WordPress Plugins are a great way to add functionality to your WordPress Blog. Some plugins are just plain fun and some plugins fulfill a particular need. Listed below are my personal favorite plugins that I think you will enjoy if you’re not already using them. After your done reviewing my favorite plugins take a quick second to provide a comment on your favorite plugins.
- Subscribe2 - provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog. You can choose to send an email after each post, twice daily, just daily, or perhaps just weekly. You can even add your subscribe box to your blog posts like I did below.
- All In One SEO Pack – provides the ability to manually change the meta tag settings (title, description, keywords) for each blog page and post. A must have for those who are serious about getting there blog listed in search engines.
- Google XML Site Map – plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime 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.
- WordPress.com Stats – focuses on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provides them in a clear and concise interface. See the most popular articles, search engine key words, etc.
- Twitter updater w/Tiny Url – provides the ability to automatically update your twitter status with the latest post that you’ve made. It also has the option of including a link back to your post so can people can easily click on it to view the post.This plugin was updated to include the use of TinyURL because URLs can be very long and Twitter has a maximum character amount of 140 characters. This will make your URLs shorter for posting.
- Maintenance Mode - Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
Well there you have it; my favorite wordpress plug-ins. Pretty simple yet quite effective in serving the purposes in which I require. Now it is your turn to share your favorite plugins by commenting below and you’ll even get the opportunity to link back to your site!
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