Comments on: 11 Must Install Plugins for A New WordPress Blog

By: seo tips

seo tips — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:28:10 +0000

Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing ?

By: p@r@noid

p@r@noid — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:52:33 +0000

Landed here from SU and like the post, must have plugin for wordpress

The only one which i will not suggest will be sharethis it actually slow down the page a bit and this create problem when you get lots of traffic from some nice website like DIgg/Reddit/Su.

though thumbs up for nice article.!!!

By: Wordpress SEO Plugin

Wordpress SEO Plugin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:12:05 +0000

Wordpress is a great blogging platform and getting it search engine optimized really isn’t a hard task. Using proper permalinks and robots.txt file to prevent duplicate content and a few other methods can really make a difference. The All in One SEO plugin is really the best bet.

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:40:35 +0000

Lucas – Thousands of WordPress users are using this plugin. They trust the author not to do something nasty. And, if there was a backdoor or something, it would have been discovered long ago in the source code

Sumesh – I agree, they can be done with .htaccess, but not everyone wants to get their hands dirty

How could I forget the other plugins!!

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:28:19 +0000

#4 and 6 can be done with .htaccess, so that’s 2 plugins less to overload your DB.

Instead of share this, you can manually add a smaller list of links in single.php

I can’t believe you forgot Better Comments Manager, Ozh Admin Dropdown and What Would Seth Godin Do.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:00:36 +0000

Great list of plug-ins! I don’t recommend the automatic upgrade though, because (as far as I know) it asks you to put in your server log-in details. That, in my opinion, makes your blog vulnerable to some hacks should the plug-in author wish to do something nasty.

By: Shinil

Shinil — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:21:00 +0000

Hi Siyab,

Thanks for the wonderful tips. Learnt quite a few new things! You got a thumbs up from me on StumbleUpon for this

Shinil.
http://twitter.com/shinils

By: Arjen

Arjen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Useful post!

I’m using most of the plugins you’ve mentioned already, but I will certainly try those which I’m not use yet.

Thanks a lot!

By: Joan Kremer

Joan Kremer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:30:53 +0000

Muhammad, as a recent “convert” to WordPress, this post is exceedingly helpful. I do have most of the plug-ins, but didn’t know about the others, which I’m going to add right away.

I also use CommentLuv as a way of showing gratitude for comments from those who have blogs.

Thank you for the list!
Joan

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:57:25 +0000

All of you, thank you for your suggestions.

Mr Muggles, I’d thought about including Akismet too, but since that’s already included, why bother

Infmom, I tried using Spam Karma, but it messed around with other plugins.. so had to disable it. Ajax Edit comments is one rocker too!