Best Blog Plugins For WP WordPress
Choosing the best wordpress plugins is a difficult enough task for any WordPress Blogger but to anyone new to creating a WordPress custom blog, it’s a nightmare!
The problem is there is such a huge assortment of WP Blog Plugins to choose from, literally thousands in fact! And without some friendly advice & guidance, you could spend weeks sifting through so much data.
There are blog plugins to cover just about any situation; when creating a WordPress custom blog & it would be impossible for me to deal with all eventualities, therefore this list is a general list & does not deal with specific themes such as photo blogs, video blogs etc. Ok lets get down to business. 
Top 20 Blog Plugins
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Plugin Name & Download Link |
Plugin Review Link |
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| 01. | Advanced Most Recent Posts | Plugin Review |
| Display most recent posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional). Can be easily setup to ignore the latest post in any or all categories. This ensures that your recent articles widget does not list what is already visible on the page.Version 1.1 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 02. | Akismet (Already Installed) | |
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.Version 2.3.0 | Visit plugin site |
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| 03. | All in One SEO Pack | |
| Out-of-the-box Search Engine Optimization for your WordPress blog.Version 1.6.11 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 04. | Datafeedr Random Ads V2 | Plugin Review |
| The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets.Version 2.0 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 05. | Fast and Secure Contact Form | Plugin Review |
| Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Does not require JavaScript.Version 2.6.4 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 06. | 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.Version 3.2.4 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 07. | HidePost | |
| Protect a part or all of your post by using Please Login or Register to access the rest of this page. to wrap the protected content. Great for membership sites.Version 2.3.8 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 08. | Link Juice Keeper | |
| This plugin helps you to keep the link juice by redirecting all non-existing URLs which normally return a 404 error to the front blog page using 301 redirect. This helps keep the likes of Google off your back!Version 1.2.2 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 09. | Redirection | |
| Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors. Will also monitor published posts for title changes & then issue a redirect automatically.Version 2.1.27 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 10. | SEO Friendly Images | |
| Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.Version 2.4.4 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 11. | SexyBookmarks | Plugin Review |
| SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. See configuration panel for more settings.Version 3.2.3.1 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 12. | SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam | |
| Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. Also is WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.Version 2.5.2 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 13. | Subscribe To “Double-Opt-In” Comments | |
| Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, with Double-Opt-In Feature. Based on version 2 of “Subscribe to Comments” from Mark JaquithVersion 4.7 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 14. | Thumbnail For Excerpts | |
| Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).Version 2.1 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 15. | TinyMCE Advanced | |
| Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.Version 3.2.7 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 16. | TweetMeme Retweet Button | |
| Automatically tweets each new post & adds a button to easily lets you retweet your blog posts.Version 1.8.5 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 17. | W3 Total Cache | Plugin Review |
| The fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your blog by adding: page caching, database caching, minify, content delivery network (CDN) functionality and more.Version 0.8.5.2| Visit plugin site | ||
| 18. | WP DBManager | Plugin Review |
| Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.Version 2.50 | Plugin Homepage » | ||
| 19. | WP-Optimize | |
| This plugin helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze. allows you to rename your admin name also. Additionally it allows you to run optimize command on your wordpress core tables (use with caution).Version 0.8.0 | Visit plugin site | ||
| 20. | Yet Another Related Posts Plugin | |
| Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.
Version 3.1.8 | Visit plugin site |
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Note: This list of WP WordPress Blog Plugins are all compatible with each other & also compatible with WordPress 2.9.2. There are the occasional ones that require a minimum version of WordPress in order to function correctly, so please ensure your version of WP meets the requirements before installing a blog plugin.
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Posted by Steve (Admin)
on Jun 16 2010. Filed under Wordpress Plugins.
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Hey James,
yeah no worries, will be glad to check it out when your ready. Also keep checking back because that list of plugins is likely to change quite soon, as I’ve stumbled upon a few others well worth having.
Now that is a good post! I am new to blogging and have been struggling with the vast number of plugin options available. How to choose…what to chose, and why. Your informative analysis is a big help to me and will probably help me avoid a bunch of headaches. My blog isn’t quite up to speed for a review yet but I look forward to submitting it in the future.
We were doing a search and came across this website. I admit that this information is great! Keep up the good info. Will be reading your sites