Some Great WordPress Plugins
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging system known to man. It provides a great back-end with great flexibility and customization without having a complex management console to navigate. It powers this blog right here. Here is a number of plugins which you should take a look at, When installing or running a WordPress website.
The first few plugins are based around SEO and broadcasting your blog to the world.
- Google XML Sitemap – An essential plugin for bloggers to generate XML enabled sitemaps to aid with indexing by search engines like Google, MSN, Ask and more. This plugin has said 2.1 compatible for ages now, but it continues to work with the various updates.
- SEO Friendly Images – Assists with the automatic adding of ALT and TITLE tags to your images for better search engine placement.
- SEO Slugs – Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.
- Breadcrumb NavXT – Core – Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location. This plug-in provides direct access to the bcn_breadcrumb_trail class without using the administrative interface.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith – The essential plugin for anyone who wants to use FeedBurner to monitor their number of RSS subscribers.
- Share This – ShareThis still leads the way in social media sharing, and while the little green button does not yet say it is 2.7 compatible, it is working none the less.
- Google Analyticator – Google Analyticator takes all the work out of adding Google Analytics to your site. Install the plugin, enter your tracking code in the settings, and this handy plugin will place the code where it needs to be no matter which theme you switch to. This is a required tool if you want to monitor your visitors and what they’re visiting.
That should get the ball rolling and hopefully generate you some organic traffic, courtocy of our friends at the Big G. Next up i’ll be providing you with some plugins for media and content.
- jQuery Lightbox – A lightbox plugin that enlarges the image while darkening the background so you can see the picture better.
- Smart YouTube – Allows you to easily insert YouTube videos into posts, comments, RSS feeds, and gives you numerous options for customizing their display.
- Podcasting – Gives you full podcasting support inside of WordPress with tools such as iTunes distribution, support for multiple formats, a built-in player and more.
- PHP Code Widget – This plugin will allow you to post PHP snippets in your post and execute them.
- Similar Posts – This is a great way to get people to move around to different parts of your blog. The Psychic Search plugin has this built into it. Works pretty good if you ask me.
Finally Here is a bunch of administration plugins which are MORE THAN USEFULL! I reccomend ALL of these highly, both for redundancy and streamlining work.
- Akismet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
- WP-DB-Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
- AdSense Manager – Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your WordPress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colours.
- G-Lock Double Opt-in Manager – This mailing list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method. The plugin sends an email with the subscription confirmation link to the user and if the user confirms the subscription, it sends a welcome email to each new subscriber.
Anyway, I hope this gets you on your way – Just head to the plugins link from within the WordPress Administration area and you should be able to search and install Automatically (in 2.7).
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