{"id":58473,"date":"2012-04-17T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:15:53","slug":"wordpress-plugins-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/wordpress-plugins-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins for Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66448 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wpascii.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"270\" \/>I got the idea to make a post about WordPress plugins for writers. I use a few which help me and thought I&#8217;d share them. But, I found something interesting when I started looking around to see what other writers like to use. Almost every plugin written about as being &#8220;for writers&#8221; was for SEO in blogging. Almost none of the plugins reviewed as &#8220;for writers&#8221; were about writing. Does anyone else think that&#8217;s kind of a sad reflection on writing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the plugins I use which help me with actual writing online (not blog promoting &#8211; but blog writing).<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Custom About Author<\/del> &#8211; Add your social media links and a blurb about yourself to the end of each of your posts.<\/li>\n<li><del>Dashboard: Scheduled Posts<\/del> &#8211; This adds a feature to your WordPress desktop where you can store and view posts you have marked as scheduled\/ saved as drafts to be finished later. I use this a lot!<\/li>\n<li><del>Sideblog WordPress Plugin<\/del> &#8211; Run a side blog (in your sidebar) for short posts like quotes and notes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/drop-caps\/\">Drop Caps<\/a> &#8211; I used this for awhile but didn&#8217;t stick with it. Fun for awhile, but not essential. It does work and was simple to set up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The following are plugins I have not used myself but they sound interesting. Some of them I will download and try.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>NetBlog<\/del> &#8211; Connect posts and external resources (websites, pdf, doc, data). Use Captions, Footnotes, Bibliography. Netblog is highly customizable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-typography\/\">WP-Typography<\/a> &#8211; Improve your web typography with: hyphenation, space control, intelligent character replacement, and CSS hooks.<\/li>\n<li><del>In-Series<\/del> &#8211; I was thinking to use this to connect posts that I didn&#8217;t write as a series originally. I use related posts but this might be a way to hand-pick posts and turn them into a series.<\/li>\n<li><del>Graceful Pull-Quotes<\/del> &#8211; Allows you to make pull-quotes without duplicating content. If the plugin is disabled the pull-quotes disappear seamlessly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/table-of-contents-creator\/\">Table of Contents Creator<\/a> &#8211; Table of Contents Creator automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-table-of-contents\/\">WP Table of Contents<\/a> &#8211; Add a table of contents to your post. This would be lovely for people who write long posts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-all\/\">Add to All<\/a> &#8211; Add content to your header, footer, etc and keep it even if you change blog themes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/front-end-editor\/\">Front-end Editor<\/a> &#8211; Edit your typos without going back into the Admin screen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/word-statistics-plugin\/\">FD Word Statistics<\/a> &#8211; Shows word and sentence counts plus a readability analysis of the post currently being edited using three different readability measurements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Just for fun &#8211; not about writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/quiz\/\">Quiz<\/a> &#8211; An alternative to word verification, give commenters a question to answer instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2012\/wordpress-plugins-for-writers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to WordPress Plugins for Writers\"><p>I got the idea to make a post about WordPress plugins for writers. I use a few which help me and thought I&#8217;d share them. But, I found something interesting when I started looking around to see what other writers like to use. Almost every plugin written about as being &#8220;for writers&#8221; was for SEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[914],"tags":[1021,1099,46,1227,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75370,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58473\/revisions\/75370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}