Recommended WordPress Plugins
Which WordPress Plugins are being used on this website?
Plugins add that extra functionality that makes your blog more interesting, more manageable, or more like a website.
One of the main problems I faced is the over-abundance of choice: there are so many plugins to choose from.
In the interest of time, I decided to limit the number of plugins to just the essentials, so here were my top priorities:
1. Akismet stops all those nasty spammers leaving garbage comments on your blog. Spam on your blog is a serious problem, and is an excellent tool for killing spam dead.
2. All in One SEO Pack applies best practice SEO principles to your website automatically: title tags, description tags, and also takes care of duplicate content issues.
3. Google Analyticator integrates the free but powerful Google Analytics into your blog.
4. Sociable inserts those little social bookmarking links at the bottom of your postings. These bookmarks act as little votes for your content, or more importantly as inbound links. You can configure which social bookmarking services you want to offer.
5. Google Sitemap Generator forms part of your SEO strategy; a sitemap tells Google how to crawl your site, and where the content can be found.
6. Enhanced Contact Form is a very simple contact form that incorporates spam protection, as well as giving you giving the referring page on your site, or if the original referrer is a search engine, the keywords used in the query.
I risk turning into a “plugins addict” - there’s always just one more cool thing to add…
The lesson learnt: your time is money, so keep an eye on your return on investment!
