Top 10 Must- Have WordPress Plugins
WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management for blogs. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.
Plugins can extend WordPress to do a lot of amazing features and functionality. In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer.
Here is a great list of WordPress Plug-in every blogger should have. These are the most useful and widely used plug ins for WordPress. Enjoy the list and pump up your sites!
1. Akismet – works a spam filter which can check your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not. This plug in can check the trackbacks for spam.
2. Exec-PHP – Execute PHP code in posts or static pages. Install this plugin so you can add php code to static pages or even posts.
3. Google Sitemaps – This plug in can generate and create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog
4. Ultimate Tag Warrior – this is dubbed to be the best Tag system for WordPress. It allows user to use categories and tag system on one website
5. No Ping Wait – This plug in speeds up your posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.
6. PXS Mail Form – This allows users to create a mail form with multipart verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. This plug in enables bloggers to contact the website administrator for questions and inquiries
7. Super Archive – This WordPress plugin can implement a dynamic archive
8. SRG Clean Archives – If you are on the look for a super clean archive then this is the best for you.
9. WP lightbox 2 – It allows users to overlay images on the current page for WordPress. Turn it on and all images are now working with it.
10. fQuick – Sidenotes, short notes for WordPress
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