There are many plugins that aspiring Word Press Bloggers can install on their website. Some Plugins are great, but others are not so great. There are plugins to stop spammers, adding meta tags to a blog post, and the main page, checking for broken links, enabling google analytics tracking, making a sitemap, social bookmarking, and a lot more. But, there are also a lot of plugins that the average user does not need or want.
Learn how to install a Word Press Plugin if you don’t know how to.
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?>
in your template.
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All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. This plugin let you add meta tags to your front page and your posts.
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Broken Link Checker
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
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Google Analyticator
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.
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Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
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Revision Control
Allows finer control over the number of Revisions stored on a global & per-post/page basis.
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Sociable
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
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WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools ? Backup to get started.
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WordPress Related Posts
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress
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