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As a regular wordpress user, I like to look at the plugins available to improve my websites appearance, functionality and interaction with either myself, the admin or the end user.
So what I have done is a brief overview of the top 5 plugins that I and many others use, in which I would highly recommend to other wordpress users or people who are looking to move from other CMS systems such as Joomla or Blogspot.
With Blogger going into read-only mode on Friday for 24 hours; bloggers lost over 30 hours of posts and comments. Instead of being able to access their blog they were faced with this message.
In the last 24 hours Gawker Media rolled out an anticipated redesign across their sites. Lets just say the reception across the web has been less than positive.
• There are over 200,000,000 blogs
• 77% of all Internet users read blogs
• 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44
• One in five bloggers post opinions about products and brands
• More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
• Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.
[Social Media Facts and Stats for 2010, taken from www.todayifoundout.com]
Scouring the internet today as I do from time to time I came across a really interesting wordpress plugins article from Dreamhost. Dreamhost host over half a million WordPress blogs and decided to compile some research on the most popular plugins installed by their users. Now if this isn’t compelling data then I don’t know what is. These are comprehensive statistics which are measured against an extremely high volume of WordPress users.
Some on the list might not be a surprise to you but some of the others you might not already have and may enjoy checking them out just like I am right now. These are what people are installing which may be able to benefit you in the future.
The top 5 is an interesting one. Those denoted with a star are already installed plug ins however 2 of the top 5 are the Google sitemap generator and the all in one seo pack (yay for SEO). Google sitemap generator is installed and used on 12% of all the blogs hosted on Dreamhost. Quite remarkable statistics.
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