To get back at what I wanted to share with you today is my “Personal List Of Recommend WordPress Plugins” I use these plugins daily to help me brand myself and syndicate my content all over the Internet. I want to spare you the time you need to invest in finding these plugins that can help you build your blog faster and better. I have made this list to help you optimize your blog and make it look a lot more professional. Use them as I do and take your blog to the next level!
My Top 10 Favorite WP Plugins To Customize
Your Blog And Brand Yourself!
1. Tweetmeme ~ This is the Twitter icon you see on this post both at the beginning and the end. It helps visitors ‘Re-tweet’ (share your post on Twitter) your content and it also tracks it nicely, so you have great social proof on your blog! “The Tweetmeme button is a fantastic way for our readers to engage with our stories and signals which posts are a hit with the Twitter community.
2. Smart YouTube ~ Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.
3. What Would Seth Godin Do ~ This is a plugin that actually cookies visitors and tracks who’s new and who’s returning. You can then craft welcome messages accordingly… See my welcome message at the beginning of this post for an example. It can be everything. A simple welcome message or a Call-To-Action where they can opt-in for your newsletter or a gift you want to give them.
4. OnlyWire for WordPress ~ OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click. Used by thousands of bloggers and publishers, OnlyWire simplifies the process of submitting your content to over 30 social networking sites at once — including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and many others.
5. Pretty Link ~ Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.
6. Tiny MCE Advanced ~ This plugin gives you ‘Microsoft Word-like’ functions when writing your posts… Very helpful when it comes to paragraph spacing, font size, and other various typing features.
7. Thank me later ~ Thank Me Later (TML) will automatically send an e-mail to your those who leave a comment at your blog. Use this plugin to say ‘Thanks’ to your visitors, and prompt them to further engage with your blog.
8. Commentluv ~ This is the plugin you see on my post here that showcases commenters latest blog posts with a little heart icon. It helps drive traffic back to your commenters’ sites and encourages more people to want to comment on your blog!
9. WP Related Posts ~ This is a plugin that lists related posts down below each blog post… Very helpful in encouraging multiple post reading!
10. W3 Total Cache ~ The more plugins you install, the slower your blog load time will get… So this plugin will help speed up the load time of your blog.
Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment down below with your thoughts or questions! And also, you can use the Tweetmeme plugin right now by clicking on the Re-tweet icon down below here… Thank you! I totally appreciate it!
Yours in constant growth,
Farzad Taghavi
P.S. Do you have any favorite plugins that weren’t mentioned here? PLEASE DO share them below with the community!
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Thanks Farzad. A very useful list of Wordpress plugins. Recommendations save a lot of searching. About to create a blog, so these will help me greatly.
Hey John, I hope these plugins will help you as they helped me. Make sure you let me know if you need any help with the plugins. I am also going to post a new blog about how to get your website SEO optimized. There I will give you another list of plugins who help you to set up your blog properly.
Hope to see you back soon.
~ Farzad
Farzad – This is a very good list of plugins. I have yet to use Pretty Link – but I have heard a lot about it. Looks like I will have to give it a try. Thanks
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Hi Farzad:
As a newbie blogger here, I am always looking for information to make my blog more accessible to my readers and having the right plugins can save so much time and effort. I have 3/10 listed- The pretty link, Tiny MCE Advanced and Tweetmeme. Will definitely incorporate the other 7. Thank you for this resource. Have a good day. Jane
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Hey Jane,
Great to see you here on my blog. I know how important and time consuming it can be to find the best set of Wordpress Plugins for your blog.
Believe me I did a deep search to find them and I am happy I did. Hope you find them as useful as I do.
Keep on ROCKING!
~ Farzad
I was wondering the name of the plugin that sent thank you’s to people when they commented. I received one the other day and thought it was nice. Now I know what it is.
I have heard of only wire.I will check it out too. Thanks!
Beverly
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Hi Beverly,
I’m happy my post provided you the information you were looking for. I can highly recommend you to use the Onlywire plugin.
be talking to you soon,
~ Farzad