So, you are ready to add a blog to your website, and are wondering which components (what functionality) to include in your blog.
Here’s a list of the Top 20 Blog Components recommended by Adventures Online:
- Search (the blog)
- Categories
- Pages
- Archives (ability to view the blog posts by time period; ie: July 2009)
- Blogroll (List of blogs that you like/recommend to your visitors)
- Recent Posts
- Recent Comments
- Polls
- Polls Archive (ability to view previous Polls)
- Subscribe via RSS (Feedburner recommended)
- Subscribe via Email (Feedburner recommended)
- Link to your Twitter Page
- Link to your LinkedIn Page
- Link to your Facebook page
- My Latest Tweets
- TweetMeme (ability for visitors to ReTweet your posts or pages)
- Email This Post (or Page to a friend/colleague)
- SEO Pack (Search Engine Optimization plugin that allows you more control)
- Subscribe To Comments
- Google Analytics