Wordpress plugins I am using
Jan 24th, 2008 by Jason
Since I moved to Wordpress, I haven’t made a full explanation about how and what plugins I am using. So here is the lists of Wordpress plugins I am using as of now.
1. Akismet
2. All in One SEO Pack
3. Google XML Sitemaps
4. Maintain Blogger Permalinks
5. Shylock Adsense
6. WP-ContactForm
7. WP-DBManager
8. FeedBurner FeedSmith
9. Similar Posts
Let me explain you one by one in details.
This plugin comes with Wordpress. This is a must have plugin for all Wordpress users. What does this do?
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.
Yes, as it is mentioned above, you need to have Wordpress.com API key for Akisment to operate. But it would take only a minute to create free Wordpress.com account and get your API key.
This plugin is very important to most bloggers. As the name says, this plugin fulfills almost every SEO needs. It can optimize your title, your post name, what you want to show or not, meta tags and many more. Highly recommend for organic traffic.
The name says it all. It will create Google XML Sitemaps for you to submit at the Google Webmaster Center. If you don’t know what is Google Webmaster Center, well, you’re really a newbie. Start googling for it.
This plugin is for those who move to Wordpress platform from Blogger.com like me. As Wordpress.com have naming strategy different with Blogger.com, if we want to maintain our traffic and incoming links, we need to use it.
For example, a post title like: “Nobody give a damn about global warming yet” would make permalinks by blogger as:
nobody-give-a-damn-about
But for Wordpress, it would produce permalinks as follow:
nobody-give-a-damn-about-global-warming-yet
This plugin will simply convert that long Wordpress permalinks to make it look like Blogger permalinks. You only need to activate once. After that you can even delete this plugin if you want.
Well, whee, this post become too long now. So let me stop here and I will continue explanation about all other plugins later.
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