RSS Feed8 Essential WordPress Plugins
February 19th, 2008 by Verne
The great thing about working with an open-source platform like WordPress is that it is well-supported by an enthusiastic, passionate, and forward-thinking community of developers, designers, and users. From this community spawns, among many things, a truck load of plugins that everyday users can download and install without breaking a sweat. These plugins help publishers make the most out of WordPress’ basic functions and optimize theirs and their visitors’ user experience.
Every new WP site we build begins with the activation of a number of key plugins. Many of these plugins would be really helpful to those of you running WP sites of your own, so I thought I would outline our list of essential WordPress plugins. Enjoy!
All-in-One SEO Pack - A great plugin to help you optimize your site titles, descriptions and keywords. A must-have for anybody who remotely cares about search engine optimization.
cforms II - This powerful AJAX-enabled plugin helps you build multiple custom forms for you to embed onto your pages. We use cforms to run the contact form on our Contact page.
Feed Count - If you’re tired of the FeedBurner chicklet and want to try your hand at customizing the look of your feed count, then this is the plugin for you.
Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin dynamically builds and updates your sitemaps to help search engines index your content more accurately.
Robots Meta - Another search engine friendly plugin that allows you to adjust your nofollow, noindex settings on a post-by-post and page-by-page basis.
Simple Tagging - Because WordPress’ native tagging function isn’t perfect yet. My biggest gripe against the native tagging function is that you can’t see a current list of tags that are already in-use. This plugin takes care of that in a very cool way.
Subscribe to Comments - Keep your commentors in the conversation by allowing them to subscribe to comment updates for any particular post.
WP-PageNavi - A great alternative to WordPress’ native pagination function that lets users browse content by page number.
Got more plugins that you consider essential? Tell me about them by leaving a comment.
Spencer
February 19th, 2008 at 11:05 pmGreat list! Thanks!
Ayush Saran
March 6th, 2008 at 12:34 amyou HAVE! to include CommentLuv
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/
The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away.
BillinDetroit
May 9th, 2008 at 3:31 amI have to agree about commentluv. After seeing it in action on a couple of other blogs, I added it to mine.
I don’t know how to give it a higher endorsement.
I also use “do follow”. I think that ‘paying’ my commenters is part of blogging with integrity.
Kerry
March 10th, 2009 at 7:58 amI really liked your blog!
Rick Wordpress Guy
May 4th, 2009 at 7:42 amI had not seen the pagination plugin. Sounds interesting. I am going to try it on one of my bigger sites. Thanks for the post.
Rick
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September 13th, 2009 at 11:24 pmI love Keywordluv, and Commentluv I use them on my main blog just to get a lot of interaction. I don’t mind giving them a link or two as long as the comment is not spammy. Heck I even use the do-follow plugin as well.
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