Top Plugins Should Be Installed On WordPress

If you’re new with WordPress or looking for some suggestions on which WordPress plugins best for your website that speed up the performance to handle more traffic, get higher rank with search engines, protect your blog for spammer, easier for your readers to share your url, etc …

Below I’ll list all the top plugins you should install whenever you decide to build your website base on WordPress. From my experiences, they’re the best for all your needs and they are FREE.

1. Google XML Sitemaps

It will automatically generate a XML sitemap which will help search engines index your blog better and easier.

Preview my sitemap: http://4rapiddev.com/sitemap.xml

2. All in One SEO Pack

It will automatically generates description and keywords meta tag for each of article. It also allows to customize title as well as description and keywords. It may help to get higher rank with search engines for your website/blog.

Preview result on my site:

[html] <!– All in One SEO Pack 1.6.13.2 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[78,151] –>
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<link rel="canonical" href="http://4rapiddev.com/?p=602" />
<!– /all in one seo pack –>
[/html]

3. WP-DBManager

It manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

4. WP Super Cache

It will increase your website/blog performance to handle more traffic. By generating your pages to static HTML file, it speeds up the page load and very useful for website ranking.

Preview result on my site:

[text] <!– Dynamic page generated in 0.325 seconds. –>
<!– Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2011-04-03 21:34:39 –>
[/text]

5. WP-Paginate

It’s extremely useful when your website/blog has lots of content. It will help your reader easier to explore your site via a simple and flexible pagination feature.

Preview result on my site:

6. Fast Secure Contact Form

It allows a webmaster to easily create and add contact forms to WordPress. The contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin. An administration panel is present, where the webmaster can create and preview unlimited forms. It also have Captcha protection added in to prevent spammers.

Preview result on my site:

7. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

It adds CAPTCHA to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots.

Preview result on my site:

8. Yet Another Related Posts

It will display list of related contents on your site which are most relevant with the current pages. It helps readers stay longer on your website/blog.

Preview result on my site:

9. SyntaxHighlighter

It allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without losing it’s formatting or making any manual changes. It’s very useful when you intend to build your blog for developers with some code example.

Preview result on my site:

This page still opens for your contribution, share with us which WordPress plugins you like best 🙂