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These Wordpress plugins are useless in my opinion. They might be useful to you, but they do more harm than good to me, that’s why I’m not using them. Harm? They give my server extra thing to do which will not help me anyway. I’m not linking to them because I don’t want to.
1. Word Count Plugin. Do your readers really wanted to know how many words are there in your post? So what if you used 1000 words in your post? What matters for me is if you write interesting content. It doesn’t matter whether your post is long, it all depends on what you’re talking about.
2. Time To Read Plugin. A plugin that tells people how long will it take them to read your post. Come on, do I really need to know that? Simply gazing your post will give me an idea on how long will it take me to finish reading your post. Besides, people read at different speeds, so, it is still inaccurate. You’re just giving your server’s CPU an extra worthless thing to do.
3. Youtube Plugin. Plugin that tells you that you needed them to easily insert Youtube videos on your posts. Why do I need this plugin when I can insert Youtube videos by simply copy-pasting the embed code and it’s all done?
4. Social Bookmarking Plugin. Plugin that automatically creates a link for visitors to easily submit your post to these social bookmarking sites. Tell me, how many of your visitors actually used that? Do they really care submitting your blog post to these sites? If they really like your post, they will submit it to these social bookmarking sites even if you don’t have those links.
5. Google Pagerank Plugin. A plugin that will show your visitors your Google Pagerank. Do I really need a plugin for that? People who are interested in my Pagerank actually have the Google toolbar installed in their browsers where they can see my blog’s current Pagerank. People who are clueless about Pagerank don’t need to see it anyway.
Ok, enough said.
P.S. Speaking of Wordpress, go and take a look at Mcbilly’s blog. He has a nice contest going on there. He’s giving away a professionally made Wordpress theme.
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January 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Thanks for the mention Marhgil!
Those plugins are indeed pretty much useless. Pwede pa siguro yung social bookmarking plugin, although what you said makes sense! If they really like your content, they will definitely submit it to social bookmarking websites.
Thanks ulit Marhgil. Best Regards bro.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:06 am
I agree on everything except the Social bookmarking plugin. IMO, it’s not totally useless. It can be useful for some blogs and may not work for some.
I don’t want to sound bias coz I use something like that on my blog. But in my case, I use it so users have easy access to send it to social bookmarking sites. You’ll never know when your post would be submitted.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:08 am
O nga naman mga walang kwentang plugins… better should think twice before uploading them in your server kasi minsan they eat alot of cpu usage then bigla ka nlng e eni email ng ng host mo na they giving you 3 days to fix it or else theyl penalized u damn. Even my office mate before dahandahalang.com he used a certain plugin na nag caused mag crash yung wp sys niya.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
blogspot gamit ko e.ahehehe.anyway,makikita mo un sa email ng yehey.andun un link s google docs beta nila.dpt nklogin k s google acct mo pra maopen mo.kita nga kita s list.pano kaya pagpunta dun s venue kapg galing ka ng batangas or alabang?alam mo ba?pkicoment sa site ko.tnx
January 31st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
“Social Bookmarking Plugin” - heheheh parang social bookmarking buttons ko to sa baba ah
ako ginagamit ko lang yun palagi after ko mag post.. hihihi…
January 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
i don’t have a social bookmarking plug in but i do have some buttons after my post.. this buttons are basically for me hehehe.. yun din click ko after ko mag post…
January 31st, 2008 at 2:31 pm
@Jaypee… pansin ko lang kasi dun sa dati kong theme, andun ang mga digg, delicious at kung ano-ano pang button, wala din namang gumagamit, kaya inalis ko na lang. sayang ang link juice na napupunta sa kanila. hehe.
@Amy and Jehzlau… ingat lang sa pagsubmit sa Digg. they might ban you for always submitting your own content.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
i would also have to disagree on the social bookmarking button.
it’s not totally useless… it really gives your visitors a more convenient way to submit your site to their social bookmarks
this is somehow related to having the comment form readily available at the bottom of your posts instead of a comment link, it encourages people to submit one, so if you put a social bookmarking button in your post, readers are more likely to submit it.
unfortunately, i remember reading somewhere (i think it’s in doshdosh) that only a small percentage of readers (<10%) actually use the social bookmark button. i’m too lazy to search for the actual numbers, sorry.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
@Fitz… the percentage is too small for me to think it’s useful.
actually, ako lang din gumagamit noon nung andyan pa yung button sa site ko. tsaka hindi rin naman diggable mga sinusulat ko, kaya wala talagang magsusubmit. hahaha,
January 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
di ko din ginagamit yung ibang plugins except the social bookmarks plugin. i find it useful especially stumble upon. Stumble upon generate traffic sa blog ko promise hahaha.
Btw, forget about digg, na ban na ako dun hahaha.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
@marhgil - In my case, I keep the social bookmarking buttons or links because I get traffic from StumbleUpon just like ambo.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am
OUCH! nasaktan ako dun sa google plugin! HAHAHA! Useless talaga dahil chinugi nang gago ang singko ko at ginawang zero! hahaha!!!