In my previous post I told you about some essential settings to make after installing WordPress, and here are few important plugins that will increase your blog’s performance, so why not install it. If you do not know ow to install a plugin refer to this post of mine.
Akismet : Stop spam comments and trackbacks
One of the best plugin to stop spam comments and trackbacks to your blog. It is the ultimate automatic spam killer machine. Click here to download
Google XML Sitemaps
It automatically creates a sitemap of your blog which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. Click here to download
All in One SEO
I always say that Google loves WordPress, this is because it is search engine friendly and All in One SEO plugin makes WordPress SE friendly. With this plugin you can add different keywords, description and title to your article that will help you to get traffic to your site. Click here to download
Broken link checker
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Click here to download
Related post plugin
This plugin will display related articles at the end of each post, it is a god way to keep your readers to say on your blog for more time and also helps to show old posts. Click here to download
Popular posts
As the name says, install this plugin and it automatically displays the popular posts. Click here to download
Random Posts
To decrease the bounce rate, we usually install related post and randomn post plugin, it randomly displays articles so that your visitors could get new and fresh content every time they give a visit to your blog. Click here to download
WordPress database backup : WP-DB-BackUp
It is very important to take daily backup of your blog, why to do it manually if you have an automatic way. Here is a plugin called WPDB backup that automatically backup your bog and sends that backup file to your email. Click here to download
WordPress super cache plugin
This 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. In a nutshell it makes your blog loads fast. Click here to download
Contact forms
It is must to have a professional looking contact form installed in your blog so that your visitors could contact you easily. Here is plugin for that called Cforms, download it from here.
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wp-DB is Suck!!
Hi, Bee
Welcome to CBI, will you share your experience and tell us why Wp-DB sucks … CBI visitors will love to know your views … I’ll be waiting for your comment ..
Thanks for writing Bee ….
why wp-DB sucks?! What are the alternatives of wp-DB plugins?
For the contact form, you can also try out the Contact Form 7 (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/) … I like the flexibility of the form and you can do css stuff without touching the form codes on coders side.
plugin central and facebook like is also a must!