If you are a wordpress user, you need to spend lots of time in searching and uploading the plugins to your blog. To help you save time, below this list is my most frequently used WordPress plugins. I use them at my blog as well as at The Best Partner to Your Internet Marketing Success, hope you find it helpful.
The name of each plugin is linked to its download page (each link opens a new window).
* Akismet
Akismet included with your WordPress installation, it checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
It is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and helps prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers. In the other words, it deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
Contact Form 7 wordpress plugin allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. It also supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc.
It easily adds Google Analytics tracking support to your blog. Google Analyticator also comes with an easily customizable widget that can be used to display specific information that is gathered by Google Analytics using the Google Analytics API. It supports all of the tracking mechanisms that Google Analytics supports – such as external link tracking, download tracking, tracking without counting administrative users, and any other advanced tracking the user wishes to add. Google Analyticator works with a majority of themes as long as these themes provide the proper plugin hooks.
Complete SEO solution for your WordPress blog. It is not only automate SEO for your blogs, but it also provide an ultimate on site SEO (search engine optimization) solution for wordpress blogs.
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts. You can see that green button here.
Backup of your WordPress database at one click.
Improve your wordpress blog typography with: (1) hyphenation – over 40 languages supported, (2) Space control, includes: widow protection, gluing values to units, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses, (3) Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks, dashes, ellipses, trademarks, math symbols, fractions, and ordinal suffixes, and (4) CSS hooks for styling: ampersands, uppercase words, numbers, initial quotes & guillemets.
