Here’s a list of WordPress plugins you’ll find useful – some of which are a definate must have
Here’s a list of plugins that I find useful and I think most of you guys will find useful also. They are not listed in any particular order. You can search and easily install them by name from the backend of WordPress.
FD Feedburner Plugin
This plugin redirects WordPress main feed and all existing feeds to feedburner making it easy for all users to subscribe to your website, it’s easy to install and very simple to use. This plugin is pretty straight forward and there is hardly anything else to do with the plugin after it’s installed and you enter your email – also don’t forget to re-direct your feed url to your feedburner account – alot of people forget this step. Once it’s installed – visit your feedburner account and set everything according to your likings – making it easier for visitors to subscribe.
Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on your WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. This is a must have plug-in, it gives all your website traffic data from Google analytics directly on your blog, it can be setup to be displayed in the back end or as a widget.
Google XML sitemaps
Here’s another very useful WordPress plugin, this is one of my personal favorite, it automatically updates your sitemap and notifies the Search engines every time you make a new post or make a change to your website.
Wp-DB-Backup
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your website’s database, I would recommend installing it (a must have!) and scheduled to backup your WordPress Database, it’s important to backup your site on a regular basis as you never know when something could go wrong and if does you’ll be prepared.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ <–download here
Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
This plug-in helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader. The reason why this one is mentioned is because I see alot of blogs using it.
Advance Most Recent Posts
Advanced Most Recent Posts Widget displays your most recent posts with thumbnail images in any widget areas. It gets posts from selected categories, the user can define the categories, the size of the photos, and the number of posts to display, it’s really useful and simple for people who want’s to display post images in their sidebar. Check out to it –> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-most-recent-posts/
All in One SEO Pack
Here’s another essential plugin, optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (SEO).
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 is a very powerful and yet simple contact form, you can use this form to make complex forms with ease, within minutes if that long. Forms that usually takes forever to built now is much easier with this. No coding needed, I’ve used other contact forms and this one is the easiest but still advance. It works great for the average person.
My Adsense Plugin
Just about any adsense plug-in is a useful plug-in as they allow you to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. That’s why this was listed.
Please comment and share with us YOUR favorite and must have plugins.