Squadcast 11 - Pimp your WordPress

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Squadcast 11 - Pimp your WordPress

by Christina Warren Feb 12th 2008

And we're back! After a brief hiatus (sorry about that!), the Squadcast returns, this time with tips on how to trick out your WordPress install to make it as "bloggerrific" as possible. Grant and Christina catch up with uber-WordPresser Alex King to talk about why so many bloggers swear by WordPress.

The Squadcast's The Five takes a look at five of Download Squad's favorite WordPress plugins.

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Take the jump for show notes and links to items discussed in this episode.

The Five:
All in One SEO Pack - A great way to optimize your blog for listing in all th major search engines; available for WordPress installs version 1.5 and up.
WP OpenID - Easily add OpenID support to your blog with this great plugin; available for WordPress 2.2 and up.
Akismet - Comment spam got you down? Akismet comes to the rescue. Akismet not quite meeting your needs? Give Defensio a try; Defensio requires WordPress 2.1 and up
FlickrRSS - Easily show off your Flickr stream in your WordPress blog.
WP Cache - Handle the Digg effect or other traffic spikes with WP Cache. Also check out the newer fork project, WP Super Cache.

Thanks again to Alex King -- be sure to check out Alex's company, Crowd Favorite, which specializes in WordPress development.

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Tags: alex king, AlexKing, plugins, squadcast, tweet-this, wordpress

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

matt said 1:30AM on 2-13-2008

Anyone know of a tool to port my blogger blog to Wordpress? I currently use Blogger to publish to my own website (shared hosting). I have wordpress installed on my server as well. I just need some way to get the data from Blogger or the Blogger-generated files to Wordpress.

thanks,

matt

Christina Warren said 1:50AM on 2-13-2008

Matt,
WordPress actually has a built-in import tool. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Manage, then select "import." Blogger is the first option.Click on the link and follow the instructions (you'll have to authorize your Blogger account so that WordPress can access it) and all of your entries will be automatically ported over.

GoOrange said 12:51PM on 2-21-2008

The import feature in Wordpress is quite possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread. It imports comments as well!

Thomas Trumble said 7:31AM on 2-24-2008

What, no links to the plugins that Alex King suggests? I've posted them here http://ttrumble.com/alex-king-wordpress-plugin-czar-on-download-squad/

wolkanca said 7:21PM on 3-06-2008

nice video but wp cache thumbs down plugin.

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