kuniform

As part of the redesign of kuniform.org, I am updating the navigation and flow of the blog and the site, adding lots of little touches to support community features. This has led me on a journey through the Wordpress plugin directory for resources and I’d like to share the initial list of plugins and my impressions of them with you.

• SilentBits’ SEO Plugins for Wordpress has a great list of search engine optimization plugins that add sweet semantic touches such as a customized title tag for the document and meta description meta keywords for each post, using data from that post. I’m not sure this one will work out for my whole site without customization, but if your site is entirely managed via WordPress, this nifty site map plugin may work for you. It covers both pages and posts you’ve created in WordPress.


• I am ditching the notion of archive links. Nobody has a reason to follow them, and nobody does. Instead, I will be adding related and popular links. For the related posts, I am using WASABI’s WordPress Related Entries 2.0, called “invaluable” by PingMag, dontcha know?


• To link to the most popular entries on the site, I am going to try out Alex King’s Popularity Contest.


• For responding accurately to Google search results, which is one of the primary means the site is found, I’ll try out theundersigned.com’s Landing Sites 1.3


• I already am using Akismet for spam filtering, Social Bookmarks for letting people link to my pithy articles, and Bill Rawlinson’s FeedList for integrating my del.icio.us bookmarks into the site.

That PingMag article has lots of other interesting plugins, listed too. After I launch the redesign I’ll share my war stories on which plugins worked for me and how I got them integrated. Once I know I’ll be using them, I’ll end up donating to each of the authors above for their efforts in creating and supporting these applications.