My Top 10 Wordpress Plug-ins I won’t miss
Here is the list of Wordpress plug-ins, that i personally don’t wanna miss in every Wordpress installation.
Top 10 Plug-Ins
- Askimet
- DoFollow
- GoogleAnalytics
- GoogleXMLSitemaps
- Instant Upgrade
- Simple Database Bakup
- Simple Trackback Validation
- Similar Posts
- 404-Notifier
- Share-This-Classic or similar Social book-marker.
Description
- Askimet should be nothing new for every blogger.
- Else DoFollow. I see often that bloggers are to lazy with “nofollow” problem. Read why “nofollow” attributes should be used wisely.
- GoogleAnalytics provides easy way to add your google analytics script for your blog. It’s in any case better to use this Plug-ing and not to hack the blog template, cause templates can be switched and therefore need to be updated one every change. With that Plug-In you just forget such issues.
- GoogleXMLSitemaps is more that just adding a script. It generates a sitemap.xml file for your blog or even whole site. Meanwhile it is highly configurable and mighty Plug-in, that provides the needed flexibility. It is suitable for blogs with just few articles but also for blogs with many of them. And of cause it automatically ping Google Webmaster Tools site.
- Instant Upgrade and Simple Database Backup were already explained in previous post.
- Simple Trackback Validation helps to protect your form Spamer Trackbacks.
- My Similar Posts Plug-In is not so long in use like the other in the list, but i like it already. It provides widget that contains list of similar post to the current, that allows users to find quickly more interesting stuff they look for on your page. The default configuration may be not very suitable configured for concrete needs of your blog, so i would say, every body has to play around and define what similarity criteria are important for him. E.g. one can say that similar Posts has to have not only similar words, but also be in the same category.
- 404 Notifier, notifies you every time when something was not found on your blog. OK, it can be to much sometimes, when every time favicon.ico is not found, cause you don’t provide it. But you don’t have to send mails. You can configure such 404 to a feed. And reed it with the feed reader.
- Share-this-Classic Plug-In enables this green Button on the bottom of every post , which contains short links to well known social communities. Normally it works like pop-up layer, but with my new template it opens new page.
I have to figure out why.
Conclusion
Some cool Plug-ins are presented in that list, but not all I use, cause there are some I’m unsure whether they are really useful or I have used them not much. I’ll write about these Plug-Ins in my future posts, i promise.
Of cause you are welcome to comment and please give me a hint on other cool and useful plug-Ins you have not found in presented top 10.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
That was supposed to be the screenshot of this bug in previous comment, but I don’t see it too. I hope you do.
Previous comment was about another address, which you left here at first,
but now I’ve repeated it at this one too.
We cleared the mentioned problem per mail. So simes to be the problem with google analytics on his machine, because urchinTracker() script is registered on urls. Maybe its even such one: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=147024
Seems like there is some bug with one of plug-in’s of your blog:
screenshot
The links are invisible for me.
The same effect could be seen with other “nofollowed” links, such as names of guest commenters.