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The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2011. One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it. This list will provide you with 15 of the best WordPress plugins available today. Only the 15 best WordPress plugins have made it while anything less than amazing has been kicked to the street. Each of these WordPress plugins are used at Site Sketch 101 and I personally recommend each of them to you. The following plugins are posted in the order that I recommend them. The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2013 W3 Total Cache - This is one of the best WordPress plugins for two reasons. Group Discussion WordPress plugins are amazing little creations. Which do you consider to be the best WordPress plugins that you use on your site and how many plugins do you use at your site?

Donncha O Caoimh. Ways to enhance your WordPress blog. There are, of course, a few extras that can be added to enhance your blog and really make it work for you, setting your blog apart from the rest. Here are a few plugins and ideas which can enhance the blogging experience, not just for you but for your users as well. Search Engine Optimisation Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has become somewhat of an unexplained art form in this day and age.

Most people have a basic idea of what it entails, while unfortunately not knowing all the intricacies involved in getting it to really work for them. One thing users can do is code-based optimisation. This being getting the code of their website to a point where it is as easy as possible for search engines to understand it. But what if you can’t do that either? WordPress has a slew of popular SEO plugins that offer various different optimisation options for your content. Preventing Comment Spam We all despise comment spam. My solution is two-fold: Akismet and Cookies for Comments. Enhancing commenting. The Best 30 WordPress Website Plugins for 2011. Monday, May 30, 2011 The world of wordpress plugins is vast and often the biggest challenge for new site owners is researching and discovering which plugins are worth installing.

Given any list of favourites is going to be subjective, I’ve listed the ones that are “MUST INSTALL” plugins for the wordpress websites I build. If you have any others you use that you think are essential, make sure you recommend them via the comments at the end of the post. WordPress SEO by Yoast – Yoast’s all in one SEO plugin should be one of the first plugins you install. Provides an extensive range of SEO and site management function.Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin generates a Google, Yahoo!

Security & Back Up Akismet – The best protect against comment spam on your blog or site.WordPress Database Backup – This plugin is a life saver when things go wrong! Speed W3 Total Cache – The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin.WP Super Cache – A static caching plugin for WordPress. 8 Great Wordpress Plugins « Blogging Tools « Blogtap.net.