Top 5 WordPress Must-Have Plugins

February 11, 2009 | Posted by Carma | Filed Under Learning Center, plugins

There are so many plugins available for WordPress, how do you know which ones to choose and which ones you need? Here are the five I believe are the most important ones.

Block Spam with Akismet

This plugin is so important that its actually part of the WordPress program you download form WordPress.org! Once activated, it will monitor all comments posted on your blog and hold those it thinks are spam. This has been a God send for me because of my blogs attracts blog spammers like moths to a street light.

Block Email Harvesters with Email Immunizer

It can be really annoying to do all the crazy things you have to do to protect your email from email harvesters. This handy little plugin saves you time by protecting your email without you having to do anything special.

Managed Syndication Better with FeedBurner FeedSmith

Integrating your RSS feed with FeedBurner just makes sense. This free service lets you monitor your RSS feed stats, give people the option to subscribe to your feed via email (a boon to those whose audience just don’t use RSS readers), and more.

Increase Traffic with MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

This handy plugin not only empowers you to ping a plethora of directories and other blog listing services, but makes sure you don’t ping to often and get marked as a spammer! Very handy!

Streamline Your SEO with Headspace 2

There are several SEO related plugins for WordPress but this remains my favorite because it not only helps streamline your SEO activities, but can also take the place of several other plugins and gives you the power to make different pages on your blog look very different!

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