Rev Up Your WordPress Blog With These Plugins
YuryB | December 30th, 2011 - 9:08 pmOne of the advantages of using WordPress as your blog platform is the wide variety of plugins you can find to rev up the impact of your blog. These plugins make it simple for anyone to improve a blog’s functionality, from speeding up download times to creating contact forms.
Tim Baran discusses a dozen of his favorites in “12 WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Blog.” Here are 10 of them.
Akismet: Fight spam with this plug-in; it identifies spam in comments and trackbacks, then moves it to a spam folder. It provides your spam stats in a dashboard.
Google XML Sitemaps: Use this plugin to create an XML sitemap that helps the search engines find and index all your pages.
W3 Total Cache: This plug-in caches your entire site, which speeds up page loads and improves visitors’ experience on the site.
All in One SEO Pack: This plugin makes sure your blog has all the basic SEO tactics covered, including keywords, description and page title.
WP-Table Reloaded: WordPress doesn’t like tables, but this plugin makes them easy to work with.
WordPress Database Backup: Schedule your backups so you don’t lose all your hard work.
Efficient Related Posts: One of the best ways to improve a post is by linking to other relevant posts on your site. This plugin finds those posts based on your tags.
Clean-Contact: This plugin lets you create a simple contact form quickly and easily. It also offers spam protection.
WPtouch: When visitors view your site from a mobile device, this plugin turns it into an iPhone application-style theme.
Maintenance Mode: Don’t leave visitors guessing when you’re doing maintenance on your blog. Use this plugin to display a splash page telling them it’s down.
See Baran’s post to get more information on these plugins and see to the rest of his current favorites.
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