Basic Must Have Wordpress Plugins
When you Google must have plugins you will find a million of different blog posts telling you which ones are important. There is no one answer on which plugins you should have installed but these are a few that have helped me develop my blog and make the task easier.
1. Google XML Sitemaps - This is a simple tool to use. It creates sitemaps to submit to Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. If you are going to blog submitting your sitemaps to each of these sites is very important.
2. Ultimate Tag Warrior - Tagging your posts is important, it allows your to organize your related posts, allows your readers to find other similiar articles on your blog. This is the "ultimate" tag plugin.
3. WYSI-Wordpress - This is the only text editor you will need for writing your blog posts, it has everything you need. The image uploading feature is second to none, you can upload your photos and make thumbnails or resize them anyway you want.
4. Spam Karma 2 - If your blog is new it won't be long before you under siege from spammers. This plugin stops it dead in its tracks. Everytime I log into my blogs I am amazed how many spammers it has stopped. A definite need.
5. Subscribe Me - I like Subscribe Me, it a quick and easy plugin to display your RSS Feeds. Takes two seconds to set up.
6. Social Bookmarks - Adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites. There are lots of them out there. This one does the trick and is easy to use.
These are just six basic must have Wordpress Plugins. They are nothing fancy but will save you alot of grief down the road and help you build your blog. Next time I will go over some of the more fancier plugins.
