Day 22: Installing and Adding Plugins to Your WordPress Blog
Author: Jim | Filed under: 30-Day Blogging
Yesterday we talked about the most necessary WordPress plugins that you need to have on your blog to maximize your traffic and exposure. As planned, we will now move on to those plugins that will enhance your blog beyond the essentials… things that will have users coming back for more. Let’s get started! 
Tips for Difference Blogging Niches
A few months ago, I put out a post here at Jimvesting that I feel will be highly beneficial to those of you that want to add highly-targeted plugins to your website to really boost your offerings. For finance blogs, things like stock market widgets and streaming news. For photography websites, widgets that will import Flickr photos to your site. There are many specific plugins geared toward specific niches, so check out the “Top WordPress Plugins for Every Type of Blog” for more plugins.
Your Second Batch of Plugins: Aesthetics & Enhancements
Now that we have seen a few of the niche-specific plugins, here is a listing of what I feel are seven must-have add-ons to your WordPress blogs. What makes these different from those mentioned in the previous paragraph is that, like the first list we had yesterday, these plugins work well on any type of blog and will dramatically increase the amount of flexibility you have to offer.
Top Blog Plugins (That Aren’t Absolutely Essential!):
Comment Luv: Perhaps one of the best community-based plugins for your blog. This will encourage people to drop comments, and reward them in a way that won’t hurt you!
Brian’s Threaded Comments: The default commenting system in WordPress is not very efficient, allow your guests to reply to other posts in an easy embedded structure!
Comment Relish: This is the plugin that everyone asks me about… you can send follow-up emails to anyone who comments on your blog to lure them into subscribing with the power of Comment Relish
Subscribe Remind: Place a convenient and non-distracting reminder at the end of each of your blog posts to get users to subscribe to your RSS feed — an essential conversion tool to boost your RSS figures
Subscribe to Comments: Let your users keep track of discussion on a particular article — another way to have your users checking back constantly!
TinyMCE Advanced: The default WordPress post editor is decent, but you can make it even better with an upgraded WYSIWYG editor for your blog
Top Commentators: Want to boost commenting? Why not create a top-ten listing of the commentators on your blog! Give your guests a link to their own websites and a reason to talk about your work
With these plugins in your arsenal, you will have yourself a more efficient way to reach users, boost traffic, increase discussion and more! All you need to start your successful blogging career is available at the click of a button.
-Jimvesting
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Another cool list of plugins. What about sharethis or social bookmarking ones?
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I have installed comment luv and top commentators plugin on my wordpress blog and it really does encourage the readers to comment on it.
This is a good list, I just installed the subscribe remind on my blog. This is a good one, because it really isn’t intrusive you don’t want a subscribe link everywhere on you site.
Thanks
Nick (RefAccess)
Good plugins you’ve listed
I remember having 30 plugins on at once on a shared server. lol. That killed everything until I lowered it to 15
-Mike
p.s. Plugins are awesome!
I think that Brian’s Threaded Comments is not a necessary plugin anymore, considering that WordPress has the threaded commenting feature built-in since WordPress 2.7.
I’d recommend AIO SEO and Google Sitemap. Oh boy, do I love those!
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LOLs, I thought this post was the duplicate of the previous one.. Anyways I love the post about plugins on different types of blogs.. Really helpful..
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Nice plugins recommendations. Anyway.. I like it..
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Great plugins… I use most of them myself.
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Never tried TinyMCE Advanced. Looks like I at least need to give it a try.
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Threaded Comments is not a necessary plugin anymore, considering that WordPress has the threaded commenting feature built-in since WordPress 2.7.
Top commentator plugin rocks. Everyone wants to climb at the top – specially blogs who reward prizes on their top commentators for the month.
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Here you drawn quite huge list of plug-ins, might some of not useful but sure it will be helpful to enhance looks of our blog. Bookmarked….
Hey here Top commentators link not working can you provide any other reference or top commentators tool i wanted to install in my blog or if possible provide resource from where can i get this plug-in, Thanks a lot
i am using most of the above plugins necessary for my blog needs and few other more but i try to keep less plugins activated so as to keep the page load faster.
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Great article! Thanks for give material about “Plugins ”. Just keep it up
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I just have my first worpress blog up, I will post it soon. i used some of these plug-ins and they are great. Thanks for the tips!
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I love this post. It’s so true that wordpress plug-ins are quite important. But are they all needed? Definitely not. I would advise people to definitely consider putting in an Adsense plug-in of some sort though to help with revenue and also try out the SEO-All-In-One pack plug-in to help with SEO.
Great post Jim.
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Interestingly the list of plugins. Following them is easier.
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Cool list of plugins. It awesome. Keep it up.
Hi Jim,
Well, definitely helpful post for newbie. However, if you would have expanded the top section details a bit, as an attempt to give some value to professionals with few bright ideas on plug-ins, it would have reached a significantly higher level.
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Hi Jim,
Well, definitely helpful post for newbies. However, the suggestions of few plug-ins needed for peculiar blogs was a real bright idea. I think it’s really cool.
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Nice share. I find these plugins useful aswell
all in one SEO
Sociable
Wp-sticky
And some others which I forgot
Cheers
Johnny
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Top commentator plugin is the hottest plunging for blog lovers. It gives extra content to blog owners which is free and unique. At the other hand, commentators are allowed to post their own link for SEO.
@Buat Duit Online: yep, adding the top commentators plugin really works as an incentive for commentators.