg on a solution to make your camera steady. It’s called Steadycam, and you can make one yourself for under $14.00. Johnny Chung Lee has a website devoted to showing you exactly what you’ll need to build it, and then shows exactly how to build it for under $14. Johnny does an excellent job and his design is brilliant. If you are not the handyman type, you can purchase the complete Steadycam for $39.95 from Johnny’s site…still a great deal. So check out the Steadycam and start making smooth moving videos today.
WordPress How it Can Make or Break Your Business 2009
January 12, 2009 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
OK, by now you should have realized that I’m sold on WordPress as the blogging tool of choice if you want to get found by the most popular search engines. WordPress blog design can be used to make any website more search engine friendly, and WordPress template customization can give your site a unique look that conveys your branding. So I wanted to let you know about an upcoming radio show that I’ll be interviewed on. It’s with TwoChicksCreating on BlogTalkRadio.com.
BlogTalkRadion.com/TwoChicksCreating
Date / Time: 1/19/2009 11:00 AM
Category: Business
Call-in Number: (646) 929-0675
Bruce Soileau from http://www.deauxmaingroup.com will be out guest today sharing the basics that come up for everyone even after they have started with using WordPress for their blog. We will discuss the plugins you will want to use, themes-paid vs free, the advantages and disadvantages of sidebars, widgets when they make you pull your hair out, the little things that look good and you can do for yourself. Bruce will share a formula on when to know it is time to call for help in wordpress so you are not wasting your time trying to fix something you need a professional for and can focus on generating income.
Please join us then to discuss WordPress and how it can make or break your business in 2009. I look forward to seeing you there. If you have a burning WordPress question, please leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you.
Social bookmarking plugin for WordPress
December 14, 2008 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
Learning how to use social media optimization in your WordPress blog can be a key strategy in getting your site the traffic you desire. I recently came across a good social bookmarking plugin for WordPress. It’s really easy to set up and it’s one that allows your readers to actually help you get bookmarked. The Sociable plugin has so many bookmarking options that it can be overwhelming. Google, Digg, LinkedIn, Technorati, Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, and Propeller are just a few of the many choices you have to choose from. Don’t give your readers too many bookmarking options, as it will probably confuse them more than help them.
Below is a screenshot of the bookmarking options:
Sociable bookmarking plugin with options - don't choose too many
You can also view it (or use it) at the bottom of this post.
The Sociable plugin is just one of the many tools that WordPress users can add to their blog to help with social bookmarking optimization. Please let me know if you use this tool or find it useful.
WordPress blog designs – professional logo sets you apart
December 6, 2008 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
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When setting up your WordPress blog, it’s important to get a professional logo for your site. The logo is how people will instantly recognize you, and will be the beginning of your branding. A homemade logo or text saying yoursite.com is just not going to cut it. A professional logo will set your business apart and let people know that you are a professional business and not just a mom & pop shop.
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If you cannot design your own logo, there are many places to get one done quickly and inexpensively. Most designers will give you approximately three unique designs to choose from, then once you pick one they will give you numerous revisions to get the exact colors and look that you desire. It helps the designer if you have some idea of what you would like, and what colors you like. Once your design is completed, the designer should give you all of the necessary files in different formats, such as PSD, JPG, GIF, PNG or AI. When you are ready to get business cards, stationary or make any other company marketing materials, you’ll have the necessary files that your printer can use.
WordPress Blog Designs - DeauxmainGroup.com
Deauxmain Group, Inc. charges $300 for logo design, which includes what I discussed above…, up to three unique designs to choose, and revisions to get it just right. All files will be send to you upon completion.
Let us know if we can help with your next logo design.
Viewing CSS and code in WordPress
December 3, 2008 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
One of the best tools you can have if you’re using WordPress or any other web application is the Firebug add-on for Firefox.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. You can even edit CSS on anyone’s live site to see what it would look like in a different color….pretty cool. Below is what I did to the Facebook site using the Firebug tool.
Defacing Facebook - This is done using Firebug
I was able to change the color of the Facebook menubar using the Firebug tool. Now, keep in mind that you cannot save it on someone else’s site, but it is fun to play with. The main point that I want to make with this tool is that you can view HTML code, CSS, JavaScript, which makes this tool really helpful when debugging site errors. Below is the code I changed to make the menubar red on Facebook.
Viewing CSS and HTML using Firebug - (changed the background color to FF0000)
Let me know if you find this tool helpful.
View color information on any WordPress page
December 3, 2008 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
This is not so much a WordPress tip, but just a general tip for anyone doing web design. It’s a tip that saves me so much time when it comes to trying to duplicate colors that I like on websites. It’s using The Web Developer extension for Firefox. This tool has saved my butt many times.
Just one of the cool features is the ability to display the colors used on any web page. Below is a screenshot of the colors used on Google.com.
These are the colors used on Google.com
To view this option after installing The Web Developer extension, open your Firefox browser, then go to a site that you like, then in the browser navigation menu go to: Tools > Web Developer > Information > View Color Information.
This extension has so many more useful tools that I’m not sure what I’d do if I didn’t have it. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t use one of the tools in this extension. Check it out…you’ll be glad you did.
Hide a page or post from navigation in WordPress
December 3, 2008 by deauxmain
Filed under WordPress Secrets
Have you ever wanted to create a page in WordPress, but didn’t want it to show up on the menu? Well, a client recently wanted me to create a “thank you” page on her WP site. After trying to figure it out on my own, I did some searching on Google and found the perfect tip to handle this.
You’ll have to be confident in editing the header.php page on your WP site.
Go to your WP admin panel then to Design > Theme Editor > then click on header.php in the Theme Files on the right.
Find the code below, which should be approximately 3/4 the way down the page.
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=&exclude= 30,47,68,102,113'); ?>
Add the page ID's that you want to exclude here: exclude=15,47,68,102,113'); ?>
You can find the page or post ID’s by going to the WP admin panel, then go to Manage page or post. Mouse over the page or post titles while looking at the status bar at the bottom of your screen. The ID number is the number at the very end of the link that shows. You can view the screenshot below:
WordPress Tip - Hiding Pages or Posts From Navigation
There is much more that you can do with this, such as hiding posts in the sidebar navigation, but I’m not going to get into that here. You can see more on this where I initially found the tip that got me out of a bind on the very helpful site http://jarretcade.net. Jared has some great tips.
You can also contact me here if you would like some help on your WordPress site.
