WordPress is one of the most widely used Open source Blogging Platform by Bloggers around the world. Today there are around 10,000,000 blogs powered by WordPress according to WordPress Stats.
Here i am going to post 10 Essential Plugins for WordPress that I think every bloggers and small business owners can benefit from.
If you have any please feel free to share it below by leaving your comments.
Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Version 1.6.10, Updated 2009-12-20, Downloads 4,298,307.
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. Version 3.2.2, Updated 2009-12-19, Downloads 3,062,700.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. Version 2.1, Updated 2010-1-4, Downloads 1,349,423.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Version 2.2.7, Updated 2009-12-17, Downloads, 2,231,490.
WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog. Version 2.0.4, Updated 2009-11-17, Downloads 323,680.
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. Version 0.9.8, Updated 2009-11-18, Downloads 977,117.
Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog. Version 2.50, Updated 2009-6-8, Downloads 493,110.
Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three. Version 2.6.1.3, Updated 2009-12-27, Downloads 182,144.
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.
Version 3.2.0, Updated 2009-3-9, Downloads 146,208.
Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. Version v1.5, Updated 2009-9-17, Downloads 42,928
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January 20, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Thanks a lot man, I use most of the plugins listed here. Will be very useful for newbies
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January 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for post.. very Informative
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Kevin S Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
you are most welcome and thanks for the visit.
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January 21, 2010 at 3:25 am
Thanks. I just started a blog of my own, so I’ll probably try some of these out over the next few days.
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Kevin S Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 10:57 am
that is great and if you need any help for setting up your blog then techcats.net can help you for free. Please visit http://www.techcats.net/wordpress-blog-setup-with-support-for-free-from-techcats.html for more details.
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January 21, 2010 at 6:31 am
I only just added the sexy bookmarks plugin and absolutely love it. it is so clean and makes it real easy for people to Digg or Stumble your post.
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Kevin S Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 10:48 am
yes, i have been using Sexybookmark for long time and it works great for me.
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January 21, 2010 at 1:00 pm
wp-pagination and wp-backup were most important and they should have their place fixed in Top 10. ..
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January 22, 2010 at 9:59 am
Yes mate, good list of plug-ins here, we’re probably reccomending to all our clients that we install over 80% of the plugins you mentioned on wordpress bloggin platform. Bear in mind that our MD used to work for the top SEO company in the UK for some years and knows his stuff, we cain the yoast breadcrumbs plugin for the SEO effect.
Have you seen search engines listing sites and inner pages displaying site depth e.g.
home > about us > team
Adding this plug-in helps the SE’s figure out your site structure more efficiently and could improve index efficiency and speed let alone usabilty and SERPs ranking position.
.-= SEO Manchester´s last blog ..The importance of blogs, case studies and articles =-.
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January 22, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Can you give me more info about login lock down? how it is important for me?
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Kevin S Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:15 pm
hi,
You will find more information about Login Lock Down plugin @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/
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January 23, 2010 at 7:28 am
Most of them are good, however, I would love SEO Friendly Images and WP Smush.it
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January 23, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Nice list mate!… i use all those plugins, except the : Featured Content Gallery! must check it out right now!
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Kevin S Reply:
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:03 pm
yes.. u can try it out.. i am sure u will love it
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January 26, 2010 at 2:05 am
Using too many plugins is not healthy for our databases it’s better to keep them as minimum as possible
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Kevin S Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 9:20 am
yes you are right!
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January 26, 2010 at 9:15 am
I installed the wp super cache and wp-pagenavi they are greats plugins.
By the way congratulacions for the comment box. It is really nice
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January 28, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Gracias por la lista, otro pluging bueno es el paginator, que te divide un post en varias paginas cuando estos son muy largos.
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February 1, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Thanks for the post! People are crazy for not using more Twitter.Twitter is 100% the way to goI use Mass-Follow.com to submit my articles to like 400 places
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February 2, 2010 at 2:34 am
Gracias por la lista, otro pluging bueno es el paginator, que te divide un post en varias paginas cuando estos son muy largos.
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Kevin S Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 am
hi,
thank you soo much.. i am planing to split this post as u said.
Thanks
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February 21, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Nice Collection you have, I miss some of them on my site.
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September 14, 2010 at 1:00 am
Using most of the plugins you suggested.
Will check out the rest.
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October 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm
i just using Seo .. it’s the best one
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