Which Wordpress Plugins are mandatory for a beginner with new website?

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DanielPedersen

13 years ago

I would suggest you use these plugins to start off with.

All in One SEO Pack
XML-sitemap plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Contact Form 7
Auto excerpt everywhere

If you want adsense on your site or other advertising in the post you can go with this plugin as well.

Quick Adsense plugin

Hope this helps you out

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rleejr 13 years ago

I would say

-Yoast Seo
-XML Sitemap
-W3 Cache

To Get started and a backup and security plugin
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- coconutisa 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rleejr
  
  I would say
  
  -Yoast Seo
  -XML Sitemap
  -W3 Cache
  
  To Get started and a backup and security plugin
  
  Again, are these free, if not, is it worth the money to get them for a beginner and are they available from wordpress.org?
  
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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by DanielPedersen

I would suggest you use these plugins to start off with.

All in One SEO Pack
XML-sitemap plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Contact Form 7
Auto excerpt everywhere

If you want adsense on your site or other advertising in the post you can go with this plugin as well.

Quick Adsense plugin

Hope this helps you out

Are the above plugins and free and available from wordpress.org?

Thanks.

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John Alves

13 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I admit.

I fell for the over-analysis, distracted by new ways to make money, scattered my energy on too many IM business models.

I became depressed combined with family loss.

Luckily with close friends at work encouraging me and my spiritual beliefs, got back on my feet again.

Now, I am focused. My website is everything about Coconut, as my username suggests.

I am using a simple WP theme.

Now, to my questions:

I got WP installed. I have some pages "About Us", I have some blog posts.

1. What WP plugins are mandatory to install?
2. All my blog posts are showing up only on the home page with the url for example, mysite.com(not my actual site), instead of
mysite.com/coconut-mango-smoothie, mysite.com/coconut-oil-for-weight-loss, etc.,

Please advise.
Coconut Isa.

I think you should have All in one SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and W3 Total Cache. There are a lot of other plugins, but I think those are the most important ones.

For the second question, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Are your permalink settings set to post name?

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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by John Alves

I think you should have All in one SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and W3 Total Cache. There are a lot of other plugins, but I think those are the most important ones.

For the second question, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Are your permalink settings set to post name?

Thank you for the suggested plugins. Are they free or have I to pay for them?

Second question, I selected a post, used the custom option in permalinks and put in the name where it said mysite.com/%postname% and I replaced the post name with mysite.com/coconut-mango-smoothie

and when I go to my website, it is not showing as mysite.com/coconut-mango-smoothie but simply mysite.com and all the posts I have in WP are showing there along with the above coconut-mango-smoothie.

What am I doing wrong?

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run

13 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Second question, I selected a post, used the custom option in permalinks and put in the name where it said mysite.com/%postname% and I replaced the post name with mysite.com/coconut-mango-smoothie

and when I go to my website, it is not showing as mysite.com/coconut-mango-smoothie but simply mysite.com and all the posts I have in WP are showing there along with the above coconut-mango-smoothie.

What am I doing wrong?

You just need to tick on "Post name" and Save Changes.

For plugins, there should be free and you could download it Wordpress Plugin Repository.

Some initial plugins that I'd recommend are:
- Akismet : if your blog comments are opened, it could block most of the well know spam comments.
- Yoast SEO: it's used for SEO purpose. It might need a bit more knowledge about the configuartion, but it's worth it.
- W3TC: speed up your site with caching technologies. Again, you should configure it carefully otherwise it could cause more loading time on the share server.
- Limit Login Attempts: block the of brute force attack to your admin dashboard.
- File Monitor Plus: alert you when there is something unknown activities on your server of your files.

Feature plugin:
- P3 (Plugin Performance profiler): just install once to see other plugins perform on your site. You could uninstall after analyzing.
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Lori Kelly

13 years ago

I LOVE SEO Yoast plug-in. When you create your content, it automatically tells you the keyword density, number of words, etc.

