These are the wordpress plugins I use for almost all the blogs I run and although the list is very small, it does covers pretty much all the bases when it comes to running a blog.
Please feel free to suggest more plugins in the comments section.
Akismet – Akismet checks incoming comments to your site to see if they look like SPAM or not and puts them in a SPAM bin. This tool is absolutely priceless as the amount of SPAM you receive in your comments section is completely insane.
All in One SEO Pack – This tool handles all your SEO needs, from adding your meta tags (title, description and keywords) as well as formatting things such as your Blog title (top left corner of your web browser) and rewriting post titles.
Feedburner Feedsmith – This plugin is required to forward your regular feed to feedburner.com (now feedburner.google.com). Using Feedburner to manage all your feeds simplifies things especially if you run multiple websites.
Get Recent Comments – Displays the most recent comments on your blog. More customizable than the default one that comes with Wordpress.
Google Analyticator – Allows you to add Google Analytics tracking to your blog by just inserting your tracking ID (rather than pasting the code into each and every page on your site).
MyBlogLog Widget – Adds the MyBlogLog ‘recent viewers’ widget to your sidebar.
Sociable – Allows your users to quickly and easily submit your posts to a number of popular social bookmarking sites.
Twitme – Updates your Twitter status automatically every time you publish a post.
Whydowork Adsense – Automatically places Adsense code into various positions on your pages/posts depending on how you set it up.
WordPress Database Backup – IMPORTANT! This plugin helps you regularly backup the mySQL files that are used to run your blog. They can be used to save your blog in the eventuality that everything is deleted.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Automatically checks the keywords used in your post and displays posts that are related to the one your visitor is reading (to try and keep them on your blog longer).
WP Super Cache – Caches regularly visited pages on your site so that there is less load on your webserver. This could potentially prevent your site from crashing if a large number of visitors come to your site at the same time.
Know any more?
-William Lee
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William,
Great list of plugins. I personally like the ping.fm plugin. It posts your blog posts to the social networking services. I also like Comment Luv. You team that up with the Comment Kahuna software. (It’s free.)
You can use Comment Kahuna to help you find Comment Luv blogs. If you have the Comment Luv plugin on your website, and you post on another Comment Luv blog, your latest post will show up on the other blog in addition to your comments.
I love Wordpress! Great post. Glad I found you. Will connect with you on Facebook.
Jinger Jarrett
Hey Jinger,
Oh yeah Comment Kahuna and Comment Love… I’ve seen them used on other blogs but have never tried them myself, although I’ve been meaning to install something similar on my blog.
Will download and install it one of these days… thanks for the comment and will see you on Facebook!
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