WordPress Top Plugins – Useful Plugins You Must Have

As a blogger using wordpress, I should say that wordpress it is a great free blogging software. For me (and most of you I guess!) wordpress is the top #1 blogging software…are you with me on that?!…sure you are or you have never used it!

Any way; There are many wordpress plugins out there, that makes blogging using wordpress blogging software much easier and amazing. Each of those different wordpress plugins is used for a purpose that for sure improves your blogging and blog in a way. The number of wordpress plugins is countless! and every day there is new wordpress plugins released.

But there are always wordpress plugins that are essential (a must have plugins)….so today I’ll post about some of them that I think are some of the top plugins that any blogger should have, and some that helps in some ways and I personally use:

WordPress Useful Plugins and Must Have Plugins

Akismet - This is a default WordPress plugin for stopping spam comments. It should be active or else, you will get unbeleivable spam comments in your posts!

Adsense-Deluxe - This plugin helps you to manage placing Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.

FeedBurner FeedSmith - This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. This is usefull for SEO.

All in One SEO Pack - As the name says it! This plugin is a must for your SEO management. It’s full of options for optimizing your post’s title, discretion, sitemap option, etc..

Show Top Commentators - This plugin will encourage more comments from your readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your WordPress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one)….In case this plugin didn’t work, you may check Top Commentators Widget plugin (works the same)

Smart Archives - This plugin will create an Archive page for you, just incase you don’t have an Archive page on your blog offered with the theme.

Subscribe To Comments - This is a so must have plugin! It allows your readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry they subscribed to. When they comment at your blog, they will have an option to check a box (for notification), then they will get email notification of further comments. This plugin helps a lot in having your visitors returning back to your blog.

Top Posts By Category - This plugin helps you to have your top posts in one place for your visitors. You can place this in your sidebar, or create an entire page for it.

WordPress Database Backup - We all know we should backup our databases daily. This wordpress plugin is saved us a lot of trouble! It simply adds automatic daily backup functionality for your all important database. Your can have the backups placed directly on your web server, or emailed to you.

Brian’s Threaded Comments - This plugin gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form.

WordPress.com Stats - This plugin works like any tracker, that will track you blog’s traffic stats. Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.

runPHP - This plugin enables you to embed PHP code directly into your posts.

Contextual Related Posts - This plugin show last 5 contextually related posts on single blog posts, right after the comment form. It is a good idea for your readers to have a chance to see your other posts related to the one they are reading.

Well those are some of the top and useful (must have wordpress plugins)…There are other useful plugins for your social networking, and bookmarking services, I will make a special post for them…Mean while if you think that there is any “must have” plugin I forgot to mention here, please feel free to say in a comment.

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  2. Dmitrij says:

    All the Google Adsense news and information you’ll ever need!

  3. These are great. Thanks.

  4. Submarine says:

    Hi. I use this awesome plugin :

    Category Icons

    ;-)

  5. WordPress Top Plugins – Useful Plugins You Must Have…

    There are always wordpress plugins that are essential (a must have plugins)….so today I’ll post about some of them that I think are some of the top plugins that any blogger should have, and some that helps in some ways and I personally use…

  6. WordPress Top Plugins – Useful Plugins You Must Have…

    There are always wordpress plugins that are essential (a must have plugins)….so today I’ll post about some of them that I think are some of the top plugins that any blogger should have, and some that helps in some ways and I personally use…

  7. Geoserv says:

    STUMBLED! ENGAGED and added to FAQ PAL

    I definitely need the runPHP one as I post code in my posts sometimes.

    Thanks.

  8. daniele says:

    yeah..these are most important plugins..thanks!..but I use external service for stats and I use spam Karma 2 for spam and its very good!And instead of Adsense, I use adman..very simple!

  9. I’d add Limit Login Attempts to keep hackers from using programs to crack your password.

  10. Woah, that’s a nice big list there. I think the best plugin from that list would have to be All-in-one SEO, it is THE best!

  11. danielepach says:

    Yeah Contest Junkie, you’re right! that is the first plugin I’ve used…

  12. irish says:

    nice compilation, they’re basic yet very very useful

  13. Sherry says:

    I just install Akismet in one of my domain, good to see its working. I hate spam.

  14. peraduanku says:

    Iris you are rite, even they are basic but its very useful!

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  22. Thanks for the list of wordpress plugins…I just started having a wordpress blog and I needes some tips and advice from experts like you!

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    great. much needed…
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  24. I would like two add to the list:

    1.) Cumulus plugin for a cool cloud/tag visual eye-candy that always catches peoples attention.

    2.) WP synidcator by andy fletcher for syndicating your posts across a network automatically (useful for building back links every time you post) this is somewhat different from an rss feed.

    3.) Daniel Tans SEO pressor (for on page SEO, a must these days)

  25. car battery says:

    Thank you very much for putting this list together. I didn’t have some of those plugins yet.

  26. Excellent Plug ins. I love them. Thanks for Sharing.

  27. tires says:

    I am a huge fan of the All in One SEO Pack, definitely recommend that to anyone, pretty cool to learn about some of the other plugins that I had no idea about.

    -Jean

  28. Sunny Gupta says:

    Also Quick Adsense Plugin is great for Adsense ads Management.

    For Social Plugins i Use GetSocial.

  29. All in One SEO plug-in is the best for the SEO and then you be a winner in the SERP.

  30. Akismet is the perfect WordPress plugin for stopping spam comments and have give me peace.

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