18 WordPress Plugins Must Have

Written by Atniz

Topics: Wordpress

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.

24 Comments For This Post I'd Love to Hear Yours!

  1. fredxpress says:

    Is it true if we install so many WP plugin will make our blog very slow

    • Atniz says:

      I have no idea about this. But, it is totally depending on your load request on each page or your main blog. For example, if you install tweetmeme, digg count, facebook count, gravatar image, etc will slow your blog because of its load time.

  2. Do you use any plugins to manage ads in your blogs?

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