Your Top 5 Must Have WP Plugins

jerzydawg · Sep 4, 2011

I see people (curious people - mostly the new people) wondering around BHW to try to figure out the best plugins for their blog. In that case, list your top 5 must have plugins for your blog and explain in detail why it is a must have. I will start off with the following:

Statpress - It is one of the most popular stats tracking for Wordpress. Use this on a daily basis.
All In One SEO - This is a definite MUST HAVE for SEO. It helps out with ranking tremendously.
SEO Pressor - SEO Pressor is great for giving you that helping hand with SEOing your articles on your blog.
Google XML Sitemaps - This is great for indexing and letting Google know of the new posts on the blog. Not sure if it impacts rankings but it definitely does help with crawling.
Google XML Sitemap For Images - This is great for SEOing your images on your blog.

This thread will not only help the new people on here but for other people that want to try out some new plugins for their blogs.

LBrown · Sep 4, 2011

I had a tough time narrowing it down but I came up with this list:

Google XML Sitemaps - Helps Google crawl all of my pages
Make Me Social - Automatically bookmarks all of my posts on 4 bookmarking platforms (twitter, diigo, tumblr, delicious)
Amazon Price Plugin - Allows me to show the price of Amazon products
Link Juice Keeper - Redirects any broken links to my site to my homepage (essential when using aged domains)
Statcounter - So I can see where visitors came from, what keywords I have ranking, etc

cbnoob · Sep 4, 2011

I don't think statpress is cool. It will slow your site down. Use stat counter or GA instead.

Mine are:
- cbnet ping - Ping every post you make, help index faster
- dagon sitemap - Create friendly sitemap for human
- Google xml sitemap - Explained above
- easy privacy - Create privacy page in second, good for adsense sites
- akismet - Well, who wants spammers?
- contact form 7 - Easy way to create contact form

adbot · Sep 4, 2011

LBrown said:
I had a tough time narrowing it down but I came up with this list:

Google XML Sitemaps - Helps Google crawl all of my pages
Make Me Social - Automatically bookmarks all of my posts on 4 bookmarking platforms (twitter, diigo, tumblr, delicious)
Amazon Price Plugin - Allows me to show the price of Amazon products
Link Juice Keeper - Redirects any broken links to my site to my homepage (essential when using aged domains)
Statcounter - So I can see where visitors came from, what keywords I have ranking, etc

I hadn't seen the linkjuice keeper plugin before. Thats a handy one. Gonna grab that now. Thanks.

FuryKyle · Sep 4, 2011

Statpress is a big no-no.

jerzydawg · Sep 4, 2011

FuryKyle said:
Statpress is a big no-no.

And why is that? It does a marvelous job but there are better alternatives out there that are not implemented with Wordpress.

TNphoneman · Sep 4, 2011

cbnet ping optimizer
SEO Smart Links
AZIndex - Old but still works to create a directory page.
Easy privacy
SEO Pressor

These are just the basics that go on every site.

edgematch · Sep 4, 2011

you must have at least 25 plugins for a good wp site IMHO. So this thread is limited...

FlavyB · Sep 4, 2011

Easy privacy
Akisemnt
Google Sitemap
Make Me Socia
Contact form 7

ralphswurld · Sep 4, 2011

have you guys tried better adsense targetting?

jerzydawg · Sep 4, 2011

edgematch said:
you must have at least 25 plugins for a good wp site IMHO. So this thread is limited...

Did you pull that number out of your ass lol.

Nakota757 · Sep 4, 2011

My top 5:

Easy WP SEO
All-In-One SEO
Featured Content Gallery
Google XML SiteMaps
Google Analytics

cooooookies · Sep 4, 2011

Where the hell is that make me social plugin? It seems to be no longer listed on wodpress.org.

Anybody else who can recommend that plugin?

Greybeard · Sep 4, 2011

My top 5 WP plug-ins:
Advertisement Management - makes it easier to configure Google ads/affiliate ads/etc.
Akismet - for spam, of course
Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer - does what it says
WP Smush.it - smushes your images to be a bit smaller, which is good if you don't have a lot of space and need every bit you can get
Better Related Content - links to other "related" posts automatically, which is nice

LBrown · Sep 4, 2011

cooooookies said:
Where the hell is that make me social plugin? It seems to be no longer listed on wodpress.org.

You can download it from here:

http://microments.com/make-me-socia...bmit-new-posts-to-social-bookmarking-sites/90

FuryKyle · Sep 4, 2011

jerzydawg said:
Did you pull that number out of your ass lol.

Lmao

irate:
I like less plugins. The less the better.

cooooookies · Sep 4, 2011

LBrown said:
You can download it from here:

http://microments.com/make-me-socia...bmit-new-posts-to-social-bookmarking-sites/90

Thanks, I already found that page. But the download target is on wordpress.org and does not exist:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins...bmit-posts-to-delicious-twitter-tumblr-diigo/

I am redirected to the site root.

kevil333 · Sep 4, 2011

TNphoneman said:
cbnet ping optimizer
SEO Smart Links
AZIndex - Old but still works to create a directory page.
Easy privacy
SEO Pressor

These are just the basics that go on every site.

Hi TNphoneman, I have qustion about seo smart links plugin. I am unable to use it on wordpress 3.1+ version, my site is having hybrid news theme.
can you help me!

My must have plugins are
1) w3 total cache
2) Easy privacy policy
3) seopressor or easywp plugin (both are available on BHW

)
4) Xml-sitemaps
5) any one for Google analytics tracking

ibmethatswhoib · Sep 4, 2011

ya I can't find it either.

cooooookies said:
Thanks, I already found that page. But the download target is on wordpress.org and does not exist:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins...bmit-posts-to-delicious-twitter-tumblr-diigo/

I am redirected to the site root.

xtan85 · Sep 5, 2011

Here are my own list of TOP 5:

1. Akismet
2. Easy Privacy Policy
3. Wordpress SEO by Yoast
4. WP-Stat
5. Google XML Sitemap

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