Top Must Have Plugins When Starting Up a blog with WordPress.

Must Use Plugins

WordPress Database Backup – This plugin is a life saver when things go wrong! It allows on-demand backup of your WordPress database. Its Much easier than going back to back up from your MySQL. But you should make it a habit to back up your Site with SQL every year too.

Akismet – best guard against comment spam for WordPress blog! Just customize it to free.  go sign up for the API key then click PLAN SELECTION WIZARD like below

then click continue on the next page. Next, Drag the worth bar to zero and fill up your info and your done!

CORE Plugins

PostMash – In WordPress your post are always post in a chronological order if you have not done anything funny with the permalinks an categories. What this plugin does is that it displays all your post in a roll down order that you can change up or down too your liking.  This is very useful when your blog is based on dates or time and where sometimes you want to choose which post you want to be displayed more often or at the front page.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. a well generated index will help you rank better in SEO’s and easier for visitors to navigate without hassle through your site.

All In One SEO Pack – For those that are just starting out. this is like the SEO for dummies plugin where you just plug and you can play with all the SEO items like meta tags, meta titles and many more just at the tip of your hand. There is also a pro version if you like this plugin alot. Also feature as one of the most popular plugin for wordpress.

robot meta – This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate meta taggings to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and un follow any unnecessary links to speed up your blog and make sure your links are all leading somewhere. Couple with All In One SEO Pack you be a pro in no time.

W3 Total Cache –  if there is a lot of visitors going through your site and they are complaining that your site loads slow. Worry no more, this plugin help you generate a HTML file that will be upload directly from apache without the need to process through heavy PHP scripts on your files. Thus speeding up your blog many times faster.

FeedBurner FeedSmith extended – This plugin detects all ways into  your original WordPress feeds on the theme  and redirects them to your plugins settings where you can redirect all your so your feeds to feedburner an allows you to track every possible subscriber.

Sociable – if your very connected with online social media then you need this PLUGIN! it adds mini icons on your post, pages and many more where your visitor can share your site with their friends thereby creating a social frenzy media. this is a must get for blogs.

WPtouch – this is a recent addition on my wordpress its function is to turn your site to a smartphone friendly ones, especially apple stuff. It comes up with a simple mobile theme for the to surf your site. if you want a full package you can tried the paid version.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – this plugin helps you come up with a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for you to display on your blog and RSS feeds. it allows quite a lot of customizations and help your visitors to keep on looping in your blog or site.

Other Plugins

WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. Allows you to easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

Exclude Pages – This plugin lets you manually exclude WordPress pages from the navigation menu. Comes in handy when you are trying to create hidden pages.

VaultPress – Another backup and maintenance plugin. its gaining popularity and is quite useful if you always want your blog to be on tip top shape for your ardent fans to surf in.

There you have it folks!

My Top WordPress Plugins! that i myself use. Hope this help you guys in bettering your blogs and making it better.

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