18 Wordpress Plugins Must Have
Blog or content management gets easier everyday with the help of useful plugins developed by many developers. From all blogging platform, I prefer to use wordpress because of it’s simplicity and huge plugin directory. Today, I’m going to share plugins that I have been using on Atniz. I always give importance to replying comments and give relevant contents to the visitors. It is to reduce bounce rate and make visitors stays a little longer on the blog.
Here is the list of plugins on Atniz and reason:
SEO Plugins
1. All In One SEO Pack
- To edit meta title, description and keyword for pages and blog posts.
2. Google XML Sitemaps
- To send sitemap file to Google, Bing, Yahoo everyday.
Speed, RSS & Backup Plugins
1. WP-Cache
- Fast cache for wordpress
2. Wordpress Database Backup
- To send database backup file daily to our email
3. Feedburner
- Redirect all default feeds to feedburner feeds
Contact Plugin
1. cforms
- Contact form can be included in any posts or pages with captcha.
Posts Plugins
1. Popularity Contest
- Show popular posts on sidebar via many measurements.
2. Twitter For Wordpress
- Shows on sidebar
3. Tweetmeme
- Help visitors to easily re-tweet posts or pages.
4. What Would Seth Godin Do
- Welcome message on with rss and twitter for new visitors.
5. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
- Shows related posts in RSS readers and blog posts
Comment Plugins
1. Akismet
- Very useful to catch spam comments.
2. Better Comments Manager
- Allow to reply comment from admin panel.
3. Comment Relish
- Introduction email to first time commentators.
4. Kimmo Dofollow
- To make you blog dofollow
5. Subscribe To Comments
- Visitors can subscribe to comments on any posts.
6. Top commentators Widget
- Shows on sidebar with options like dofollow, nofollow, sidewide, weekly reset, etc.
7. Wordpress Thread Comment
- Allow user to comment or reply on any comment.
8. WP Ajax Edit Comments
- Gives time to edit published comment.
Popularity: 10%
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August 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 am
Well nice information but ,I am not using wordpress theme in any of my blogs so it will helpfull to me in future if I opt for .
Reena why don’t you try to blend keywords which you want to promote in your posts .You can use your keywords aleast once in each of your posts so that it can easily attain top ten ranking as I have seen it.Just use ” work from home ” atleast once in each and every post and approve those comments who have these keywords and see the difference.
This my experience ,just try it out and let me know .
You can search for one of my blog. Just write “wish happy birthday” in search and you will find my blog in top ten
http://wish-happy-birthday.blogspot.com
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Congratulation for ranking good for your targeted keywords. Actually, I am using “Work At Home” keyword to reply all comments on each post. I think that is more than enough to spread this keyword on one single post as I reply all my comments.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Do you use all in your blog?
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Yes, I do. It really helps me to organize this blog easily.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 am
That’s a great list of plug ins. I use most of them.
going to get that retweet app now.
thanks – great post
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Thanks. I’m sure RT apps will get more traffic to you especially from twitter.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
Thank you for being my Top Dropper!
Take care!
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:10 am
You’re welcome. I wish to get that spot in following month too.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 am
I will try thats plugin.. thanks
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Good luck! Try to play around with options of this plugins. You can reduce a lot work to spend on blog maintenance.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
My personal favorite is Comment Relish it lets new commentators know that you are not ignoring them and they are welcome to comment!
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Work At Home Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Yes, it is one of my favorite too. It is rare to see a welcome message from any blog that we comment.
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August 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Nice post.. if i could suggets you one more useful plugins, you should try “wp-sticky”, that plugins give u chances to stick your post and make it at the top place always, even when you make new posts after it…
peace…:)
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Work At Home Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 2:10 am
Thanks for the recomendation. I have been thinking of using similar plugin too. Something like, Recent Post, Favorite Post, Suggested By Admin, Highest Comment, etc on same panel like you can find on Problogger.net
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August 4th, 2009 at 11:04 am
yes i use most of this plugin to increase my blog
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Work At Home Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Great to hear that! Wish you all the best for your blog.
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August 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Thats agreat plugin for wordpress.. But i highly recommended for two plugin. Thats All in One SEo Pack and Google XML Sitemap
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Work At Home Reply:
August 8th, 2009 at 2:32 am
I would say that so for those who want to optimize their SEO. I think this two plugin should come by default in wordpress. It is something like a basic requirements for a blog to have these days.
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August 10th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Very nice list of 18 very useful plugins for Wordpress, I personally use about 98% of the ones you have listed here.
I will be checking out Popularity Contest to see how it compares with the crappy one I am using.
Thank you for sharing.
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Work At Home Reply:
August 15th, 2009 at 8:55 am
98% is awesome! I’m sure if we compare you plugin page and mine, it may look like a clone there. The popularity contest plugin gives several options to select popular posts shown on sidebars.
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August 18th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Do you use any plugins to manage ads in your blogs?
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Atniz Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 3:34 am
Currently, I don’t use any plugins to manage ads. Thinking of changing the theme soon. Maybe, will opt to one then.
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