Web designers, developers and bloggers should be quite familiar with WordPress, a powerful, award winning and widely used open source blog publishing application. This useful tool offers an easy to use and reliable platform for blogging activities. In fact WordPress features rich plugin architecture for bloggers and developers to enhance and improve the base function. If you are new to this blog publishing tool, perhaps you could make references to some of the popular plugins here to make your blog or website more dynamic, interactive and attractive.

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WordPress blog publishing platform allows individual author to override global discussion setting and set whether to allow reader to post comment on the article, or whether to allow link notification (aka pingback and trackback) from other blogs at single post or page level. The feature allows all new posts and pages to be created with comments and pings on, but can always be turned off on specific posts or pages when needed.

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WordPress.com Stats plugin for self-hosted WordPress blog (aka Automattic Stats plugin) is a good and free web visitors statistics tracker for WordPress blogging platform. The WordPress.com Status plugin provides the most popular metrics, stats and information that a blogger wants to track in a clear and concise interface.

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Moderator is a WordPress plugin with associated desktop application that is built by using Adobe AIR. The main function of Moderator is to allow the user to manage the blog comments from their desktop without to go to moderation page as it is at the user desktop. 

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Blogger free blog publishing platform uses a pretty limited navigation features that only display “Older Posts” or “Newer Posts” link to let readers navigate and browse to other pages on homepage (index), archive, category and label pages. Unlike WordPress blog that supports plugin to customize the page navigation link to numbered pages listing to make it more user friendly, Blogger, whether hosted on blogspot.com or custom domain does not have such flexibility.

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Since WordPress 2.6, WordPress has built in support for caption shortcode, which will automatically convert images, videos and other media embedded inside the code to have descriptive caption with framed border. Beside, when blogger or writer uploads and inserts (or pastes) an image by using WordPress Media Uploader, the [caption] and [caption] HTML short code is also automatically inserted.

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WordPress developers add AutoSave feature into the popular blog publishing system since the release of WordPress 2.1, and it has became the permanent fixture in all future generation of WordPress, including WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.6 branches. By default, WordPress AutoSave will automatically save and store the unsaved and in-editing draft or published post/page every 60 seconds.

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For users who had disabled or turned off post revisions tracking or versions history feature in WordPress (added since WordPress 2.6), it is also made sense to delete and remove all existing stored post revisions and changes made on pages stored in the database in order to reduce the wp_posts table size, especially when there is already tons of revisions or changes been kept.

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