To build your WordPress site you select software, load templates, create and load content and you will review and test everything.  But even still those little things can sneak through and diminish all the allure of the professional site you are trying to achieve.

Consider these plugins that can help ensure that the final little pieces are handled properly.  None of these blogs will change your website or grow your business - but combined they will protect your business from people who otherwise might be dismayed by errors or perceived errors on your site.

For example, when a visitor is wondering if you are an established business or an Internet fly-by-night, what do yo think will occur when they see that the copyright notice says either 2005 or 2015 - both examples I have seen this week!

Blog Copyright (BC) can solve that issue by inserting a copyright notice in your WordPress website’s footer. It automatically updates the year range each new year and prevents you from having to manually go in and provide an update to the date range.  Adjustments can be made to a variety of options including the starting year and the rights reserved statement.

A more embarrassing scenario unfolded for a friend.  He added several writers to his blog and was shocked one day to find an automotive article on his technology blog.  Eventually he figured out that one of his writers actually provides articles for dozens of blogs.  Since every WordPress administration login looks the same - this writer logged into the wrong site!

He tracked down and quickly installed the BM Custom Login.

As shown above, this plugin  lets you add your own graphical logo or brand to your login screen so your login screen no longer looks like the other 1 million WordPress login screens!  There is even a Flickr group for showing off your custom logins, or for getting inspiration for your own creations. You can see it on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/bm-custom-login.

On of the challenges that sites with an international appeal have to deal with is the data format.  Do you show month/date or date/month or do you take the room for the whole date to be written out.  Seems minor, but lets say it is August 3rd, and you display 1/8 as the post date.  Some will see that as August 1 and say it’s a recent post while some will see it as January 8th (Elvis’ birthday) and say it seems old.

That’s why WP Relative Date adds that special touch by using terms like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’ to describe when a post was written instead of just the date and time

Another area that can diminish your site is comments.  You can choose to review all comments first - but that can get time consuming.  A good balance if provided by tools like WyPiekacz which allow you to monitor if posts submitted for review and posted satisfy a set of rules which can include:

• minimum post length;
• maximum number of links;
• minimum and maximum length of title;
• minimum and maximum number of selected categories;
• minimum and maximum number of tags;

WyPiekacz, just like any of these plugins, can’t ensure perfection - but they can bring you one step closer to making sure that silly errors never discourage a visitor to your WordPress site!

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