Plugins play an important role in the functionality of the blog. Listed below are some of the most important Wordpress plugins that I would recommend. This list is not in any order of importance.
1. All-in-One-SEO – This is a highly recommended plugins for Wordpress. The plugin allows unique meta description, keywords and titles to each page of your blog and blog posts, to rank well in search engines.
2. Contact Form 7 – When running a blog you need to allow your users to contact you. This is the best contact form plugin till this date. It makes everything easy.
3. WP Super Cache – This plugin makes a copy of your web page on the server and by doing so it decreases the page load time and reduces the resource consumption. It is essential that you have this plugin just in case if your site hits the Front Page of a social media network such as digg or stumbleupon, without this plugin, your server will most likely crash.
4. Wordpress Database Backup – Wordpress Database Backup is important for a number of reasons. First of all, you can never predict when things will go wrong. Secondly, the plugin provides a peace of mind to bloggers, knowing that they have the latest backup to fall back on, just in case their blog’s data got wiped out.
5. Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments is a plugin that allows your users to subscribe to the comments, so they will be notified when the next comment is posted. This plugin encourage comment participation and help build relationship with your audience.
6. Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin generates a XML sitemap of your blog each time you write a new post and lets Google and other search engine know of new content. Without Google XML Sitemaps it could take Google weeks to make your new article findable from their search engine, but with XML Sitemaps they will always know if you have new content.
7. Google Analyticator – Google Analyticator allows you to use Google Analytics to track visitors to your blog without having to add the tracking code manually to your Wordpress blog.
Wordpress blogs are widely chosen as a blogging platform due to their enormous amount of available free plugins to download. Make sure not to miss out on important plugins.
Nik Imran is the writer for I Make A Blog, a blog that provides guide on how to make a blog. Visit I Make A Blog for more recommended plugins.
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