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I recently taught you how to get started online by installing WordPress to get your blog underway. I hope you took action and now have your own blog with some content on there.

The next action to take with your blog is to get some plugins installed and activated. Plugins allow you to do almost anything with your WordPress blog.

Below I will explain how to install and activate Plugins on your blog and then I will list a load of plugins that I believe you may find useful with your blog. I’ll provide a brief description and also link to each for your convenience.

How To Install WordPress Plugins
First of all you will need to login to your blog at http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/. Enter your username and password to get to your WordPress dashboard and then click on the Plugins link in the menu down the left hand side.

This will display a few options underneath the Plugins option. Click on Add New.

You will now see a new page with a search option. Simply search for the name of the plugin that you want and then click on the install option that displays to the right of the plugin description.

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I downloaded two free chapters of Joel Comm’s Twitter Power book today, and whilst on the site I noticed something interesting.

Towards the bottom of the page, Joel has a link that you can click that will send you to Twitter and automatically fills in a tweet for you. This is kind of a ReTweet request so that you share the information about his book promotion with your followers.

I thought this was pretty cool and could come in handy for my followers which is why I’m telling you about it now.

What do you think? Feel free to test it out by tweeting about this blog post, which should definitely provide your Twitter followers with some valuable information that I’m sure they’ll appreciate.

Click here to tweet!

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