WordPress blogging platform revolutionized the web industries and the whole blogosphere itself. Since WordPress is the one of the most popular blogging platform there are many plugins available for download. Most of the startup bloggers are confused about what all plugins to use, and which are essential and useful plugins..
Here are some of the most essential and useful plugins available for you.
SPAM Fighting
Akismet : Built in WordPress spam filter
reCAPTCHA : SPAM fighting with distorted texts
Search Engine Optimization
All in one SEO : Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
Caching
WP Super Cache : Converts the expensive dynamic php pages to Static HTML pages. And serves to the readers.
WordPress Forms
cformsII : Contact form for WordPress
TDO Mini Forms : Lets readers to contribute to the blog, A gust blogging content submission form
Post Enchantments
WP-CodeBox : Syntax highlighting for WordPress blog posts
WP-PostRatings : Lets readers to rate the posts
Vote It Up : Vote It Up enables voting functionality for posts like digg
Lightview Plus : Light box enchantment for images in the post
WordPress Thread Comment : A plugin to give a forum like appearance to comments
Ajax Comments-Reply : Readers can easily replay to any comments with AJAX submissions
Ajax Comment Preview : See the preview of comments as you type
Live Search Popup : Adds Mac OS X spotlight like Live search facility to default WordPress search
PoWPoll : Add AJAX enabled polls to your blog
WP AJAX Edit Comments : Allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX
Google AJAX Translation : This plugin enables Google AJAX Language API on your blog, so your blog readers can easily translate your blog into any languages
Comment Sorter : Allows readers to choose the comment sort order and allows for filtering of Trackbacks/Pingbacks.
WP RssSticky : Adds sticky post to the bottom and top of your RSS feeds
WP-PageNavi : A customisable pagination plugin
Google XML Sitemaps : Adds sitemaps to your blog
Bonus Capsule
WPtouch iPhone Theme : Apple-inspired theme for blog when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.
WPhone : WordPress admin interface for iPhone/iPod Touch
11 Comments at "Essential WordPress plugins for a rookie blogger"
Thank you very much for those plugins,really very useful.
Any good plugin for formatting and image resizing ?
ImageScaler Modded : This plugin can resize any image in a post according to the width given the options page
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imagescaler-modded
I am always scare to install cache plugin to my blog. i am always get an error after installation. do you have any idea how i fix it?thanks
Woow thanks a ton.Not only your posts but your comments help alot!
Excellent plugin!
@caTcode : What error you get ?
Try this guide and see is there any error happens : http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/
And let me know the error.. I will try to help you out
No error .. it was installed successfully.I have a coder who helps me in installing if i get it wrong
Thats a cool list
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There is new plugin quite promising to foster constructive discussions. To put in the same category than Comment Sorter.
It is called commentag (http://www.commentag.com) and it allows to tag comments to keep discussions sorted.
They use that on TheNextWeb.org and it is a great add-on!
It uses Web semantic to automatically tag what you type, but you can always edit tags in a del.icio.us way.
Visitors can after filter comments based on topics, which is better than sorting by date only.
Thank you, for this post, man
Pretty good idea…
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