Recently we listed what we think are the 5 most essential plug-ins for WordPress, and 5 Useful but not essential ones. Today’s round up is a list of the ones we think are the sexiest.

In my previous post 5 Essential Plug-ins for WordPress I listed some pretty basic ones that I wouldn’t put a WP site live without. This next round-up is a list of useful but not really essential plug-ins.

WordPress is the most widely used publising platforms available.  While it is fully functional straight out-of-the-box, there are a number of essential plug-ins that will greatly improve your blogging experience. WordPress plug-ins are very easy to install and with a large community of developers working with and using WordPress you will find a plug-in to [...]

Using social media web sites to promote your business is a cost-effective way to market your products or services. However, it is not easy to see how your business can benefit from it when you look at these sites and all you see is people talking rubbish to each other.

You may know your products or services like the back of your hand but does your website describe what you do well enough for potential customers to want to contact you? Having an informative website allows you to communicate your message to a much wider audience as well as enabling you to instantly provide updated information about your products or services to your existing customer base.

THE potential offered by the Internet to the business owner is enormous. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a successful online presence. This means more than just getting the company website up-and-running – it means using the internet to market directly to consumers.

You may have heard Ryan Tubridy’s show yesterday morning on RTE 1 in which he discussed blogging with Damian Mulley of mulley.net and Suzy Byrne of mamanpoulet.com. Ryan referred to blogging as ramblings or rants by unqualified, vain, attention-seeking often cowardly individuals writing ‘unsolicited waffle’ who should instead be discussing these issues with their friends [...]

Recently I’ve been side-tracked by some unusual events in my life.   There was my first visit to the high court, swiftly followed by my first visit to a creditors meeting -  but that’s a story for another day. .. So distracted was I that I missed the publication of my guest posting on Joe Scanlon’s  [...]

My post yesterday must have upset Twitter…

Someone suggested to me that joining twitter is good for business.  So I did… It’s completely insane! You ‘follow’ people, they ‘follow’ you. People ‘tweet’ stupid stuff about themselves: ‘I have a headache’, ‘I’m on the bus’, ‘I hate the rain’,  ‘I’m eating a kebab’,  ‘I love my new coffee machine’, ‘nn now’ So how [...]

There once was a blogger from Cork, who ate all his food from a fork, one day he was seen in old Skibbereen eating fish from a knife, what a dork!

Why are most Irish bloggers from Cork? Are they actually from Cork or do they just pretend? Because of course they could be from anywhere. This morning I visited a number of Irish blogs with a view to making some nominations to the Irish Blog Awards (to be held in Cork!) and this is how [...]

Lots of categories and a blog can be nominated in any category by anyone. Go there and vote – but please – don’t spoil your vote – read the rules first! Oh, and you can only vote once so if you leave out a category you can’t go back and nominate for that category later [...]