WordPress is a powerful blogging platform. Thanks to hard working community, its evolving and becoming more powerful day by day. In this post i will go through all plugins that i frequently use almost in every blog installation.
All in One SEO Pack
This plugin helps you to promote your blog. With this plugin you can add seo elements to your posts automatically. It also gives you ability to tweak your blogs description, key words and title for search engines.
Add To Any
Can you see the small bar bottom of all posts and pages? It’s add to any sidebar. With this plugin you allow users to share your posts in every platform, mail it to their friends and bookmark it.
Contact Form 7
Especially for spam protection, sites using forms for contacts. If you want to add a contact form (or any form this plugin is highly customizable) to your blog contact form 7 is an excellent choice for you.
Google Analyticator
If you are using google analytics you will find this plugin very useful. You can embed analytics code without changing your theme files.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin allows you to generate xml sitemaps. It updates them regularly. The generated sitemaps is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo.
Maintenance Mode
When you are updating your blog, changing your theme you don’t want your visitors to see it. Maintenance mode allows you to put your blog offline and lets visitors to know that you are down for maintenance. The best thing about this plugin is that, if you are logged in administrators, you get full access to the blog including the front-end.
This plugins are essential for wordpress. It’s not important what you are presenting on your blog they will help you to maintain a better blog.