Wordpress Plugins

[mattotoole]

Christina,

This is a very real issue! In my experience with clients, it's daunting for most people to write a good blog post, and then have to paraphrase it 2-3 times for the title tag, meta description, and teaser/excerpt.  I try to teach people to write good headlines that'll  serve well as title tags; then concentrate on the article itself.  Also, Google does a better job creating clickworthy descriptions than we may like to admit.  Most people's time and effort is better spent creating good content, than tweaking all these little things.

That said, there's still value in tweaking.  I use themes that have this capability built-in -- to keep plugins to a minimum, plus they're better themes to begin with.  If this isn't an option then I do use All in One SEO and Yoast Wordpress SEO.  All in One SEO has scripts available to export/import the data to popular themes and other plugins.

[mattotoole]

I use a lot of different plugins for different sites, but the ones I have on every site are:

• Google XML Sitemaps
• Akismet, for spam control
• Wordpress Database Backup -- there are many other backup methods but please use something

[copykatrecipes]

I have had a lot of problems with the google analytics plugin turning itself off.  Shocking I know, but I don't check my stats every single day, and sometimes I find that plugin to have turned itself off.

[gfiorelli1]

Forget All in One SEO and go with Wordpress SEO by Yoast.

Also consider his Google Analytics for Wordpress

[Ecreativeworks]

On most sites I use the following plugins:

• All in One SEO Pack
• Google XML Sitemaps
• WP Super Cache (reduces server load & can reduce page load time)
• WP-Recaptcha (slows but doesn't stop comment spam)
• Trackable Social Share Icons (to be fair, we just developed this ourselves, so I'm biased )

[christinarule]

Thanks!!! Very helpful!

[Hurf]

I second that recommendation Gianluca! All in one has served me well in the past - but not Yoast's Wordpress SEO is my weapon of choice.

[onlinemediadirect]

laurent I wish I had the knowledge to do this.

[onlinemediadirect]

why Choose Yoast over all in on ?

[ldestrooper]

I have switched to Wordpress SEO by Yoast also. It works less complicated then All in One SEO and i think it might run a little faster. Featurewise i think they are on the same level.

[jbrabants]

My recommended WP Plugins list looks like this:

• Yoast SEO
• Gravity Forms
• Cart66

I really like gravity forms because it let's you build complex forms in a rather easy way. Multi-step forms, conditional logic, integration with other tools like mailchimp, paypal, user registration, ...

[DonnieCooper]

Update: We just built a plugin that sets a cookie for Adwords visitors and then allows you to display a different phone number to them (even if they leave and come back later). You can define how long the cookie persists, and if it should restart the 'timer' each time the visitor comes back.

sroi.us/calltracking

*If you try it, please let me know what you think and/or how we could improve it.

[nyanainc]

Hi Guys !Me I am using this on my sites

1. Infolinks

2. autoptimize

3. easy adsense light

4. google xml sitemaps

5. jetpack

6. pubsubhubbub

7. redirection

8. sendblaster plugin

9. super cache

10. wptap mobile detector

11. yoast wordpress seo

12. yoast google analytics

13. yoast contact me form

14. yoast metarobots

15. yoast twetbacks

Thanks

[Robin_Jennings]

Apart from the plug-ins mentioned above, for websites with a small budget I really enjoy using Dagon Sitemap Generator. Having a dedicated page as a sitemap for clients really helps no end and it doesn't take long to set up either.

[MathewBrowne]

Another vote for All In One SEO Pack - I've been using it on all new Wordpress installs for a couple of years now.

[cbarron]

Hi Guys

Thanks for the great advice here. I see that the last reply was in 2011. I am wondering is there any new plug-ins that people would recommend?

Thanks