5 Vital WordPress Plugins
There are thousands of plugins available for WordPress, and many of them can be very useful. It can be tempting to add dozens to a single blog, but this can be time consuming, and isn’t really necessary. I don’t recommend adding more than a handful of plugins to each blog, because you’ll have more to update and keep track of.
So let’s look at the 5 WordPress plugins you should absolutely be using on every blog you create!
The Platinum SEO Pack is an update version of the old All-in-One SEO Pack. It takes things one step further by automatically doing a 301 redirect any time the permalink of a page changes, so you don’t lose any PageRank or SE listings. If you only add ONE plugin, this is the one!
A sitemap is very important on any site, but especially on larger sites. It helps Google (and other search engines) find all of the pages on your site. This plugin helps you automatically generate a sitemap, which you should then submit to Google Webmaster Tools.
This plugin will remind visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed a certain number of times. It may alert them only the first time they visit, or you could set a specific number of visits, or you could set it to display all the time. It puts the reminder at the top or bottom of each post, as you specify.
Comments are the lifeblood of a blog. You should always encourage readers to leave their comments, and this will allow you to easily respond to specific comments. It will turn your comments into a type of forum thread. It’s very crucial for building a community on your blog.
Repeat visitors are also very important for blogs. When users subscribe to comments, they can be notified if someone responds to a comment they made on your blog. This can make visitors come back weeks or even months later when someone responds and digs up an old conversation! This is a super way to encourage repeat visitors.
Overall, you want plugins that bring in traffic. Each of these plugins focuses on bringing in new or repeat traffic, and encouraging visitors to return again and again. Other plugins may be fun or cute, but make sure you have these important plugins in place first!
