I mentioned in my last post about the use of plugins and aps for your blog, being selective and using ones which are useful.  Well, here are a couple of very useful WP plugins.

Highlighter is free, easy to use and a great interactive tool, opening up an opportunity for discussion on certain points within a post, capturing more social sharing and conversation.  If you can’t see the Highlighter side-bar tab, it does not appear on the home page, when you open a post it will then automatically display.

So, how does it work?  Highlighter allows your readers to comment or share with their followers on facebook and twitter or email a friend, on any chosen text from a post.  Whether it be a word, sentence, paragraph or even an image, just highlight it, (the highlighter box will appear) then make your comment or share on that highlight.  To give you a little example of how it looks when a comment has been made, mouse over the highlighted text above ‘chosen text’.

The best way to get a clear and easy understanding of how Highlighter works is to pop over to Barry Wells blog and watch a short video demonstration he’s put together.

GASP (Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin), also free and I’m sure something everyone could do with having, it will stop 99% of spambot comment posts.  Another great video demonstration, this time by Randy Smith, he’ll explain how to install it.

I must mention that Ian Ieba recommended both these plugins to me and passed on both Barry’s and Randy’s video links, which I do recommend watching.

Till next time
Julie ;-)

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