Nowadays, many bloggers are using WordPress for blogging. WordPress have various useful plugins to make blogging easier. So, I thought of writing a post on WordPress plugins .I searched plugins on WordPress and checked which plugins other bloggers are using on their blogs. I tried almost all plugins which I have mentioned below and they were simply awesome! Here’s the list of top 30 WordPress plugins that you should try on your blog.
1. Akismet:
Akismet helps you to remove spam from your blog. It collects spam and keeps it in Comments section of your WP dashboard. You can approve or disapprove the spam comments from admin dashboard.
Akismet
2. All in One SEO Pack:
As name suggests, it is useful for optimizing your blog for Search Engines. Those who don’t have much knowledge about coding and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) they must use it.
All in One SEO Pack
3. Google XML Sitemaps:
This plugin creates a Google XML-sitemap for your blog. It helps to submit updates from your blog to different search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN search.
Google XML Sitemaps
4. WordPress Automatic upgrade:
I just love this plugin. You don’t have to do anything to upgrade your blog to latest available WordPress version…just install this plugin, click a single button to upgrade blog and sit back. This plugin will do everything for you and within few minutes your blog will be upgraded to newer version.
WordPress Automatic upgrade
5. Get Recent Comments:
This plugin displays latest comments in your sidebar; it also shows trackbacks or pingbacks. It supports gravatars.
Get Recent Comments
6. podPress:
If you are a podcaster then this plugin must be there in your list of plugins. I won’t say anything else about it, just try it. There are many features available in this plugin which will make podcasting simple for you.
podPress
7. cformsII - contact form:
cformsII - contact form plugin will create a simple contact form on your blog. You can add multiple forms on a single page. Your readers can send suggestions, feedbacks with the help of this contact form.
cformsII - contact form
8. Subscribe To Comments:
Readers can subscribe to comments and get the latest comments from post to their mailbox.
Subscribe To Comments
9. Sidebar Widgets:
It adds useful widgets to your sidebar. Whenever you want, you can add or remove widgets from sidebar.
Sidebar Widgets
10. Google Analytics for WordPress:
The Google Analytics is one of the most favorite tool of webmasters. This tool is also available to WordPress users with its plugin. It tracks outbound links, comment author links, blogroll links, links within comments, clicks on pages etc.
Google Analytics for WordPress
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