Enliven your blog with various calendar plugins! Probably all of you know Google calendar. But do you also know that you there is a Google calendar plugin for Wordpress? If not, check it out!
Another original calendar is WordPress TemplateTag plugin that displays yearly calendars containing 12 months weighed by their post counts, like the Tag Cloud.
This is calendar I really love! The timeline plugin allows you to view calendar as an horizontal, chronological, scrollable list of all posts. If you want to add clock widget to your wordpress theme then here is a link for you. With this plugin you can manage future events as an online calendar and display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.
Show your visitors what happens and when.

Many of us wants to have blog. A quality one. But what if we just “want” to have a blog but don’t know where to begin or about what to write. There is one solution, called video blogging. You don’t have to write articles, you don’t have to spend long time by reading boring stuff on internet that doesn’t tell you anything anyway. Just get yourself a blog and install revver plugin. You can submit your own videos , track them or for the laziest of us - we can wait for our subscribers to begin to publish their videos. If you motivate your visitors right way, you can build your own big video community. Don’t be sad if you don’t have your own database of movies. You can use the one that Revver offers you.

Do you know it? You are checking your posts and suddenly you see something is wrong. You want to fix it. So you have to log in, enter admin’s interface, then click manage, find the right post and after all these steps you can finally fix what you wanted. This way of entering administration interface is really annoying and I am not the only one who have complained about it. But as Wordpress evolves, bloggers are lazier ask for more and more comfort. Here is a way how to avoid all those steps and access the part of admin’s panel right from your blog’s main page. The solution is called WP Admin Bar Reloaded. Simply install the plug-in, activate it, copy pieces of code into the theme’s .css file and one line of php script below tag. This will make your blogging much more easier and comfortable. You will see management functions in upper part of your screen.

The principle of blogs is easy. Step by step you build your archive of articles. It is very hard to write interesting post every day. Even the best bloggers can’t write something new and interesting on a daily basis. For example if you have developed a plug-in, it is good to put it as a main page of your blog. It will not only make it easier to find it for people who comes to your blog but mainly it will bring you a lot of backlinks and secondly higher PageRank. In case you value more than one post above others, then it is good to install Articles plug-in by Alex King. It will help you easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Make searching quality posts on your blog easier to your visitors. They will reward you with coming back.

There are many ways how to find out who is online, and where they came from. Probably most of us have installed some stats and begin morning with checking how the traffic increased in night. Ok, but how about knowing who is online Right Now? I found a plug-in that allows to find it out very easily and may provide you quite detailed information about who is online right now (Members/Guests/Search Bots) and what is he currently reading. Download and install plug-in called WP-UserOnline and you will have all these information right under your nose :).

People come to your blog, some of them comment on your posts. Probably then you will answer on the comment on your blog. But are you sure the person who commented will come back again and see how you value his/her opinion? You can never be sure about that. There is one great plug-in that can show people who never commented before that you really appreciate their opinions and by that opportunity you can invite them to check your blog again.
Comment Relish is a plug-in that allows you to send an e-mail to the person who commented on your post for the first time. If you will formulate the answer in a friendly manner, they will appreciate your care and will be coming back.

It is very important to keep certain level of our blogs. And there are many factors that influence impression that your blog makes. Interesting content, posts that are up to date and… spelling and grammar. For us, non-English bloggers, it is a problem sometimes. But if we want to spread our word across whole world, it is a must to write in English. Sure we can use Microsoft Office to check spelling. But why to open another application? For this purpose it is good to install something that will be correcting our spelling at least. I know one plug-in that can do it right in your Wordpress admin panel. The smart thingie is called Corrector, and the best part is, it supports 27 languages!

If your blog doesn’t have too original content then probably people will not comment on it. The question is how to encourage to post their comments them. The solution could be to post something controversial ( not hard if you have blog about politics, celebrities or religions). But what if you write about something like Wordpress. Sure this CMS is one of sexiest but I am afraid it is not enough. People should be motivated by something else. No, you don’t have to take a loan and pay them $5 for “Hi mate, your blog is cool!”. Most bloggers are hunting backlinks, especially from main page. Show Top Commentators is a such plug-in. Principle is easy. Commentators with most comments appears in your sidebar ( or where you put the code). And of course these people are shown with URL of their sites and this way they get backlinks. The more they comment, the higher they are and the longer they are on your blog’s main page. And as we know Google won’t count backlinks that are somewhere only for few hours.