Essential WordPress Plugins Worth Downloading

There are many good WordPress plugins available for download from WordPress.org. Each have their own  distinctive function and  are must for every blogger or any for any development purpose. These plugins can be easily searched, installed and activated. Its recommended to install latest version of plugin to match with your current version of WordPress. The installation instructions, description for plugin is also provided. Many plugins are available free for download and some come with price for more added features. I have categorized a few of essential plugins.

Akismet

This plugin comes with WordPress software download.  This plugin keeps away a lot of spams comments and you can see the Akismet stats and find out spams coming according to time, month, year. You can get  Akismet API key from their website and easily filter spam comments and have genuine comments approved.

Broken Link Checker

A very useful plugin that will find any links that are broken or not working in your blog, its also SEO friendly. Easily detects and fixes the broken links by selecting  from the number of choices provided. You can also edit or remove the broken url which is not functioning. The plugin will itself send update of any links found broken later through email. Setting is also provided for schedule checking of broken links.

All in One SEO Pack

This is most popular SEO plugin, with many SEO functions. This plugin is easy to configure  for beginners with basic SEO settings for better index of pages and posts with options for title, description, keywords, categories, tags and much more.

Google XML Sitemaps

This essential webmaster tool plugin will generate XML sitemap that is submitted to search engines  like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to easily crawl and better index your blog. It also has option for adding of sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt file. You can also use other options like excluded categories, post and sitemap content that can be customized.

WP htaccess Control

A good plugin for generating Htaccess file easily for WordPress for newbies. You can easily choose from option setting with lot of features and customize  permalinks for author, category, archives, tags. You can protect access to wp-config.php files, disable directory, force cononical url, set error pages and hotlinking.

WP Mobile Detector

This plugin will automatically detect visitor's standard or advanced mobile devices and load compatible mobile theme. It comes with compatible themes to choose from and many features like unique visitor stats.

WP Super Cache

A good plugin for fast caching of your blog will generate static html file to be served to majority users. It comes with lot of features that will reduce page loading time like php caching, CDN support, compression and gets integrated with blog's .htaccess.

WordPress Database Backup

 

Another essential plugin helps to keep backup of  your entire website which includes database and filesystem. You can download your zipped backup directly to your computer or through email. It comes with other advanced features like Encryption, Schedule settings.

YARPP

Another good plugin called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin  also recommended for blog comes with strong features displays related posts with many options to select from including RSS support for related post.

Contact Form 7

A simple contact form generating plugin for your blog with may features. It comes with option for CAPTCHA support to protect from spammers and you can generate multiple forms and customize accordingly from given tag selection.

There are many more plugins available freely for download as per requirement making a good blogging experience for you. They also save a lot of coding and development time for an ordinary user.