WordPress PlugIns

Below is a list of few popular WordPress PlugIns.

WordPress Comments

With Get Recent Comments you can track the latest comments in your sidebar. You can customize its appearance by choosing the number of comments shown in the sidebar, the length of excerpts, the order of appearance, the html layout and many other options.

WordPress Anti SPAM

Nowadays most of the SPAM that a blog receives is being generated by spambots. However, the Captcha plugin will add a distorted text image the user has to identify to allow his/her comment to be accepted. This way you will be better preserved from SPAM. Captcha is easy to use and secure.

Akismet stops the spam messages in your blog comments. Any message recognized as blog spam gets recorded in the Akismet web service and blogs all over the world become immune against it.

WordPress SEO

All in One SEO Pack helps you optimize your Wordpress blog for Search Engines. With this plugin your post titles get optimized, META tags are generated automatically, and the fine-tuning of your articles is possible through many additional features.

WordPress Statistics

With Wordpress.com Stats you can track the metrics of your WordPress blog. This plugin provides information about the popularity of your posts and the traffic on your pages. It shows all the important statistics in a clear summarized manner.

Other WordPress Plugins

Installing Spell Checker will utilize the excellent Speller Pages open source project to provide spell checking functionality to your Dashboard. Once installed, a new button will be displayed there and on the page creation menu. Also, via simple calls added to the templates you can provide same spell checking capability to the comments box.

Banner manager is an excellent plugin for blogs that run both advertising websites and personal pages. It provides very neat admin capabilities and ability to manage up to 5 banners per page.

With WP-ContactForm you can easily create instant drop in forms for the visitors of your WordPress blog. This way you will be able to stay in touch with them without providing your email address. Your readers can contact you any time and your email remains spam-free.

The Google XML Sitemap plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines like Google, Bing etc. With its help you can create Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap for your blog. With every new post the generated sitemap is updated and search engines with sitemap protocol support gets notified.