Pick Your Plugins

1. Google XML Sitemaps

   • Google XML Sitemaps is code made with a specific search engine optimization benefit in mind – to help Google find every post and every page on your blog, index them and include them in search results. This code is particularly helpful for blogs that want to get indexed by search engines quickly.

2. Akismet

   • Make sure that Akismet is activated on your website or blog and configured to meet your preferences. Unfortunately, web sites & blogs get a lot of comments that are spam. Without Akismet (or another comment spam blocking plugin of some kind), your website or blog is likely to be inundated with spam comments over time. Readers don’t like to see spam comments. In fact, too many spam comments published on your blog can directly result in decreased traffic, so make sure you’re using a comment spam blocking plugin like Akismet.

3. WP Super Cache

   • The WP-Cache Wordpress plugin stores your pages in cache (memory) form making pages load faster than ever. This is particularly helpful for sites that get a lot of traffic or plan on getting a lot of traffic.(imagine one of your posts makes it to the front page of Digg and a flood of traffic comes your way).

4. All-in-One SEO Pack

   • The All in One SEO Pack plugin does exactly what its name implies – it allows you to add title tags, descriptions, keywords and more to every page and post published on your site. Users consistently report a noticeable increase in traffic to their sites from Google searches after installing and using the All in One SEO Pack code.

5. Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button

   • Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with Add to Any’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.The E-mail tab makes it easy to share via Gmail, Y! Mail, Hotmail, AOL, and any other web-based e-mailer or desktop program. The Bookmark or Add to Favorites tab helps users bookmark using any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc.).

6. Phone Number and Email Remover

   • Phone numbers and email addresses will be removed and the privacy will be protected!This code sits snugly inside your site installation and silently but effectively makes it very difficult for spambots to harvest email addresses from your site. This is accomplished with a combination of filter hooks and a little bit of JavaScript.After installation, visitors to the site will see email addresses and phone numbers as a fake email/phone number;The plugin is active in both the content section and the comments section: if a visitor inadvertently (or intentionally) posts a valid email address in a comment, it will be protected by this plugin as well.

7. Smart YouTube

   • Smart Youtube is code that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.From version 2.0 Smart youtube also supports playback of high quality videos, works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid code (unlike YouTUbe embed code), allows you to view videos in fullscreen and most recently supports YouTube playlists.The plugin is designed to be small and fast

8. WP-Polls

   • People love to participate in polls. Sure there are many options available to site owners to add polls to their sites but the WP-Polls code allows you to create custom polls without leaving your site! It does not use any external resources. It has a number of customizable options.

9. Twitter

   • Twitter displays yours latest tweets in your site

10. ShareThis

    • ShareThis is a utility that makes it easy to share articles to social media websites like Digg or Facebook. Because it features both a web widget for content producers like bloggers and a browser plugin for readers, ShareThis is attractive to just about anyone whether they host a blog or just like to read blogs.

11. TinyMCE Advanced

    • TinyMCE is nice code that allows you to add a lot of design choices to your actual it adds another many design features to your posts.

12. WP-Print

    • Allows your visitors to print a post on your site

13. Subscribe to Comments

    • Subscribe to Comments is a robust code that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

14. IntenseDebate Comments

    • IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!

15. Related Posts

    • This code automatically generates a list of similar posts for each new post that you publish on your site. The list appears at the bottom of each new post or page. It makes sense that a person who enjoys a post on your blog is likely to be interested in similar posts, so this code is a great way to increase page views on your site.

16. WP-Email

    • The WP-Email code is a must-have. When you install this code, a message and link is included at the end of every post enabling visitors to send posts they like to friends via email with a single mouse click. Allowing readers to introduce other people to your blog through emailed posts is a great way to pick up some new visitors!

17. Show Top Commentators

    • Most people are inherently competitive and like recognition. The Show Top Commentators code leverages both of those innate desires by recognizing and rewarding the most vocal people in your site’s community. Using the Show Top Commentators plugin, you can create an automated list (which you can reset on a daily, weekly or monthly basis) that displays a list of people who are the most frequent commentators on your blog. The list includes a Google-friendly link back to each commenter’s blog or website.

18. Most Commented

    • The Most Commented plugin automatically generates and displays a list of the posts on your blogs that have the most comments. The theory is that people will be interested in posts that other people are talking about. Posts with a lot of comments attract people to click on the links and take a closer look to see what the buzz is about.

19. Shadowbox JS

    • This code allows the viewing of images and video to be displayed in a clean and professional manner.

20. WP-LatestPost

    • You’ve just posted a new article but all your visitors are busy reading other posts. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just live notify them that a new post has been written and give them a link to it?Now you can with “WP-LatestPost”!!

21. SEO Title Tag

    • The SEO Title Tag code allows you to override the automated title tags that sets for your site posts and pages, so you can use keywords in your title tags that are far more search engine-friendly than the words in your actual post or page titles.