The Must Have Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

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The Must Have Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

Do you run a WordPress blog? If so, I know that you enjoy the ease of use when running WordPress. One of my favorite features of WordPress is the number of plugins that are available to us. These plugins extended the capabilities of a WordPress blog and created limitless possibilities.

In this article, I would like to share some of the must-have plugins for your WordPress blog.

All-in-one SEO

Tip: You may want to buy a domain name, instead of utilizing a free blog site. It isn't that expensive to do, and will give your blog a more professional appearance.

This is one of the best plugins when we talk about getting your blog SEO-ready. This plugin allows you to define your title and description, as well as how you arrange the title of your blog.

This plugin is free but they also have paid features. However, the free features is all that we need most of the time.

Better WordPress Security

Tip: Remember you've got a life beyond blogging. If you allow things to get out of balance, you'll burn out and not be able to produce new content.

My WordPress blog was hacked, TWICE. With this plugin, I can never think of a better excuse not to install. Better WordPress Security offers a very comprehensive security features. The amount of configuration in this plugin is mind-blogging! Fortunately, this plugin has a one-click basic protection which can quickly setup your blog to prevent 90% of the attack.

In addition, this plugin also offer a backup for your blog. So it's really 2 features in a single plugin. Finally, this plugin is often updated so you can be sure that your WordPress blog is protected like a fortress.

Tip: Incorporate lists into your blog. Regardless of your blog topic, you need to use lists.

In addition to Better WordPress Security, I want to ensure that my login page does not get any brute-force login attempts. The Login Lockdown plugin offers me a chance to minimize brute-force login.

Email Encrypt

If you display your email address in plain text, you are opening yourself to robot email harvester to grab your email address and start sending you spam. This plugin automatically encrypts your email address so that no harvester can grab your email. It's simple to use, yet so powerful.

Contact Form 7

For webmasters who prefers to have a formal "Contact us" form, Contact Form 7 plugin is one of the best. Their contact form are highly customizable and it also comes with CAPTCHA protection. You will need to install "Really Simple Captcha" plugin in order to use the captcha feature with Contact Form 7.

Add Social Bookmarks

Tip: You can use various social networking sites to advertise your blog; however, you need to be sure that you don't turn into a spammer. If everything you put on Twitter is linked to your blog, people will tend to ignore them.

This plugin will automatically add social bookmarks buttons to your blog posts, allowing your readers a chance to bookmark your post easily with a click of a button. Very easy to install and very easy to use. I love it.

Akismet

Yes, I know Akismet comes as a default plugin. You ought to use this plugin because it is powerful enough to block out 90% of comment spam. Yes, you do need to go to Akismet.com to grab an API key but it's really worth the effort to activate this plugin. With this plugin activated, I see a drop of 95% comment spam so you know that it is really that good.

The above list are my recommended plugins. I hope that you find them useful and go feel free to try them out in your WordPress blog today.

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