Must Have Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog | Web Hosting Demystified

Installing and setting up a WordPress blog is a peice of cake. Many web hosts offer a one click option to install a WordPress blog for your domain. One of the reasons WordPress has become the tool of choice as far as blogging is concerned is the availability of an extensive library of plugins to augment and enhance your blog’s functionality.

Once you are done with installing and configuring your blog, it’s time to add features and functionality. Unless you have a pretty unique requirement all you would need to do is find and install the right wordpress plugin and in rare instances, modify the plugin to work for you.

Below are some of the plugins that I usually setup whenever I start a blog.

1. All In One SEO Pack
2. Google Sitemap
   
3. Blog SiteMap
4. Akismet
   
5. Related Entries
6. WP-phpMyAdmin
7. In Series Plugin
8. Contact Form
9. Image Manager
   

What is important is to also setup my blog correctly in terms of search engine optimization. This is for me an over riding factor and often will use plugins to help me out in this endeavor. Wordpress has great many plugins that greatly improve On Page optimization and because of this has become a tool of choice for the vast majority of SEO’s out there.

I will do a follow up post to this with details on how to set up your blog so that it is best optimized for search engines. I will also detail some of my favorite plugins that I absolutely cannot do without. If you are interested in SEO and optimizing your site and need advice, get in touch and I will be glad to help you out. You can also follow me on one of the biggest SEO Challenges and learn all about search engines and search engines strategies.

If you are beginning your journey in blogging, I would suggest you read up some of my older post more geared towards a novice webmaster as much as you can but I would urge you to start your blogging or hosting journey. There is nothing better than learning on the job. Good luck !!

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