WordPress is a great thing of course, but it has drawbacks, like the control panel lacking on administrative tools. Fortunately, smart developers have filled in such functionality gaps, creating specific admin plugins. Some of them are reviewed below.
WordPress Database Backup
This kind of plugin is the most important on the first place. Don’t run the risk to lose everything you’ve got on your blog one sunny morning. Not all the hosts provide backup, so you would better take care of it yourself.
Akismet
You have probably heard of it, but practice makes perfect. This well-known plugin is an extremely efficient comment spam catcher.
Advanced WYSIWYG Editor
Even if you don’t mind coding, you have an opportunity to save lots of time with this tool, allowing to format all the parts of the messages including special characters from the convenient visual editor without constant switching to code view.
WP Tiger Administration
This tool is emulating the Mac OS environment, and it seems to be quite an alternative to the default WordPress. The color scheme is not really impressive, but the administrative panels are much more usable, with their muted tones and clean layout.
Contact Form II
It’s a sort of usual drop-in contact form. Using it will enable you to offer your readers a possibility to contact you from any page of the site, and what is most important, you don’t even have to publish a link to your e-mail. Thus you’ll kill two birds with one stone – first of all, you’ll save your mailbox from spam, and also provide visitors with a convenient way to send you a message any time.
Maintenance Mode
That became a necessary thing since lots of WordPress updates have began to be rolled out. If you feel nervous every time you have to upgrade, as you usually screw the process up, and are not willing all your readers see it, this tool will have you covered. Once activated, it will display a message of maintenance downtime, while administrators still have everything accessible.
Smart Update Pinger
As you know, WordPress provides you with the opportunity to ping any update service. So if you are worried about flooding them and getting banned, then it’s a good plugin for you. It also enables you to see a log of when and which services were pinged.
All these tools are easy to install, configure and use even for the newcomers. So don’t neglect an opportunity to operate your blog smarter and happier!
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Great list!
I love the maintenance mode plug-in. I've never seen that one but have been looking for something like that for a while.
Thanks for the gr8 article as always!