List Of Useful WordPress Plugins
This list is mainly for those who have just installed their WordPress blog. The great thing about WordPress is that it is extensible via plugins. The following is a list of plugins that covers the most common needs of any blogger.
Advanced-Admin-Menus: This plugin introduces drop down menus in the WordPress admin. Now any action is just a mouse hover and click away. For example: To go to Permalinks, you don’t have to click on Options before you can see the Permalinks menu item. Just put your mouse on the Options menu and in the dropdown menu that comes up, select Permalinks.
Akismet: This comes by default with WordPress now a days. Akismet is all you need to tackle and control the spam on your WordPress blog. Ensure that you update it to the most latest version (simply overwrite akismet.php). You need to register for a free API key that you can get from wordpress.com.
All in One SEO Pack: This plugin lets you enter your blog’s homepage title, description and keywords. Also it adds two fields in the post/page editor in which you can type in keywords and a description. Even without any configuration, this does truly provide a Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Note that post/page tags act as keywords. Hence there is no need to enter them in the keywords field.
BackUpWordPress: Setting up periodic and automatic backups for your blog is extremely important. BackUpWordPress is a handy plugin using which you can have either your entire blog (files and database) or just the database automatically backed up to a directory in your web space. This plugin also provides an option to have these backups emailed to you (the maximum file size can be entered and only if the backup is less than this will it be mailed to you.
