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Day #10: Required WordPress Plugins For Your Blog
WordPress is one of the most popular and versatile blogging platforms and content management systems used on the web today.
I thought it might be insightful to give you a list of the required plugins.
This is probably your most important plugin to use and most WordPress versions already have this plugin installed when you first download WordPress. This is your basic spam fighter preventing spammers.
This plugin generates XML enabled sitemaps to help with indexing by search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo and more.
The reason why this plugin is so popular because its so simple to use in helping you with your SEO by making it easy to change titles,prevent duplicate content and other optimization options.
This is a contact form plugin, which is simple yet flexible. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.
It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
It gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site. Very useful plug-in for speeding your blog up.
This plugin allows a better navigation by assigning pagination to your post. You can choose how many post to be displayed in one page and navigate directly to certain page.
This plugin displays a list of your blog’s most-viewed posts. This plugin was created by the same people that made the Similar Posts plugin, so you can use the same options to customize
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Nice Post!!
BTW,your site looks much better now with the new navigation menus..
I luv that apple like headlines style that you have put for ‘OFFERS’.
Hi Akshay,
Thanks for the appreciation about OFFERS Advt. Ticker.
Great list, but I would also like to add these:
– Broken Link Checker
– No Self Pings
– Smart Youtube
Another great plugin is AdRotate but I guess it is not something you need.
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Hello Stefan,
Thanks for your valuable advice for more important plugins.
this list is awesome….i was missing two things in my blog but you just made me aware of that
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Some other plugins are also necessary like sexy bookmarks,tweetmeme,Google analytics etc.
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Hi Dinesh,
Yes you are absolutely right but these plugins are the part of advance blogging.
Some of the plugins from this list should come with wordpress installation. They are compulsory for a professional blog. But before instaling a plugin, always think about the server load and throttling error if you are hosting your blog on Shared Server. Since wordpress is PHP – MySQL based platform, WordPress itself consumes so much processing time of server CPU. Try to customize the plugins like XML sitemap and Super Cache to reduce the server load and suspension from your host.
Anyway, again a nice tutorial from Surender. Wish you all the best buddy. I agree with Akshay that your new navigation and offer section is really looking cool.
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Hi Sanjeev,
Thanks for the valuable advice.
Yes.WordPress should develop some inbuilt features like plugins so the server load can reduce.
Nice list of plugins, all very valid and a must for any site.
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You have mentioned all the basic plugins, but you should extend your list by some plugins mentioned by above commentator, also Robots Meta plugin is very useful to deal with duplicate content issue.
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That’s a nice list you made for us.
I would like to add “Ad-Minister”, “One Click Plugin Updater”, “Syntax Highlighter Plus” to the list as I think that these are the must have plugins.
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All good plugins all though the WP-Cache plugin messes with my views plugin so I don’t use it.
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all useful plug-ins.. backtype is also a useful plug-in..
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