Must-have Wordpress Plugins
Simple Tags This is THE perfect tool to manage your tag.
WP Cumulus Flash Tag Cloud WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page :).
Wordpress Flash Page Peel Plugin This plugin adds new Web 2.0 flash Page Peel Ad to your WP powered blog. Great marketing tool to use when you have a special or promo that you want to run. Visitors will always notice the page pee!
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin YARP gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site thus resulting in visitors staying longer on your site. Great "Longtail marketing" tool.
Google XML Sitemap This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
Tweet Meme Button The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
Wordbook Plugin: This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook "Boxes" tab will show your most recent blog posts
Google Analytics for Wordpress: The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
WP Database Backup. WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
WP-FacebookConnect Plugin: adds Facebook functionality to Wordpress using the Facebook Connect APIs. Features include:
- Single-signon with your Facebook account
- Publish comments to the newsfeed
- Comment avatars display Facebook profile photos
Webhosting recommendation for Wordpress
For web hosting, I recommend Bluehost as their server environment is ver friendly and compatible towards Wordpress. Avoid Godaddy or Yahoo!
