There are thousands of plugins available for Wordpress blogs. Some of them will help you improve your blog’s performance, while others will improve your readers’ experiences, while visiting your blog.
In this post i will list the must have essential Wordpress plugins every blog should have. The following is an alphabetically ordered list of the plugins that you simply must have.
Akismet – Akismet helps you manage spam comments on your blog. It detects spam comments and puts them in a special moderation qeue separate from your other comments. You can then review and delete them.
All in One SEO Pack – Optimizes your blog for search engines. Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines, generates meta tags and avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs. For Wordpress 2.7.1 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box.
Contact form 7 - A very simple way to add a contact form to your blog. This plugin uses two spam filters, Akismet and CAPTCHA, to make sure you only receive real emails from your contact form.
Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin – Redirects your feed automatically to your Feedburner feed regardless of how various users access it. That means you’ll get the most accurate reports to track your feed through Feedburner because every access point will be counted.
Google XML sitemaps – The Google XML Sitemaps Generator allows you to create a complete sitemap for your blog. It helps search engines to crawl and index your blog changes quickly.
ShareThis – This plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to add your blog posts to social bookmarking sites through an icon that appears at the end of each of your blog posts.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – This plugin is great to keep readers on your blog and increase your page views. It adds a list of related posts at the end of each of your blog posts.
Did i miss anything? If there’s an essential plugin you can’t blog without, then please leave a comment.
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like:
Extreme John (13)
Kevin M. (9)
wchingya (9)
Kissie (7)
Tej Kohli (7)
ileane (6)
Sire (6)
TheInfoPreneur (6)
Hanging lamps (4)
Party stuff (4)
