Chapter 2. Generating Content

A blog without content is like a dinner plate with no food. And while WordPress makes it easy to generate content for your blog, out of the box, it's an empty canvas waiting to be filled with dazzling content.

In this chapter, we cover the following:

• Adding ratings to your blog posts

• Automatically creating links to similar blog posts

• Easily including videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and many more

• Creating personalized greetings for your visitors

• Creating slideshows

• Building forms

• Improving WordPress's search

• Automatically pulling content from your other websites

GD Star Rating

By Milan Petrovic (http://dev4press.com/)

• Why it's awesome: Quickly adds ratings and ranking to your blog posts

• Why it was picked: Super easy to get running, offers lots of customizations

• Manual Install URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/

• Automatic Install search term: GD Star Rating

• Geek level: Newbie

• Configuration location: Top Navigation | GD Star Rating

• Used in: Posts, comments...