Essential Wordpress Plugins

1.Akismet

Akismet is critical to helping you manage spam comments on your blog. It stops what it detects to be spam comments (quite accurately), and holds them in a special moderation qeue separate from your other comments. You can then review and delete them (or move them out of the spam folder as appropriate) at your convenience. As your blog gets more popular, the number of spam comments you receive will increase, and Akismet will save you a significant amount of time in terms of catching and deleting each spam comment as it's left on your blog.

2. Feedburner Feedsmith

With this plug-in, your feed is automatically redirected to your Feedburner feed regardless of how various users access it. That means you'll get the most accurate reports to track your feed through Feedburner because every access point will be counted.

3. Share This

This plug-in allows readers to add your blog posts to social bookmarking sites through an icon that appears at the end of each of your blog posts. Readers click the icon to select the social bookmarking site they prefer in order to save and share your post.

4. Related Posts

This plug-in works great to keep readers on your blog and increase your page views. When you use this plug-in, a list will appear at the end of each of your blog posts with a list of related posts.

5. Subscribe to Comments

The power of your blog comes from the community around it. The Subscribe to Comments plug-in allows readers to check a box when they leave a comment on your blog to subscribe to future comments. Once subscribed, the reader will receive emails notifying them when another comment is left on that post, so they can keep up with the conversation (and hopefully, come back again to leave another comment).

6.All in One SEO Pack All In One SEO Pack gives you numerous items that you can control from the WordPress admin area. 

 7.Google XML Sitemaps 

8. Wordpress Database Backup

What would happen if something happened to your blog and all of your content was lost? You can avoid that possible tragedy by installing a Wordpress backup plug-in. This plug-in backs up the core information in your blog .

9  No Follow Free -Wordpress automatically installs a code called No Follow to any user submitted links on all Wordpress blogs. The No Follow code is meant to counter spamming wherein people leave comments with specific keyword links all over the blogosphere simply to boost their search engine ranking.

10. Contact Form 7

For interaction and feedback with your readers this plugin offers a wide range of possibilities. You just select what type of control you want to add to your contact form and through a simple interface this is done without any programming knowledge. It is the plugin that powers Graphic Rating.

11.WP Super Cache

Do you want to optimize your site in order to improve your user experience? Well this is the plugin you’ll need. WP Super Cache generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the PHP scripts.

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