Brian Vaughan

7 Must Have Plugins

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Lots of people blog, and lots of people use plugins for Wordpress. In fact I’m willing to bet everyone uses at least one. There are some we just could not live without. There are some that make the process so much easier, and more enjoyable. No one likes sifting through hundreds (if not thousands) of spam comments that is why we have Akismet. There are so many plugins out there, and so many that do similar things that it is hard to pick which plugins are right for you the blogger.

Having too many plugins isn’t a good thing, having too many can slow down the speed of your site. You don’t want that, if your readers have to wait for your site to load, odds are they will just close the window and go on the the next blog. So how do you choose which ones to use on your blog? First you need to figure out what you want to do with your blog. If you want to make money with your blog with ads, you will probably want to have a plugin that makes inserting ads on your blog easier. Plugins when used correctly will make your life as a blogger easier and faster.

Recently a few people have asked me what plug-ins I use and would recommend to them. Well here is my list of the 7 plugins that every Wordpress blog should have in my opinion.

1. Akismet - it gets rid of that pesky spam
2. All in One SEO Pack - Just genious. Lets you customize the meta tags, titles, descriptions, keywords, everything that will help you rank better in the search engines
3. Adsense-Deluxe - Want to easily show your Adsense ads on your blog? in your posts? Then this is the plug in for you, so much freedom.
4. FeedBurner Feedsmith - Easy way to display and keep track of all your RSS readers. Displays so much information about your readers, click through rates what reader they are using, just a great plug in
5. Dagon Design Form Mailer - Every site should have a way for users to contact you, this makes it seamless
6. WWSGD - This plugin display a short message to new visitors of your blog urging them to subscribe to your RSS feed.
7. and bringing up the rear Dofollow - Let the Google juice flow. This plug urges your readers to comment more on your blog because it will help then get better rankings in Google.

Those are the basic plugins I use on all of my Wordpress sites. What plugins do you use? Got one you want to share I would love to hear what it is.

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2 Responses to “7 Must Have Plugins”

1. Thomas Sinfield Says:
   October 2nd, 2007 at 6:00 pm

   some great plugins, I will definitely be checking them out!

2. Around the Net - 10/7/2007 | knupNET Says:
   October 8th, 2007 at 12:11 am

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