14 DAY TRIAL // If you own a big blog, with lots of categories and many posts, you should try to optimize your Administration Panel using a few plugins that will make your work easier. In today's article I will present to you the plugins that I consider that are the best for you.
The thing you hate the most is when you encounter a 404 error. The errors can appear if you move something in your site and you forgot to overlook a few redirects. One of the best plugins that logs 404 errors on your site and get them delivered to you via e-mail or RSS is 404 Notifier. 404 Notifier works with permalinks, but only with the pretty ones (for example /2007/09/26/softpedia). For now, 404 Notifier doesn't work with ugly ones (for example ?p=123).
The installation is simple: download the plugin and activate it from Administration Panel/Plugins. Configure your 404 Notifier options and get the RSS feed URL by going to Options > 404 Notifier in the WP Admin area.
Using Custom Admin Menu customizing Wordpress Administration Panel has never been easier. All customizations are done using a graphical interface, without requiring any changes to any files. With this plugin you can change the label of any menu item, change the order of all of your administration menus etc.
Another great plugin for Administration panel is DashNote. DashNote helps you to remember everything. DashNote is a kind of 'Post it' where you can write something, so you can remember next time you log in to Administration Panel. You can customize the way the PostIt looks editing dash-note-admin.css. DashNote also includes a list of your draft posts right into the wordpress dashboard.
Protecting the content of your blog is very important. According to State of The Blogosphere, in 2006, 70% of all blogging posts are spam. Using Digital Fingerprint you can detect what blogs are stealing your content. Digital Fingerprint will place a digital fingerprint to your articles. You can customize the fingerprint according to your needs. The main advantage of this plugin is that the fingerprint is visible only in RSS feeds. After you active the plugin from the Administration Panel, you can configure it from Manage/Digital fingerprint.
