WordPress Plugins I Can’t Do Without
In my opinion, these are the top 10, “must have” plugins on any WordPress site. These are the absolute must-have plugins for any WordPress blog. They are all free, though the developers do encourage donations.
- Contact Form 7: Simple, but effective contact form.
By Takayuki Miyoshi | Visit plugin site - Simple CAPTCHA: A simple captcha system for comment system to prevent spam.
By Zorex | Visit plugin site - 3. All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
By Michael Torbert | Visit plugin site - 4. Akismet: Comment spam filter. Included with default installation of WordPress
By Matt Mullenweg | Visit plugin site - Sociable: Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
By Blogplay | Visit plugin site - Page Link Manager: Adds admin panel to choose which pages appear in the site navigation.
By Garrett Murphey | Visit plugin site - FD Feedburner Plugin: Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
By John Watson | Visit plugin site - Google Analytics for WordPress: This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
By Joost de Valk | Visit plugin site - Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
By Arne Brachhold | Visit plugin site - WordPress Database Backup: On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
By Austin Matzko | Visit plugin site
Hi Valerie
First I just wanted to say I like the look of your blog its clean, organized and pleasing to the eyes. I like it
Great list of essential plugins. Akismet, WordPress Database backup are definately very important. I used to use All in One SEO, but I switched to Platinum SEO pack. I think they are both good. I had used the All in One SEO for a while and then one of my friends suggested Platinum SEO and I switched, but they are both great.
Well I am going to take a look around!
Jim
I’ll have to check out the differences. I’m so used to All-in-One, that I’m nearly on autopilot when I use it now.