WordPress is the largest blogging platform used for professional and personal blogs. WordPress blogs can also be created for free from wordpress.com but there are several limitations in free version. So, its better to purchase hosting and install wordpress blog on it. Personal blogs can also be created on free blogger but there professionals say self-hosted wordpress is much better blogger. Now, if you decided to go with self-hosted wordpress for blogging, then you need plugins to enhance your blog functions and readability. Following are plugins which a wordpress blog must have. These plugins are used almost on all self-hosted wordpress blogs.
Most Important WordPress Plugins.
Following are the most important wordpress plugins that a self-hosted wordpress blog must have. Almost All famous blogs are empowered by these or some of these plugins.
Akismet
Akismet is a the most important wordpress plugin. Its used to stop comment spam and trackback spam. If you dont know whats the spam then i must tell you SPAM are software generated comments and trackbacks submitted on your wordpress blog posts. These are mostly unrelated to your blog niche or blog post. Some times SPAM comments are passed by akismet as they are submitted manually by humans. Overall, Akismet stops about 90% spam comments from your blog. Download Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack wordpress plugin is one of the most downloaded wordpress plugins. This plugin not only makes your blog SEO Friendly but also makes your blog user-friendly. By Using this plugin, you can play with Categories titles, Tag Titles, Homepage Titles, Post Titles and can add different keywords and descriptions on individual posts too. Its easier to setup and it does not put much load on servers as observed by several bloggers. Download All in One SEO Pack plugin
WP-DB Manager
Whatever you host is, Whatever you blogging platform is, Backup is always important. A blogger should always keep a blog backup so that whenever his blog is deleted forgetfully or attacked by hackers or any other problem happens, He could easily import his blog from stored backup. For WordPress Blogs, WP-DB Manager is one of the most used plugin to backup and restore blogs. With WP-DB Manager, you can keep the backup on your site or can download the backup in your hard drive too. You can even send a copy of blog backup to your email. Download WP-DB Manager
WP Super Cache
Now this is what the most important plugin for every wordpress blog having decent or huge traffic. Without caching plugin, its very difficult (almost impossible) to handle wordpress blogs with huge traffic.Cache plugin is important because this stores static version of your blog posts and pages, and it requires much less CPU processing than without this plugin. This plugin makes your site load faster too as your site has virtual static pages and your shared hosting, VPS or server can handle more traffic smoothly. Download WP Super Cache
WP-PageNavi
WordPress Page Navi is another one of the most downloaded and appreciated wordpress plugin. It alternates “Previous Entries” link and place user friendly page numbers so that any one could easily navigate to other pages. So, you must install this plugin on your wordpress blog too. Download WP Pagenavi
WPtouch
With this cool plugin, you can instantly and effortlessly create a mobile version of your blog and whenever a visitor will open your blog in mobile device. He will enjoy a fully mobile compatible blog. Its also important plugin as majority access blogs and websites from their mobile devices too. Download WP Touch
Permalinks Moved Permanently
This plugin also becomes some times important when you change your blog permalinks or transfer your blogspot blog to wordpress and changed your permalinks. In such case, this plugin becomes imporant to transfer traffic from old permalinks to new permalink structure. Its better to redirect users from old permalink to new permalink rather than showing them a 404 message. Download Permalinks Moved Permanently
SEO Smart Links
Do you link your old posts with new posts ? If not then you should because its important to promote your old work too in related new posts. Its important for SEO purposes and it gives Google Pageranks to inner pages too. This plugin links your older posts with related keywords in a post automatically and let your readers to find related old articles. Download SEO Smart Links
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Its also one of the most used related posts plugin for wordpress. All you have to install this related posts plugin in your blog and below each post, this plugin will show related posts and your blog readers will be able to visit related posts too. This plugin also helps to build Google Pageranks for inner blog pages too. Download Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Simply Exclude
Suppose you do not want to show posts from certain category or certain tag on your blog’s front page, archives, search pages or on feed. Then you can simply exclude certain category or tag posts using this plugin. This is sort of less important but useful plugin. Download Simply Exculde.
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