11 Must Have WordPress Plugins
Posted by Eric J VogelAug 30
Are you searching for some killer wordpress plug-ins for your wordpress powered website? You have come to the right place. Overall these apps will help make your website extremely easy for search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing to index. They will also create easy share social media buttons on each page/post, block spam automatically and much more. The best news is that they are FREE!
1. All In One SEO Pack- Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines
2. New Twitter Button- This plugin adds the all new Twitter.com button to your website
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3. Sexy Bookmarks- Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.
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4. Wibiya Toolbar- Boost your blog / website with rich and interactive features. This plugin adds a toolbar that can be visible or not based on the users preference. Some of the many awesome features of this toolbar is the language translation which translates your whole website into a different language, another is linking to your Facebook Page, Twitter, RSS and much more.
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5. Simple Facebook Share Button- Painlessly add a Facebook Share button to your posts and/or pages. Supports all button styles, manual or automatic inclusion, and shortcode.
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6. Google XML Sitemaps- This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
EX: http://www.vogelsocialmedia.com/sitemap.xml
7. Google XML Sitemaps for Videos- The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts. EX: http://www.vogelsocialmedia.com/video-sitemap.xml
8. Contact Form 7- A simple and flexible contact form. Once someone completes it, the info will be emailed directly to you. Even add your own custom check box options.
EX: http://www.vogelsocialmedia.com/contact
9. WordPress Database Backup- WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
10. WordPress Related Posts- Makes text that are names of posts or pages automatically word links that link to that post or page.
11. Akismat- Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Definitely a must!
Do you have a wordpress plugin that you love? Share it below in the comments to contribute in expanding the list.
Thanks and enjoy your day,
Eric Vogel
(248) 382-8117


21 comments
Comment by Stephanie Gulley on September 10, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Great recommendations! I had majority of the plugins listed and just added the bookmark plugin. Looks a thousand times better. Thanks!
Comment by Eric J Vogel on September 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Thank you Stephanie. I totally agree! The Sexy Bookmarks are great and look amazing. Thanks for being a reader and commenter : )
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