How WordPress Goes to Work For You

There are important ways you can optimize your WordPress blog so it will literally save you a lot of time. I will show you three important things you need so you can save a lot of time, allowing you to write a lot more articles on your WordPress blog:*.Schedule articles*.Install the Akismet plugin*.Use Widgets wiselyLet's go through these so you can make the most of your blogging experience.Schedule ArticlesWhen you feel like writing new articles, you can add these to your saved articles, and allow them to be published weeks, or even months, ahead in time. This could be useful if you are facing a summer vacation, but you want your blog to have fresh content, thus keeping your readers on your blog even when you are enjoying the sun in Turkey or some other warm country.Similarly, you might see an interesting video that could be relevant for a birthday greeting or seasonal greetings around x-mas, and the schedule function could be relevant so you don't forget that special video. In that way, WordPress can function as an electronic notebook. Once the article has been written and scheduled, you know WordPress is going to present it to your audiencewhen you decided it should be published.Install the Akismet PluginThe Akismet plugin keeps track of spam. This is highly useful when you run a blog because spambots are all over the internet trying to publish comments about Viagra or strange chinese comments that don't have any relevance for your readers or yourself.Spammers are a fact of life for all of us online, and you might as well get Akismet as your faithful helper. It works whether you are online or not, and you can then quickly delete it next time you are in your control panel so it doesn't take up any space.I have used WordPress for almost a decade by now, and I have never seen a single false positive. False positives are comments that are erroneously placed in the spam folder, so you canrely on Akismet - and best of all it's free.Use Widgets WiselyIt may be tempting to add lots of widgets on your blog, but you should limit your use of these to what is relevant. Having both the calendar, tags and categories widget on the same page is needless. In fact, the calendar widget is useless, so if you don't need it on your blog, leave it out. Better safe than sorry, so you don't overcloud your blog with needless things that take away from the attention people should have on reading your articles.If you want to use WordPress most efficiently, I highly recommend you check out WordPress Unleashed which is available here:http://blunck.dk/recommends/wordpress-unleashed/Furthermore, you can find me on Twitter:http://twitter.com/henrikblunckArticle Source:http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Henrik_V_Blunck/117195