Top 25 essential wordpress plugins or Top 20 wordpress plugins or wordpress plugins have always been a topic of question for many bloggers using the wordpress platform. At this moment there are around 3550 wordpress plugins out of which you wouldn’t possibly use more than 40 at most. But which 40 plugins will you choose amongst these numerous plugins will depend on your blog’s nature and topic. However, there are a few plugins which are needed by almost every pro blogger. I know that such lists have been made by a number of bloggers before too but here I’m sharing a list which is much different from those existing ones. Here, I have taken into consideration a number of factors – importance, generality, usefulness, easy to use, functionality, etc. Besides, maybe this list is the first list of wordpress plugins which will all work with wordpress 2.7. So, if you are using wordpress 2.7, you can install these plugins with ease. Continue Reading »

There are many wordpress plugins out there which you might be interested in. But installing them all might be a big problem – download and then upload and then activate. Today, I’m here to share a technique which will allow you to install all such wordpress plugins at once. Using the plugin central plugin, you can install many wordpress plugins in one simple step provided you know the plugin name or plugin url. And I’m going to teach you how to do that. But first of all you need to install the plugin – Plugin central and activate it (If you don’t know how to install a wordpress plugin, see how to install a wordpress plugin!). Once you have installed this plugin, you are ready to install the many plugins in a few simple steps: Continue Reading »

Making money online with blogging is much easier if you have an ad manager through which advertisers can directly buy ads from your blog. This feature was added by many bloggers by customizing wordpress but it costs a lot of money if you pay a programmer to customize your blog. So, Michael finally made the free wordpress plugin for managing ads in your wordpress blog. Although the plugin is only for 125×125 sized ads, it works quite well and is user friendly. You can customize a lot of features of this plugin and this makes this plugin a great and important plugin for wordpress. I recommend this plugin to every pro-blogger for it is the best solution to managing ads for free. Continue Reading »

Another important plugin for your wordpress blog is wp super cache wordpress plugin which is a caching plugin for wordpress. This plugin caches the pages and posts of your wordpress blog including categories, tags and search pages and speeds up your blog’s access times. Without this plugin, the wordpress blog is somewhat slow and consumes CPU resources. But with WP super cache, lots of CPU resources will be saved and will make the blog faster. Continue Reading »

Being an experienced webmaster for more than 2 years, I have learned a lot about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I use it in each and every site I have. However, it is quite difficult to implement the SEO optimizations in a wordpress blog. In fact, wordpress doesn’t allow you to have a unique Meta description or a Meta keyword tags for each posts. This is quite a big problem for those who want to optimize their wordpress blogs. Also, even though you can put these Meta tags in the homepage, it should be done with the theme editor which needs a little bit knowledge of PHP and HTML. And therefore, this might be problem for bloggers who don’t know coding.

But with the All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin which I found recently, all the SEO stuffs are a lot easy and handy. You can insert description and keyword Meta tags for each post and easily add Meta in the home page too. Thanks to Michael Torbert for creating this plugin. Now, I would like to give a few features of this Plugin.

FEATURES OF ALL IN ONE SEO PACK WORDPRESS PLUGIN

• Easily change the title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags of the blog’s homepage.
• Change post title format, page title format, category title format, Archive Title Format, Tag Title Format, Search Title Format, Description Format, etc.
• Insert additional headers to your blog’s home, post and page templates.
• Option to enable no index for categories, archives etc.
• Insert unique title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags to each post/page while publishing the post.

Well it really helps me optimize my blog and I recommend it to all bloggers who want to optimize their site for search engines. Here’s a snapshot of the plugin’s configuration page:

Snapshot of All in one SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Click here to download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin.

There are quite a number of related posts wordpress plugins available in wordpress.org. It’s great to have a number of plugins or options for a job we want to accomplice but when it comes to choosing the best, having a numerous makes it hard to find the best. So, I tried a the plugins available in wordpress.org including Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), Similar Posts, WordPress Related Posts and finally come to conclusion that YARPP is the One based on how easy it is to install and the options available. So, go ahead and start using YARRP and that’s my choice.

YARPP or Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is a wordpress plugin which lists those posts related to a particular post. Developed by Mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), the plugin has a number of options for customizing your related posts. You can change the template, number of posts, how the matching is done and many other options are there. Just to make it easier, here’s a snapshot of the plugin customization page.

YARPP - A Related Posts WordPress Plugin

Get YARRP related posts wordpress plugin

Read the documentation or download the latest plugin at YARPP plugin page.

With the coming of Google webmaster tools, having a dynamic sitemap in the Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap has become one of the most important steps of Search Engine Optimization. But creating sitemaps manually for dynamic websites blogs can be very much uncomfortable. For the purpose, the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress has been released. This plugin creates a sitemap.xml file in the web server and updates this file whenever a new page or post is created or whenever there is any changes in the blog. Also, every time you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

In other words, with this new plugin, the blogger no longer needs to update his sitemap as everything is done by its own. All the blogger has to do is install this plugin in the wordpress blog.

Where to Get the Latest Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress

You can read the documentation of Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress here.

Download Google Sitemap Generator v3.1.0.1