I like static home pages. In my opinion, they're easier to rank. I use a static home page:

1. WordPress Dashboard.
2. Settings.
3. Reading.
4. Select "a static home page".
5. front page displays: "Home" (or whatever you want to name your home page).
6. Posts page: Blog (create a blog page and all posts will be truncated on a blog page).

I also prefer a "www" (www.coconutsareus.com) in my General Settings (WordPress address) rather than coconutsareus.com

Sorry you were depressed and went down the wrong path. You sound like you're focused now and I'm happy to hear you have good friends and a spiritual belief.

The best to you. -Lori

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Enfusia 13 years ago

So far all the recommendations are great. The only one I would ad would be "Stat Press" so you can see how much and where your traffic is coming from.

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- coconutisa 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Enfusia
  
  So far all the recommendations are great. The only one I would ad would be "Stat Press" so you can see how much and where your traffic is coming from.
  
  Patrick
  
  Thank you Patrick, this seems a mandatory one. Is it free or expensive and is it available from wordpress.org?
  
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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Lori Kelly

I LOVE SEO Yoast plug-in. When you create your content, it automatically tells you the keyword density, number of words, etc.

I like static home pages. In my opinion, they're easier to rank. I use a static home page:

1. WordPress Dashboard.
2. Settings.
3. Reading.
4. Select "a static home page".
5. front page displays: "Home" (or whatever you want to name your home page).
6. Posts page: Blog (create a blog page and all posts will be truncated on a blog page).

I also prefer a "www" (www.coconutsareus.com) in my General Settings (WordPress address) rather than coconutsareus.com

Sorry you were depressed and went down the wrong path. You sound like you're focused now and I'm happy to hear you have good friends and a spiritual belief.

The best to you. -Lori

Thank you Lori for your kind words about my feeling depressed. I bounced back out of it with help from Higher Power (God) and friends and this forum with so many genuine, honest, trustworthy and sincere people.

Is the plugin you mention is expensive or free and is it worth to get it for a beginner who has around 5 posts now. That's all. I want to know how will google index my posts as and when I publish. Is there a plugin? I am already getting SPAM comments in my email box, asking me if I want to approve the comments?

I will follow your instructions to set my home page as static and beginning with www

Thanks.

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Lori Kelly

13 years ago

Ignore the people trying to make a buck off you. And shame on you self-promoting people for sending this person messages.

The SEO Yoast plug-in is free.

Permalinks.

1. Dashboard.
2. Settings, Permalinks.
3. Select post name (it's the 5th choice).

When you do this, this is how your blog posts' URL will show:

http://www.mycoconuts.com/how-to-cut-a-coconut-open/

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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Lori Kelly

Ignore the people trying to make a buck off you. And shame on you self-promoting people for sending this person messages.

The SEO Yoast plug-in is free.

Permalinks.

1. Dashboard.
2. Settings, Permalinks.
3. Select post name (it's the 5th choice).

When you do this, this is how your blog posts' URL will show:

http://www.mycoconuts.com/how-to-cut-a-coconut-open/

Thank you Lori, sent you PM.

Coconut Isa

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Lori Kelly 13 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Thank you Lori, sent you PM.

Coconut Isa

You're welcome. I responded with step-by-step instructions to install a few simple free plug-ins. That's all you need for now.

Now get to blogging so you can add some coconut content.
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Thriftypreneur

13 years ago

Before you go installing every plugin recommended (or worse, buying recommended plugins - eek), let me share some insight with you.

When running Wordpress, you want your site to operate using as few plugins as possible. Tons and tons of plugins will not only cause compatibility issues, but they can also hinder your sites functionality when Wordpress does an update on it's core files.

I can already tell from some of this list, that the recommendations don't keep this kind of stuff in mind. For example, if using Yoast SEO, there's no need to have the XML plugin as well. Yoast SEO has a fully-functional XML feature in it already.

