Noupe.com – power tools for WordPress users – and more

Noupe.com may have a bug. If it does, the bug is understatement. For instance, 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins is about 40 exceptional WordPress plugins, and many of them do, in fact, make WordPress a better CMS.  ((“CMS” in this context means “content management system;” idiomatically in the World of WordPress it means, I think, extends WordPress  functionality substantially beyond the normal  “reverse chronological journal”which is the core of “blogging.”))  But these plugins aren’t limited to CMS use – some of them just are meta-WordPress plugins – that radically increase functionality and control, like User Access Manager (lets admins set up private sections of WP blogs – which opens up all sorts of possibilities – WordPress as collaborative workspace; WordPress as subscriber-only information source; I”m guessing other people have come up with other uses for this plugin, by Alexander Schneider.

You can find all of Noupe’s directly Word-Press related posts by using the preceding link, which sorts by category. But then you’d miss other things both cool and  helpful, such as

7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design

Outstanding Website Background Guide: 60+ Impressive Resources

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

Cory Doctorow's wedding/decoder ring - via Noupe.com and MentalFloss.com

40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

The following are focused on WordPress, and all outstanding and not to be missed:

60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs

10 WordPress ‘HOW-TO’ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves

The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress (Part 1 of 4)

25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS (Part 2 of 4)

40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins (which is the post discussed in the beginning of this post – but we’ll repeat it here, since it’s actually the third of the fourt-part series)

The fourth part of the series, we think, has not yet been published. While we’re checking up on that, you all should check out 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for MAX Performance. Again, Noupe understates and over-delivers. There’s more than thirteen if you count carefully, and they’re not just about “better, faster” performance – the same advice will not only speed things up – but also reduce the likelihood of big problems – database crashes, collisions with icebergs or meteors, and global warming. (We’re not sure about the last one).