Plugins improve the looks of our blog. They add many useful tools to our blog that help in enhancing our experience as well as the blog reader experience. Ive compiled a list of 5 must use plugins that should be used in each and every WordPress blog!
1.) Autotagger
Automatically tags posts using a predefined tag list. Using this plugin we can save our time by adding tags to all our posts one by one. This plugin adds tags to all posts automatically. We just to have to set a predefined list of tags in the options panel and this plugin will add the required tags automatically. A detailed review of this plugin can be read in this post, AutoTagger Review.
2.) Easy AdSense
This plugin helps us to add Adsense ads in between the post. It has many positions by default. We can set any of them and our ad will appear in the selected spots. We just have to enter our ad codes and then set positions. This plugins automatically inserts Adsense ads in between our posts. This is a super cool plugin if you want to add Adsense ads in your posts. Remember ads in between the posts perform better, so use this plugin now!
3.) Google Analytics for WordPress
The main functionality of this plugin is to add your Google Analytics tracking code to all your blog pages, posts, etc. within your blog. This plugin adds the possibility to tag and segment all outgoing links, so you can see whether a click came from a comment or an article. You can choose where it tracks those links too! This is a brilliant plugin and is a must use for tracking purposes!
4.) WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager manages your WordPress database. This plugin allows us to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. This plugin acts as a complete database management tool for our WordPress blog. This plugins can take automatic backups of our blog and e-mail them to us. Using this plugin we can also empty/drop our database tables. This means, we don’t have to enter PHPMyAdmin for handling our blog database.
5.) SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links helps us to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Suppose in the options panel of this plugin we add the keyword “Blogging Junction to link to www.bloggingjunction.com, if in any post the word Blogging Junction comes it will be automatically linked to www.bloggingjunction.com. We can also set the number of links that will be automatically linked and also we can set the links to be no-follow or do-follow. We can also make the links open in new window. This is a good plugin to improve our blog SEO.
Related Blog Posts
Share The Blog Post
Last Updated: February 11, 2012
Loading ...
{ 28 comments… read them below or add one }
Wow i liked the autotagger plugin could be very useful
Yes. It’s a nice plugin made to save lots of our time.
I think that you have listed not all plug-ins.
I shall ask to pay attention to plugins:
1. all in on seo pack
2. feedburner
3. Related posts
4. Popular posts
5. Tweet tool
These pluпins will bring a lot of advantage to yours blog, to visitors of yours blog and will like to google.com
I compiled a short list mate of only 5 plugins and included only plugins which I like the most. The plugins you mentioned are no doubt wonderful and I will surely mention them in my next must use plugins list!
If you need help in this question I can help you! =)
How you think, what version WP is more safe?
WP 2.9.2 version is best as of now!
Autotagger seems interesting. I will take a look of it.
Feel free to do so! I bet you will love the plugin!
I really did bot know about a lot of plugins listed here. I think I could make use of AutoTagger and SEO Smart Links
Both plugins you mentioned are excellent. I use them and they are really really helpful. Just customize them properly.
Will the SEO Smart Links and Autotagger help to improve SERP rankings or bring in more traffic?
SEO Smart Links will help to increase SERP rankings and autotagger will save time which we spend in tagging posts manually.
Good to see you deviating from the Basic ones like akismet and so on . I have a similar post on my blog too.
Almost all people mention Akismet so in this list I thought not to mention it!
Be careful with some plug-ins. The wrong plug-ins will destroy your blogs.
You’re right. Always check if the plugin is compatible with Wordpress version we are using.
I had given “SEO Smart Links” a try but had to quickly remove it as I found it not very intuitive!
It’s a very useful plugin for me! I love it!
Nice plugins mate! But don’t forget the caching plugins like W3 Total Cache! :D
You wrote a superb post about them. So I didn’t mention them! :D
My plugins are essential: Related Posts and All In One SEO. With those two, we ensure that our blog will have an excellent search engine positioning. Of course, we have to work hard on issues related to links. But that’s another subject matter. Greetings!
I had mentioned those plugins in the last edition of this post. I love AIO SEO plugin.
SEO Smart Links helps us to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.
I like the last feature you’ve mentioned.
Nice plugin, i intend to try the SEO Smart Link. You may also try SEO STT2, this is a best SEO plugin
I tried that plugin Ansenakats. It’s nice, but then it didn’t good look in my blog. But yes, for collecting statistics it’s a nice plugin.
So saksham easy adsense is good plugin because you can set adsense in above, below, side, middle of the post. But i heard it take 5% of adsense clicks revenue what you say regarding this? Is it true or false? And how to set easy adsense 5 to 0%.
It’s true, simply change the 5 to 0 :)