I also don't see any security solutions recommended. This year has been one of the worst for brute force login attempts and the default Wordpress installation doesn't combat this at all. You must add a plugin to protect yourself from brute force attacks.

Here's an interesting article from my niche site case study that is all about plugins. It contains what I believe to be the essential plugins and how to set them up, as well as a few addition plugins that I find useful on various sites. Hope this helps.

Essential Wordpress Plugins for Niche Websites - Thriftypreneur

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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Thriftypreneur

Before you go installing every plugin recommended (or worse, buying recommended plugins - eek), let me share some insight with you.

When running Wordpress, you want your site to operate using as few plugins as possible. Tons and tons of plugins will not only cause compatibility issues, but they can also hinder your sites functionality when Wordpress does an update on it's core files.

I can already tell from some of this list, that the recommendations don't keep this kind of stuff in mind. For example, if using Yoast SEO, there's no need to have the XML plugin as well. Yoast SEO has a fully-functional XML feature in it already.

I also don't see any security solutions recommended. This year has been one of the worst for brute force login attempts and the default Wordpress installation doesn't combat this at all. You must add a plugin to protect yourself from brute force attacks.

Here's an interesting article from my niche site case study that is all about plugins. It contains what I believe to be the essential plugins and how to set them up, as well as a few addition plugins that I find useful on various sites. Hope this helps.

Essential Wordpress Plugins for Niche Websites - Thriftypreneur

Thank you Thriftypreneur.

I will visit your link and read and get those plugins.

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themichaelcook

13 years ago

The ones I have installed on my blog are

Akismet, All In One Seo Pack, Easy Contact Forms, Easy Retweet, Pretty Link so I can make ugly affiliate links to what I want them to look like, Sharebar Plugin so people can share my content on Facebook, Twitter etc., Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny yet another plugin so people can share my content via social media...

All those plugins are Free... I do have alot more plugins on my site but the ones above are the Free ones!!!!

Hope this helps...

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DanielPedersen

13 years ago

Also a great plugin to use is Search meter. It lets you see what people are searching for in your onsite searchmachine, then you can create content that people actually are looking for.

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attan

13 years ago

Here is my list.
They are all free and i have them installed in many sites

All In One SEO Pack
AntiVirus
Akismet
contact form 7
Duplicator (for backup)
Google XML Sitemaps
Google Analytics for WordPress
Pretty Link Lite
Sociable
WP Super Cache

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eClicker

13 years ago

I agree with Attan and many of the others but what will you be using the blog for because you may also need an Amazon s3 plugin in or a plugin for youtube videos. How about social media if you are doing some affiliate type stuff since social bookmarks are so important now?

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gohicks 13 years ago

A few other ones I always use and are good..

CMS Page Order
Social Sharing Toolkit
TinyMCE Advanced
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  Originally Posted by gohicks
  
  A few other ones I always use and are good..
  
  CMS Page Order
  Social Sharing Toolkit
  TinyMCE Advanced
  
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  Make sure you include a Disclosure policy if you are an affiliate (required by FTC), a Privacy Poilcy (required by Google and good practice) and a Contact section.
  
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Beatinest

13 years ago

All in one SEO
Pretty Link
Jetpack - includes a handful of useful options.

All of the above are free unless you upgrade to Pretty Link Pro

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FitMarketer

13 years ago

All in One SEO
and Google XML sitemaps are essential

Visual Composer is also great but its paid
Makes things super easy drag and drop

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coconutisa 13 years ago

Thank you everyone for your responses. As I am a beginner, I will choose minimum and go for the other ones by one.

Much appreciated.
Coconut Isa.
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- coconutisa 13 years ago
  
  I have installed most of the plugins recommended here.
  
  I am getting at least 2 SPAM comments every day and when I get notified to moderate, I am trashing it, there is an option SPAM, should I report as SPAM?
  
  Please advise.
  Regards,
  Coconut Isa.
  
