15 Important Wordpress Plugins
The list below is a compilation of all the wordpress plugins that I have installed in k-director dot com. If you’re new to Wordpress and looking for some plugins to boost your blog’s performance, these are the plugins you should have a try. 
| Name |
Description
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Rate(Out of 10)
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|---|---|---|
| Add Meta Tags |
Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives. |
10
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| AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget |
Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services.
|
5
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| Adsense-Deluxe |
Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.
|
8
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| Akismet |
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.
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10
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| Dean’s Permalinks Migration |
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.
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10
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| Enforce www. Preference |
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.
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10
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| Google Sitemaps |
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
|
10
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| Related Posts |
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
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8
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| SEO Title Tag |
Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page - indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags.
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10
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| Share This |
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.
|
6
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| Show Top Commentators |
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
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6
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| Subscribe To Comments |
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
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8
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| Top Posts By Category |
Top Posts By Category Plugin. Manage options by going to Options->Top Posts
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6
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| Ultimate Tag Warrior |
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation.
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10
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| WP-ContactForm III |
WP Contact Form III is a simple drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. Just add <!–contact form–> where you’d like the from to show up.
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10
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[Descriptions of plugins are copied from the plugins’ homepage.]
You can find additional plugins for your site in the WordPress plugin directory.
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SEO - Onpage Optimisation Techniques said,
Wrote on June 21, 2007 @ 12:40 pm
[...] depends on Wordpress SEO plugins, definitely won’t make your website rank [...]
Edward Siow said,
Wrote on June 22, 2007 @ 2:05 am
Another plugin which i think is important and superb is Optimal Title.
Check it out!
kay said,
Wrote on June 22, 2007 @ 8:49 am
SEO Title Tag Plugin works exactly same with Optimal Title Tag.
Vijay said,
Wrote on July 4, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
I do use most of these plugins myself.. And also some others that suit my blog. But this is a wonderful essentials list to get started on.!
kay said,
Wrote on July 5, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Thanks for your comment Vijay.
Nicholas said,
Wrote on July 7, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
=( I don’t have wordpress, so I can’t use this wonderful plugins.
kay said,
Wrote on July 7, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
Hi, Nicholas. I read your blog too.
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