Top ten Wordpress plugins for your blog
When I first started with my Wordpress blog I didn’t realise there were so many additional features that you can add to the blog. Here’s a list of the ten plugins I’ve found most useful in the blog for my travel business.
1 Subscribe to comments - allows readers to receive updates on any comments made on a post, so they can keep in touch with ongoing discussions. You want to get readers involved with your posts so this is plugin is essential.
2 Adsense Deluxe - makes it easier to manage your Adsense ads in your blog. If you decide that it makes sense for you to have Google Ads on your blog, this plugin will make your life simpler.
3 Chicklet Creator - simple way to add feed buttons to your blog to make it easy for readers to subscribe to your blog.
4 Related posts - lists 3 posts which are related to each post to enable readers to read more about a topic of interest.
5 Message for new readers - welcomes new readers and asks if they would like to subscribe to the blog.
6 Category Cloud - instead of a list of categories in sidebars, you have a cloud with different font sizes depending on the number of posts in each category.
7 Sociable - makes it easy for members of social networking sites such as Digg and Stumbleupon to tag your post.
8 Google Sitemap - makes it easier for your blog to be indexed by the major search engines.
9 Simple Tags - simple method of adding Technorati tags to your posts so that the main blog search engine, Technorati, can catergorise your posts.
10 Feedburner Smith - detects all the ways to access your blog feed allowing Feedburner to track your subscribers.
If you’ve found any other useful Worpress plugins please let me know.
on July 11th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Thanks for the mention Karen! I’m happy you like Category Cloud.
I have developed also feedcount a wordpress plugin that replaces the standard ugly feedburner chicklet with a css-customizable subscriber count.
have a look at it!
on July 11th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Francesco, I think it’s great that people like you develop and make freely available resources like this, it fits in with the ethos of sharing information on the internet.
on July 17th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Great list, with very helpful explanations. I’ve just downloaded Sociable, Simpletags, and the Google Sitemap. Simpletags alone will save me a ton time.
Thanks!
on July 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Glad you found the list useful, Mike. That’s my aim to help other bloggers find out about useful resources/tips to get the benefits from these resources/tips as soon as possible.
The simple tags does seem to bring more people to your blog from Technorati although some bloggers don’t like the idea that it takes readers away from your blog if they click on the tags at the bottom of your post.