Top 10 Must Have Wordpress Plugins
As I said in my very first post I would be putting up some articles on WordPress. Well needless to say, here is the first one in all its awesomeness and glory. Yes, it is a plugin list. How original of me! Well no worries folks I’ll be putting up some more in depth articles later, but I think this is a good starting point. I have to get the obligatory plugin list out of the way at some point. So, when better than now? Anyway, let us begin.
These are some of the best plugins I use, and without a doubt recommend them to anyone with a WordPress blog. I’ll make a separate post about configuring some of them for optimum performance late, but for now just download and go.
“Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.”
“Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).”
“Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you’re done.”
“This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.”
“Having images in posts is always a good ideea. However, having a lot of images in posts usually requires more server resources: more bandwith and more requests per page. If your site is even remotely popular, this usually means a more expensize hosting package.
ImageShack is a service that offers free image hosting. So why not take advantage of it?
Instead of uploading each image manually and modifying each post, you can just install this plugin and be done with it.
If an image can’t be loaded from ImageShack, the plugin will roll back to the image on your server.”
“Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.”
“Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. Our sole aim was to stray away from the “in the box” thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers, rather than deterring them with microscopic icons that get lost in pages heavy laden with content.”
“SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.”
“WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.”
“This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.”
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