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Must Have | 5 Wordpress Plugins (Self Hosted Blogs)


I Have Previously Mentioned about the Must Have | 5 Fire Fox Plugins to Work Better and Fast, this time around its the Must Have | 5 Wordpress Plugins for the Self Hosted Blogs like B Interest. The Reason I thought of writing this type of post is: Wordpress is becoming the Most Popular Open Source system to host the blog, sharing the feeling and thought around the world.

Now, Coming on to the topic of which are the Wordpress Plugins, without which your life online would be Difficult. Below are the Must Have 5 Wordpress Plugins for your Blog :

Akismet : Anti Spam (Comment) Plugin :

If you are not using this then you are in trouble of checking thousands and thousands of the Comments which are Spam as Most of the Spammer hit the Comments very very hard. 85% of all comments are spam. Akismet is the Anti Spam Comment Plugin which provides you with the protection against the spammers around the world.

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. If you want to show How Many Anti Spam Comments are blocked by the Akismet on the Front Page of your Blog, you just have to put  in the template where you want it.

After installing the Akismet plug-in for WordPress or one of the  third party Akismet implementations, you will need an API key to activate and use Akismet. Now that What is API Key and Where I can Find that ?

You can get a free API key by registering for a WordPress.com user account. The API key will be emailed to you after you register. Please note that the use of the key is covered by our TOS and that free keys can only be used for personal blogs. If you are a commercial entity or if you are making more than $500 from your personal blog, please get a commercial key instead.

Download : Akismet Latest Version

Google XML Site maps Plugin :

You all want to add your Blog and Updates to god of Internet , Google. And the Best Way to tell Google to read and then put your blog url in the Google Search to increase the traffic is to submit the Google XML Site Map to the Google using the Google Service : Google Webmaster. But the Biggest Question to the Above Solution is How ?????

Google XML Site Map Plugin does it for you and your map, After you install the Plugin you can manually build the Google Site Map to submit to the Google Webmaster. It can be located on the Address : http://www.yourblogname.com/sitemap.xml . If you are not aware of the situation that what are infact Site Map, below is the information provided by the Google Site Map :

In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

  • Your site has dynamic content.
  • Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process – for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
  • Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn’t well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
  • Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Now that you are aware of the process, you can use the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress plugin and ping the Google Server in two ways :

  • You can register to the Google Sitemaps program and submit your sitemap. This will also allow you to see some interesting statistics about your site like the most used keywords and spidering problems.
  • If you don’t have a Google account or don’t want to create one, you can notify Google about your sitemap by “pinging” their sitemap server. All you need to is to point your browser to http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.name.com/sitemap.xml
    Google will check your sitemap for updates regularly, so you don’t need to do this more than once. More Help and Question Visit : Plugin Home Page

Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Download : Google Site Map Latest Version

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin :

One of the Most Important part of the Blog, should be providing the Visitors with as much as related information as possible, in their insterest area, and that can be only possible with the help of the plugin which displays all the possible Articles / Post in your blog (Most Relavent) along with the post which Visitors are reading.

Related Post Plugins gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. Key features include:

  • Limiting by a threshold: The algorithm use MySQL’s score to identify related posts. But it just displayed, for example, the top 5 most “relevant” entries, even if some of them weren’t at all relevant. Now you can set a threshold limit for relevance, and you get more related posts if there are more related posts and less if there are less.
  • Using tags and categoriesNew in 2.0! The new 2.0 algorithm uses tags and categories. The new options screen puts you in control of how these factors should be used.
  • Related posts in RSS feedsNew in 2.1! Display related posts in your RSS and Atom feeds with custom display options.
  • Disallowing certain tags or categoriesNew in 2.0! You can choose certain tags or categories as disallowed, meaning any page or post with such tags or categories will not be served up by the plugin.
  • Related posts and pagesNew in 1.1! Puts you in control of pulling up related posts, pages, or both.
  • Simple installationNew in 1.5! Automatically displays related posts after content on single entry pages without any theme tinkering.
  • Miscellany: a nicer options screen (including a sample display of the code that is produced New in 2.0), displaying the fulltext match score on output for admins, an option to allow related posts from the future, a couple bug fixes, etc.
Download : Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.1.6

All in One SEO Pack Plugin :

One of the Most Important Aspect of getting Valve for what you write and finding More Readers for it, is getting listed at the Search Engine, which requires Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog., But Now with the help of All in One SEO pack Plugin, there is no need to spend dollors to promote your blog, you can achive 80% of the SEO Work with 20% of the Inputs in the All in One SEO Pack.

That was about the 20% of effort needed by you to achieve 80% of results with on-page factors. Of course you also need incoming links, no plugin can do this for you in a safe manner.

Some of the Details of the Paramters used in the SEO includes :

  • Titles : The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else.
  • Descriptions : Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate.
  • Keywords : All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with Wordpress 2.3, the built-in tagging system.
  • Duplicate Content : You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content
Download : All in One SEO Pack Plugin

Super Wordpress (WP) Cache Plugin :

Another, Best practice about keeping your blog interested for your Vistors is loading it Fast and Properly, and Not Showing them Every Visit a Change in your Theme or any other Stucture.  What would be a Good Solution to This ?

WP Cache is the Solution to Load your Blog Fast and Easy to Each and Every Visitors on your Blog, As WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database.

Super WP Cache plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

This plugin is based on the excellent WP-Cache plugin and therefore brings all the benefits of that plugin to WordPress. On top of that it creates copies of every page that is accessed on a blog in a form that is quickly served by the web server. It’s almost as quick as if the you had saved a page in your browser and uploaded it to replace your homepage.

Download : Super WP Cache Plugin

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    Comment by Malvinder Virdi — December 14, 2009 @ 11:55 PM

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