I was helping people create WordPress websites and everyone wanted to know what the best WordPress Calendar Plugin was. I’ve tested 12 since I got the request and in this article I’ll go over Calendar Press. I’ll cover how to install it and how to use it to create a nice event calendar as well.
Why is Calendar Press the Best WordPress Calendar Plugin?
Most importantly it isn’t buggy. (Many of the Calendar Plugins I tested were) Also it provides these core capabilities:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUZmtH7CSQ[/youtube]On this page, I’ll cover all of my favorite WordPress Blog Plugins. Each blog plugin has been tested on the newest version of WordPress version 2.9. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything, but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Remember for every plugin you add to your site, you are incrementally slowing down your website load time. So choose wisely.
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress: This is the first of the blog plugins to install on your site. It will create a sitemap.xml and robots.txt file for you and then update those files each time you change your site and inform all of the major search engines of the changes. A sitemap.xml file tells search engines:
Amazingly enough, many web developers do not create this extremely important file for their clients. A robots.txt file, tells search engines where they can locate your sitemap file. The video above shows you how to install and set up this plugin as well as the Google Analytics blog plugin.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUZmtH7CSQ[/youtube]In this article, I’ll show you two Blog Plugins that will submit your website to search engines for free. Each plugin has been tested on the newest version of WordPress version 2.9. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything, but it is possible to have to much of a good thing. Remember for every plugin you add to your site, you are incrementally slowing down your website load time. So choose wisely.