WordPress Plugins

WordPress Plugins

This web­site is pow­ered by the most recent ver­sion of Word­Press, the open-source CMS used by com­pa­nies as The New York­er, CNN and BBC; The New York Times, Reuters and HBR blogs. A 2015-study indi­cates that almost 80% of the inter­net is pow­ered by Word­Press.

WordPress Plugins

(Eng­lish) This is a sam­ple of the Word­Press plu­g­ins that are cur­rent­ly keep­ing aardling.com up an run­ning. Feel free to have a look around. There’s a good chance you’ll find some­thing you could use on your own site.

(Dutch) Dit is een deel van de Word­Press plu­g­ins die op aardling.com de boel draaiende houden. Bek­ijk ze gerust eens alle­maal, de kans is groot dat je iets tegenkomt wat je zelf ook kan gebruiken.

  1. Yoast SEO, brings in a steady sup­ply of new read­ers
  2. SEO Smart Links, helps nav­i­gate between arti­cles
  3. Font Awe­some Icons, for nav­i­ga­tion­al hints
  4. Acronyms, explains what those let­ter-words mean
  5. Yet Anoth­er Relat­ed Posts Plu­g­in, dis­plays fur­ther read­ing
  6. Bro­ken Link Check­er, alerts when sites I link to dis­ap­pear
  7. MailChimp for Word­Press, in case you pre­fer email alerts
  8. WP Super Cache, makes sure per­for­mance is top-notch
  9. Autop­ti­mize, guar­an­tees a 100% per­for­mance score
  10. InstantClick, because every mil­lisec­ond mat­ters

WordPress Versions

Word­Press saw its first day­light in 2003. In Decem­ber 2006, Aardling switched over from Blog­ger to using Word­Press. These are the ver­sion we have used so far.