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Its been 2 weeks I am using Wordpress. In this post I am going to share my experience that I have learnt in these 2 weeks. I am going to tell you the most important plugins that you must install after installing Wordpress. So, lets not waste any more time and come to the point :d
If you are migrating from Blogger to Wordpress I recommend you to read Rahul’s post on Blogger To Wordpress Traffic & Permalinks Redirection Plugin
I think, by now, you have successfully installed Wordpress. Lets talk about most important plugins that every blogger should install.
1. Google XML Sitemap Plugin : The first plugin you should install after installing Wordpress is Google XML Sitemaps. This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. Click here for download link and installation instructions.
2. Akismet : It is a spam fighting plugin that will completely reduce spam in your comments. Click here for download link and installation instructions.
3. WhyDoWork : A must have plugin for Adsense plublishers. You can see that I have placed Google Ads in between the post title and post body. For placing ads I have used WhyDoWork Adsense plugin. This plugin allows you to place ads anywhere in your blog. Click here for download link and installation instructions.
4. All in One SEO : It is one of the best plugin for Wordress. It optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Click here for download link and installation instructions.
5. Limit Post : This plugin helps you in limiting your posts automatically. You can see that when you open this blogs home page, every post has a read more text written at the end. This reduces the page loading time of your home page. I have used Limit Post Wordpress plugin to limit my posts. You can limit your post by letter, word or paragraph. Click here for download link and installation instructions.
6. Broken Link Checker : This plugin checks broken links in your blog so that you can fix it. Just download this plugin from here and broken links will appear in your dashboard.
7. Related Post Plugin : For getting more page visits, I recommend you to use related post plugin. Click here for the download link and installation instructions.
8. Top Commentators Widget : To get more comments to your blog, its good to install top commentator plugin so that readers comment more and more to get their name in the top list. 
So, this plugin ads a widget to your sidebar which shows the top commentators. Click here to download.
9. Popular Post Widget : To show popular post in sidebar, here is a plugin called Popularity Contest by Alex King. It keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. Click here for the download link and installation instructions.
10. AJAX Comments : This plugin will make it easy for your readers to comment in your blog. By default when anyone writes a comment, the page gets refresh but after installing this plugin, your comment will be published without refreshing the page. Click here for the download link and installation instructions.
If you have any important plugin to share, feel free to comment
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Gaganpreet Singh on May 5, 2009 | Filed Under Blogger Tricks, Featured, Wordpress
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Nice collection Gagan
Thanks Simran, alot more to come
waiting…
Hey, how to use Ajax comments, please tell me
Sahil, just install this plugin and it will work automatically
Great list gagan!!
Nice post Gagan,
You always post nice information. Kindly please post about some those WP Plugins, which are useful but some one don’t know about it.
You moved to Wordpress, congrats, i m visitng your site after a long time.
thanks Amadh, I was waiting your comments and Nikhil’s comment too :d
nice colection
nice one. i like the ajax comment. thank u. another one is there. the “sexy bookmarks” plugin, its cool. i am using ion ma site.[ now for three days my site is down for replacement hosting. where did u put your hosting services. plz tell me.
hi
u can check my site
Mine hosting wrking fine for me
i am using almost all plugins other then ajax comments..whats that bdw?
let me give a try to this plugin as well
Just use this plugin and you will come to know, do share your views about this plugin with us
Wow! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my site something like that
Great collection…Thank you.
Ur Welcome Kiran
thanks for the list, really helpful for bloggers, stumbled it
I would add Subscribe to Comments to this list.
yea Binyy that’s also a useful plugin
Your site displays incorrectly in Firefox, but content excellent! Thank you for your wise words:)
Hey Ariana, can you tell me in detail how “Firefox displays my site incorrectly” ?
I want to say – thank you for this!
If you have to do it, you might as well do it right
Nice collection.
I would also suggest Super Cache plug-in. Many sites use this to speed up their blog.
thanks for mentioning the others
Hope you missed the WP Super Cache and Askimet they are used now widely…
I am glad that the blog owner has chosen a very interesting matter in order to spread huge knowledge among people.I would like to congratulate for this hard work to the blog owner and would like to be part of his blog by submitting comments.
@gagan
wordpress saying limit post Compatible up to: 2.3
but i,m using 2.8.1
it will work???
These are the old version, I’ll update the links with latest version.
tnx! very useful plug-ins!
I read recently that Wordpress frowns upon commercial advertising such as Adsense on their blogs to the extent that they may even ban your site for excessive use. Have you had any problems with adding your Adsense ads to your posts?
Nice plugin!! thanks
Perfect!!!
ehh. strange )
Hello… Nice post …