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Must-Have Wordpress Plugins

by W.P. Allen
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What are some must-have plugins?
#musthave #plugins #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author WinsonYeung
    CHeck out MaxBlogPress
    They have some pretty cool plugin that is that decide to give for free
    One of my favorite is the opt-in form adder that is able to add opt-in form at the end of "EVERY" post you make. Another plugin i like is the Ping optimizer. It will help you prevent excessive ping resulting from a "Ban" from valuable pinging service.
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  • Profile picture of the author Francis Chan
    These are some must haves:

    All in One SEO Pack
    Google Analytics for WordPress
    Google XML Sitemaps
    My Page Order
    Sticky Post
    Disable Revisions and Autosave

    Descriptions of what they do are available at their sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    WPS Publisher
    all-in-one-seo-pack
    google-sitemap-generator
    add-to-any

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author hangc
    - google-sitemap-generator
    - wp-db-backup
    - wordpress-automatic-upgrade
    - all-in-one-seo-pack
    - all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Totally agree i love all in one seo especially. When i did my blog i had never heard of it and then had it recommended to be on here!
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  • Profile picture of the author houdy
    All in One SEO Pack
    Feedburner Feed Replacement
    Google XML Sitemaps
    Smart Update Pinger
    Akismet - Or another comment spam plugin

    Make sure to deactivate the wordpress-automatic-upgrade plugin once up to version 2.7. It's part of the core now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
    Along with others that have been mentioned... the Sociable plugin allows folks to bookmark your posts.

    WordPress › Sociable WordPress Plugins

    Autoblogfeeder lets you schedule blog posts and automatically adds your posts at the time you set

    Blog Succes - Auto Blog Feeder Master Resale Rights

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    • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
      These are some great plugins!

      One of my favorite is the opt-in form adder that is able to add opt-in form at the end of "EVERY" post you make.
      I'm definitely going to check this one out.

      I would be wary of using too many plugins. The more plugins you have, the more security holes you have.

      Stick to a few that have a good reputation and are regularly updated.
      Yeah, I'm trying to keep the number of plugins I use to a minimum. I have a little bit of "plugin fever" right now but I'm going to limit myself to about 5.
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      • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
        One of my favorite is the opt-in form adder that is able to add opt-in form at the end of "EVERY" post you make.
        Just added this one and so far it works great!
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Yes im the same with my plugins i came across a load when i started and soon realised which ones suited me the most it just depends on what you want on your blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
    You got to have a good Stats plug-in too. For some reason the basic one isn't tracking at all despite what it says.

    Anybody know of a good Must-Have stats tracking plug-in?
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    • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
      This WP Theme has Google Analytics built into it and it's fully customizable:

      FlexibilityTheme.com
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    • Profile picture of the author sadiver
      Originally Posted by Ephrils View Post

      You got to have a good Stats plug-in too. For some reason the basic one isn't tracking at all despite what it says.

      Anybody know of a good Must-Have stats tracking plug-in?

      Statpress works for me! Install it on all my WP blogs
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  • Profile picture of the author bryansmith
    cforms II for contact forms
    Akismet (comes by default) for spam control

    Others depending on what features you require
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  • Profile picture of the author eholmlund
    must have:

    Akismet
    All in One SEO Pack

    others I use:
    Dofollow
    Ajax Comments-Reply
    ShareThis
    Flickr Photo Album

    here is a blog post I made about it:
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  • Profile picture of the author xlfutur1
    For SEO, try Headspace2. very powerful. Also, Cforms is really handy.

    Also, another really useful one (especially for autoblogging) is alinks. It inserts affiliate links for any url or amazon.com on words that you specify that show up in your blog posts. you can specify as many words or phrases that you'd like.

    I'm using it to link to CPA, clickbank, amazon and whatever else works. So each blo post is sprinkled with affiliate links. not too many, just a few. You could also use gocodes I guess to cloak those links if you wanted. I think if its just one or two per post it probably not a huge red flag.

    A few years back I remember paying $47 per month for a script that did this automatically, now its free with alinks and wordpress. You just can't beat the power of wordpress these days.
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    • Profile picture of the author LynnM
      Having had to delete dozens of posts and categories recently, Bulk Delete by Sudar proved to be a real time-saver.
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