When a new visitor shows up to your site, they will make a decision on whether you have something to offer them within ten seconds. If you don’t have something interesting for them to read once they’re finished with your most recent post, you may lose them. That’s why a lot of the top bloggers highlight their best content at the top of their blogs.

Whether you create your list manually or don’t have a “Best Of” list yet, the Best Foot Forward Wordpress plugin can make creating that post list a little easier. The plugin works in conjunction with the WordPress tagging system to display posts that are tagged with a certain word (or words) of your choice. For example, by tagging your favorite posts with the word “favorite” and then tell the plugin to display anything tagged with “favorite”, your best of list is automatically created. To add other posts, simply tag them with “favorite”. To remove a post from the list, just delete the tag from your post.

You can use any tags that you choose, so if you want to get really fancy, you could tag your March favorites with “favMarch2008″ and then tag April’s with “favApril2008″, and then tell the plugin to display both, so that you could easily create a cumulative list of your best posts without having to delete any tags from older favorites. That could make year end “Best of” lists very easy to compile.

For more information about this plugin, head over to my Best Foot Forward WordPress Widget Page.

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