Wordpress has become the symbol of blogging. Almost 90% bloggers are going with Wordpress. It is because of Wordpress being the best user friendly blogging software available on internet. With the extended use of Wordpress, bloggers always require more options in their blogs. For these needs many plugins have been developed to make wordpress blogs even more user friendly and at the same time easy to handle at backend.

Some of these Wordpress plugins are must to have for every blogger. I use following 5 plugins on all of my blogs regardless of their categories. Here is the list of top 5 must have Wordpress plugins for me and almost for every blogger on internet.

1. Akismet:

Any blogger who lacks knowledge about akismet do not deserve to be called a blogger. This is must have Wordpress plugin as it keeps your blog clean from spam comments on your posts.

Akismet wordpress plugin

2. All in One SEO pack:

Truly the most popular Wordpress plugin on internet is all in seo pack. It helps to have title, description and keywords for each post. With this section of meta tags for your posts, chances of getting better rankings for your posts is always there.

All in one SEO Pack wordpress plugin

3. Google XML Sitemap:

Google XML sitemap generator creates xml sitemap of your blog and notifies all major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK automatically when new posts is added.

Google XML Sitemap Generator for Wordpress

4. Wordpress stats:

Though many websites on internet are offering stats for websites but this plugin really helps blogger to keep track of things happening around their blog.

wordpress stats plugin

5. Homepage Excerpts:

Daniel Scocco,  the owner of dailyblogtips.com has created this Wordpress plugin to keep blogs safe from duplicate content problem in the eyes of search engines. It makes posts to show as excerpts on homepage and full post on interl post page. This helps search engines to crawl internal page you remain safe from any panelty of search engine rules violation.

Homepage Excerpts for SEO Wordpress Plugin

I hope this post will help new bloggers to make their blogs more user friendly and easy to handle from thei wp-admin. As well as most of these Wordpress plugins helps to gain better rankings and improve organic traffic from search engines.