7 Of My Must-Have Plugins
I run several blogs and the plugin needs for each vary depending on niche and audience. However, there are five plugins that I find myself ALWAYS using.
- Akismet-This plugin is always part of the default WordPress install. It is great at weeding out most of the spam. You will need an API key from wordpress.com but don’t worry it’s free and totally worth it!
- Feedburner Feedsmith- I use this to redirect all my default feeds to my Feedburner feed. Feedburner is great for keeping tabs on your subscriber numbers for free.
- Woopra & Google Analytics-quite a few of my blogs are approved to use Woopra whch is a very comprehensive analytics program. For the sites that are not approved to use Woopra, I use Google Analytics. Both programs are free, and very good for looking over your statistics.
- Subscribe to Comments-I like to give readers the ability to interact with others, and one of those ways is for them to know when more comments have been made.
- OioPublisher Direct- I use this plugin to utilize OioPublisher. I use it for my advertisement sales, as well as my affiliate ads. It allows you the option to provide more then one payment option.
- All-in-one SEO Pack-I use this plugin to optimize my blogs for search engines and to easily resolve duplicate content issues.
- CommentLuv-At the moment, this plugin isn’t activated on this blog because of technical issues but as soon as things are resolved it will be right back up. I use it to allow commentators to show their blogs last post. It is nice for me to because if the commentators post headline grabs me then I go and visit it.
So, that is a list of the plugins that i ALWAYS use! What plugins do you depend on?
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Kevin (1 comments)
28 Apr, 2009
Great list. Your number 1, Akismet is a must. It has stopped over 25,000 spams for me in the past few years with only a few real messages getting blocked. Impressive.
Just started using CommentLuv, a good one as well.
Thanks
Chicago window treatments (1 comments)
28 Apr, 2009
The All-in-one SEO Pack is the BEST plugin ever! I use it, it’s easy to use and it works! Regards!
harry SMS Advertising (1 comments)
30 Apr, 2009
great post.Akismet and feed burner feed smith is a must have plugins.
private investigator (1 comments)
30 Apr, 2009
its really intresting list.
BingoLive (1 comments)
1 May, 2009
Using CommentLuv is a wonderful experience. Its fabulous All in one SEO pack is the best plugin ever I use it.
internet marketing strategies (1 comments)
2 May, 2009
i like second one.thanx for it.
Goodbingo.net (1 comments)
2 May, 2009
Its really knowledgeable list thanks to share it.
Forest (2 comments)
4 May, 2009
Fanastic list… This is pretty much all you need. Too many plugins can just be too much hassle.
zappolo (1 comments)
9 May, 2009
Nice, I’ll try them!!!
Margaret (1 comments)
13 May, 2009
I use Platinum SEO as I like the options of making some things dofollow and some nofollow as well as having other aspects that affect your entire website. To me, it’s All-In-One SEO on steroids.
I also use comment luv and my readers seem to appreciate it very much.
Two plugins you haven’t mentioned that I have found to be quite useful are WP_Supercache which reduces overhead to your server by providing a cached version of your site to visitors and bad behavior which stops spambots
Paznokcie (2 comments)
6 Jul, 2009
Akismet should’ve been integrated into WP a long time ago. Everyone uses it anyways because life without it would be a nightmare.
aumentare seno (1 comments)
8 Jul, 2009
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