This my first post in WordPress category,so would like to first share the Best WordPress plugins that I use in my blog.

WordPress is the most widely used content management system & has a lot of cool inbulit features but we can enhance that features even more just my simply installing this must have plugin for your wordpress blog.

Though we are still new to the blogging world,but the amount of traffic and positive comments that we have got is quite overwhelming..

without wasting any more time I would be listing about top 15 plugins that every wordpress blogger or website should have.

1}WP super cache.

This is the first plugin that i installed when i started creating my web blog,this is the most essential plugin that every bloggers should have

what this plugin actually does is decreases your website load time which is quite essential if you are to get high Rank in search engines like Google,Yahoo..etc

2}Akismet

 

Do you own a blog which has lots of user’s commenting on your post,then you might also get spams which is quite difficult to handle & moderate,so to overcome this problem

Automatically{the company behing wordpress} launched this plugin so that spams are eradicated from the comments section of your blog

3}Google Analytics for WordPress.

As the title suggests this is a google service,created by Joost De Valk,an WordPress expert basically tracks your vistors & lets you know from where your vistors have came form.It even lets you knw lot of other things like form which browser,screen resolution your vistors have visited your blog,

4}Google XML sitemaps

 

 

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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,

5}Digg Digg

 

Are you noticing the  floating social bookmark menu on the left,you might be wondering how could i have this on my own web blog.So here’s the simple solution for that,install this wordpress plugin & change some setting in  your dashboard according to your theme adjustment & start using it right away.

6}Seo Smart Links

 

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

but how come this help is blogs,the answer is quite simple the more you interlink your posts with your other related posts the more you get on preference on serach engines

7}Scroll To Top.

Want to add scroll to top button like ours on the bottom right,so this is the plugin,imagine a page too long around 1000 words with images in it & the users reads each & every word of it and then after finishing he wants to go back to top,think how much he would have to scroll to get on to top of your page,so this plugin uses jquery & lets user go back to top with a only with a click with jquery effect with it.

8}Max Banner Ads.

Have ads on your blog,so you might be facing a difficulty to manage your ads subscription,this plugins helps you manage ads as wel as lets you add Ads in custom position like on top of every posts,bottom of every posts,on sidebar..etc….though its not listed in wordpress plugin’s directory but its prety useful to help you manage your advertisement

9}Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

This plugins helps you show your vistor related posts or relevent content of there interest,this helps user engage your vistors within your site aswell as increase your page views & decrease your Bounce Rate

10}Contact Forms 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

11}Optimize database

When you start righting posts in your dashboard,you sometime make mistakes or save the document as draft,this makes your database file too large & there by slowing down your site speed.this plugins cleanes your database and saves a lot of your database file size.

12}All In One Seo plugin.

This is the best SEO plugin for wordpress blogger,what this does is it customizes your blog posts titles & categories so that search engine could find you.it automatically optimizes your blog posts.

13}Subscribe To Comments

 

This plugin adds a small check box below your comment Box,if  the box is checked then the user gets notified after every comments is posted on the blog, this helps keep user engaged in the debate amd thereby increasing your page views.

14}Disqus comment system.

One of the best comment system plugin on the net,it readily integrates with Akismet plugin and Other lots of feature…Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

15}Popup Domination

 

Though this plugin would cost you but its worth single penny,this plugin basically provide the user with an Lightbox Optin form where user are required to fill the information to get the e-book or similar stuff…

 

Conclusion: Above all plugins i personally use in this blog,except Popup domination which i would be implementing in the later satges of the blog..

hope this top 15 BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS helps you in building your blog.

know any alternatives or better plugin other then the above one..so do let us know & the ever growing community of Homeforgeeks……because this is the place to where learners are teachers…….