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| 10 Common Plugins in WordPress |
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Vishal Arora |
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Increasingly more and more people are using WordPress content management system (CMS) to address their website needs. What is it about WordPress that has made it a hot favorite among the users worldwide? What is it that WordPress developers are doing right that is meeting requirements of all kinds? While there can be many answers to it, plugins are an important feature of WordPress development that needs more than a special mention. There are variety of plug-ins that are available, each different from the other and so useful that for an avid WordPress user it may get difficult to choose the ones his website actually requires.
10 Common Plugins in WordPress
1. Akismet Anti Spam Filter: Spam is a nuisance for most posts and it is imperative to keep them away. Akismet does just that. It is automatically installed with WordPress and does a fair job in handling spams.
2. All in One SEO Pack: If you are interested in search engine optimization (SEO), this plugin is one of the best for WordPress. You can control web crawling with this pack and change the Meta tags, keywords on its settings page.
3. Google XML Sitemaps: It is important that search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask index your site regularly. With this plugin, your entire website structure is open for the crawlers that help in retrieving more information for SEO.
4. Count per Day: This plugin is beneficial if you are interested in keeping a count of the number of visitors you receive. This plugin counts visitors on the basis of the IP address and thus page reloads are not counted as new entries. Its features include: visitors on a daily basis, per page visitors, it also shows country of the visitors.
5. WP Backlinks: One effective way of generating traffic is through backlinks. This plugin lets you submit your site for link exchange. This improves the backlinks you get for your site.
6. WordPress Database Backup: Backup is very essential and for very obvious reasons. With this database backup plugin, you can always have a backup of the content of your site.
7. WP-CopyRightPro: If you are interested in custom development of the site that is your exclusive property and should not be used by the users for any other purpose, this plugin disables the ability to right click and copy the content of the page.
8. Tubepress: Videos on a website are the latest trend. If you want to insert YouTube videos on the website, Tubepress is the right plugin.
9. TweetMeme Retweet Button: And who is not into Tweeting! If the users like some content on your site and wants to put it on their Twitter account, allow them to do so with this plugin.
10. WP Security Scan: Another important plugin and must have for any website is this security scan. It scans all the codes for any malicious codes and corrects them.
Any development with WordPress, whether it’s your business website or personal blog, the WordPress Plug-ins will only make it better. Infact, the more effective the plug-ins are, more attractive your website will be. |
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