~ WordPress Plugin I/You Should Have ~
Jul 7, 2010

~ WordPress Plugin I/You Should Have ~

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Selepas saya cuba menggodek-godek plugin dan widget yang ada dalam wordpress ni, apa yang boleh saya katakan.. wow… sangat banyak sampai pening nak pilih. Saya rasa macam at certain category, benda dia lebih kurang sama je. Sampai rambang mata gak la tengok… Hehehhehehehe Oh, untuk pengetahuan ye, kalau kita menggunakan wordpress as a free blog, atau guna xxx.wordpress.com, kebanyakan widget dah sedia ada dah. Tu lebih mudah kalau nak compare dengan yang mempunyai hosting sendiri, makanya kene la cari-cari sendiri.

Jadi, saya nak kongsikan kat sini apa widget dan plugin yang saya gunakan dan bakal gunakan untuk blog wordpress saya ni. Kalau pengguna wordpress yang free pun, rasa ada antara plugin/widget ni yang takde, silakan… boleh guna list ni.. :) Antara widget dan plugin yang saya rasa berguna dan saya rasa patut ada adalah:

1. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu
Ha… plugin ni untuk admin area sahaja. It doesn’t really offer anything from a end user standpoint because its more to admin side – but it saves me SO much time bila saya navigate dalam admin area especially bila saya gunakan berukband. So bila navigate guna default punyer navigator, ia adalah sangat lambat ok. Oleh itu, ini adalah antara plugin yang pertama saya gunakan masa awal-awal saya guna wordpress. Dan saya sangat suka kannya kerana memudahkan saya.. :)

default or classic menu for wordpressNi default wordpress menu. Setiap kali nak bukak setiap satu menu, kene tunggu loading.

ozh admin menu modern oneSelepas saya gunakan Ozh’ Admin Menu. Plugin ini membenarkan setiap menu yang mempunyai submenu just drop down all the submenu bila mouseover. So takde lagi loading time.

Sekarang dah tau kan kenapa saya suka guna plugin nih. :)

2. WP Super Cache
Plugin ini saya recomend kan sebab bila menggunakan plugin ini, ia akan membuatkan pages load akan jadi laju. Selain daripada tu, plugin ini jugak menggunakan less CPU processing. Saya tak dapat nak tunjuk perbezaan tapi saya baru je gunakan plugin ni lepas balqis bagitahu yang blog saya ni slow sikit dalam bab loading. :)

3. HeadSpace 2: WordPress SEO Made Simple
Sebelum ni saya menggunakan All in one SEO untuk membantu saya dalam Search Engine Optimization. Apa itu SEO? Insyaallah, nanti saya post entry tu.. :P Bila saya buat rujukan balik, headspace ni akan menguruskan all the SEO work yang blog kita perlukan. Saya baru lagi mencuba plugin ni.. Apa yang saya nampak setakat ini, bila kita buat sesuatu posting tu, bila kita nak publish, secara automatik dia akan suggest pada saya tag untuk saya letakkan. Selain dari tu, meh kita lihat macam mana nanti.. :P

3. Akismet
Ha.. Akismet ni plugin yang memang default dah ada dalam wordpress. Fungsi Akismet ni adalah untuk menghalang komen-komen yang spam tu. Ia akan automatic, detect mana-mana spam komen then asingkan.Memang berguna so that kita tak perlu lagi buat moderate comment. Mula-mula saya tak guna Akismet ni, makanya berlambakla spam komen yang ntah apa-apa. Kenapa saya tak activate? Sebabnya akismet ni kita kene masukkan API key :)

4. WPtouch iPhone Theme
Ha… yang ni saya tertarik. Kenapa? plugin ni membenarkan website kita di tukar viewnya bila dibuka di dalam handphone. Kan kekadang orang takde masa nak tgk kat laptop/pc so, diorang gunala handphone yang canggih-canggih tu kan.. So, plugin ni khas untuk mobile user access blog kita. Untuk tahun 2010 ni rasanya memang perlu sebab memasing dah ada iphone la.. blackberry la… :P

5. WP-PageNavi
Sebelum ni saya menggunakan ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links. Macam agak boring la especially bila kita search by category then kene click satu satu.  With WP-PaveNavi kita ada dapat page buttons, dalam bentuk 1, 2, 3, 4 dan seterusnya. Ia memudahkan readers untuk terus pergi ke page yang dikehendaki.

