WordPress Blog - what plugins do you use?

There are hundreds and hundreds of WordPress Plugins to make your blog easier to manage and more 'search-friendly'.

So, what can I use plugin on my blog?

I added a short description for each explain where, why and how I used them.

I hope this post helps you.

Add Mr

Add a custom signature to the bottom of the post and photos with information about the author.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet blog receives web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under "Comments" and then delete or approve. (This plugin is a must-have if you get a lot of spam in the comments.)

All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. This can really improve your SEO and increase your rankings by re-formatting key meta-tags, header information, and title tags for specific (or all) pages and posts.

Bad Behavior

Deny automated spambots access to the website based on PHP. This plugin alone kills hundreds of spam and comment spam attempts on my websites. And 'a must have plug-in.

Batch Categories

Allows you to easily manage the mass categorization of posts that match various criteria. This plugin allows messages of reform based on categories, sort, arrange, and edit them into a massive stroke.

Follow

The Do-Follow plugin removes the nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments. This means that the search engines that crawl your posts even scan links you commenters, too. A great way to increase participation.

Google Analytics for WordPress

I actually do not use this plug-in because the WordPress theme that I use allows you to simply include Google Analytics.

But if you do not use a theme, this plugin makes it easy to add Google Analytics. Definitely a must-have if you're tracking visitor activity.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin creates a sitemap of your WordPress blog sitemaps.org compatible, which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo! This plugin automatically generates sitemaps every night and submit them to Google. And 'a must.

Serial

It gives you as the author of the blog, an easy way to connect posts together as a series.

Popular Posts

View the list of most popular posts. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed - see the next plugin.

Post-Plugin Library

Does nothing by itself, but provides common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts and Popular Posts (above).

Posts by Author

At the bottom of each post, this plugin adds links to recent posts by author "X" (mine is set to five). It 's a great way to increase the internal traffic in your blog.

SEO Friendly Images

Automatically add "alt" and "title" to all your images. Improves traffic from search results.

Share this

Allows visitors to your blog to share a post from your site with others via social bookmarks or e-mail.

Similar Posts

Similar Posts displays a list of messages that are similar or related to the posts current. The list can be customized in many ways. Similarity is evaluated based on the title of a post, the content and tags and you can adjust the balance of factors to fit your blog.

Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to avoid unwanted spam. Prevent spam bots and automated bad people more important. It 's simple but secure.

Sociable

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and RSS feeds. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

Smart Update Pinger

The Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger replaces the standard WordPress build-in ping functionality and makes many improvements to it. For example, services are only ping when a new post is created (when there is an existing post is being edited), and for future posts, services are only pings when the post is published to your blog.

Subscribe to Comments

It allows users to receive notifications of new comments are posted to an entry. It adds a checkbox in the comment area asking commentators if they wish to be notified of new comments to the post that he commented.

Twitter Tools

The full integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. If you are a Twitter, a must have.

WordPress.com Stats

Tracks views, post / page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. While Google Analytics offers better reporting capabilities, this allows you to see statistics at a glance, on the admin dashboard when you login.

WordPress Database Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. You can even schedule backups on a regular basis, from daily to monthly. This is a must-have, if you do not want to lose the contents should something happen to your blog or database. (I use it to back up my blog, every day)

WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.

WP-DBManager

Optimizes the WordPress database tables with a single click. Simply, it helps to optimize the database of your blog within the administration and makes then 'load' faster.

WP-Sticky

With this plug-in, you can mark the message as an announcement or sticky post.

For those wondering what exactly it means to mark something as a sticky or announcement, mark a post as an announcement will cause the message to permanently be described as the very high post in your blog, and mark your post as a sticky just keep it as a top post for the duration of that day. Starting the day after, will move back to his order published.

WP-Auto Tagger

This plugin suggests tags based on the content of the post. You have the option to automatically save messages or get tag suggestions tag with a single click. Auto Tagger will not replace existing tags .......