Must Have Plug-Ins for WordPress Blogs

Plug-ins to Increase Page Views of Your Blog

Related Posts plug-in increases page views and influences your reader to stay longer on your blog. The users are already reading something on your site that is of interest to them, you can influence them to stay longer by offering content on similar topics.

Top Postings plug-in showcases to newcomers your blog’s most popular blog posts to hopefully get the reader interested in your classic posts and prevent them from leaving your site.

A Site Map of your blog provides a Table of Contents of all of your blog posts so users can scan all of your posts easily. If they can find something interesting to read quickly, they will probably stay on your site longer.

Plug-ins to help Build a Community on Your Blog

To build a community, you have to let users comment without registering and because Spam is the biggest concern when it comes to not moderating comments, you should install the following Anti-Spam plug-ins: Akismet, Math, and Captcha.

Subscribe to comments plug-in allows a commenter to get e-mail notifications when new comments are posted. This encourages commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

To encourage people to comment, you can install Top Commenters plug-in. You can showcase and highlight the people who most frequently comment on your blog, creating a sense of community.

Plug-ins to Increase Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) of Your Blog

All in one SEO pack plug-in modifies your blog title so it becomes more search engine friendly and allow you to add meta keywords to your posts, another technique to get indexed on search engines.

Google Sitemaps plug-in creates a google compliant site map of your blog which will help google search engines index your blog better.

HitTail suggests the most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. When you start using their suggested keywords, you will boost the natural search results of your site.

Plug-ins to Help you with Editing Content on Your Blog

Polite-ifier plug-in removes bad language from your commentaries posts.

ST Visualize plug-in adds more advanced functionality to your blog’s visual editor in the admin area.

Plug-in to Print Blog Posts

The Print plug-in allows your readers to print your blog post

Plug-ins to Backup Your Blog

Backup your blog database with the WordPress Database Backup plug-in.

Plug-ins to View Reports of Your Blog

WordPress Reports plug-in displays charts of your Feedburner stats and Google Analytics stats from inside your WordPress admin panel.

More WordPress Plug-Ins for Your Blog

WordPress has a centralized plugin directory.