8 Essential WordPress Plugins for Professional Blogs

WordPress is absolutely dominant to other blog platforms because of its excellent plugins. There are collectively thousands of WordPress plugin, so sometimes it is difficult for new bloggers to choose which ones need installed. Since I started my blog last year, I have tried out many plugins, however there are 10 plugins that always appear in my plugins list. Since I installed these plugins, they have reduced my wordload dramatically. In my opinion, they are must-have plugins for every professional blog.

1. Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
2. Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. 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.
3. Platinum SEO plugin - Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the features of All in One SEO plugin plus more
4. WP Super Cache – WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. Read this before using the plugin.
5. WP to Twitter – The plugin posts a Twitter status update from your blog using the Cli.gs URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.
6. Global Translator – Automatically translates your blog in 41 different languages by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt).
7. Quick Adsense – Quick Adsense offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Google Adsense or any Ads code into WordPress blog post.
8. FD Feedburner Plugin - Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com.

Apart from these plugins, do you recommend any others that are important for your WordPress blogs?

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4 Responses

1. Anthony Feint says:

   March 5, 2010 at 8:19 am

   great list, but i’m not sure how essential they are. I only use 1 of them
   Anthony Feint´s last blog ..Is Your Business Becoming a Chore?

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   • Tek3D says:

     March 5, 2010 at 5:59 pm

     The design of your site is nice, I like it. Which plugin do you use? I think the plugins above are very useful for SEO.

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     • Anthony Feint says:

       March 5, 2010 at 6:24 pm

       I use the Askimet plugin. For SEO, the Thesis theme does everything thats needed.
       Anthony Feint´s last blog ..Is Your Business Becoming a Chore?

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       • Tek3D says:

         March 5, 2010 at 6:41 pm

         Thesis seems like the best theme these days. I see many popular blog using it. Maybe I’ll try it one day

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