WordPress Plugins

How to choose and add WordPress Plugins. How to use the WordPress Plugin Directory. Plugins I suggest: Akismet for comment spam, Google Analytics for WordPress, easily hooks WordPress to Google Analytics. All In One SEO Pack – the changes WordPress should make. Google XML Sitemaps — creates a google sitemap, important for SEO. Fast Secure Contact Form — allows visitors to send you email. ShareThis — social sharing buttons in many different iterations. W3 Total Cache — creates flat (not dynamic) files. Disqus Comment System — Replaces wordPress comment system with more socially-aware system. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin — shows related posts from your blog. WP-DB-Backup — backs up your WordPress database. Smart YouTube — easily insert YouTube videos. Exclude Pages from Navigation — allows you to remove pages from your nav bar. AskApache Password Protect — adds level of protection for passwords. Dynamic Content Gallery — Creates a dynamic image gallery. FD Feedburner Plugin — redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed. Featured Content Gallery — creates a rotating image gallery. Twitter Tools — integrates your blog with Twitter. WordPress Firewall — blocks suspicious-looking requests to WordPress. WP Facebook Like — Puts a Like button on posts. WP Security Scan — performs a security scan of your WordPress installation. WP iPhone Theme — formats your site with a mobile theme. These plugins cover traffic builder, traffic monitoring, traffic generator

Can I use StatCounter and Google Analytics Together in WordPress?

I have installed 2 plugins in my WordPress website to allow me to use Google Analytics and StatCounter. It looks though as if neither one gets any data from my website. I had used StatCounter exclusively until last week and it worked just fine, until I added the Google Analytics plugin. Are both scripts preventing each other from working properly?
Any Ideas on what should be done?

WordPress themes problem?

After installing wordpress on my web server, I subsequently installed a themes in public_html/wp-content/themes.

The problem is that when i click on an installed theme there is no preview. When I clickon activate it shows that my selected theme is activated

But when i visit the web site it is entirely blank.

Please help cos I am going out of my mind.
Wel i would have believed the theme was broken but i tried others even the deault theme doesnt work and gves me the same thing…nada!!!

How do you add clip art/images to the gallery in Open Office?

I recently installed the Open Office suite of products to get away from the MS monster. I have found them very useful but lacking in a few areas – the gallery/clipart being the most pressing… Any assistance on how to load more images into its clip art library and where to download clip art would be greatly appreciated, as the instructions on their site are giving me a headache with very little success.