20 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Your Blog


There are approximately 20,034 plugins in WordPress Plugin Directory at the time of this writing, which makes it very difficult to discover beneficial addition to your WordPress blog.
Due to it’s easy setup and use WordPress has proven itself a dependable blogging platform, that is why I’m madly in love with WordPress.
If you’re just starting a blog with WordPress, In this post I’m going to share with you top 20 must have WordPress plugins that will help your WordPress blog perform like a charm.
I know these plugins won’t slow down your blog because I’m using these on my blog and my blog is still loading fast.
So here’s the list of top 20 must have latest and greatest WP plugins for your blog.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a plugin which is used my millions of WordPress users. It protects your blog from spam comments. So far Akismet has protected my blog from more than 110,000 spam comments.

2. WP Super Cache

Most WP blogs is using W3 Tatal Cache plugin to improve their blog speed, but W3TC is too much for me, that is why I choose WP Super Cache because it’s much simple. It makes static HTML files to serve users.

3. All In One SEO Pack

This is must have SEO plugin for all WordPress blogs. It adds meta keywords, description and title tag to all of your blog posts and pages.
This is a best choice to handle SEO concerns.


4. CommentLuv Premium

CommentLuv Premium is a superb way to encourage more comments and readers to your blog. It automatically inserts a link to commentator’s latest blog post when they comment to your blog and leave their website URL.
Most big WP blogs are using CommentLuv Premium plugin just because this is really a must have WordPress plugin that has a lot of goodies. It has 8 plugins in one. Here’s the top CommentLuv enabled WordPress blogs list.

5. Contact Form 7

This plugins is the easiest way to create a contact form for your blog. If you want to engage with your readers customers than you must have a professional contact form.
We must have a contact us page and contact form to our blog so our readers can communicate with us properly.

6. SEO Smart Links

SEO smart links is awesome WordPress plugin which provides automatic SEO benefits for your blog in addition to custom keywords list etc.

7. Broken Link Checker

Broken link checker WP plugin will notify you about broken links and missing images on your blog content.
A blog with too many broken links will frustrate it’s visitors and also have a negative impact on search engine.

8. Google Analytics For WordPress

If you want to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog easily than this plugins is the best choice for you. It easily adds Google Analytics to your blog. You just need to add your Google Analytics ID in settings of this plugin.

9. Secure WordPress

Secure WordPress is the plugin which beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on your login pages. This plugins has a lot of great features which you can read on the plugins page by clicking on the download link below.

10. Top Commentator Widget

Showing your top commentators on your blog’s sidebar or footer is the best way to increase the number of comments on your blog and to connect with your blog readers.

11. WP Security Scan

WP security scan performs a security scan of WordPress installation of your blog.

12. Twitter, Facebook Social Share

This is a plugins which can add the Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumpleUpon and Google+ etc social share box before and after your blog posts.
This is the best social share plugins among hundreds of others which I found till now.

13. WordPress Database Backup

This plugins is the most easiest way to backup the entire database of your WordPress blog.

14. WP MashSocial Widget

This plugins allows you to add a beautiful subscription box in the sidebar of your blog. It allows you to add Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and RSS feed subscription in it.

15. Pretty Link Like

Pretty Link Lite is an awesome plugin which lets you easily cloak affiliate links or any other type of link.It is the easiest way to cloak your affiliate links.
This also has It’s pro version which is called Pretty Link Pro

16. Login Lockdown

This plugin adds extra security to your WordPress blog by restricting the rate at which failed log-ins can be re-attempted from the given IP range.
It will let you know about the failed login attempts on your WP blog.

17. AntiVirus

This is the most effective plugin to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections.
This is another great plugin to secure your WordPress blog as a smart.

18. Instant Adsense

There are many WordPress users looking for perfect WordPress plugin to show Google Adsense ads between posts and sidebar etc. I have found this plugin the best solution for perfect Google Adsense placement.

19. nRelate Plugin

I’m using this plugins and can proudly say that this is the best plugins to show the related posts below blog posts. You can display related posts with thumbnails and without thumbnails.

20. Google XML Sitemap Generator

This plugin allows you to create XML sitemap for your blog quickly, no need to create sitemap file and upload it to your site.

So, The above top 20 must have WordPress plugins are my best plugins and I’m currently using most of them on my blog.

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