WordPress as we all know is the best blogging platform. It has more security and many other features than any other blogging platform. One of the Biggest Advantages of WordPress is that, it offers plugins which makes it easy for user to customize there blog in easy way. If you visit WordPress Plugins Directory, you can see huge List of 17092 plugins. But unfortunately you can’t install so many plugins, as it will affect your Blog’s Loading Speed. So it’s better to use minimum plugins in your Blog. I have researched and created the list of 12 must have plugins for every WordPress Blog. You are free to use more plugins, but the list I am sharing are must have plugins and you really need them to make your Blog Survive.
1. All In SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). It allows you to add Title, Meta Tags & Meta Description for every Post and thus makes it SEO Friendly.
2. Insights
Insights allows you to quickly access and insert information (links, images, videos, maps..) into your blog posts. Insights brings a powerfull new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time quality of your posts.
3. Sharebar
Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post.
4. w3Total Cache
Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
5. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
6. WP-DB Backup Plugin
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
7. Wp-Minify
WP Minify grabs JS/CSS files in your generated WordPress page and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header.
8. DoFollow
The dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the evil nofollow attribute from your comments. Because nofollow will not work.
9. Yet Another Related Post Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
10. Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
11. SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set.
12. SmushIt
SmushIt offers an API that performs these optimizations (except for stripping JPEG meta data) automatically, and this plugin seamlessly integrates Smush.it with WordPress.
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