Thanks WordPress : 10 Plug-ins I couldn’t live without!

I would like to thank the whole WordPress community for creating such a wonderful CMS which is not only simple to use but highly flexible too. For this post, I’ll include the WordPress plug-ins/software without which my blogging journey would have been difficult. So here are the plug-ins, which all the way deserve more popularity :

1. Windows Live Writer : This software has to be the best product from Microsoft, not only it makes life simpler by letting us posts directly from the desktop but the way it handles the images by allowing simple effects like shadow effect to them. WLWplugins is a great blog which show cases some cool WLW’s plug-ins and tricks.

Tip : Including tags for WordPress directly from WLW.

2. All-in-one SEO pack : This plug-in helps you in doing lot of good SEO to your WordPress blogs and this deserves lot of thanks. Every WordPress user must install this plug-in for sure.

3. Better comments manager : My friend Keith, did a pretty fine job in creating this plugin. It helps me in making quick replies to all the comments which I get on my posts. So, thank you Keith, thank you BCM and thank you all the commenters for taking time to leave the comment on my blog.

4. Defensio : This great plugin allows me to filter all the spam comments and it does a pretty fine job in catching all the spam comments. It has great interface, because of which I can easily ensure that a false positive isn’t missed by me and that I can easily restore it.

Our coverage of Defensio :
1. Fight against blog spam.
2. I recommend Defensio.

5. Full Text Feeds : CaveMonkey has provided some very useful plugins for wordpress and this one is one of my favorite. This plugin ensures that all the posts can be seen completely in the feed readers. So, all the readers don’t have to visit my blog and they can easily read the posts on their feed readers.

Tip : Subscribe to ReviewSaurus feed, as you can save your time from reading the posts directly in your feed reader.

6. Google XML Sitemaps : This plugin helps in ensuring that a sitemap is generated automatically and thus ensuring that all the posts gets better visibility in the Google’s index.

Tip : Get your blog indexed by Google in 1 day.

7. Related Posts : Wasabi’s plugin, which ensures that my readers can find related posts of topics of their interests. Thus ensuring that my readers keep hooked to my blog and they get to find all the good old posts too.

8. Wordpress Automatic upgrade : Another Gem from Keith! There were good number of updates in WordPress this year and all the time, this plugin helped me in ensuring that my copy of WordPress was up to date and that too with in 2-3 min. of running this awesome plugin.

9. WP-PageNavi : This plugin ensures that users can easily access to the older posts and it also helps in the SEO as it links many pages and as more links are inter-linked, the SEO gets better for your blog.

10. Permalinks Migration : This plugin was really helpful when I changed the permalink structure of my blog and ensured that I don’t lose any of my visitors who were coming from Google’s index.

I’m writing a Thank You! blog series of various software and web services, without which my life would have been difficult. Subscribe to the ReviewSaurus through feeds or as a newsletter, to find some of the really cool software and web services and various plug-ins.