Your Top 5 Must Have WP Plugins

2. W3 Total Cache. Great plugin that has many setting to really imporve the speed of your site.

I'm having some problems with this tool. It makes the site go faster, but it dont look like it takes updates at once. Very strange.
 
All in one seo pack VS Yoast WordPress SEO ?

Your experiences? And why?
 
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I'm using IFeature 2 theme from and it has SEO build into the site for every page and images too. CyberCHimps Theme
 
My favorites are:

Akismet - though I don't tend to think of this one anymore because it comes auto-installed when I set up a new wp site w/Dreamhost

WordPress-Database-BackUp (wp-db-bu) I'm surprised more people have mentioned db backup plug-ins. Usually one of the first plug-ins I install. It emails me a backup of each database weekly.

cbnet Ping Optimizer

Platinum SEO pack - I'm a recent convert from all-in-one SEO

Google XML Sitemaps

All of the above are old favorites that I've used in some form or another for years now. Recently I've also started using these 2 on all of my WP installations:

+ Easy Privacy Policy
+ Contact Form 7

They not tried-and-true favorites yet, but they are working their way up the list.
 
Why is everyone preferring All-in-one-SEO over Platinum SEO ? Any reasons? Does All-in-one-SEO works concurrently with SEOpressor? Or one is enough?

Advise pls. Thanks !!
 
I'm surprised more people have mentioned db backup plug-ins. Usually one of the first plug-ins I install. It emails me a backup of each database weekly.

I use this too, but the OP only said we could list 5 plugins...:D:D
 
Any free auto blog plugins which can spin text and is readable text? Also how about plugin which can post videos directly on wp through an Autoblog method?
 
Any free auto blog plugins which can spin text and is readable text? Also how about plugin which can post videos directly on wp through an Autoblog method?

WP Robot has TBS options but you need to buy a subscription to it and it also can post videos.
 
What happened to "Easy Privacy Policy", looks like the Plugin went poof :(
Anyone?
 
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
My Custom Widgets
Simple Twitter Connect
 
All in one seo pack VS Yoast WordPress SEO ?

Your experiences? And why?


Loads more features, although I hadn't really used All in one for a long time, I just quickly had a play with both until i decided to use Yoast.

Best way is to test out for yourself. Throw up a test WP install on a sub domain of your site, install Yosat and have a play around.

I think Yoast can import all settings and info from All-in-One, so if you decide you prefer Yoast, its easy to switch over.
 
I'm having some problems with this tool. It makes the site go faster, but it dont look like it takes updates at once. Very strange.


how do you mean updates?

If I change anything on my sites front end, or backend I manually clear all Caches. Maybe this is your problem, your making changes but you need to clear the cache as its still got the old stuff cached?

also read some guides how to set it up. It could harm your site if not set up correctly.
 
YOAST SEO is very good plugin, its has the XML sitemap generator in built so you can install less plugins

Total Cache is a must Imho

now the thing i am curious about is statpress, is there a good alternative that will not slow your site down?

Good thread for newbie like me thanks
 
Google XML Sitemaps
All-In-One SEO

Akismet
WP-Stat

SEO Smart Links
 
What happened to "Easy Privacy Policy", looks like the Plugin went poof :(
Anyone?

There's a checkbox in the setup that provides an option to include a (spammy) backlink. Possibly a precursor to any demise.
 
1. Akismet
2. Easy Privacy Policy
3. Wordpress SEO by Yoast
4. WP-Stat
5. Google XML Sitemap
 
Loads more features, although I hadn't really used All in one for a long time, I just quickly had a play with both until i decided to use Yoast.

Best way is to test out for yourself. Throw up a test WP install on a sub domain of your site, install Yosat and have a play around.

I think Yoast can import all settings and info from All-in-One, so if you decide you prefer Yoast, its easy to switch over.


I can't say yet for sure, but i also think that Yoast working a bit better. Will test again and will post here on this thread my results.
 
For small blogs my top 5 are
All in one SEO
Google xml sitemaps
Hyper Cache
DB Cache Extended Fix
WPMinify

For my big blogs, I dont use hyper cache, db cache & wp-minify and I use W3 Total Cache instead.

Also most of the time I use genesis framework so I remove the all in one SEO and WPMinify.
 
Noob here, so pls be gentle. Anyway was working on a new site last night and could not find Easy Privacy Policy anymore, not even in the free sector to DL. All I could find was the Google PP in wp,which had a 3 star rating. Anyway out of frustration, I simple made a page then a post and copied the text onto it. Without any plugin. What does the plugin do other than what I just did. Are most plugins designed for laziness. Or for hard to do stuff that the average noob could not do.

Bc that is all easy pp does right , creates a page in your nav bar, and posts an article to it with the policies, right? Nothing more. if this is the case I prefer to do it my way than to have yet another plugin to bog down things.

Any comments are appreciated.
 
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