TOP 10 useful wordpress plugins

WP Super Cache

This is a essential tool for high traffic websites to improve the performance and serve the pages faster. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic wodpress blog. After the html files are generated, instead of processing the heavier php scripts the generated html files are served.

View more details about “wp super cache” | download “wp super cache”

All in one seo pack

This is one of the important plugin for every blogger. “all in one seo pack” helps to provide custom title,description and keywords for each article  you write. If you don’t want to invest time for writing description for each article, you can leave “All in one seo pack” to generate the description all by itself.

View more details about “All in one seo pack” |  download “All in one seo pack”

Google XML Sitemaps

This is a true xml sitemap generator, This plugin generates sitemap in xml version and also in the compressed format. The sitemap generated by this plugin is supported by all major search engines.

View more details about “Google XML Sitemaps” |  download “Google XML Sitemaps”

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Viper’s Video Quicktags allows user to embed youtube,google video, etc on your blog. Though the newer versions of wordpress allow you to embed videos without any other special plugins, Vipers video quicktags allows you much better control over the videos and how it looks in your posts.

View more details about “Viper’s Video Quicktags” | download “Viper’s Video Quicktags”

Redirection

This plugin allows you to make a permanent 301 redirection any of your posts or pages to a different URL. This enables you to transfer Google rank of your post or page (static page of WordPress) to a new page.  This is on the must to have plugin if you are migrating from one blog to another , where you can redirect the old url’s to the new url’s without losing out the valuable page ranking.

View more details about “Redirection” |  download “Redirection”

Akismet

This plugin is useful when  you cant spend more time in moderating the comments for spam. This plugin automatically comes with WordPress and does a great job catching comment and trackback spam. You will have to obtain api key , which you can get by creating a wordpress account.

View more details about “Akismet” | download “Akismet”

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

If you want your visitors to stay on  your website longer or if you don’t want to leave just by reading only one page then “YARP” will be most useful plugin, which automatically displays the most related articles at the end of each article. This plugin also provides option which you modifiy on how to identify the related articles.

View more details about “YARPP” |  download “YARPP”

Analytics360

This tools lets you to visualize your sites traffic from google analytics within your wordpress admin panel. You don’t have to login each time into goolge to analyze the statistics..

View more details about “Analytics360″ | download “Analytics360″

TDO MINI FORMS

This plugin allows you to add highly customisable forms that work with your WordPress Theme to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers  to submit and edit posts.

View more details about “TDO MINI FORMS” |  download “TDO MINI FORMS”

Sexy Bookmarks

An essential and excellent bookmarking tool for your blog. It adds a nice visual appeal to your blog, to encourage readers to share the article they’re reading with their friends on social networking sites.  Which helps you get more linkbacks and more readers for your blog.

View more details about “Sexy Bookmarks” | download “Sexy Bookmarks”