WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms today, and for good reason.  It’s extremely easy to install and can run on Windows or Apache web servers.  There are also thousands of plugins available to extend it’s functionality.

Plugins are additional pieces of code that are "plugged in" to the WordPress core to extend its capabilities, add new features, or enhance existing features.  There are many extremely useful plugins, which will vary depending on how you intend to use your blog. 

No matter your intended use, however, there are a few plugins that no WordPress installation should be without.  Check out some of our most useful plugins.

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Every time you surf the web, or do something on your computer, you leave tracks of where you have been and what you were doing.

Whether that means pictures, movies, URLs, browser history, etc., it all leaves clues as to your online and offline behaviors.

Privacy means something different to everyone.  Many people aren’t concerned with someone else being able to see where they’ve been online, what files they’ve downloaded, etc.  Other people are VERY concerned and go to great lengths to cover their tracks online.

When covering your tracks online, there are two main areas of concern. 

1. Covering your online activity (masking your IP address), clearing cache and browser history, etc.
2. Covering your offline (local) activity, what files you’ve opened, programs you’ve run, etc.

Here are our Top 5 Ways to address both of these areas.

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I just recently came across Microsoft’s new blogging client, Live Writer, which allows you to create blog posts to multiple blogging accounts offline, and synchronize, or publish, them your blogs.

The biggest advantage to this is you get full WYSIWYG functionality, and a much bigger area to write your posts.

You also have the added benefit of being able to insert pictures quickly and adjust as needed. There are of course other products on the market that do very similar things, some that integrate directly into your browser, like the Firefox plugin scribefire.

You can download Microsoft’s Live Writer from their website. Although it’s still in beta, it seems to have all the features most people would be looking for.