Other than Google Sitemap plugin, do we have any must have plugin to install while running of Wordpress blog? Please comments. Thanks
Best recommended plugins are... 1. akismet 2. headspace (SEO plugin) 3. favicon 4. feedburner 5. social it 6. digg digg social buttonts...
Useful plug insfor word press Akismet – comes installed with your WordPress by default. All you have to do is get an API Key to activate it. It prevents your blog from comment spam. All-in-One SEO – This is an ultimate necessity for your blog if you want to have any chance of ranking high in search engines. All-in-One-SEO Pack allows you to add unique meta description, keywords, and titles to each page of your blog and blog posts. ) Contact Form 7 – When running a blog you need to allow your users to contact you. This is the best free contact form plugin to this date. It makes everything easy. (An alternative to this plugin is a paid plugin known as Gravity Forms which is extremely feature rich.) WP Super Cache – This plugin makes a copy of your web page on the server and by doing so it increases the page load time and reduces the resource consumption. It is essential that you have this plugin just incase if your site hits the Front Page of a social media network such as digg or stumbleupon, without this plugin, your server will most likely crash. (See: How to Install WP Super Cache) WordPress Database Backup – This plugin lets you make backup for your blog as often as you need. You can set this process to be automated and have it deliver to your email or a safe spot in your webhost. By having this plugin, you can always stay on the safe side because if anything goes wrong, you have the latest backup in your possession. (Other Database Backup Solutions) Subscribe to Comments – A plugin that allows your users to subscribe to the comments, so they will be notified when the next comment is posted. It helps your user to stay updated with the discussion and keep the activity going on your blog. Feedburner Feedsmith – When creating your WordPress blog an essential part is having RSS Feed subscribers, and the most important of having subscribers is to be able to track them and keep the count. Which is when the service of feedburner came in play. This plugin converts all of your RSS Feeds, to your custom feedburner feeds, so all of your subscribers are subscribed to one feed therefore you get the most accurate count of your subscribers. Comment Redirect – This plugin lets you redirect the attention of your new users to a specific page. So you can actually substitute the email sent out by Comment Relish plugin by a page on your site. Sometimes users might prefer this over the email. Check out our Thank You Page. Google XML Sitemap – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. OIO Publisher – This is an ad manager that focuses on maximizing your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space. While there is a one time fee for unlimited domains, this plugin is a gem that every blog needs. It will create a purchase page, automatically connects with paypal, generate subscription links, and much much more.
I second this, All in One SEO Pack is great for WP: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
All in one SEO Login lockdown Cforms Headspace and the rest are one's that can only be recommended when details about the kind of blog you are running are divulged, since some only really apply to different types of blog, such as wp-robot for autoblogs etc
I'm more on the back end plugin. One Click Plugin Updater is great! Installing a plugin is just copying the URL of the plugin/theme zip file and pasting into wordpress and click install. Simple! Google Analytics for Wordpress by Yoast for you to put in your google analytics tracking code. s2Member for membership/subscription implementation into your website 4 levels of membership available and is integrated with Paypal Contact Form 7 for you to create contact form or any type of submission forms Revision Control for you to contain the amount of post/page revisions being saved by Wordpress esp for WP2.9 and later. In this way, you will need not be worried of your database being over-populated with post revisions