10 Useful Plugins for a Fresh Wordpress Installation
I still remember the first time I installed wordpress, I was all excited and started posting. The post looked great but where is the option to reply directly under a comment? Why I can’t see avatars next to the commentator names like other blogs have? I am sure you also asked yourself a few questions when you first installed wordpress… I did! I had to spend a lot of time to look for all the plugins that wanted.
Wordpress is great already even with the default template, one of the reason why I moved from blogger is that here I have the freedom to do whatever I want, plugins are what make wordpress even better.
To save you some time I have put together 10 plugins that might be useful if you are installing wordpress for the first time, also I will keep this post as a reference for myself if I have to install wordpress again. I will list the plugins in no particular order.
Like I was saying above, I have been looking for an option where I could reply to a comment directly below it rather than having to quote everyone who commented and all being completely down the page. This is one of my favorite plugin.
I personally do not like having my archives on my sidebar. After 1-2 years it will take a lot of space there. The plugin is what solved everything for me. Now all my previous posts are on this archives page.
This is one cool plugin that redirects all your wordpress feeds to feedburner. I had a hard time trying to figure out how some blogs had their feed url in the address bar to point to their feedburner feed. It makes it much easier to know how many readers you have on your blog.
Very easy to setup and does the thing, the contact form does not ask for much details from whoever is trying to contact you. You can check my contact page, it is this plugin that I am using.
If you are like me and love checking your blog statistics every time, this is one great plugin that gives you details about the 50 recent visitors on your blog, top search keywords from the search engines, well some basic stuffs. I know there are a few other plugins for stats but this one is my favorite. Of course this is not the only way I track my visitors, I also use Google Analytics.
If you want to add a youtube video safely to your blog without breaking the whole layout, this is the plugin you need. I remember I added a youtube video to one of my blog but when I checked the post my sidebar was completely down (I had copied the code directly from youtube). With the plugin you can choose the size you want the video display size to be and also the color of background to fit your needs. Very easy to use, you just need to add “v” in the video link you want to add “httpv://”. E.g.
This is one cool little plugin which allows your top commentators to have a link to their blog or site in your sidebar. It is a great way to encourage people to comment on your blog. You can see the plugin in my sidebar.
If you tag your posts, this plugin will display a list of related posts. This is great as you are sure your older posts will be read by new readers.
9. MyAvatars
This plugin give you the option to add mybloglog.com avatars to your comments. When someone add a comment they will have their image displayed next to it. I find this plugin really nice as in some way it bring some life to how a post is displayed.
10. WP-Polls
No need to explain about this one, it is to add polls to your posts. Like below:
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