Plugins are basically little added programs that increase the functionality of your BLOG. There are plugins for stopping SPAM, editing tags more easily, adding fancy menus, automatic updating of your social media as well as many other things.

For the fitness professional there is one plugin that is vital for your BLOG, relating to Search Engine Optimization of your site. This plugin is called “All In One SEO Pack”.

This is a little extra couple of boxes to fill out when you write your post, but will mean your site is mean easily indexed and found by google and other search engines. It gives you the ability to directly edit the title, description and keyword tags for the post. It requires about 2 minutes extra work on your part when preparing your post but will make a massive difference to your google rankings.

Adding plugins to your site is exactly like adding a theme discussed in the previous post on Themes For WordPress. The only difference is you put the downloaded plugin in to the “plugins” folder.

Once you have uploaded the plugin, just open the dashboard and click the plugins box on the left hand menu bar. Select the plugin and activate it. Using it is as simple as editing the boxes below the area where you edit your post.

You can get the All In One SEO Pack plugin from wordpress plugins area.

I have a whole host of other plugins that I use, but this one is key to blogging success.