Easy Blogging

One of the highly effective blogging secrets is to use right WordPress plugins. In my case, I use quite a number of good and yet free plugins for all my website setup. If you want to have a quick access to what plugins I use, read this post till the end.

1. Akismet
One of the major necessities in the WordPress sites is the Akismet plugin. This will effectively blocks nefarious comment spam from infiltrating your comment box. Akismet is the first line of defense of every WordPress bloggers on the spammers lying around.

2. All in One SEO Pack
Every WordPress blogs need to have this plugin installed. This will dramatically maximize you SEO optimization and will help you shine in the search engines.

3. Google XML Sitemaps Generator
This plugin is very useful as it instantly help your site draws up a sitemap of your blog in XML format, which helps urge search engines to crawl over your site.

4. ShareThis or AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
This plugin will help your WordPress site gain more traffic as this allows your reader to refer your posts to their friends via e-mail, instant messaging, and such, thus maximizing your probabilities of creating backlinks to your site.

5. Contact Form 7
Allows your visitors to have an effective and safe way of contacting you as it is shielded against spam. You can use this plugin to create multiple contact forms.

6. WP Polls
This plugin allows you to add a poll into your blog post and pages without difficulty as it adds AJAX poll system to your WordPress blogs.

7. Google Analytics For WordPress
Google Analytics is one of the most popular, user friendly tracking system you can use. This plugins will help you to integrate your WordPress with Google Analytics account. A great plugin that adds the necessary JavaScript code that will enable Google Analytics tracking.

8. NextGen Gallery
If you wanted a fully integrated image gallery on your WordPress, then this plugin is a must as it will give you a Flash slideshow option. Although it is the best plugin I came across for image gallery, it is not easy to install and use. Check out the video tutorial before using the plugin.

9. Yoast Breadcrumbs
A user-friendly plugin that allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme easily. It provides user a secondary, easy navigation menu link to users. Breadcrumbs will be able to help the visitors to locate the location easily.

10. Easy Privacy Policy
This plugin is what you needed to make sure that your blog contain adsense compliant privacy policy which is so easy to modify to meet your specific needs and requirements not covered by default templates.

11. FD Feedburner Feedsmith
A simple plugin that allows you to redirect the main feed, as well as the comments feed if necessary to Feedburner.com with so many fuses. By simply loading your Feedburner feed URL to the plugin, all existing feeds will automatically become Feedburner feeds.

12. StatPress
A useful plugin that allows you to spy your blog surfers or check which of your pages, posts, and categories are most preferred as it collects statistics data on blog visits such as visitors, search keywords, spiders, browsers, feeds, and the like.

13. WP DB Backup
Another useful plugin that works fully with WordPress. With this plugin you can backup your WordPress database tables without having so much trouble. You can even backup other tables in the same database.

14. WP PageNavi
If you are an expert and you want to add a more advance paging navigation on your WordPress site, better yet try this plugin that will make a great difference and will surely boost your site. PHP 5 is required on this plugin.

15. Redirection
This plugin allows you to manage any loose ends that your site may have such as 301 redirection, 404 errors, and such. Particularly valuable to website owners who migrates pages from old sites, or changing the installation of your directory.