This is a guest post by Carolyn.
Managing a blog is a rigid business. There is the constant demand for new updates, the struggle to conceive interesting ideas that have not been treaded and retreaded on 50 other blogs and for many, the struggle to monetize their blog. There is additionally a balance that must be struck amidst anatomy and functionality. You want your site to be easily navigated by users, but you additionally want it to have visual appeal. Fortunately there are a handful of very helpful widgets that can increase your functionality, form your site easier on the eyes and build your site’s readership.
Gravity Forms
The Gravity Forms plug-in is extremely useful for those who offer customizable products through their site. You can create fully customizable forms to put on your site so that when a customer makes an order through your WordPress site, they don’t have to be rerouted to your company’s site. You can now run everything from WordPress. Want to create a contest where the first 50 humans to add their newsletter address to your mailing list get a free download of a song or video? With Gravity forms you can easily set a limit on the number of citizens who can complete a mold. When that limit is reached, the plug-in will display a notification that the contest is closed.
Thank Me Later
Do you anguish that when someone stumbles across your site and leaves a comment on a discussion they will never find their way back to you? Many sites fall victim to these one-and-done users who display an interest in a site but for whatever reason, never return. With Thank Me Later, that will be a thing of the past. that plug-in sends a Thank You to everyone who comments on your site. You can customize the note with a personal notice thanking the user for their visit and asking them to connect with you via Twitter or Facebook. that is probably the best retention plug-in I’ve ever seen.
Reply Me
One of the great things about Facebook is its notification center. that notification center alerts users when someone has commented on a post that you have additionally commented on. For instance, let’s say you jump into a debate about the Academy Awards and the debate goes cold. whether tomorrow others throw their voices into the conversation, everyone who originally participated in the discussion gets an observant. That allows conversations to gain incredibly enlarged life spans. It’s not strange to see a discussion that was started a month ago get resurrected with a slew of new comments. That’s the concept behind ReplyMe. that plug-in alerts users whenever someone comments after them in a discussion. that is a great tool for attracting repeat visitors.
These are just a few of my personal favorites. WordPress has thousands of plug-ins that can help your site with just about anything. Figure out which ones will compliment the functionality of your site without making it look horrendous and get to downloading. The Gravity Forms plug-in is $39 while Thank Me Later and Reply Me are each free.
Carolyn is a guest blogger who writes about small business and small business tools like BigCommerce.
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