WordPress has the wonderful opportunity to provide such nice & useful plugin’s for your blog to increase blog traffic, security and management.
Here are the top 10 plugins I consider essential for any WordPress website. These can help your WordPress site be more secure, more search engine friendly, easier to deal with, and more engaging for your visitors.
To find these plugins, login to your WordPress administrative area, click “Plugins” on the left menu, then click “Add New.” You’ll see a page with a search box you can type the plugin name into and then install the plugin.
1- All in One SEO Pack:
This is a great plugin to help make WordPress more search engine friendly. It gives you more control over various elements on your pages.
2- Easy AdSense
This provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts. It gives you a widget to display ads in your sidebar, and another to show a Google Search box. Easy AdSenser is perhaps the first plugin that gives you a complete solution for managing everything AdSense-related.
3- Akismet:
Blog spam is out of control and can be overwhelming if you have to delete it all yourself. Let Akismet deal with it for you instead.
4- Find Me On
The Find Me On sidebar widget displays icons for all of your social network profiles. Includes *73* Social Network options, 16px or 32px icon size, and three icon styles, including sexy-style. Supports nearly all mainstream social networking sites… but if I missed one, write a comment and I’ll add to the next release.
5- AddThis Widget
Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs.
6- Google Translator
Translate your blog from sidebar instantly almost in more than 20 languages
7- Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
8- Login With Ajax
Ajax driven login widget. Customisable from within your template folder, and advanced settings from the admin area.
9- SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. Also is WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.
10- Socialite
Socialite is a Wordpress Plugin that allows Wordpress to publish posts to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. It’s open source (using GPL version 3) and free to use. Each social networking site can be individually configured to fit your needs.
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