10 WordPress Plugins For Beginner Blogger

by Ricky on January 2, 2010

As a beginner blogger it is really tough to decide which wordpress plugin to install or which one should be excluded as there are thousands of plugins available in the wordpress repository. If you are new to wordpress or planning to open up a new blog then you must check out our service page where we offers many free services like free wordpress installation and guidance to newbie blogger.

There are many plugins to chose from. We will dictate only those plugins which can help you to understand the wordpress properly, add value to your wordpress theme, SEO plugin to help you to get maximum SEO benefit.

10 wordpress plugins for newbie bloggers

1.Akismet: You do not need to download this plugin as it is already available with your wordpress installation. Akismet really helps you to kill the spam comments. The other alternative is wp-spam free plugin but akismet works really well. It is understandable that you might not get more spam if your blog is new but why to take chance?

Download Akismet wordpress plugin from here

wordpress plugin for beginner blogger

10 wordpress plugin for beginner blogger

2.All-in-one-seo: No matter how good your content is,if search engines can’t hear it properly you will not get any traffic. To make search engine understand you need to add keyword which are your targeted words or keyword phrases. Those keyword phrases or keywords will help you to drive traffic from search engine if you rank high. All in one seo plugin helps you to insert title and keywords in your theme file or post. It is a must have plugin for all blogger.

Download All in one SEO plugin from here

3.SPNbabble: It might shock many experts or experienced blogger that I’ve included SPNbabble as one of the top 10 wordpress plugin. Well the reason behind inclusion of this plugin is that it helps you to automatically post to many social networking websites. As a blogger you can’t ignore the power of social networking websites. SPNbabble helps you to post to multiple social networks without any hassle. You can easily post your post to facebook, twitter, spnbabble,plurk,tumblr and many more websites.

Download SPNbabble wordpress plugin from here

4.Google XML sitemap: Help Google to help you. Google XML stemap generates an .xml and .gz sitemap of your website. It will automatically update when you publish a new post.

Download Google XML sitemap plugin from here

5.Wp super cache: Wp super cache is a plugin that caches your website pages. It generated a static html file from your dynamic webpages. If you are expecting a huge spike in traffic to your wordpress blog then this will definitely help you to lessen the burden on you server.

Download WP super cache plugin from here

6.Login lockdown: None of us want to get our blog hacked by hackers. Brute force is one of the most common method used to break the password of the admin. Logic lockdown notes the IP address on failure of attempts and saves your blog from such attacks.

Download Login lockdown plugin from here

7.Google Analytics: Google analytics plugin will help you to get the information regarding the visitors, source, keywords and lot more. One must use this plugin to check the trend and targeted keywords that brings the traffic to your blog. It will also help you to see the performance of your SEO tactics.

Download Google Analytics wordpress plugin

8.Wp DB backup: Did your blog get attacked by virus? Or has your web host deleted your file accidentally? Sometimes we press the delete button in hurry which deletes our important files unwillingly. In this case WP DB backup plugin helps us. It regularly takes back up of our databse.

Download WP DB backup plugin from here

9.Contact from7: Contact for plugin will help us to design our own contact from. You can see the example of contact form at our contact us page. We use different contact form plugin.

Download wordpress contact form7 plugin

10.Sexy bookmarks: As the name suggest sexy bookmark plugin will help you and your readers to bookmark and submit your articles in sexy manner. As a blogger you must understand the power of social bookmarking. It will help you to boost the traffic to your website.

Download Sexy Bookmark plugin from here

Back to the readers:

Well I hope you like the post. There are many wordpress plugins I missed in this post but as poer requirement I’ve listed the best 10 worpress plugin for newbie blogger. If you like the post then do me a favor by tweeting it or which ever way you like.

 

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Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats January 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

This is always a nice list to plugins but i would to add comment luv, wp page navi, seo images in the list..
.-= Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats´s last blog ..5 Important SEO Customizations You Need To Do For Your Wordpress Blog =-.

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Ricky January 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm

@Rajesh Kanuri
Well I also feel that 10 plugins are not enough but if you have to decide the best plugins then above mentioned plugins are the best choice.

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Sunil Jain January 3, 2010 at 1:33 am

The #7 is not all required ;) , you see because just add those analytics codes in your blog’s body tag manually and then you can check it via your account only dude.

This way you will avoid this use of plugin and increase your loading speed of your blog , what say dude??? :) :)
.-= Sunil Jain´s last blog ..50+ Best Free Premium Wordpress Themes of December 2009 =-.

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Ricky January 3, 2010 at 2:10 am

@Sunil Jain
Honestly sexy bookmarks is also not required but as a newbie blogger you won’t be able to know the hack. Anyway thanks for your input. Analytic code can be used in footer to track the user activity.

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Tom - StandOutBlogger.com January 3, 2010 at 4:48 am

The first two are my favourite plugins! Askimet has stopped 1,000′s of spam comments for me.
.-= Tom – StandOutBlogger.com´s last blog ..Want To Access Over 190 Internet Marketing Resources FREE? =-.

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Vaibhav - Programming Kid January 3, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Except for Login Lockdown I was aware of all others. SexyBookmarks is very good looking but I would recommend against it because it makes many DNS requests, loads lots of images and has quite some KBs of CSS! Its extra burden actually.

I use manual Social Bookmarking Links on my blog
.-= Vaibhav – Programming Kid´s last blog ..When I LOST a BlackBerry =-.

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Ricky January 3, 2010 at 5:57 pm

@Vaibhav
Yes I know that sexy bookmark increases the loading time of the website but I can’t ignore it as it is among the most downloaded plugin. Even I use manual social bookmarking wordpress hack on my blog. It is better to use manual hack whenever possible.
Thank you for your valuable input. keep rocking ;)

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SaurabhStar January 3, 2010 at 8:20 pm

Well, I don’t agree with the inclusion of wp-super cache plugin for newbie bloggers as it is recommended for the heaviest blog, not for a newbie blog. Wp-super cache often cause problems to inexperienced newbie. So better stay away from such a plugin at the start of your blogging life.
Using Google Analytics plugin is recommended for newbie bloggers instead of adding analytics code in footer because newbie bloggers are likely to change their themes often.
.-= SaurabhStar´s last blog ..How Tech Companies derived their name ? =-.

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Ricky January 4, 2010 at 9:25 am

@Saurabhstar
I did mention about the wp-super cache plugin. It does mess up with the blog. Recently I had a problem with my other blog as it was showing mobile theme on my blog. It forced me to remove the wp mobile plugin.
Thank you for your valuable comment. Keep in touch :smile:

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Natalie White May 25, 2010 at 8:52 am

I am kind of new to social bookmarking but social bookmarks presents great resource when doing research.`,~

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Ewan Matthews July 29, 2010 at 11:28 pm

social bookmarking is very popular nowadays in the same way that social networking sites are also very popular*;`

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