Blogging Tips And Tricks

List of 10 Essential Handy Plugins To Manage WordPress Blog

Blogging with WordPress is really easy and one, even without having knowledge of programming or markup, styling or scripting languages like php, mySQL, HTML, jQuery and CSS, can run and manage all aspect of their blogging by their own. There is no need to buy the services of developers or other professionals to manage you blog, to take care of your blog security, optimize you site SEO or to take backups of your site and Database. Although some firms can do these tasks best but thanks to hundreds of thousands of plugins developed by professional or developers, there is little or no more need to pay for each and every modification you want to add to your blog. For instance, you don’t need to pay for the security of your blog now, you can manage your WordPress site SEO by your own, can speed up your site with little effort, can interact with your visitors, publicize your content on social media with ease, can take backups and add other functionality to your blog with these handy plugins listed and discussed below. Plugins really made blogging easy and empower the bloggers to do with their blog what they want.

01. W3 Total Cache

Site Speed is one of the important aspects of your blog or site reputation and SEO. The sites with slow loading time don’t get high ranking in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). So don’t ignore the site speed and don’t be indolent toward optimizing it as this will affect your site SEO too.

There are hundreds plugins for site speed and caching avail be among which I personally use and recommend the W3 Total Cache. W3 Total Cache improve your site speed and overall performance by caching every aspect of site including objects, pages and database, minifying CSS and JavaScript and add content delivery network support to your site. W3 Total Cache take care of complete performance of your blog and being use and recommended by many other professional bloggers and web hosts as well.

02. All in One SEO Pack

When it comes to site search engine optimization, All in One SEO Pack is the best among other available SEO plugins not just because of the number of features it provide but the ease of use of this plugin too really matter to make it the best SEO plugin. All in One SEO plugin adds SEO friendly Title, Keywords, Description to Posts and pages, automatically generates Meta Tags, submit XML sitemap to Google, Bing and notify search engines. All these features come with great ease make the plugin suitable for both novice and professional bloggers.

03. Akismet

Spamming and spam commenting is a big issue for every blogger to deal with. Novice blogger initially deal with spam comment manually as I was. I was tired while deleting thousands of spam comments daily manually taking lots of time or have to take backup of the entire database first and then run SQL command to delete all comments whether spam or genuine at once.

Then I found the Akismet plugin and dealing with spamming got easy. Using Akismet plugin is the best way to deal with spam comments and it provides Real Time protection 24 hourly. Akismet filters the comments look like spam and sends it directly to spam directory from where it can delete at once to save space and improve site speed.

04. CommentLuv

I was really happy when I got first comment on my. For every new blogger, commenting on his or her site is the indicator of site traffic, performance and reputation. These factors are crucial for site SEO too. In order to get more traffic and comments on your site, CommentLuv plugin is the option.

CommentLuv attracts the visitors to comments on your site in order to get a backlink from you to their site. This plugin make a win-win strategy for both the Webmaster and the visitor. The webmaster of the blog gets more traffic and comments and the commentator get a backlink.

Note: CommentLuv Premium also deal with spammers

05. AddThis

Experienced bloggers do not just relay on the traffic from Search engine. They want to attract more visitors to their site using any legal source, one of which is Social Media. The bloggers tend to share their contents or post on social media and encourages others to do same.

A simple way to publicize your contents on Social media like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest is AddThis WordPress Plugin. AddThis plugin allow your visitors to share the posts or contents of their interest on almost all popular social networking and bookmarking site with a single click. AddThis allows sharing the post on more than 330 sites.

Read: Best Free WordPress Social Sharing Plugins for 2015

06. Starbox Box

Have you notice the Author Bio Box at the end of your favorite post? Most bloggers tend to add their Bio on the post which they have published on their own blog or as guest on other blogs. If you want to add a professional and elegant yet free Author Box to your won site, StarBox is best choice.

The plugin is not just to add description of yourself but it would let the visitors to read your recent posts and will able to found you on Facebook, Twitter, Google plus and many other social media sites.

07. Contact Form 7

Have a blog an don’t have Contact Us Page with a Contact Form is look like have shop and do not have window or door for customers. Contact form let your customer or advertiser to contact you to buy your services or to publish their ads on you site. Even Google do not approve the sites for AdSense if they don’t have Contact Us page or form.

An easy way to add Contac form is “Contact Form 7”. This simple and flexible plugin allow you to add manage and customize contact form for your blog or number of blogs from just one dashboard. Contact Form 7 plugin can also be integrated with CAPTCHA to prevent spam mails.

So install Contact Form 7 to add contact form to your bog, stay connected with your visitors and to make your site ready for Google AdSense Plugins.

08. SEO Friendly Images

This is one another great SEO plugin which is deal with the images not text. Of course images should be SEO ready too to get high rank in Image Searches and drive lots of traffic from Google Image, Bing or Yahoo Images. Since the key elements of Image SEO is to add “title” and “alt” tag to images but this can be time consuming if lots of images are being uploaded to your blog.

Install the SEO Friendly Images and relax. This time saving plugin will do the job for you. SEO Friendly Images add “Title” and “alt” tag to images uploaded currently or in the past make them Search Engine friendly. The plugin validate your post against W3c / xHTML too.

09. Wordfence Security

Security is a big issue to deal with for every blogger either novice or experts. On an average, 30,000 WordPress blogs hacked daily. One of the major reasons behind this is the use of pirated theme or plugin which contain malicious code. The piece of code is used by hacker as a security hole to attack your blog and crush it.

To get rid of this, Wordfence is the choice. This WordPress security plugins scan your blog source code for any piece of malicious code in theme and plugins and clean it to secure your site. Wordfence also improve the site speed and make it 50 times faster

Read: Best Plugins To make your WordPress Blog Secure

10. OIO Publisher Plugin

Last but not least, who don’t want to monetize their blogs? Since everyone want to make revenue from their efforts they made for blogging, OIO Publisher plugins is a choice in this regards.

OIO Publisher Plugin is not just a plugin but it is an ad manager which enables the publisher or website owners to maximize their revenue from their blogs with ease and 100% control on the ads display. It will add a professional look to the advertisement so you can run your advertisement campaign without any mess look. You can place you ads on the blog wherever you want.

Read: 5 Best WordPress AdSense Integration Plugins 2015