10 Essential Wordpress Plugins For New Wordpress Installation

Oct 4th, 09 by Dicky | 67 Comments |
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Wordpress has a lot of powerful plugins that will add extra functionality to your blog. There are more than 6k plugins available in Wordpress Plugin Directory when this article is written.

Different Wordpress plugins surf their own purposes, and installing too many plugins will slow down your system and increase the loading time. So, how should we choose the necessary plugins for our blog? Most of the new Wordpress users will ask this question.

In this article, we will list down 10 essential Wordpress plugins for a new blog. These are common plugins that will help you to secure your Wordpress blog, fight spam, and increase your search engine ranking.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a powerful anti spam plugin for Wordpress. It comes with your Wordpress installation, but you need to register at Wordpress.com in order to get your unique API key and activate the plugin. Some Wordpress users choose to review the spams, because sometimes Akismet will incorrectly marks a legitimate comment as spam.
Akismet

2. Google XML Sitemap Generator

The Google XML Sitemap Generator will create a sitemap for your blog. The generated sitemap will compliant with Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com. Furthermore, this plugin can automatically notify the search engines about the updates of your blog.
Google XML Sitemaps Generator

3. All in One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack is a must have plugin if you want your blog ranks higher in search engine. After install this plugin, you can tweak your title, description, and also insert keywords for each of your articles. You can have this plugin to dynamically generates keywords for your posts too.
All in One SEO Pack

4. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7, as its name explains, is a Wordpress plugin that easily lets users create a contact form. This plugin supports Ajax-powered submitting and CAPTCHA anti spam. However, the CAPTCHA module had been separated as Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin. With this plugin, you can have different inputs in your contact forms. For example, yuo can have checkboxes, selection boxes, radio buttons, textboxes, email inputs and etc.
Contact Form 7

5. Wordpress Related Posts

This plugin can automatically generates related posts via Wordpress tags. There are a lot of similar Wordpress plugins that able to generate related posts too, but i personally prefer this plugin because it is easy to use without much configurations. This plugin able to automatically insert related posts for RSS feed too.
WordPress Related Posts Plugin

6. Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin

If you are using Feedburner to host your feed, then you should download this plugin. The Feedburner Feedsmith plugin will automatically redirect your feed to Feedburner.com. So, it will slightly increase your Feedburner RSS subscribers counts. I can’t find the official page for this plugin, so i include the direct link to the plugin file. After the installation, just go to your Settings -> Feedburner to set your blog’s Feedburner address.
Feedburner Feedsmith plugin

7. WP DB Backup

WP DB Bakcup allows Wordpress users to easily backup the database. This is essential so that you won’t lost your content even if your site get hacked. There are 3 different methods to backup your database:- save to server, download to your computer, and email. You may also schedule your Wordpress backup using this plugin.
WP DB Backup

8. Broken Link Checker

This handy plugin can performs checking on your outgoing links and list out those dead links. Dead links are dangerous because they will affect your search engine ranking.
Broken Link Checker

9. StatPress Reloaded

StatPress Reloaded is a powerful plugin that able to track your visitors. It shows your daily visitors, pageviews, spiders and also feeds accesses. StatPress Reloaded also tracks the search terms, referrers and last pages. You may still need to install Google Analytics to do more complicated analysis, but this plugin provides you a quick view of your visitors and page views.
Statpress Reloaded

10. Antivirus for Wordpress

This cool little plugin will help you monitors and detects malicious code in your Wordpress system. You can enable the daily antivirus auto scan feature, the administrator will receive an email if the plugin detects any virus the the system.
Antivirus for Wordpress

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Comments

  1. starr says:

    Some useful and essential plugins here. Great one.

  2. Gillian says:

    Thanks! Great list!!

  3. Mart says:

    Nice post with very useful plugins. Certainly the DB backup is handy!

    I just started to design and use my own blog, so these plugins are great.

  4. I agree with this list, but I think the best plugin ever, if you can figure out how it works, is csv 2 post!!!! http://www.furnacepartschicago.com/chicagoacparts/

  5. william says:

    Thanks, it’s a useful list, I just knew the function of Akismet after reading this. Newbie on wordpress.

  6. Wow, I already use 8/10!

    And I did not know about the anti-virus plugin. I’ll most definitely try it out as soon as I get the chance.

    Thank you!

