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Essential Plugins for Wordpress | Wordpress Wednesday #2
We know that using too many plugins can often cause problems. Some of these problems may be incompatibility with newer versions of Wordpress, very untidy source code and even non-valid XHTML…
However some plugins really make blogging easier and add some great extra functionality to your blog.
Below are a selection of the best plugins that can save time and effort.
1. Duplicate Post
Do you ever find yourself re-entering the same post tags, categories, custom fields when writing posts? Duplicate Post fixes this problem by providing the option to duplicate a post. You may then go on to edit the duplicate.
2. Page Links To
You may want to include a link within your pages navigation, but you don’t necessarily want it to link to the page you have created. Page Links To lets you enter a custom URL, providing you with great flexibility over your page links.
3. Google Analyticator
Google Analytics will work just fine without a plugin but Google Analyticator provides some tools too good to overlook.
- Download link tracking
- Supports widget
- Can hide administrator visits
- Dashboard display
- Enable/disable any feature
- And many more…
4. All in one SEO pack
The All in one SEO pack provides you with many options to help make your Wordpress theme more readable by search engines. Why bother?
- Works straight out of the box
- Advanced users may fine tune all aspects
- Generates Meta Tags automatically
- Avoids duplicate content
- And many more…
5. Wordpress Database Backup
You may or may not know that in order to backup your Wordpress website it is essential that you backup your database files aswell as your files found in the Wordpress installation. This plugin can remove any human error by creating automated backups.
6. WP-PageNavi
A great plugin which depending on your Wordpress settings, displays a number of pages avaliable to browse. Very easy to install, setup and insert.
7. Akismet
Akismet is installed on your Wordpress blog as standard but needs activating. Many people do not know the value of this great plugin and do not spend the time creating an account and getting an activation key.
8. Subscribe to comments
If you leave a lot of comments on different articles it can get very confusing trying to remember which ones you were expecting a reply from. This plugin allows you to subscribe to an article, notifying you of any new comments
What plugins do you find useful? Please do share them with us in the comments below and we may add them to our list.
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