5 Must Have Wordpress Plugins Every Blogger Should Have
Wordpress is better known for it's huge list of available plugins, but we have complie 5 essential Wordpress plugins which every blogger should have for an effective blogging experience.
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1. All in One SEO Pack
Every blogger is aware of the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) through which you can get a great amount of organic traffic to your blog, which is not just good in recognition aspect but in monetary perspective aswell.
However, it could be really a pain in a head situation to get good ranking in search engines for newbie bloggers but this plugin solved this situation out. It gives you complete flexibility to optimize your blog for Search Engines.
2. Contact Form 7
It is important for every blogger to maintain a communication path with it’s readers/users, after all users make your blog success or flop so it is really important for you to get in touch with your users. It’s not just about you to get in touch with users but there must be a way for users to contact you.
Contact forms are the best way to get input from users without actually providing them email address. It is more secure and functional.
Contact Form 7 is such an out class plugin which can generate contact or query forms for your blog on the fly. It supports many advance features like File uploads and CAPTCHA. It directly sends you the submitted form to your email address.
3. Akismet
Spams are like the cancer to web industry and unfortunately it is increasing enormously day by day, it is not possible for you to protect your blog from getting into spammers attention but you can protect your blog from Spam comments and trackbacks by using Akismet plugin.
Akismet is actually developed by automatitc, which has developed Wordpress itself that’s why every new wordpress installation comes with akismet plugin. This plugin checks if submitted comments or trackbacks looks like spam, if so then it marks them as SPAM.
4. Google XML Sitemaps
Sitemaps are like a map of your site for search engines, which helps them to understand the structure of your blog/website to crawl them.
Google XML Sitemaps generate sitemap for your blog which search engines use for better crawling and indexing your blog. It also prompts famous search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask about new blog posts whenever it is created.
5. WP Super Cache
Wordpress is developed on PHP and whenever a user visits your blog it generates lots of scripts each time before showing your blog. It can results in crashing your web server if your blog gets lots of visit at a time.
While WP Super Cache generate static html pages for your blog posts so whenever a user visit your blog a static page is served rather than a dynamic scripts which save lot of server usage and protect your blog from getting down in case of traffic spike.
Got them all except the cache one 
My blog is not that popular yet.
I’ve seen many messages in forums with people reporting errors due to caching plugins missconfiguration. I’ve also had clients who paid me to fix their blogs where the problems were caused by caching plugins.
The most common problems were related to a huge delay for pubhished posts and other changes on pages.
Yeah, setting up cache plugin is a bit tricky for beginners.
We will hopefully publish a guide about setting up and installing WP Super Cache plugin.
Good list I was not aware of #5 thx
Thanks for the list, especially WP Super Cache. I was aware of that but didn’t really understand its purpose. Now I do but I’m still wary of whether decreased bandwidth is worth the possible delays.
caching is done mostly to reduce server load. not for bandwith. bandwith is the cheapest thing nowadays.
Can’t agree more. All of these plugins are excellent. WP Super Cache is becoming even more important for SEO purposes now that Google has announced that page load speeds will have a small influence on SERP ‘rankings’.
Why use AIO SEO Pack instead of Platinum SEO Plugin? You can get more feature in Platinum SEO.
