List of WordPress Plugins I use on my blog

No one can think a blog without any plugin. So, whenever you would like to create a blog, you need some plugins. There are many WordPress plugins in the marketplace and every day some new and probably exciting WordPress plugins are launched to help you create a blog. Here I would like to share a list of WordPress plugins which I use on my blog.

Here is a list of most of the plugins, and their detailed explanation:

SEO By Yoast

This plugin is a free but an essential  Wordpress plugin for every blog as it helps to optimize On page SEO and social SEO of any blog. SEO By Youst plugin goes some more steps to take care of your blog site optimization. For instance, it helps you write better content as it forces you to select a focus keyword when you are on writing articles and ensure you to put the focus keyword where relevant.

Akismet Plugin

A free anti-spam plugin from the official creator of WordPress is Akismet, which fight against spam comments.

The plugin Akismet checks users’ comments on your blog to make sure if they are spam or not and presents you the review of the spam that it identifies at the admin screen of your blog comments area.

One drawback of this plugin is that it skips spam comments or legit comments of the spam folder, though it can be solved by daily checking your spam folder.

WP Forms plugin

The WP Forms plugin is a free plugin helps you to add a contact form on a blog. This plugin allows you to filter the real and spam message. You can build online forms within a minute as it’s an intuitive drag & drop WordPress plugin. It’s also a fast, modern, and easiest form plugin to use.

Last updated

Last updated is a very simple plugin inserts a widget in the sidebar on a blog to show the lately updated post. With the help of this plugin, the users can mark updated posts on the sidebar of a blog as a new spotlight as you update your old posts regularly.

LinkPatrol

LinkPatrol is an SEO related plugin for WordPress that controls the external link of your blog. If you think to take out any existing outer link to your blog or like to Nofollow, you can use this LinkPatrol Plugin. It’s an influential as well as a valuable plugin for your blog site’s SEO. An outbound link is now ignored or overlooked for your website SEO. So, an intuitive solution to fixing and remain on top of outbound link issues in the WordPress - Link Patrol is a must-have plugin for you.

Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments is an essential free plugin for WordPress, which allows commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of following entries. This plugin also offers an option to its users to subscribe to comments on an exact post. This plugin inserts a checkbox after comments, from where commentators can subscribe for getting notification of next comments. Here commenters can unsubscribe to individual posts or can block all notifications; even they can change their email address which was used to get notifications.

 WordPress Page Navigation plugin

The WordPress Page Navigation plugin works to help your readers as well as visitors to go promptly to another page on your blog site. It’s a free plugin, but an essential part of the WordPress blog. An easy to use custom plugin to create page navigation on your site. This plugin increases the SEO of your site providing additional links to your content.

This Page navigation plugin is different to many others plugin in the marketplace as it is based on a core page number utility, known as paginating links. In WP-admin, WordPress uses it for the page numbers. As it’s suitable for WordPress, also appropriate for all WordPress blog owners.

 WordPress Related Post

WordPress Related Post Plugin helps you to increase readers’ engagement on your blog posts, inserting relevant posts at the bottom of your content. When you use this plugin on your site, it automatically adds related post on your site and increases more traffic.

A WordPress related post plugin by Zemanta is a notable one supports different styles and thumbnails. It’s a fully customizable for better performance in future.

Conclusion:

In this article, I tried to describe on some of the WordPress Plugins which I commonly use on my blogs. Besides these I use more plugins on my blogs, to give them more lively to the readers, which I would like to explain in my next article.