You have read many article related to “Must have Plugins” or “10 Essential Plugins for WordPress”. This article is totally different from others due to the fact that We are sharing best plugins for wordpress while keeping in view the various aspects like securing wordpress, monetizing your blog etc.
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Each plugin is best of its domain and would serve you the best. What a blogger might be expecting in his blog. We will discuss all the aspects which blogger may have and suggest the best plug-in for your wordpress installation.
Security:-
- Most of bloggers ignore the security aspect of their blogs which might result in great loss. Very first plug-in that a blogger should have is “Login-Lockdown”. This plug-in monitor unsuccessful login attempts and after defined number of unsuccessful attempts, login function of wordpress is disabled. Hence it secures you from brute force attempt and any illegitimate login attempt. Functionality of Plug-in function has not ended here, this plug-in also records the IP address and time interval between each unsuccessful attempt.
- What if your blog have been messed up by some of your grieved author/editor or contributor. Take regular back-ups of your blog. We have solution from “Il Filosoft” which is fully automated and fully customizable. Select the tables and desired number of backups performed a day.
- Spam is a serious problem for a blogger. Approving long list of comments is itself a hectic job and if spam comments are also posted, what to do then.”SI Captcha Anti-Spam” and “Akismet” (included in stock version of wordpress) are blessing in this situation. Combination of both will give you maximum protection against spam.
Sharing the Posts:-
- Your readers may found a post interesting and want to share it with his favourite “Social Networking” community or want to mail it to his friend. We have many options but the most attractive is “Sexy Bookmarks”. Sexy bookmarks have vast collection of famous networking and option to arrange them as per your choice.
Monetize the Blog:-
Each blogger has a desire to make reasonable amount of money through his blog. We have different options to achieve this goal.
- Google Ad Sense,
- Affiliate Marketing,
- and In-text ads.
- For Google Ad Sense we have gem here. “Ad Sense Revived” is very powerful and fully customizable. Though you have other options that are very suitable with your installed theme.
- “Infolinks.com” is the most common choice for in-text ads and the best serving plug-in for this purpose is “Infolinks Ad Wrap”. Just install and paste the code provided by Infolinks and have fun.
Related Posts:-
- Related posts are best of increasing the clicks, readers’ stay time on your blog and making them more loyal to your blog. If the visitor is reading some post on your blog and found other relevant posts with summary and thumbnail, they will definitely spend more time on your blog. “Linkwithin” has best offer here which is free as well. Just visit the web site and your e-mail address, URL of your blog, platform and number of related posts to be shown and that’s it. You will be provided with compressed file. Just unzip and install it, you are done. Your every post has now related stories from your own blog.
Blog Performance & SEO:-
- “Google XML Sitemaps” is must have plug-in for fast indexing of your new contents. Customize Google XML Sitemaps as per your needs.
- “Install Google Analytics for WordPress” from Yoast. Just insert the account number and have detailed performance reports of your blog.
- “WordPress Stat” is in action here for you. Very detailed reports are generated which will show you number of clicks, most visited topic, search engine referred keywords etc.
- If you are using such a theme which have built in SEO like thesis, then its ok or install “All-in-One-Seo Pack”.
Post Notification to Readers:-
- Don’t forget to install “Post Notification” plug-in to keep your readers up-to date via e-mail. Comprehensive set of options are packed with this plug-in. You may select for e-mail interval to avoid accidental publishing of post.
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That was really amazing post as it had covered the essential aspects of secure blogging. You rock Imran.
Nice post was shared. I just want to mention that for stats and Akismat plugin, one has an account with wordpress.com. they will generate a code for you, which is further needed by these two plugins. Over all this is very nice contribution.
Twitter: iWoodpecker
February 19, 2010 at 1:31 am
Nice list! And what’s more important – very attractive descriptions
But I wanted to ask.. do you have any examples of those who use social buttons “send to friend via email”? I have never used it, because I think people don’t need it.. they tweet what they like, share on Facebook may be.. But I don’t know those, who send cool stuff via email.
What do you think?
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Twitter: bloggingjunkie
February 19, 2010 at 1:39 am
You are absolutely right about sending email feature of share plugin, But there is one thing, Wordpress has one plugin “Dolly”. Every distribution has this plugin and you and i still thinks that no one will be using this plugin, but people are here who use such features. So why not to include e-mail to friend feature, Maybe someone has friend who is not using twitter or other social networking media. Though chances are less, but exists.
Very helpful post. I’m still working on my blog and hope to have it up soon.
This list with all the info came at the right time.
@ iWoodpecker: good comment
Thanks
Twitter: bloggingjunkie
April 22, 2010 at 12:32 am
Welcome Lucian. So you have decided to start a blog, i think so on cars. Thats nice, you have selected a good niche. Have happy blogging.
Well iwoodpecker is a good blogger and raised a good point, which most of the readers ignored.
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