10 WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have

Without doubt, WordPress is the best platform to use if decide to start blogging. The benefits are countless. One of them is the huge variety of useful plugins. Below you can find the 10 best wordpress plugins to use. I use these plugins and I totally recommend them to you…

1. WP Super Cache

This plugin is great because it makes your pages load faster. It stores static versions of you blog and thus it requires less CPU processing in order for your visitors to see those pages. If you have over 5000 visitors per day, this plugin will prevent your site from going offline due to heavy traffic.

2. Akismet

Well this plugin is pre-installed in your wordpress blog. It’s the ultimate plugin for spam fighting. It stops about 99% of spam comments in your blog. If you have a well known blog, this plugin will make your life easier and you won’t have to moderate the comments area so much!

3. WP-PageNavi

This plugin is great for one reason. It will show the number of pages instead of “older posts”. Navigation will be easier and that will bring more pageviews to your blog.

4. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget

Social Bookmarking Sites bring tons of traffic to your blog if you use them wisely. Addthis is the best sharing widget and you should put it under your articles in order for the visitors to share your links easily.

5. All in One SEO Pack

It’s the best plugin for SEO. This plugin will make your urls and titles more friendly to search engines like Google and Yahoo, thus bringing you more visitors from those engines. That’s really good because visitors from Search Engines tend to click your ads more than your regular visitors.

6. Contextual Related Posts

This plugin is going to make your blog’s pageviews rise to the top! Placing this plugin under your posts will give you a number of contextual related posts. You will ask “Why is it better than the other related post plugins?”. The answer is that this plugins gives you contextual related posts so there is higher chance for the visitors to be interested in those related posts.

7. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will automatically tell Google bots to come and crawl your new post in order to index them in the search engine.

8. IntenseDebate Comments

IntenseDebate comments is a really great comment plugin. It makes your comment look better and more professional. It also provides you with threaded comments.

9. Smart Youtube

The ultimate plugin for your youtube videos. It inserts Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, etc videos in your blog posts by pasting just the url of the video. Very handy if you don’t want to mess with all those embedding codes.

10. Title to Tags

If you are bored to put tags in your posts, this plugin is for you. It will automatically place tags based on your post’s title.

There are many more useful plugins and I will have to make a part 2 in the future!

Which are your favourite plugins? Write them in the comments section.