When I'm installing a fresh WordPress site one of the first things I do is install my Must Have Plugins.
Top 10 Must Have Plugins
- Akismet: it is installed by default but you will need to set it up with a valid WordPress Api key. It will block all spammers, just great.
- All in One SEO Pack: some developers don't like this plugins but it's lovely. You can customize all titles, keywords and metadescriptins from post, pages, home... You can block index the categories, tags...
- Contact Form 7: you'll need a contact form. This is your plugin. Fast easy and functional.
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: I do belive it's really good for SEO to have a HTML sitemap. It works for users like Archives and give you internal links.
- Google XML Sitemaps: I talked about it before. You must have it and send it to WebMaster tools of Google.
- PuSHPress: if you want to post in real time this is your plugin. Just activate it and relax.
- SEO Smart Links: some SEO experts maybe will not agree with me but I think this plugin save you time. It creates you internal SEO links in your posts and pages.
- Subscribe To Comments: let your readers subscribe to comments. Must have it.
- W3 Total Cache: and also talked about it in the past. Best cache plugin ever.
- WP-DBManager: you need to backup your database. Install this plugin, set it up with daily e-mails and don't worry anymore.
Extra
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: this one is the less important but a must have if you're building a WordPress blog.
And yours?
Do you have an others Must Have Plugins for WordPress?
Jexweber
Very Interesting plugins, I have installed all plugins in my wordpress.
quicoto
Nice!
Happy blogging 😛
Thanks for your comment.
Regards.
JMLeon
SEO smart links is not a very good idea. Of course for SEO is awesome, but particulary I don’t let robots to index my category and tag archives, and I find it ver annoying when every three or four words you have a link. I would use it for posts, but I prefer to do it manually so I have one plugin less to care about, and save memory and load time.
quicoto
I also don’t let them index categories and tags.
About the SEO Smart links you can set how many links you want in each post. I think I have 3 at the whole post 🙂
Regards
Petehds
Glad I signed up. This will be a great site to get help.
Do WordPress plugins work with bbPress? I ask because I am seeing that the two can be integrated and WordPress has some great ad/advertising plugins.
Thanks
quicoto
hi Petehds,
Unfortunatly you can not use WordPress plugins in a bbPress instalation.
The integration you mention is about the “users” and the “login session”.
You can find all bbPress plugins here: http://bbpress.org/plugins/
Regards