Top 10 WordPress Plug-ins to make your site more user friendly!

We had already covered too many articles under Blogging category about SEO,  famous blogging software WordPress and also covered an article about Google’s Blogger in which I told you all about its history and tutorial to set-up custom domain name. So I hope till now you all will be familiar with WordPress Plug-ins. Don’t worry if you are new to WordPress and yet not familiar with plug-ins, I am once again going to explain it here.

Plug-ins are PHP based tools which extend and expand the functions of  WordPress. You can add plugins by just uploading it to your wp-content > plugins folder that is in your WordPress directory. More info.

Today in this article I am going  to review Top 10 WordPress Plug-ins which I had myself used on Extreme Trix to make WordPress powered blogs more user friendly.

So here we go -

1. Advertising Manager – The best advertisement managing plug-in for WordPress I have ever used! Its having all the features that a publisher looks for. It manages our Google Adsense and other ad network accounts, and allows us to easily place the ads either within our WordPress blog posts, or within our WordPress theme/template.
2. After the Deadline – It is free for our personal use plug-in that check writing errors and offer smart suggestions for our blogs. It uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find our writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
3. AJAX Random Posts - This plugins display a highly customizable list of random posts. There are some plugins that server a similar purpose already, if they’re used along with cache plug-ins, the list is cached also, and remains the same over thousands of views, thus not so “random”. AJAX Random Posts, as its name says, uses AJAX technology to retrieve the posts and overcome the problem: now each page refresh comes with one different list!
4. Akismet – It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API keyto use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.
5. All in One SEO Pack – It’s a nice plug-in with inbuilt option for entire required field for SEO optimization of any post or page.
6. Socialize – The plugin was designed to make it very easy to manage. Instead of adding new meta keys, like other plugins require, there is an additional panel in your post’s admin page that allows you to select which bookmarks you want to display. This is to encourage people to choose more relevant bookmarks for their posts.
7. Wp-Thumbie – This plugin will show related posts based in context and you can configure lots of settings from plugin option page. You can make changes in CSS and design from the plugin editor page. Though even if you don’t this plugin will look good to start.
8. GoCodes – It is simple WordPress plugin which can be used to hide your affiliate link and make them look like a simple link.
9. About the Author Box – Displays a sleek “about the author” box in the single posts page. This is very useful for team blog having too many writers.
10. Facebook Sharecount – The Facebook Share count plugin shows the number of shares on Facebook your posts get and allows users to share it themselves. This plugin is based on the (excellent) Backtype Tweetcount plugin.

New Blogger?

If you are totally new to blogging I will suggest you to read these articles on blogging.

• Learn WordPress in three days!
• Tutorial – to install WordPress and WordPress MU on local server.
• How to transform WPMU into social network.
• How to choose, edit, upload themes and plug-ins?
• What is SEO? How to optimize it for WordPress?
• Top 10 blogging tips/articles for new bloggers.
• Why round up of articles is so important for our blogs?

I hope that you liked my article, if you really enjoyed reading it do read other articles filled under Blogging category. Comments, tweets and Diggs will be appreciated

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