Become An Expert Blogger With These WordPress Plug-Ins

Share | | By: Marcio Rocon | Date posted: Friday, December 18th, 2009

When you start using WordPress, you will eventually find there is plug-ins that enhances the application. The plug-ins will be something you will grow to appreciate over time as many other bloggers have. In fact, you will become an expert blogger with the wonderful plug-ins.

Some people spend many hours searching for the right plug-ins to add to their blogsite. They do not realize there are sites dedicated to the added features but that is what this article is all about, the sites to use to get that precious plug-ins.

The first plug-in is Akismet located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/ . Akismet catches spam content on the blog. You can review the spam contents on the “comments” administrative screen.

The second plug-in is All In One SEO located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack. This plug-in optimizes the search engine optimization for your blogsite.

The third plug-is is Broken Link Checker located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/. This plug-ins monitors your blogs for any broken links. It will let you know when any are found so you can easily fix the problem.

The fourth plug-in is WordPress Data Back-up and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/. This plug-in allows you to easily backup the WordPress database so you can avoid any issues of lost files with your application.

The fifth plug-in is Exec-Php and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/. This plug-ins executes the PHP code in posts, pages, and text widgets. This is a great tool to help you maintain the blogsite efficiently.

The sixth plug-in is Google XML Sitemaps and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/. This plug-in creates Google sitemaps that are compliant with XML sitemap for your WordPress blog.

The seventh plug-in is MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-ping-optimizer/. This plug-in will save your blog from being tagged as ping spammer when you install this plug-in.

The eighth plug-in is MaxBlogPress Favicon and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/. This helps create brand awareness when displaying a favorite icon in the title of the blog next to the URL.

The ninth plug-in is WP-Cache and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cache/. This extremely efficient tool designed for caching system to make your blogsite run faster and respond faster.

The tenth plug-in is Auto Hyperlink URLs and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-hyperlink-urls/. This plug-in posts content and comment text to the URL they reference.

The eleventh plug-in is No Ping Wait and is located at http://onemansblog.com/2007/04/15/no-ping-wait-wordpress-plugin/. This plug-in will prevent WordPress authors from having to wait for all the update services to respond to new post pings. It will help with avoiding wasting time when you are posting to your blogsite.

The twelfth plug-in is FD Feedburner Plug-In and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-plugin/. This redirects the main feed and comments to Feedburner.com.

The thirteenth plug-in is WordPress.com Stats and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/. This plug-in track views, post and page views, referrers and clicks on your blogsite.

The fourteenth plug-in is What Would Seth Godin Do and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/. This plug-in displays a custom welcome message to all new visitors plus other options.

The fifth teen plug-in is Popularity Contest and is located at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/. This plug-in allows for ranking of your posts by popularity by using the behavior of the visitors to your site to determine each post’s popularity. This is also a great tool to increase your web traffic.

When you add any or all of this plug-ins to your blogsite, you will have a far better blogging experience that will be enhanced with some of the widely used plug-ins by experts.