All these days of setting up the new blog at WordPress has led me to writing up this brief review on some of the wonderful plugins which I’ve found extremely useful.

If you’re like me, and have tons of social media sites you have to update all the time, you probably make use of the service Ping.fm. Ever wondered how you can notify Ping.fm whenever you publish a new post on your blog? PingPress.fm is the answer! PingPress.fm is a WordPress plugin that allows you to spread your wonderful blog to 10+ social networks via Ping.fm. You can set it up to update as a “Status“, a “Micro Blog” or a “Blog Post“, or all 3, and have different formats for each. I’ve been using this plugin to help notify my friends across Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc of new blog entries. You’ll have to tweak the settings of the plugin and the settings over at Ping.fm a little, or you may end up with multiple posts (like me )

Ever had the problem categorizing/tagging multiple posts? Currently, you have to edit each post and update the categories and tags post by post. With the Batch Categories plugin, you can now mass update the tags and categories of multiple posts!

If you want to display links to your various social network accounts, but don’t want to clutter up you sidebar, you might want to consider the Social Links plugin. Now you can display a neat little widget with icons representing and linking to all of your social network accounts.

Well, that’s all for now. Meanwhile, I’ll be on the lookout for more helpful WordPress plugins to share with you. If you have some favorites of your own which you’ll like to share, please feel free to let me know.

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