WordPress Plugins for Beginners
WordPress is the best platform for those who wanna be a professional bloggers. Bloggers are who shares their views and shares their knowledge via websites.
To use WordPress in a good manner you need some third party extensions,they are called Plugins. Plugins make your work easy with WordPress. For smooth functioning of your work in WordPress you should go with Plugins
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Here is the list of Plugins i use in my WordPress
1. Akismet :
Used by millions of Bloggers, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started :
1) Click the "Activate" link to the left of this description
2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and
3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key
2. All in One Favicon :
All in one Favicon management. Easily adds a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif)
It is the favicon of my website TechTalks
Favicon is the recognition for our website and it will be displayed on the top left of tab
3. Contact Form 7 :
It's just a another contact button for our website. It gives facility of receiving comments or suggestions directly to our email from the users. It builds the friendly environment between Admin and the User quickly and easily
4. Google Analytics :
Google Analytics is the tool provided by Google Inc., which helps to monitor visitors, page views, total views, displays visitors from various countries and also sends data to Google which helps us to earn some money with Google Adsense
5. Google Adsense :
Google Adsense plugin is also one of the product of Google. It helps to put ads on website directly and automatically. It makes the easier work of Managing ads in our website. It is the smartest way of placing ads at a good place to earn some bucks
6. Google XML sitemap :
Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process
7. Jetpack by WordPress.com :
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
8. Page Rank Stats for Alexa and Google :
Show real time Alexa and or Google Page Rank of any webpage. Install then click activate and then go to Appearance > Widgets and look for 'Alexa Google Page Rank' widget. Then, drag the widget to area where you want to show rank statistics
9. W3 Total Cache :
Easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
10. Yoast SEO :
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more
11. Simple Social Icons :
A simple, CSS and icon font driven social icons widget. It helps the users to find your website in social networking sites you are associated with it
12. WordPress Backup to Dropbox :
Keep your valuable WordPress website, its media and database backed up in Dropbox! Need help? Please email support@wpb2d.com
13. WP Database Backup :
This plugin helps you to create/restore wordpress database backup. (Tools->WP-DB-Backup)
All these are the basic and minimum Plugins required by every WordPress User.
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