  7. Nice post with very useful plugins.

  8. Surfer Dude says:

    Great list of plugins.. My favorite and of course a MUST HAVE is Google XML Sitemap Generator.. Does anyone know if you have to still add pings in the Settings/Writing/update services?

    Thank you!

    • Dicky says:

      Hi Surfer Dude,
      Google XML Sitemap will not ping all search engines for you. If you want to ping the search engine that are not in the list, then you should add them through the Settings/Writing/update services.

  9. Logo Bliss says:

    Nice list, All in one SEO rules !

  10. Husien Adel says:

    very nice collection :D thanks

  11. Sunil says:

    I also write something like this. http://www.myhtmlworld.com/wordpress/first-plugins-after-wordpress-installation.html.

    my suggestions

    1. All in One SEO Pack
    2. WordPress Database Backup
    3. Google Analytics for WordPress
    4. FeedBurner FeedSmith
    5. Google XML Sitemaps

    • That’s pretty similar to my list only we use the WordPress Backup Plugin from cloudbacks since it backs up both the database and files.

      I’ve had problems with the Feedburner plugin on the new version of WP – anyone else? Seems to break my permalinks in some cases.

      • Dicky says:

        Hi Andy Brudtkuhl,
        Do you mean Feedburner Feedsmith plugin? I am using this plugin with 2.8.4 and have no problem at all. What is your permalink structure?

  12. Nice list – I’m pleased to say I use pretty much all of them on the installation. Use cForms instead but a good list.

    I just added a page on my blog “10 Tips to Clean, Optimize and Speed up your Wordpress Site” Check it at: http://retwt.me/xCMd

  13. techiepark says:

    Thanks..!!! great job..!!!

  14. Ghostmiro says:

    Usefull for beginners, anti-virus is new for me ;) will try that one

  15. Cas says:

    Seen a lot of these lists lately, but you’ve got a couple of great plugins listed I hadn’t seen before – Thanks!

    I personally prefer Headspace2 instead of AIO-SEO, and Wufoo forms instead of Contact Form 7.

    • Dicky says:

      Hi Cas,
      Thanks for your input. Personally i think headspace2 and Wufoo are for more advance users while All In One Seo and Contact form7 are suitable for beginners right?

  16. Yasser says:

    Very helpfull plugins , I am almost using most of the mentioned in my blog :)

    Thanks Dicky :)

  17. Woot i had 8/10 of these plugins and just installed the missing two, thanks!

  18. BWI says:

    Never heard of the anti virus plugin…Has it ever caught anything for you?

  19. Great list! Very handy plugins. Thanks for sharing!

  20. VIKAS GUPTA says:

    There was some WP super cache plugin that’s quite popular with users [it slows down loading time]!

  21. Heather says:

    I have most of these plugins, but there are a few really useful ones I don’t have, such as the anti-virus one. I’m not entirely sure what my all in one SEO pack does. Is there a way to know if it is increasing your SEO?Thanks a bunch for a nice list though!

  22. Kenneth says:

    Great blog and awesome tips! You guys keep me coming back, keep it up!

  23. I use a bunch of those plugins. Thanks for the affirmation!

    Check out some of my work if you care to:
    More Wordpress plugins.

  24. HacK_MiNDeD says:

    Great Useful plugins…this blog is really cool..i loved the beach wallpapers over here http://www.webdesignbooth.com/65-absolutely-beautiful-beach-wallpapers/

    i was having 9/10 plugins listed above..getting the antivirus (really, heard it for the first time “Antivirus for Wordpress” LOL)…

  25. Andrew says:

    Great list here. Thanks for the research and the posting. these are the kinds of tools that make Wordpress such an attractive platform for new websites.

  26. roofdog says:

    Nice list, very useful – thanks!

  27. Frank says:

    Very useful I really liked the antivirus plugin, didn’t know that even existed. Thanks!

  28. Zugvogel says:

    Useful list. I can recomment most of these plugins, too.

    Thanks for compiling this list.

  29. Nice list of plugins, I wrote a similar post if anyone wants to check it out, it has a few different plugins then this list

    http://drawne.com/blog/articles/wordpress/wordpress-plugins-every-blog-should-have/

  30. Amey says:

    I would also add SEO Smartlinks to that list

  31. mariusz says:

    never trust wp db plugin – it is easy to stole your database drops!

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