Plugins are one of the things which make WordPress such a fantastic blogging web site building platform. They allow it to do things which it cannot do out of the box and can help to take your site to the next level. Below is a list of the plugins I am currently using, plus a link to read more about them and download them.
Askimet - The one plugin that all WordPress users should be using without question. Askimet is by far the best comment spam eradicating solution for WordPress. The plugin itself requires a WordPress API key which you can obtain by registering for free at WordPress.com
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator - This is the plugin I use to create my sitemap. It offers plenty of flexibility and displays all posts, categories and pages in the most elegant way that I’ve yet to discover for WordPress
Advanced WordPress Contact Form - It’s true there are plenty of Contact Form plugins available for WordPress, and I’ve used a fair few of them, but this one’s my favorite so far. It’s easy to set up and configure, uses valid code and has built in spam protection… A winner all-round! You can see this plugin in action on my contact page.
KB Robots - Not really an essential plugin, but one that makes setting up your blog that little bit easier… KB Robots allows you to add and customise your Robots.txt file through the WordPress interface
Google Hilite - This is a nifty little plugin which adds some simple styles to your stylesheet so that users who arrive at your web page from Google will have all of their search terms highlighted on your page… This obviously makes it easier for them to skim your page and find what they were looking for in the first place immediately.
Similar Posts - This is a great plugin and a clever one at that. On each of your individual pages that this plugin is running on, it scans the text for keywords, and then returns other articles on your web site relevant to the keywords it found for the current article. This is great as it gives users an alternate location once they’ve finished reading the current article which in turn helps boost your Search Engine Rankings.
That’s it for now… I thought I was making use of more plugins than that but apparently not! I suppose you could call this a list of the bare essentials… The plugins I (apparently) could not live without! What are your “can’t-live-without” plugins?
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