Wordpress is the cool blogging platform. Its a software to power a blog. The cool thing that made wordpress apart is the wide range of plugins. WP plugins are easy to install and use, just search, install and activate. As a WP user, I use a range of plugins that I recommend everyone to use. Here they are,
Comment plugins
Top commentators
Wordpress top commentators plugin is a nice tool to increase your blog comments count. By default it shows up the top 10 commentators of your blog with a linkback to their site. For this reward your readers would love to comment on your blog.
Subscribe to comments
After adding this plugin, I saw a lot of people have subscribed to a number of post comments. This will add the option for your readers to subscribe to your post comments via email. This is good to attract returning visitors and make them coming again to your blog.
CommentLuv
This plugin will fetch the last post of your commentator’s blog. This option will allow your reader to promote their post and making him interested to comment on your blog.
WP threaded comments
Wordpress has a built in option to thread comments like forum discussions but some templates are unable to use it. This plugin will make your comments threaded so it would be much easier to reply your comments. This plugin has a built in “Subscribe to comments” option.
NoFollow free
By default, comments are set as NoFollow. This plugin will remove the NoFollow tag, making your comments DoFollow. This is a cool way to spread link love to your contributors and to attract more comments.
Promotional plugins
Dandy ID
DandyId.org is a service to keep all of your social profile ID’s in one place. By adding this plugin, you can show all of your social links on your sidebar. For this, you need to have a DandyID account.
Twitter plugin
There are a bunch of twitter plugins available. Some allows you to put the twitter badge, or follow me on twitter link. A must have plugin, which automatically tweets about your new post. Auto tweets about posts saves a lot of time and it’ll bring your friends to the new post.
Add to any Share/ Save button
This is a social bookmarking button which allows your readers to promote your post in different social bookmarking sites. This is an ideal plugin which can be visible from each of your post.
WP related posts
This plugin shows up related posts after each of your article. This is a cool tool to make your readers find another related post and making them stay longer!
SEO plugins
All in one SEO pack
This is the best wordpress SEO plugin. The default options will make your blog search engine friendly. You can rewrite meta data for home page and every singe pages. You can also set no index for specific pages.
Google XML sitemaps
This plugin will create automated search friendly sitemaps for your blog. The sitemap is compatible with google, yahoo, live and all other search engines. You can set other options to set crawl rate for search bots and it sends update to search engines every time you add new posts.
Optimization plugins
Wordpress super cache
This is a cool plugin which will reduce excessive load from your server. Your site can handle a big amount of traffic with this plugin. Most of the time a shared server is unable to process the data and it shows, “Server too busy” message; using this plugin will optimize it.
Comment form 7
This plugin will allow you to generate professional looking contact form for your blog. Why show up your email? Add the form and let your visitor contact you directly from your blog via email.
WP limit posts
Another cool plugin, this will allow you to automatically set post excerpt length. With this plugin you don’t have to set excerpts for each of your posts, it can be set automatically. Your homepage, tag and archive pages will show short teasers of your post. All of my articles are too large so I set a small number of words + image to show up in the front page. Readers have to click on the “Read more” button to read the article.
Other plugins
Feedburner feedsmith -redirect to feedburner feed
Fix RSS -fix RSS feed errors
Feedfooter -add a custome footer on your feed
WP poll plugin -create and manage polls
Tweet this -Allows your readers to tweet the post
Sphere -Adds related posts from the web
What’s your personal WP plugins choice?
If you’re using wordpress, then what plugins you’re using for your blog? Please share your recommendations with us and tell us why you love it? Did I miss anything?
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Good list, I would add Tweet Suite as well.
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Tamal bhaia, I’ve created a free web hosting account in freehostia.com which offered me 250MBs of space including wordpress blogging engine support. I’ve uploaded a new theme and my blog url is http://aisajib.freehostia.com Now I want to add some plugins. This post doesn’t provide any link to download plug ins. Would you please let me know how can I download, install and activate plug ins?
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@Aminul Islam Sajib, Your new blog looks awesome! I’d suggest you to buy a domain name when you feel you’re ready with it!
Now go to your WP dashboard and click “plugins” > Add new and search for the plugins. Click install and you have to give your FTP user name and password to install it automatically.
Click “activate” after you install it. Set the plugin options on “Settings” that’s all, enjoy!
@Tamal Anwar, I don’t find add new or search for plugins or something like that. I’ve downloaded a plugin from wordpress.org and through FTP I’ve uploaded that in wp-content/plugins but in my dashboard, that doesn’t appear.
And my wordpress’ akismet API code is not receiving. I have an API code for akismet. New Dashboard is asking me for that. But when I try to give that API code, an error message says, “There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server. Please check your server configuration.”
What’s wrong? I didn’t install wordpress so that anything may have gone wrong. Wordpress was automatically installed by freehostia service.
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Great post! I have just installed wordpress to another subdomain of mine => itg.intechgrity.com to write about insider from ma blog! It is on a free host now but thought of exploring the power of WP! Seriously I have to say that after using WP for a while, we can easily forget about any other blogging platforms!! Great list of plugins! Btw I came across a plugin called One click updater/installer plugin! With the help of this we dont even need to download the other plugins! Just set the download url on the “Install New Plugin” page and rest will be done automatically!
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You can download plugins/ themes automatically using wordpress; just browse it from the plugin directory and click install. Some hosts will require your FTP details.
Ohh, I thought you’re a WP user.
No no! I am still on blogger and I hope to switch to WP soon!
Btw use One Click Installer once and you will forget using FTP! http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/10/19/one-click-plugin-updater/
You can also put the direct download link on the install plugin/theme page instead of downloading and then uploading them again! This is quite time saving!
Sphere is now called ‘Surphace’. You could also use the Wordpress plugin called LinkWithin, and Zemanta for producing related content like images, videos, etc. and Outbrain – this pulls up related posts from across the blogosphere.
That’s a good piece of information, thanks a lot!
wow great plugin list….!!!
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