Digital Marketing and Technological Insight

It is no secret that I am a huge fan of WordPress as a CMS and especially as a blog platform. WordPress offers the best flexibility, user-interface and stability of any platform out there. On top of that, the real value of using WordPress are the enormous amounts of plugins available to help you manage, promote and do just about anything else with your blog. With that being said I felt it was time to list my favorite WordPress Plugins covering anything and everything.

• All in One SEO Pack: Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines. Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines, generates META tags automatically, avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs. Override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. You can fine-tune everything, Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
• Crawl Rate Tracker: This is a plugin to log every visit by search engine robots, and show the results in different reports.
• Digg Digg: Integrates Digg button into blog posts.
• Lighter Menus: Lighter Menus creates drop-down menus instead of the regular admin menus of the WordPress interface, so that you can browse items with one click and work at your blog in a much more usable environment.
• Enhanced WP-ContactForm: WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. In the message it sends to you it gives the page the user visited before the contact page, as well as the original outside referrer. It can be implemented on a page or a post.
• Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
• MultiFeedSnap: Plugin for displaying multiple RSS feeds.
• Redirection: A redirection manager - KEY for when you move from one blog platform to another.
• Robots Meta: This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Usually you have to go to your hosting company in order to upgrade your blog - not with this plugin which takes care of the upgrade automatically.
• ShareThis: Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.
• SEO Friendly Images: This plugin automatically optimizes ALT and TITLE attributes for each of your images that doesn’t have one. This will make them xHTML valid, and it will also help you a bit in your rankings.
• Twitter Tools: A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches, limited by a certain relatedness threshold.
• WP Super Cache: WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
• RSS Footer: This very simple plugin let’s you add an extra line of content to articles in your feed, defaulting to “Post from: ” and then a link back to your blog, with your blog’s name as it’s anchor text.
• SimplyExclude: Exclude pages from site search

For more information on Wordpress plugins and development visit Yoast.com.

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