Comments on: Your 5 Most Essential WordPress Plugins?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:02:08 +0000

@Deepanshu, feedsmith helps you redirect all your feed URLs to one feedburner URL. This is kind of useful when it’s accessed from multiple directories/sources/readers and projects one feed access count as well.

For example, http://www.dollarshower.com/feed, http://www.dollarshower.com/feed/rss2, http://www.dollarshower.com/feed/atom, etc. converges into http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dollarshower

[Btw, this is a 2.5 year old post and my current list of essential plugin may not include some of these]

By: Deepanshu

Deepanshu — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:26:50 +0000

still cant understand the use of feedburner smith

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:56:00 +0000

Nice topic! I reckon you could use Exec PHP to add a tad of dynamic programmatic functionality to your WP blog and pipe the output as text for a post or a page.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:43:49 +0000

@Harsh, Exec PHP can be used to execute php scripts within your posts or text widgets. It’s extremely handy

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:27:35 +0000

Exec PHP? m not aware of it.. can u tell more abt it?Harsh Agrawal's last blog post... Gmail labs new feature : Senders time zone

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:13:38 +0000

@Yan, I can see that SEO is on top of the list for most

Btw, how’s everyone extending the blog with widgets? Don’t you all use the Exec PHP or similar widgets?? I thought, this is one of the most essential widgets to plug PHP code in…

By: Blog for Beginners

Blog for Beginners — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:44:45 +0000

Here are the 5 plugins I can’t do without

1. Platinum SEO
2. WP Database Backup
3. Google XML Sitemap
4. Akismet
5. Feedburner Feedsmith

Yan

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:24:42 +0000

@Jo, you bet… it takes some time to set it up. I faced similar set up issues with All-in-one SEO plugin as well

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:01:24 +0000

Hi Ajith,

This post is very helpful for someone like me who is just starting with WordPress. You were right with the Google XML plugin. Its been the hardest for me to set up so far.

Thanks!

Jim

By: Chetan

Chetan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:12:37 +0000

@Ajith Prasad
Yep, security is one of the most important fact, atleast when you are famous amongst tech bloggers, tech bloggers know many aspects of hacking

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:36:44 +0000

@Chetan, yep, I read your post… Nice security tips and I will surely check out those plugins.

Security is indeed of prime importance to all of us

By: Chetan

Chetan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:43:27 +0000

Now you can add few more SECURITY related plug-ins that i posted today .
They should come under Most Essential category

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:44:27 +0000

@ZK, @Madhur, Cut n paste one of the answers above Why is everyone after All-In-One-SEO plugin?

I think the contemporary blogging is all about SEO first…

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:02:04 +0000

My fav is All in One SEO. Wordpress Database Backup. Google Sitemap generator, Akismet, cformsMadhur Kapoor's last blog post... GetDiz - Free Viewer for .Diz and .Nfo files

By: ZK@Internet Marketing Blog

ZK@Internet Marketing Blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:17:40 +0000

All in one SEO plugin is great value for any blog

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:32:29 +0000

@Bruno, TheArdit, thanks for your views… All-In-One-SEO seems to be the common thing with everyone

@TheArdit, not sure why CommentLuv has to be an essential plugin? Especially, with the latest version, I am finding it less useful…

By: TheArdit

TheArdit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:53:37 +0000

I use almost all of those plugins
My top 5:
1. Akismet
2. All in one seo pack
3. Comment luv
4. WordPress Database Backup
5 Feedsmith

By: Bruno Auger

Bruno Auger — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:39:18 +0000

I use all those plugins but I think the All in one SEO plugin would be one of my top 5 plugins.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:56:42 +0000

@Pavan, In fact, I read about the Platinum SEO plugin sometime ago but did not find a compelling reason to go for it. At the end, both plugins generate simiar meta information. The other things that it does such as robots follow, noindex, tags etc are already in place for me due to the changes done for my theme.

Does it have any other feature than modifying the meta tags and title?

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:31:47 +0000

I think commentators here are not aware of platinum seo plugin. It is much better than all in one seo…

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