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writeaway

13 years ago

Yoast SEO and PopupDomination. If you don't want to fork over cash for PD, try the free lightbox plugins at wordpress.org

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coconutisa 13 years ago

Originally Posted by writeaway

Yoast SEO and PopupDomination. If you don't want to fork over cash for PD, try the free lightbox plugins at wordpress.org

Thanks. I got already Yoast SEO.
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sirtiman

13 years ago

Akismet: to prevent spam bot

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam: combine with akismet setting that will reduce the pending thousand comments

Google XML Sitemaps: get index faster

All in One SEO Pack: I have good experience with powerful single blog post

BackWPup: can be scheduled weekly

Contact Form 7: I just like it even classic form

GD Star Rating: make your post more authority

Wordfence Security: scan your malware problems

WordPress Related Posts by Zemanta: increasing your pageviews

Google+ Comments Widget: for SEO purpose

Smart 404: good redirect broken links

Now you have SEO friendly and secure sites if you using some of plugins above.

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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sirtiman

Akismet: to prevent spam bot

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam: combine with akismet setting that will reduce the pending thousand comments

Google XML Sitemaps: get index faster

All in One SEO Pack: I have good experience with powerful single blog post

BackWPup: can be scheduled weekly

Contact Form 7: I just like it even classic form

GD Star Rating: make your post more authority

Wordfence Security: scan your malware problems

WordPress Related Posts by Zemanta: increasing your pageviews

Google+ Comments Widget: for SEO purpose

Smart 404: good redirect broken links

Now you have SEO friendly and secure sites if you using some of plugins above.

Thank you sirtiman.

Is Askimet free? I checked and it is installed on my site but not activated. When I click to activate it is directed me to a site where I have to pay per site? Is that true or am I missing something? I don't mind paying for it, but asking just to know because I thought someone said that most of these plugins should be free.

Others listed by you, most of them, I have except contact form 7, Google+?

What is contact form 7 for?

Thanks.

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Istvan Horvath

13 years ago

Some lists are way too long...!

Listen to those ONLY who recommend the minimum use of plugins and never listen to those that have long plugin lists. They are the ignorant and uneducated (WP-wise, I mean

)

There are NO mandatory plugins. Period.
And don't install two plugins that do the same thing... ever.

Plugins were not invented to get toys in the hands of IMers who don't know better and install 30-40 plugins. They are for adding additional features to a WP installation - depending on the goal and type of the website created by you.

Which means the question "what kind of plugins do I have to install" is wrong: because it is approaching the problem from the wrong end. One should ask: what kind of additional features do I need in MY blog/site that WP doesn't have out of the box, and how can I achieve to have those features?

Maybe adding a plugin, maybe deleting/editing one single line of code, maybe using creatively the existing core features...

90% of the plugins were made for lazy people

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MonitorScout 13 years ago
Following 7 plug-ins are compulsory to start up a blog in wordpress
1. All in One SEO Pack
2. BackupBuddy
3. Google Video Sitemap
4. Google XML Sitemaps
5. Login LockDown
6. W3 Total Cache
7. Permalink
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coconutisa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Some lists are way too long...!

Listen to those ONLY who recommend the minimum use of plugins and never listen to those that have long plugin lists. They are the ignorant and uneducated (WP-wise, I mean

)

There are NO mandatory plugins. Period.
And don't install two plugins that do the same thing... ever.

Plugins were not invented to get toys in the hands of IMers who don't know better and install 30-40 plugins. They are for adding additional features to a WP installation - depending on the goal and type of the website created by you.

Which means the question "what kind of plugins do I have to install" is wrong: because it is approaching the problem from the wrong end. One should ask: what kind of additional features do I need in MY blog/site that WP doesn't have out of the box, and how can I achieve to have those features?

Maybe adding a plugin, maybe deleting/editing one single line of code, maybe using creatively the existing core features...

90% of the plugins were made for lazy people

Thank you Istvan.

I have sent you a PM.

Cococnut Isa.

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