Best Wordpress Plugins For A Blogger
Thursday, September 18, 2008 20:43Our personal favourite list of very good plugins are listed here, with a short review and function briefing. Have a good look at them and direct links to their download page are also provided with each review so that you can get them easily sans any searching. These are probably the best wordpress plugins u could use!
According to us, they are the most useful and coolest addons u can have for your wordpress site/blog, which are both admin friendly as well as user friendly!
Do read through and add them to your plugins collection, for an enhanced experience for users on your site, and hence forth make sure that all one-time visitors latch on to you and become permanent visitors! 
1.Pluginstaller - If you ask me y this? my answer will be if not this, then what else!!?!?! Its the big daddy of all plugins, and before going any further i would suggest you all to install this. This plugin is gonna make our job easier. As the name suggests, its an installer. It allows you to install any wordpress plugins from any remote url (like the ones on wordpress site) or from your computer directly and hassle-free. Upgrading existing plugins is also smooth and neat. Get this in, and you’ll be able to install any plugin, anytime , withour a fuss!! This will make ur admin work easier, and hence make u a better admin! Now can we call it one of the best wordpress plugins?!?
2.Wp-Supercache - An ultra fast caching engine! Yes, you heard me right.. Its a caching engine! And indeed, as i call it, its one of the best plugins for wordpress. A must have for every blog, provided ur server supports it. It reduces the load on your site and hence results in a faster site, both for you to manage and your loyal visitors to keep checking back! It caches pages into html files resulting in faster load times of visited pages, and users feel it to be faster and hence will love to keep browsing! Add this to your plugin bucket too!
3. All in one SEO pack - This is the best of all the SEO plugins i know for wordpress. It just sets everything right on your blog to be Search Engine Friendly. It optimizes and extracts automatically from you content, the title, meta description and the meta keywords for a particular page/post. It also enables you to manually fill out these fields for each post if you wish to, located right under the tags box in the editor window! Put this in and you’ll feel the difference between an ordinary blog and one that has the power of SEO behind it. Strictly speaking, this isn’t SEO in the exact sense, its just a certain cluster of factors which are part of SEO. Take my words, you’ll not go wrong by installing this plugin..! It Rocks!
4. Akismet - There’s hardly any manual control over the spam you get in the form of comments in your blog, once it becomes decently popular. Here comes to play Akismet the saviour! Its the best spam checker available for wordpress! Just install the plugin, and activate using a wordpress API key(available for free), and you’ll never again have to bother about spam comments dogging all over your blog. Say goodbye to spam forever after installing this wonderful plugin!
5. All in one Adsense and YPN - This plugin is the best to stream in google adsense or yahoo publisher network ads to your blog. This plugin seamlessly integrates ads into your posts and pages with no real work from your part. Install the plugin, go to settings and choose all your options and add your publisher ID and your through! Voila, adsense/YPN ads appear on all posts according to your preferences. You may also choose to exclude ads on certain posts.
6. Wp-Wall - Similar to facebook’s wall! Its just a space for your visitors to comment, chat, socialize etc. I found dat visitors just love it. many blogs use it and i see it flooded with user comments/feedbacks/opinions/chats etc. This will again, help you to keep your visitors loyal and close by giving them a better platform to socialize while spending time on your blog.
7. Wassup! - This one’s cool. A nice traffic logging/analyzing plugin which will give you a clear picture about the users visiting your site, the country they come from, browser/OS they use, search engine hits and keyword searches, etc. Its really good to keep an eye on your visitor base and monitor them regularly, and will also help you think and plan your marketing/promotion strategies better for targetting different types of users/from diff regions etc.
8. Wp-Automatic Upgrade - No need to describe! lol … The name says it all!! Automatically upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest one with just a series of clicks! Now, no more FTPing and manually downloading from wordpress and uploading to your server to do the upgradation process. Just follow the instructions and make a series of clicks with this wizard and your done upgrading in almost no time at all! As easy as 1-2-3!! Get it now!
9. Wordpress Related Posts - This plugin is very useful and important from both an admin and user point of view. From the admin side, it helps you in internal linking between the posts based on the tags you add to each post, thereby giving you a very good cross-page internal linking platform, which is an integral part of SEO. This will help in boosting your position in SERPs. From the user point of view, they’ll be able to find topics and posts realted to the current topic they are reading to find more info on the topic easily, without much searching to do! They’ll be very happy when they see related posts at the end of each post in your blog, so that they don’t have to search everytime for a different post on the same topic!
10. Google XML Sitemaps - This one’s as important as anything else if you wish to have all search engines index you and to get traffic them. This plugin is too good! It makes and xml sitemap as scheduled(u give the preferences), and automatically submits them to google, msn, ask and yahoo! This enables better indexing by the search engines since they get a ready made list of urls on your blog , and just have to send their spiders out there on a short task! This definitely helps in faster indexing…. many people use it and its proven! So go ahead and have a happy time getting indexed by Google and party! 
Well Folks, thats it for now! I made a list of all the good and best ones i know in various fields. Its upto you to act immeditely! Install them and make your blog a better place to be in… both for yourself as well as your visitors!!
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