6. Subscribe to Comments

Plugin ni saya belum install lagi tapi bila tengok kegunaan saya tengok macam menarik. Apa yang menariknya? Plugin ini membenarkan reader untuk subscribe melalui email untuk mana-mana komen yang ada dalam post kita. Ini boleh membantu reader untuk datang kembali.

7.Top Commentators Widget

Ha.. widget ni dari dulu saya nak install tapi asyikla tertangguh. Plugin ini akan menyenaraikan siapa yang rajin beramah mesra. boleh gak buat sebagai indicate untuk beri hadiah, GA, cenderahati pada yang sudi menjadi top komentator. :)

8. WordPress Related Posts

Ha.. ini ala-ala link within yang saya gunakan sekarang ini, Plugin ini akan menyenaraikan mana-mana post yang berkaitan dengan post kita. Ia membantu memudahkan reader kita untuk melihat lebih lanjut lagi untuk satu-satu topik tu.

Ermm… Dah 8 dah… Ni yang saya dapati menarik. Kawan-kawan ada sugestion lain nak tambah? Macam tambah rate untuk post ke.. Hheheheh Tapi saya tak tau mana plugin yang ok. Sebab banyak sangat.. Hehehhehe So, ada sugestion lain? ^_^

Luv,

UmmiKA

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    Jun 9, 2010

    ~ Purpose Of Blogging : The Evolution ~

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    I believe every blogger have their own purpose why they want to or like to blog. Some people choose to blog because they love to write. Some people choose to blog because they want to share what they knew about something they love. Some people choose to blog because they just want to write something about their life. It is like an online diary for them so they can refer back what they have done in their life. They will write about what they do, what they eat and everything they can share with others. Some people love to write about their baby. How their baby’s developments, achievements for a certain level and so on so that this journal can be viewed when their children get older.

    purpose of blogging

    Whatever the reason you started to blog, I think in natural way your purpose for blogging will evolve with time. As for me, I started blogging during the 8 months of my pregnancy. At that point of time, I just wanted to write/blog something only for my own leisure. I just wanted to write about my story, my experiences and about my life to be exact. I started with blogspot.com and use little-khalifah-and-us.blogspot.com. From my url, I think everyone can say I will write about me, my husband and my children. Yes, that’s my first purpose of blogging. :)

    Then, the purpose evolved when I started to blog for friends. Yes, from blogging I started to know a lot of people. When somebody visits my blog or when I visit others’ blogs, we will start to know each other. Then we become friends. We started to chat, leave comments, say hi, say how cute your daughter/sons ( well its true, baby or children is really cute in different ways. Believe me.. :) ) start to share our story, start to know that our blog friends is just around the corner of our house. Then I become addicted to blog. Everyday I must open my friends’ blogs to know what they do and what they share and everything. See.. how blogging can make me meet a lot of friends?

    Make Friends

    From blogging also, I can get lots of information from friends. They have different knowledge they like to share based on their experiences. I like to share whatever I know from my reading and also from my experiences. Sharing is caring right? So, the purpose evolved to posting something not only about what I do but I add some valuable information for reference to others and me. What I do to my little Khayra when I choose to breastfeed, I share it in my blog. What obstacles or advice from family, from friends, from others I share it. The more we share, the more knowledge we had.

    knowledge of time

    After some time, I started to blog for money (aren’t we all?). Hahahaha With blogging, actually we can get money from many ways. Affiliate, advertising, traffics, business and a lots more. The easiest one is from advertising you put on your blog. It calculates from your traffic. From there, I started to know Nuffnang, google adsense, innity ( I just write a few here) from friends too. See, how powerful is the connection of friends. Hehehhehehe Nowadays, a lot of blogs start to write something very interesting post, start to upgrade themselves to write something useful even tho sometimes I know, I just write some crap things. Hahahhahaha See the power of evolving? I didn’t mean when we evolve to upgrade ourselves, we forget our main purpose of blogging. Maybe blogging for money is not apply to everybody but I believe everyone love money right? Even I want to gain some income from blogging, but its not my main purpose. Like Malays proverb “ Sambil Menyelam Minum Air” I think tak salah kan? :)

    Blog for money - Do you

    So, how about you my friends? Does your purpose for blogging evolves like mine or does it still maintain the same until now?

    Nota: Tiba-tiba je entry kali ni berbahasa Inggeris… :P

    Luv,

    UmmiKhayra

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