In the first part of Project WP, we installed WordPress and set it up for our convenience to improve visibility and attract more visitors. Today, we’re going to look at 8 absolutely essential plugins that significantly contribute to our efforts of creating a successful WordPress blog.

Part 2: Eight dead essential WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a fantastic platform for bloggers. If you’ve been thinking about getting into blogging, but you don’t know what awaits you, rest assured, for we are here to help. In the course of this series, we’ll take it step by step and explain how to create your own blog - with your very own custom theme. This involves the design part as well as the part working with PHP and CSS. Read on…

Project WordPress is a series of in-depth tutorials on creating a custom blog - step by step, and from scratch. Read about how to tweak WordPress to your liking, about useful and must-be plugins, working with PHP and CSS, and using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator professionally to create beautiful results: your very own, brand new WordPress Theme.

Part 1: WordPress Install, Setup, and Basic Optimization

In this first step of creating a whole new blog, we’ll take a look at wonderful WordPress and how we can set it up do do what we want. The standard install of WordPress is rather rudimentary, thus requires us to do a couple of adjustments, which, in our opinion, are crucial to creating a professional WordPress blog. Read on…

Us designers are of special blood. We need food - yes, yes, we also ingest “normal” food like everybody else (at least that’s what we should do), but more importantly, we need food for our creative brains. And of that we need a lot. In fact, the nature of our jobs makes us depend on valuable resources we can build upon, tweak, implement, use, modify, adjust, slam, bawl out. Kinda.

This is where resources come in handy. Every designer we know has their own collection of resources, either big or bigger, and spends a lot of time searching for pictures, images, fonts, vectors, videos, and other stuff.

In this post, we’ll give you Vibr8bros’ top Photo, Vector and Flash stock sites on the web. The post also contains some affiliate links. But be warned: knowing where we get our stuff from doesn’t necessarily make you a good designer. It can make things easier for you - but awesome resources don’t give you the knowledge and skills you need to become an awesome designer. You’ll have to stick around on our blog a lil’ longer for that ;)

Let’s get it on then, shall we? Read on…