My Top WordPress Plug-Ins

Here is a list of my favorite WordPress plug-ins and why I like them so much:

Add Meta Tags Automatically
If you've been adding meta tags manually now this plug-in pickups up your first few sentences and title and automatically adds them as meta tags to your post. As long as your first sentence is keyword dense and on topic, you'll find this plug-in a real time saver.

Add RSS
You may need to search on WordPress for this plug-in by Dan Cameron, but it adds the feed sensing code in the top template of your blog.

Google Sitemap Generator
This is another great automatic plug-in that does the work for you keeping Google up-to-date on all of your posts.

Social Bookmark Creator
Automatically add the links you want to the various social bookmarking sites with just a few clicks for configuration.

Database Backup Tool
This makes saving your blog posts easy with either a scheduled and emailed backup or server backup of your blog posts.

These are just a few of the top WordPress plug-ins that we routinely recommend for installation on WordPress blogs. If you swear by others, let me know by leaving a comment with a link to the plug-in that you like.

Broken WordPress Spell Checker Solution

In the last three WordPress installations we've done the spell checker has been broken. When clicked you simply go no where and then finally - if you are lucky you will get an error that WordPress is looking for an .xml file.

Well instead of pulling out your hair, here is a very simple solution that not only helps you write properly spelled posts in WordPress, but can help you at forums, on online forms and any other browser applications. It is called ieSpell and I think it is a very neat application.

Click my post title to go to the ieSpell site and then click the download link on their sidebar. This application will install itself in Internet Explorer both 6 and 7. I have 7 and I access ieSpell on demand from the arrow to the right of tools.

Not only is this a very simple solution for WordPress, but it will help you to look good anywhere you are writing on the fly.