5 Wordpress plugins you should always use when starting a blog

Posted by ThinkFlick
November 20, 2008   

In recent years wordpress have become a lot more popular than any other blogging platform.  With every new day, hundreds sometimes thousands of new blogs are hosted. Some bloggers  become successful to promote and run their blog community while some failed because of a weak plan.

Wordpress plugins are one of the most popular but amazing feature in wordpress system. A plugin is always built to extend the functionality of your blog. Everyone knows there is no CMS or blogging system that is perfect and can do everything. That is why you always need an extended feature which is called a plugin or add-on.

Wordpress is an open source system and it is being developed with millions of people around the world. It is not hard to create a plugin.

Here is a short list of plugins you should always install when starting a new blog. These plugins will help you to promote the blog easily and to build up your commentator community.

  1. All in one SEO pack:

    All in one SEO pack is a wonderful plugin that will help you to add aditional SEO elements to your blog. For example,

    • separate meta keywords and description tags
    • Custom home page title (you can’t change until you know how to edit theme files)
    • Custom home page meta keywords and descriptions
    • Layout single and category template’s title in the way you want

    In short, All in one SEO pack must always be the first uploaded plugin when you are starting your new blog. Download it Here

  2. Simple Tags

    With simple tags, you can define tags for your posts and automatically link every tagged word in all posts to a tagged page. This will make an internal link to every tagged keyword from every post and hence it will keep the search bots busy with visiting and indexing pages from your site. Simple tags also have an option to display related posts in the end of your posts. So you don’t have to install related posts plugin then. Download Simple Tags.

  3. Google XML Sitemaps

    Everyone loves to be top on google. And everyone loves to be better in SEO (search engine optimization). It is always preferred and advised to submit a sitemap of your blog to popular search engines, specially to google. Google XML Sitemap plugin does the job easily and well for you. It can create the xml and html based sitemaps and can also ping to google and other popular search engines. And it can also be auto built whenever you are publishing a new post. Grab and download Google XML Sitemaps.

  4. Wordpress Super Cache Plugin:

    This plugin helps you to reduce the hosting server load by creating static html files for all of your wordpress posts. You can set a time limit so cached files will be refreshed at that time period. Download WP Super Cache plugin.

  5. Get Recent Comments

    If you don’t have a commentators community then your blog is just a piece of cake that everyone will eat and go away :)
    Use this plugin to display recent comments in your sidebar or anywhere and let your commentators to comment more and more and make your blog’s comments visible to other people easily.
    Download it here

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