If you are using a Wordpress based blog, you have the power to customize your blog in your own way, to feel something unique. But in case of plugins, there are some general steps to follow to make your blog work better for you and your readers (so please follow them without being unique :) )

So, let me first list down the most important plugins for your Wordpress blog. Here is the list:

(1) All in One SEO Pack - This plugin helps you to make your blog easily indexed by major search engines. You can easily manage meta tags, a description of your blog, title format for your posts and many other things.

(2) Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin saves your time in generating a site-map for your blog. Again site-maps help your blog or site to be crawled by search engines easily. And if your are using Google Webmaster service (it’s free :) ), then you must have your site-map to find out detailed analysis of your blog or site.

(3) Akismet - This plugin is already installed in Wordpress. This plugin fights against spam comments. In their words-“Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.”

(4) WordPress Database Backup - This plugin makes it easier to backup your data. If this data is lost by any means, your blog will lose all postings and comments. So it’s very important to backup your blog’s database. You can automate the backup process at certain time interval using this plugin.

(5) Subscribe Remind - Want your readers to subscribe your feeds? Then remind them by putting a reminder at the end of each post, which is the function of this plugin! You can edit the message shown at the end of each post. The message contains a link to your subscription page.

(6) FeedBurner FeedSmith - This is the plugin who use FeedBurner service for their blog’s feeds (who doesn’t use it?). In their words-“this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.”

 

This plugin also solves a problem related to Subscribe Remind plugin. If you don’t use FeedSmith, you will have problems concerning your Feed URL, because in the reminder message, your feed URL will be different than what is provided by FeedBurner and that will be ended up in a broken link. By using FeedSmith plugin, that problem vanishes.

(7) WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition - Be professional on your Contact me page. Don’t put just your email address, but put a contact form using this plugin. And yes, this also provides protection against spam as do the Askimet.

 

In addition to these, you should also use plugins related to Social Bookmarking. There are many plugins related to this topic, and so I don’t suggest one. You can choose anyone for that which matches your taste. Just Google for that :)

Hope this plugins will work for you and save your time. If you have time, you can go through a list of 101 Top Wordpress plugins here.

 

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