Required Wordpress Plugins
Comments(0) As wordpress popularity is growing day by day and you see most of the new blogs using Wordpress. Its an obvious need to provide some sort of guidence to new commers about wordpress blogging. Like how to use wordpress in most effective way and make most out of this blog script.
I will discuss about the most common plugins, which I think you should be using from starting till end.
Wordpress Database Backup: If there is one wordpress plugin you absolutely need this is it. It gives you the ability to backup the core database tables and any other tables you specify. The backups happen on demand or on a nightly schedule. While it might be against TOS what I do is set up a dedicated gmail account for each wordpress blog. I then set this plugin to backup the tables every night and email the file to a gmail account. Viola a free daily incremental offsite backup.
Adsense Deluxe: A powerful way to control adsense from a master level on your blog, you can put adsense in your post without editing any single line of php code.
Google Sitemaps: The Google Sitemaps Webmaster Central program by Google is absolutely one of the most helpful things Google has ever put out. If you are fixing your own site or someone else’s there’s no better way to figure out what a search engine thinks about your site. This plugin updates and rebuilds the XML file everytime you make a new post and ping’s google to tell them about it. It’s especially helpful if you publish on a predetermined schedule. Warning make sure you have the file permissions set correctly or this won’t work properly.
Related Posts: Automatically creates a list of related posts, for the post you are viewing.
Math Comment Spam Protection: This plugin asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question for proving that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot, e.g. What is the sum of 2 and 9 ?. It does not require GD or any special PHP extensions. Similar to the Did You Pass Math? plugin, but can be used with any theme and JavaScript or cookies are not required.
Akismet: This one actually comes with wordpress you only need to get a liscence to activate it. Unless you have need for spam in your blog this is one the most effective tools for stopping it. Very little actually gets through and very little gets flagged as a false positive. I have never used it because Math Comment Spam Protection works fine for me.
Autometa: This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Keywords and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post.
SimpleTags: is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.
These are the plugins that will assist you to use wordpress effectively. There are hundreds of other plugins available but I think these plugins must be there when you install wordpress. You may want to view complete list of plugins from http://www.wp-plugins.net.
If you think that there are few more can be added to this list, just place it in a comment.
