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This is a useful site which tells me about the security of this site. This is the reason why I use fake name for many of these programs and release very little personal information. Several of the other sites talk about upgrades of this program with plugins. This site advises against it and how to set up stronger passwords and not to link personal MySQL server to connect remotely if working on a project with another computer. So updated security is essential and avoiding 3rd party plugins can be important.

Found this to be useful. However many plug-ins require your own hosting account.

Similar to the other site I shared, this provides plugins, not just tips. It is also organized into easy to ready categories and provides plenty of links!

This is a great resource for plugins. Since I am new to Wordpress I felt this is a great resource to get my page up and running with cool plugins. Since I am a blogger.com blogger I need resources to help me get started creatively with Wordpress.

Good tips on how to speed up load time for blog.

This site gives 14 plugins that can help make your blog better.

I like this article because it lists helpful plugins that will make your blogging experience much easier. 

I was a little confused by some of the widgets/plugins. Here's a site that explains 10 of the more important ones, and posts links to downloads.

I really like this website because it gives 30 different options of what you can do to your blog to make it better. For example you can get the plugin to allow icons for subscription like twitter and emails. You can also get newsletter widget and post videos and or photos.

One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is because of its flexibility. Designers, developers, and bloggers have plenty of options. In this post we'll look at a combination of tutorials for improving a WordPress-based site, and plugins that can provide added functionality that will bring new possibilities. Tutorials: Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress Magazine themes are becoming increasingly popular. There are plenty of quality premium themes available, and also some decent free magazine themes, but you may want to build or customize your own. This tutorial covers the process of coding the index.php file to set up a magazine-style front page with a featured post section. - if you're willing to download all the plugins that are available from this site, you can really have the wordpress site look awesome and provide a lot more options.

This page has it all! Aside from just telling an explaining what we can do it provides screenshots so we get an idea of the "trick" to see is we might want it. This offers help anywhere from blog rolls to navigation to addding sideshows and tabs to your page. VERY resourceful.

This article is good because it provides tutorials on how to improve your blog.  For example, there are descent free magazines themes or you can build your own.  Also it gives techniques for seo and plug ins.  

This site helps tidy up and customize your wordpress to look unique but I have to say after reading information from http://interconnectit.com/679/a-common-sense-wordpress-security-primer/ , I prefer not to use 3rd party plugins. A lot of this is coded customization like how Myspace.com first use to be.

Teaches you how to customize wordpress with different themes and plugins.

Good tips on how to boost your business through a blog.

If you need some simple ideas of how to improve your wordpress blog, here they are. 10 great recommended plug-ins with descriptions of how they will effect your blog.

A gigantic list of over 300 tools, plugins, and applications to create the ultimate WordPress blog.

I like this site the best because it gives you tools that actually make blogging easier. I will probably incorporate one of these tools into my blog. I like the evernote and screenflow the best. 

This site suggests ways to improve the content, organization, and marketing of your blog. It focuses on making everything user friendly, easily accessible, and keeping it simple (not too many plugins).

100 easy step to help your blog. Content, beainstorming, use other writers, use vdeos some obviuos and some so unobviuos.

Here is another list to help me spark my ideas on how to create a more proficient blog. Some of the options on this list are a bit ridiculous for this class and I couldn't really see myself doing them like hiring other writers. While others like ridding myself of unproductive widgets sounds like such a great way to make space and reduce clutter.I like this one a lot just due to all the suggestions it imposes. 

*Social sharing buttons. *Recommend popular post. *Speed up my blog- clean up side bar. * Fix my "About page"- Info about a a good About page. *Plugins *Polls ***This site has very useful tools***

This article is focused directly on WP users. It consists of 10 easy things that will improve your blog. Although some of them don't apply to the basic users there are still some useful tips.

This is a very intelligently written site. All the ideas are good and make sense.

I like this article because it gives helpful tips on how to manage and control your comments in order to make your blog successful.

Improvements specifically to blog comments.  Good content on managing comments.