When it comes to blogging, there are some other plugins I recommend that are more specific to bloggers
and things that they want to do.
Now, one note I want to make before we go too far is you need to be careful of the number of plugins
that you use to run your website.
The less you have, the better.
The more that you have, the more Slowes on your website.
It'll affect your SEO and the more complex you have potential for having.
Each of these plugins will use a form of JavaScript and txt and things like that.
For the most part, they play well together.
But again, the more that you have, the more chances are that there is something that may conflict.
Not each of these are built by expert programmers.
You may get one or two that kind of sneak in there that are built by average people who maybe don't
have the best intentions or are just not the best programmers, and they will conflict with other things.
So definitely be careful of that and definitely limit the number that you use.
So with that being said, here are a couple other plug ins that I like to use as a blogger.
Some can even use this as a regular for regular Web sites.
But again, a little bit more specific to bloggers.
Also add new.
And it's actually one of the ones that are called out right here, it's called Jetpack by WordPress.
I'm not going to go all the way through it right now because what you need to do is you first install
it and then you connect it to a WordPress dotcom account.
So you'll have to set up with WordPress dotcom.
You don't have to use it.
You just need to have that user name.
And what it does is it gives you all sorts of really cool analytics about your websites, telling you
where people are coming from, what post people are going to, the number of visitors, all that kind
of stuff.
It will also give you all sorts of additional widgets, things in the sidebar of your website pop up,
Bill, there's all sorts of really cool options.
I think there's even a paid version of it now where you can get it to back up your website off site
and do all sorts of other things, too.
So Geopark is really kind of like a Swiss Army tool of plug ins where it can give you all sorts of really
cool added functionality to your website.
A lot of bloggers use it and there's a lot of functions that you can turn on and off within it.
So play around with it and definitely, you know, turn off anything that you're not using within it
because it will slow the site down a little bit because there are so many features and it is such a
big plug in, but it's a great plug in for the different things that you could be doing.
Another one that I like to use, and this is we'll do a kind of a sample search right here for, I don't
know, the exact name of it.
So it's going to be social share.
But I want to do is I want to have icons that are at the bottom of my blog post and kind of allow people
to share my blog post if they like it.
So there's a whole bunch of options, as you can see, because I just typed in a keyword and I want
to go through like what I would go through if I didn't know exactly what I was looking for here.
So as you can see, I just typed in the keyword and it came up with however it decides to display these
things.
I think it's maybe by reading or what.
So maybe just by keyword playing the title.
And you can see if one of the first things I look at is the number of stars it gets, which can be a
little bit deceiving because you want to see, like, you know, how many people are actually voting
for that and then how many people are actually using it or have actively installed it.
So for this one, we've got two hundred thousand installs and they pretty much all five star ratings
here.
These guys have 60000 with a lot of good stars.
So really any of these, I'd say in the first two, three rows that you're looking at here would be
a great option.
But, you know, I really don't know what I'm looking for here.
This is the first time I have looked for this plug in.
I want to see maybe more of what it looks like or, you know, read a little bit more about it.
So what you can do is you can click on the more details button here and it comes to the pop up that's
going to show you some of the information about it.
A lot of times I like to go to screenshots so I can kind of see what I'm going to get into here.
Is this really what I want?
Oh, this is kind of cool with some different styles of buttons that I could add.
Description looks pretty easy to do.
It's got really good reviews, so that's a good possibility.
I don't know what this one is.
A click of more details for this one.
Here's some screenshots.
Again, this is kind of cool.
It's got those little buttons with account numbers next to them.
I know that's kind of cool.
How many can go through and do that for all these different ones here.
And once you find the one that you do like, you just simply click install now like we have for all
the others, as I say, install now.
And then activate.
And keep in mind, just like I always say about the themes, the INS are always going to work a little
bit differently when you install a plug in, see this one still thinking up here and install a plug
in, it may show in the sidebar over here.
It may get hidden underneath settings or underneath tools and the appearance or something like that.
So if you don't see it right away, a lot of times what I'll do is I'll go to plug ins and I'll see
my installed plug ins.
And I'm going to scroll down and say, OK, so here's the settings, you can usually most of these will
have a settings option in the go right to the plug in and then look at a highlight where you're at so
you know where to find it next time.
So that will now turn to Red.
I know this plug and it has its own little color on the left hand side.
And it looks like this one just walks me right through.
Which icons do I want to show my website to Facebook and Twitter.
So that's cool.
Keep that on.
This is for premium, looks like you can do a paid version of this will stick with the free one for
now.
But yeah, that all looks good.
Cool.
Save all settings.
Now you can read through this one.
I'm just kind of doing this one a little bit quickly.
I've actually used this one before and I like it.
But it's now within the I've found this right within the blog post itself.
I'll get in touch adding it properly here.
Oh, where shall I be displayed.
So I kind of have to post.
There we go.
So I'll say that.
And again, just kind of doing this fast, for example, so you can choose your own.
There is a whole bunch there to choose from.
Still not showing up there.
So again, I got to go through each of these steps here for it to be displayed properly.
I was trying to knock this out quickly for you so you can see.
But there were the the option where you can choose what they actually look like.
There we go.
So all the different options.
So that's kind of cool.
Shared dark, shared light.
It's kind of fun.
Black background jokes that can pay to upload to those.
So I'll save that.
So there are all my plug ins and things like that.
One other one that you may want to do, I talked about jetpack is being the showing all the different
analytics.
But really you want to use Google Analytics as well.
Maybe they're in tandem with or in replacement of jetpack because you can get a lot more detailed information
from Google Analytics.
And there are a whole bunch of different ways that you can add your Google analytics and we'll go through
that more specifically here in the next video.
But a plugin that I would recommend for that is if we want to add new.
There is a great plug in called Monster Insight's See Fun Little Icon right there, you can see it's
been downloaded by over a million people.
It's got a pretty good rating and say install now and again.
You don't like this one, try a different one.
But there are some cool options within this we'll get into when we get into the Google analytics portion
of this and getting into some of the advanced SEO.
But those are kind of the core ones I would recommend right now.
If you ever want to look for other ones, there are some great places to do it.
You can simply Google WordPress plugin.
And then the key word of what you're looking for, you may find what you're looking for.
Some people sell plugins from their website.
There's also another website that I use called.
Code Canyon dot net, and here we can go into WordPress and we can see all sorts of plug ins that they
sell here, these are, you know, anywhere from five bucks to forty dollars, I would say that they
range from and they have all sorts of great, great, great integration.
These are actually pretty well filtered out from any kind of crap ins.
And these are all very good ones.
You can see ratings on some of these.
Looks like this one adds functionality to allow for Coinbase into your shopping cart for commerce will
get all that a little bit later on here.
But some great options for plugins.
A whole bunch of free ones start there.
You're still not finding what you're looking for.
Check out a site like this or just simply Google it.