Which plugins should I use?
by Peter Quill on Jan.06, 2010, under Blogging
WordPress is our blog software of choice – easy to use, simple to maintain and has great funtionality. To improve this functionality, we also use plugins (tools that do a specific task in your blog). The plugins we recommend are:
- Akismet – The amazingly powerful spam blocker! Protects us against all the garbage that the spammers send through and rarely makes a mistake.
- All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. Easy to update and allows you to create seo friendly titles and keywords for each post.
- BackType Connect – Show related conversations (from other blogs, Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed and more) inline with your own comments.
- CommentLuv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.
- FD Feedburner Plugin – Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed. Enables easy tracking through Google.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – It automatically adds Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your blog.
- Google XML Sitemaps – Creates a new sitemap every time your blog is updated which is compatible with Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
- Gurken Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to subscribe to comments so they can follow a conversation.
- WordTwit – Posts updates to Twitter about entries automatically. Includes many configuarble options, statistics and more.
We use these because they have been successful for us, and are easy to use. Which plugins do use use and recommend?
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Plugging Away! | motorcreative blog
April 26th, 2011 on 11:56 am[...] that end, I’d like to revisit a previous post that addressed the question, Which plugins should I use and add to that list a few I recently discovered (with the help of my friends – thanks [...]
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April 21st, 2011 on 8:51 am
You may want to try WP-Optimize. Once your articles are published, you most certainly have no use for system- and user-saved revisions. They do nothing but help slow down search queries, as they clutter your database. With this plugin you can get rid of them and optimize your database with a single click. Definitely worth a go.
Gerry
April 26th, 2011 on 11:05 am
Thanks for the info! I just installed WPTouch as well – this makes your blog mobile-friendly!