Almost all bloggers on wordpress
platform uses some common but most important plugins for various aspects
like SEO, increasing site speed, indexing, prevention of spamming,
social media sharing etc. I think these plugins are important for all wp
bloggers. When you install wordpress in your server, you should install
these plugins also before starting blogging (content posting). Let us
see the most common wordpress plugins that you must have installed and activated in your blog.
Most Common and Important WP Plugins for your Blog:
WordPress SEO by Yoast:
Wordpres SEO by Yoast is an excellent wp
plugin for your blog;s On-page SEO. It is a free plugins. Almost 80%
bloggers use it. It has following exclusive features.
Features of WP SEO by Yoast:
- Writing better content with WordPress SEO- WordPress Search Engine Optimization (On Page)
- Meta Description & Tags & Link Elements
- XML Sitemaps Generation
- RSS Optimization
- Editing your .htaccess and robots.txt file, etc.
W3 Total Cache:
W3 Total Cache plugin is a wonderful
plugin for wordpress blog. It is a free plugin. Almost 80-85% bloggers
use this plugin. It is mandatory, I think, for all wordpress blog. It
increases your blog speed and reduces loading time. It is the best cache
plugin.
Akismet:
It is a very good plugin for wordpress
blog. It has no alternative. It prevents spamming automatically. When
you install it in your blog, you need API key to activate. There are
different types of packages to buy Akismet API key also. But API Keys are free for personal blog, and paid subscriptions available for businesses and commercial sites.
Contact Form 7:
Contact Form7 is a free plugin. It is an
important plugin to create “Contact Us” page for your blog. Almost 80%
bloggers use this plugin to create “Contact” page. See the demo of
Contact Page by using “Contact Form7” plugins from this page “Contact Allininternet“.
Google XML Sitemaps:
If you want to index your blog
regularly and automatically into Google, Bing and Yahoo search engine,
you must need Google XML Sitemaps plugin. It creates sitemap for your
blog automatically and update your sitemap at regular interval also.
Almost 85-90% bloggers use this plugin. See the Sitemap of my site by using Google XML sitemaps plugin from this Link: Sitemap of Allininternet Plugins
WordPress Related Posts
If you want to related posts under all of your single
posts, you must need it. Most of the bloggers use it. It is a very
featured plugin. To beautify your blog, it is also important.
Jetpack By WordPress.com:
It is beautiful featured plugin developed by wordpress.com. It is a free plugin. It has many features. The most common feature is to share your posts automatically into the social media like facebook, twitter, google plus, tumblr, pinterest etc. You can add more than one account of your social sites to share automatically.To know more details and download this plugin, visit this page Jetpack By WordPress.com.Better WP Security:
Digg Digg:
Digg Digg is a beautiful featured plugin to use a rotating tools for sharing your blog. Download it from this page Digg Digg Plugins. To see the demo of the plugin, visit this siteSubscribe2
It is good plugin and very important for
generating few traffic to your site. It gives visitors to subscribe to
get next updates. It sends subscribers an email notification when new
contents are published to your blog.
404 to Start
It sends 404 page not found error directly to
start page (or any other page/site) to overcome problems with search
engines. Download and install it in your blog to get this facility.
Google Analytics for WordPress:
Google Analytics for WordPress plugin tracks your WordPress blog easily and with lots of meta data. It views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views.I hope it will help you a lot, especially, it would help new bloggers more.
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