Top 12 Plugins For WP Wordpress Blogs
This is my top 12 list of plugins based on the theme of this blog. It should be pretty obvious to all, that if for example you run a Photo Blog, then your list of top plugins is likely to differ considerably to this one. Having said that, I do believe that most blogs irrespective of theme, would benefit from the inclusion of most, if not all of the plugins listed below.
As any seasoned blogger knows, it can be mind numbing trying to sift through the vast array of plugins that Wordpress has on offer, therefore I hope this page will go some way towards helping the newcomer to WP Wordpress Blogs.
So What Is A Plugin
No you can put away the extension lead, we are not talking about anything to do with mains supply! What we are talking about is small packages of code (usually php), that when added to Wordpress, extend or increase it’s funcionality. Quite often as Wordpress gets updated (and that is pretty often) certain plugins will become obsolete as their function gets built into the newer versions of Wordpress. However at this moment in time, the listed plugins below are not yet included in Wordpress & who knows if they ever will be…?
Top 12 Plugins For Wordpress
1. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com 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.
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel
Simple Contact Form with Captcha Enabled.
By Vinayak
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
5. HidePost
Protect a part of your post by using Please Login or Register to access the rest of this page. between the protected content.
By Fu4ny
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.
7. Redirection
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors.
By John Godleyv
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
Adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites. Use the plugin options under Dashboard > Social to configure it.
A Links Directory for WordPress.
11. WP-Ban
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referer url tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.
12. 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).
By Ruhani Rabin
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