Wordpress plugins you should install
Few months back I have shifted my blog to self hosted wordpress blog at this location. I have passed few months trying new things on this blog like themes, plugins and its been fun playing with it. During this time I have tried several plugins, so wanted to share some of the plugins that I liked the most:
- Aksimet: filters spam comments and tracksbacks. You don’t want your post to be filled with useless comments.
- Wordpress.com Stats: Its a light weight plugin but still provides detailed representation of important statistics
- Google Sitemap Generator: Generates sitemap for your wordpress blog which is by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
- Get Recent Comments: Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith: It redirects your wordpress feeds to feedburner so that you can easily track your subscribers.
- Plugin Central: Automatically installs and updates WordPress plugins.
- Wordpress Data backup: Its a necessary plugin to backup your blog. I still haven’t restoring posts from backup though.
For some specific users plugins like wp-latex, are also useful. It generates PNG images from inline $\LaTeX$ code in your posts and comments. I have installed latex on my hosting service( hostmonster) and still working on making simliar plugins(LatexRender) to work.
You can find many more such list on web if you do a google search. But Lorelle has a nice compilation of list of favorite wordpress plugins.
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Good list, but I would argue against the inclusion of one of them in your list. Google Sitemap Generator, sitemaps do nothing for WordPress powered sites. I’m surprised you don’t also include Google Analytics.
I agree with your view expressed in your article. But when you have submitted your sitemap in google webmaster, you can track your urls in sitemap. That way i found it good.
For Google analytics, it works without installing a plugin. You just include the tracking code in footer or sidebar.