5 Must Have WordPress Plugins
WordPress plugins are the easiest way to improve your blog without needing any programming knowledge whatsoever. I’ve outlined 5 must have plugins for your blog below:
iDunzo Archives Plugin – iDunzo have come up with this fantastic free plugin that allows you to manage a clean and concise archives page. Readers can simply expand each month (or all months) to see the relevant posts for that time period. This saves scrolling through endless months of posts, and visitors will be able to find what they’re looking for more quickly.
WP Forum – This plugin is outstanding, and the first that I’d seen offering a full forum service for WordPress blogs. Sign up and administration can be easily handled through your existing WordPress account. The latest version even offers email notifications to topic replies!
WP Calendar – Yet another useful plugin to help with your organization. It can also let your visitors know what you’re up to, or alternatively be set to private. Very easy to use, and completely editable via the WordPress admin interface.
Akismet Anti-Spam Plugin – The Holy Grail of anti-spam plugins, Akismet must be doing something right having blocked 4,539,896,311 spams! The plugin was created by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, so you can trust the source.
WordPress Database Backup – We all know that WordPress isn’t security perfect, so do you really want to risk losing your valuable content to a hacker? WordPress Database Backup is a great tool for backing up your website daily and let you get on with blogging worry free.
I hope that these tools were helpful to you, and please feel free to list your own favorites in the comments to this post.
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Thanks for the info on this post. I have just started to use wordpress and was looking for a forum plugin for my first blog.
Wow – three of those plugins I hadn’t even heard of! I like the sound of the Archive plugin – I think I’m going to have to give that one a go
Where have I been? I didn’t even know about wp forum… Thanks!
I use the DB backup plugin on several of my sites. I created a GMail account specifically for DB backups, and a copy of the backup is sent to that address each day. Hey presto, instant offsite backup.
Thanks for the WP backup plug in. I’ll have to install that right away so I don’t loose my content again.
That archives plugin looks very useful. I posted a post at http://www.cowblogger.com/putting-archives-to-good-use/ which I believe this plugin would help with alot!
I’m using Akismet Anti-Spam Plugin and I can say that it is really fantastic and helps a lot to fight with SPAM
I use only db backup to back up my database.
oh what a cool blog. thanks for info
jen x
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You are right that the all plugin are very useful and important for every wordpress blog. The last one is new for me.
Nice post, keep up the good work:?