WordPress plug-ins have become an essential for professional bloggers. The benefits that come with many WordPress plug-ins has made it easier for bloggers to improve their blogs as well as save time with administration work. Here’s a look at some of the best WordPress plug-ins that are available.
AdRotator
This WordPress plug-in will allow you to rotate your ads on your blog rather easily. This is great if you have multiple ads for a certain location on your blog(s) and you want to rotate them.
Akismet
Everyone hates SPAM, why let it happen on your blog with comment spam? Akismet is one the most used WordPress SPAM prevention tools. This WordPress plug-in will help prevent trackback and comment SPAM.
Comment Relish
This is an excellent WordPress plug-in that will allow you to send a thank you e-mail to commentators that haven’t ever posted a comment before.
EasyTube
EasyTube is a WordPress plug-in that makes it easier for you to add YouTube videos in your blog posts. You won’t have to mess around with the HTML code in order to add a video when you utilize this handy Wordpress plug-in.
Google XML Sitemaps Generator
Having a sitemap is essential to effective search engine optimization for any website or blog. This WordPress plug-in will generate a sitemap for your blog that is supported by many search engines.
Quick Meta Keywords
This is a great WordPress plug-in that will definitely help with your blog’s SEO. For every blog post that you create, this plug-in will generate keywords and put them in as a META tag for the page your blog post is on. The keywords that are generated are based on the categories that the blog post is put under.
SEO Title Tag
This WordPress plug-in will give you the ability to modify your title tags for your blog posts. This will help you optimize your title tags to attract search engines even better.
Show Top Commentators
Encourage more interaction from your readers by using this WordPress plug-in that will show the name and the number of comments they have added to your blog recently. If it is desired to do so, you can link their name to their website.
Theme Test Drive
If you want to test out a new WordPress theme without affecting your visitors, this is the plug-in for you. You will have the ability to test out a new theme without changing the theme that your visitors see. They will never know that you are running a new theme for yourself.
Twitter Updater
Twitter is becoming widely used by many bloggers around the world to help boost their blog. This WordPress plug-in will automatically send a status update to your Twitter account when you add, edit, or update a blog post. This could be very useful for the bloggers that use Twitter for their blog(s).
These are some really useful WordPress plug-ins that have been developed to make your life easier as well as improve reader interaction on your blog(s). Hopefully you will find one of these to be something that you need to add to your blog(s).
April 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Akismet was the best one for me. Stopped the spam instantly and I haven’t seen one get through yet. I like the sound of the comment relish, I just may give that one a try. Thanks!
April 20th, 2008 at 4:18 am
I have been looking for the Test drive plugin for so long, thanks for the list!