Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Download 8 Free Must Have WordPress Plugins for Every Blog

Plugins make a blog complete and look attractive, while it also increases the readers influence on the blog. They leave an image behind which forces the readers to return to your blog. Whether it be of SEO or of the sharing system, plugins are of great use. So I have collected 10 free important plugins which every blog must have to top the search results and also in the reader's mind! These are really the important ones, which I too have in my blog.
1. Akismet
Used by millions, 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. You must have read this before too, but it is really good when it comes to spamming. Major new features in Akismet 2.5 include:
A comment status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet, and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderatorLinks are highlighted in the comment body, to reveal hidden or misleading linksIf your web host is unable to reach Akismet's servers, the plugin will automatically retry when your connection is back up
2. WordPress SEO
Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.it is all in one seo plugin. While this WordPress SEO plugin goes the extra mile to take care of all the technical optimization, more on that below, it first and foremost helps you write better content. WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you're writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword everywhere.
3. Shareaholic | email, bookmark, share buttons
Social bookmarking and sharing buttons are imporatant for your blog. there are really attractive sharing plugins out there. My fav is this one. Shareaholic reports all of your important actionable social media metrics including popular pages on your website, referral channels, and who are making referrals and spreading your webpages on the internet on your behalf bringing you back more traffic and new visitors.
4. Fancier Auth Box
An author bio is sometimes important when you run a multi author site, where you as an author have your own blog or website. So to get people there the author bio box is very important. Make your every post stand out and attract your readers' eyes. Connect with your audience on all levels and make sure people always read your author's bio and engage you on social networks.
5. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it's formatting or making any manual changes. It supports a wide list of languages and is pretty good too.
6. WordPress Mobile Pack
I have tried many plugins to mobilize my blog but all of that didn't work for me. This plugin has all the functionality to make a basic mobile blog without any diifculties. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.
7. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) 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:
Templating: The YARPP templating system puts you in charge of how your posts are displayed.Caching: YARPP organically caches the related posts data as your site is visited, greatly improving performance.An advanced and versatile algorithm: Using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, categories, and custom taxonomies, YARPP finds related content from across your site.
8. CKEditor for WordPress
CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
So here is the end of my collection. Use these plugins and see that it is really helpful incase of all aspects. Happy blogging!




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