Tag Archive: Essential Wordpress


WordPress as the most widely used blogging platform have a vast array of plugins (free and paid) which modify or enhanced the way your blog works. Now we are going to discuss about WordPress plugins that are essential for handling comments on your blog.

A comment as we know it, Is just an open suggestion, a relation, a feedback, or any other that relates to what you posted on your blog. Commenting is a core function to develop the readership and interactivity of your blog.

And below is a list of plugins that are essential for handling the comment of your blog and making it more productive.

Akismet

If your blog suffers from a spam attacks, then just enable the Akismet plugin (It’s bundled with WordPress)and poof! It will block almost all spam comments on your blog. This plugin sure is a must have.

Subscribe to Comments

This plugin will get your readers hooked up with your blog post. It will give them an option if they would want to subscribe to your blog post comments. A nice way to keep your blog post discussion.

Disqus Comments

Disqus gives your blog a new type of commenting system. It gives more interactivity, it offers different authentication options to your readers and it even has threaded comment support.

IntenseDebate Comments

Aside from Disqus comments, IntenseDebate is also a great full featured commenting system for a WordPress blog. It has a nice third party website that let’s you manage put addons and see an overview of all your blog comments.

AJAX Report Comments

AJAX Report Comments is a simple yet powerful add-on for any WordPress blog, particularly larger blogs with a higher volume of user comments. It provides blog visitors the ability to report an inappropriate comment to the blog’s moderator with a single click using AJAX and email.

Simple Top Commenters

This is not really that essential, but if your up for getting your readers more attracted to contribute to your blog discussion then giving them a credit by displaying their name with the corresponding link to there website will surely make them want to comment on your blog.

And there you have it, It’s a list of essential WordPress plugins that makes commenting on your blog not just fun by making it interactive but also secured by stopping those spam comments.

Where back again for more WordPress plugins tips and recommendations! In this article we are going to discuss about the plugins that are essential for every blog to improve it’s performance and makes it more faster and more accessible to it’s readers.

Performance is a critical aspect. It is a factor that affects the accessibility of your blog especially if it has a high volume of traffic. Getting your blog faster would include a lot of technicalities to implement, but fear not! as there are also WordPress plugins that will ease and guide you through the process of optimizing your blog for performance.

 

WP Super Cache

Heavy flow of traffic will certainly make your blog slow down and WP Super cache is ultimately the tool you”ll need to coop up. it creates a cache version of your site so that when someone visits your blog they see a local cached copy of your blog instead and would dramatically improved your blog’s performance.

Wp-Optimize

Wp-optimize is a simple but effective WordPress plugin that will clean up and magically optimize your blog’s database without the use of phpMyAdmin, making it more faster and easy to use.

HeadJS Loader

If you are using a lot of JavaScripts on your blog, then you’ll probably having a problem of your blog being slow. HeadJs Loader will WordPress plugin will get all of your scripts and will load it in parallel for a better and faster performance.

WP-minify

WP-minify will dramatically reduce the file size of all of the css and Javascript files ofyour blog and thus making it more faster.

HTML-compress

HTML-compress, as the name implies, will compress all of your blog’s HTML codes. Minifying the file size and making it more faster.

Hyper Cached

Just like WP Super cache, Hyper Cached will make a cached version of your blog and will reduce it’s load time and thus increasing it’s accessibility, but this plugin is specifically written for blogs that are hosted on a low resource server.

 And there you have it! Essential WordPress plguins that will surely improve the performance of your blog, making it more accessible to your readers