The best plugin for new bloggers

Most upstarting bloggers are very confused when starting their first blog and don’t have the slightest clue on what they should do first. Installing all sorts of plugins, can ultimately lead to a blog crash caused by the incompatibilities between all the plugins you’ve installed. Instead of having 10 or more plugins do various jobs, why not have one that does all of them ? The plugin I’m talking about is used to handle most common operations new bloggers have to deal with. Blog Control helps to avoid the common operations blog’s owners do when adopting a new template: add scripts from mybloglog, google analytics, adsense or other ad network. The plugin adds some automatic link modification (target, nofollow, …) and bots-blocking meta tag on specific pages.

Aggressive cache

If you want to try out an aggressive cache system, Blog Control has an implementation of a cache for Wordpress pages. It’s experimental, not to be used on high traffic volume blogs, but on those have low database resources. Usually, cache systems are used to save bandwidth and resources on the hosting server.

Head and footer code

Blog Control is a plugin that helps in controlling some behaviour of your blog. It lets you to add code in the footer and head section of a template, eg. to add code from services like : Google Sitemaps, MyBlogLog or Google Analytics without modifying the template. Get rid of all the code editing hassle.

Post trasformation

With this plugin you can add a HTML block before and after the “more break” in a post. You can use this to add your AdSense code without changing anything in the template pages.

Related posts

The plugin has a simple related posts function based on a full text index of mysql, like the standard related post implementation of other plugins. The related posts can be added after a posts using the tag [related] in the “after post” html block code. The output is controlled by some parameters which let to set how the relates posts list is displayed.

Links

The plugin has many other options: a way to track the outbound links (if you use google analytics), add the “nofollow” in the post links, force a new window for all the links outside your domain.

HTML compression

You can set the plugin to compress the html produced: you can gain from 10 to 30%.

Bots blocking

You can force a meta tag in categories and search pages to block the bots (useful to avoid the content duplication issue).

You can download this plugin from here : Download Blog Control