10 Wordpress Plugins You Can’t Miss Out On
June 17, 2007
I’m so happy I switched to Wordpress, and I love all the plugins that are offered. Because my domain with Wordpress is still new, I’m installing new plugins and tweaking things all the time. The 10 plugins I am about to introduce to you are ones I use and love - and ones I know other bloggers use and love! Not all of these are installed on my blog, but some here you might be very interested in. ;)
- NoWWW - I have this installed on my blog and I found out about it on CourtneyTuttle.Com. This makes it so your URL never has the WWW included, and even if people type in WWW, they are redirected. This is so Google doesn’t double index your site and its pages; and have both the WWW and the non-WWW version. I really recommend this one!
- Adsense - Another plugin currently installed on this blog. This is not one of those fancy Adsense plugins, this one is very simple. Whenever you want to place an Adsense ad in a post, all you do is click the Adsense button on the Write Post page.
- Brian’s Threaded Comments - A lot of bloggers have this and it helps keep things a lot more organized, so I put this plugin on Super Blogging as well. Basically you can reply directly to a comment, and the reply appears right underneath, no matter how many other comments there are already. This is great for answering questions, so you don’t have to search for the answer through all the other comments. However, I’ve noticed it does mess up a couple of times and when someone leaves a reply to a reply, it just leaves an empty space (if someone knows why let me know please).
- Related Posts - This probably would be one of my favorite. It’s not installed on this blog (yet!) because I’m having some trouble getting its installation script to work. But a lot of other blogs have this one and it’s very handy. Basically this plugin has a list at the bottom of each of your posts and links to other related posts, so the visitor keeps reading your blog!
- Google Sitemap Generator - This plugin helps all your pages get indexed by Google, faster and more efficiently. Each time you add new content, the plugin creates a new sitemap for search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN to index your site. Also see this sitemap generator that makes a sitemap visible to people who visit your blog.
- Akismet - If you hate to deal with spam, the Akismet plugin is for you! It comes as one of the default Wordpress plugins and all you need to activate it is your API key. I don’t have this one installed on my new Wordpress, but only because I haven’t had any spammy comments yet.
- Wordpress Database Backup - Imagine if ALL of your content and ALL of your files are lost, and you can’t recover them? To avoid this horrible situation, I’d advise you to keep a backup regularly. This plugin helps you do just that.
- Show Top Commentators - This sure is a plugin that really encourages people to comment on your blog. It’s a great reward to your readers when they comment enough so their name and their link appears on your list of top commentators. I don’t have this yet, but I’ll be getting it up real soon, so keep commenting!
- Dofollow - This plugin encourages people to comment almost as much as ‘Show Top Commentators’. Basically it removes the ‘nofollow’ attribute from the links which makes them real to Google.
- Contact Form - A blog without a contact form is sure to be doomed. If you paste your email and let readers contact you from there, that’s bad because a) you will get spammed and b) your readers are too lazy to take the time to go to their email and do that. Or at least I am. Right, this blog currently doesn’t have a contact form, but I’m getting this one up real soon!
Like I said, I don’t have all of these plugins installed on my blog, but they are all quality plugins that I am excited over and I WILL be getting. I thought I’d share them with you because surely some of these would be a great addition to your blog. If you know of any other interesting plugins you think I should check out for this blog, please leave me a comment and let me know! Or share your experiences with the plugins listed above :)
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I like the change and new look , i am no my way of changing mine
how did you get the contact form to work? I saw the link on court’s site too but the website never loads for me.
Love this post. I have a few of these on my other blog–my new one is still getting set up. What do you think about in-series?
Great list of plugins! Someone has taken some time to compile this one ;)
[Edit This Out: I just noticed that you have "0" instead of "10" for the tenth Plugin, which is contact forum]
Thank you! :D
Actually, it does say 10, the layout is just cutting out the 1. Thank you though, now I realize this isn’t just a problem I’m seeing. I’ll work on it. :)