Must have plugins for a newly installed wordpress
Published on April 06, 2012
Are you new to wordpress and searching a lot to find what plugins you need right ‘now-new’.
I am giving you 9 best plugin list for a newly installed wordpress site to guide new wordpress users.
I have more than 5 wordpress blogs all hosted on the best WordPress host, and so i deduced most generally required plugins for new users. If you need more help with wordpress check out the best wordPress SEO guide i’ve ever seen.
They are as follows:
- Akismet
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam.
2. Easy AdSense Lite
Easiest way to show AdSense and make money from your blog.
3. Fast Secure Contact Form
Fast Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Super customizable with a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Includes CAPTCHA and Akismet support to block all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem.
4. Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
5. nrelate Flyout
Easily allow related posts to flyout from the sides of your website.
6. nrelate Most Popular
Easily display the most popular content from your website.
7. SEO Tag Cloud Widget
SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using a search engine optimized html markup.
8. Visitor Maps and Who's Online
Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who's Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who's Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed.
9. WP MashSocial Wigdet
A beautiful widget inspired by Mashable to be used in sidebar, it allows you to add your G+ , twitter , Facebook and Feeds in it.
If you already have a blogger account, then these two might come in handy:
1. Blogger Importer
Import posts, comments, tags, and attachments from a Blogger blog.
This plugin is useful for setting up 1-to-1 mapping between Blogger.com blog posts and WordPress blog posts. This works nicely for blogs with old subdomain address (e.g. xyz.blogspot.com) which are moved to new custom domain (e.g. xyz.com)
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