5 Essential WordPress Plugins
There are certainly a lot of plugins available for WordPress. I mean if there is something that you want to do with your blog chances are there is a plugin that will help you do it. There are plugins that will help you link to your eBay listings and show them on your blog, there are plugins that will allow you to show the latest news (Google news and CNN News), there are even plugins that will even translate your blog into different languages. Now I haven’t tried them, but below are 4 essential WordPress Plugins that you should install on your blog:
1. Akismet-is a Spam blocker and a great one at that. When blogging you will get comments. Comments are what you really want, but with comments you get some spam comments. Thats where Akisment comes in. Akisment blocks spam and does it well. It blocks a lot of the spam that comes to my blog. Highly Recommended
2. Platinum SEO Pack or All-in-One SEO-These 2 plugins help you with SEO by allowing you add second titles, descriptions, and keywords to your post. You only need one of them. So just pick one of them. I listed them both here as I have used both and both are very good. I am currently using Platinum SEO Pack on this blog as I believe it has a little more to offer. Here is a link to the author page for Platinum SEO Pack.
3. Comment Luv-Very Interesting plugin. Basically once installed and activated when someone leaves a comment on your blog it leaves a link to their last post. Bloggers love comments and you help your visitors get other visitors by allowing them to leave a link to their last post. Its a win win
4. Yet another Related Posts Plugin-Its a very good plugin because once installed and activated it will leave a link to related posts at the bottom of each post. This gives the reader options to see related posts to the post that they are reading. You can see this if you click on one of my posts at the bottom of the post you will see Related Posts.
5. WP-DB BackupThis plugin is a great plugin. If you want to back up your blog simply and easily install this plugin and you are ready to go. The minute you install this plugin you can immediately back up your blog with a simple click and then you can schedule your blog to be backed up daily, hourly whatever you want. I backup my blog daily and emailed to me.
These are just 4 of the essential plugins for WordPress, but like I said there is a plugin for just about everything and new plugins are being created everyday for WordPress. Check out my post on Snazzy Archives.
The easiest way to get these plugins is to go to your Dashboard/Plugins and Add New.
What are your most favorite Plugins to use?
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u missed out the social bookmarking plugin …
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Jim Hardin Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
You are right! I actually use the Sociable Plugin.
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Good read, thanks. Seo is important. Looking for good free rank checking software.
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Jim Hardin Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Hey Steve
Thanks for stopping by. SEO is important. I am still working at it
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Jim great list I use them all but the backup one which I plan to download asap and start using as I am finally going to do my theme change but step one is back it up.
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Jim Hardin Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hey Jared!
Yeah one of my friends had just recently talked about the backup plugin so it was one that I just recently added to this list. Its a good one.
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I am using all from ur list. They are essential plugins for every blog.
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Jim Hardin Reply:
December 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Very true Pavan! These are essential. I am sure there are more as there are so many plugins out there for WordPress
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Nice list of plugins, I’m using all of them currently but would probably add:
- Google xml sitemaps (builds google friendly sitemaps for better bot navigation)
- Subscribe to comments (for e-mail comment subscription)
- WordPress.com Stats
- Link checker
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Jim Hardin Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 8:10 am
How could I forget the Google XML sitemaps. I do have that installed. Subscribe to comments definately another essential one. I’ll have to check out the WordPress stats and link checker. Thanks Mike! Looks like I should update my list.
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Some additions from me: Robots Meta, Google XML Sitemap, GoCodes, Subscribe to Comments, Sexy Bookmarks, and Clean Archive Reloaded. They are a must for me, irreplaceable and irremovable
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Jim Hardin Reply:
December 31st, 2009 at 6:46 am
I’ll have to check those out. I do have Google XML sitemap of course. You know I did see sexy bookmarks one time though I didn’t look into it. I think the word Sexy scared me
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