Best WordPress Plugins Every Blog Must Have

Updated on December 1st, 2012 by Quertime Team in WordPress

WordPress has so many plugins that let you accomplish almost everything you can imagine on your blog. If you are WordPress beginner, you might have no idea on which plugins to install that can bring your blog or website to the next level. We know that there are plenty of best WordPress plugins posts out there, but what we want to introduce you today is the best plugins that you can’t afford to miss. Without further ado, here’s the list.

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

All in One SEO Pack
This plugin automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Better Delete Revision
This plugin removes and deletes old revision of posts, pages and related meta content completely then optimize database: reduce size and optimization to speed up.

Broken Link Checker
This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

FeedBurner FeedSmith
This plugin detects all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed and optionally, your main comments feed as well.

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

ShareThis
The ShareThis plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ social networks including Facebook and Twitter.

W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.

WP-DBManager
WP-DBManager allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. It also supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.