25+ Best WordPress Plugin for Your New / Imported Blog

Do you have new wordpress self hosting blog? or just recently import your blog to wordpress? Doesn’t know what plugin you would install?

Don’t worry, now I’ll share some recommendation plugin for your new blog.

1. Akismet

Akismet is the best automated spam killer that actually gets better as it learns. Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things. This plugin is built in on your wordpress, but if you accidentally delete this plugin, you can download it again.

2. Add Link to Facebook

Automatically add links to posts or pages that are being published to your Facebook wall, pages or groups. Simple one time setup and forget. The way links appear on Facebook can be customized.

3. Better WordPress Minify

Allows you to minify your CSS and JS files for faster page loading for visitors. This plugin uses the PHP library Minify and relies on WordPress’s enqueueing system rather than the output buffer (will not break your website in most cases). This plugin is very customizable and easy to use.

4. Broken Link Checker

Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

5. Categories to Tags Converter Importer

Convert existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively.

6. Facebook Like Box

Displays a Facebook Like Box. The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.

7. FeedBurner Form

Feedburner Form is a simple plugin that allows you insert Google Feedburner subscription forms in widgetized areas of you site. By using this form, you allow visitors to subscribe to your feed and receive an e-mail sent by Google Feedburner, everytime you publish content.

8. Google Analytics for WordPress

This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.

9. Hide Login

This plugin allows you to create custom URLs for user’s login, logout and admin’s login page.

10. Jetpack by WordPress.com

Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

11. Popular Posts

Displays a highly configurable list of the most popular posts. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

12. Random Posts

Displays a highly configurable list of randomly selected posts. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

13. SEO Blogger to WordPress using 301 Redirection

This plugin will 301 redirect all incoming traffic from your Blogger account to your newly setup WordPress account. Please read the documentation at blogger2wordpress.com before you continue.

14. SEO Friendly Images

Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

15. Simple Sitemap

HTML sitemap to display content as a single linked list of posts and pages, or as groups sorted by taxonomy (via a drop-down box).

16. Sociable

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

17. Subscribe Remind

Give your readers a little reminder to subscribe to your blog’s feed or your Twitter account at the end of each post.

18. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all. Uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter.

TIP: Don’t use the Visual editor if you don’t want your code mangled. TinyMCE will “clean up” your HTML.

19. Technorati Full Feeds

Overrides the Summary/Full Text option when Technorati fetches your feeds, and forces Full Text mode.

20. Tweet This

Popular Twitter plugin inserts “Tweet This” links so your readers can share posts with one click. Automatically tweets new posts via OAuth.

21. WordPress Database Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database.

22. WordPress Importer

Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

23. WordPress SEO

The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.

24. WP Security Scan

Perform security scan of WordPress installation. The best plugin to secure your blog.

25. WP Super Cache

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

26. Awesome Ads – Google Adsense and Others

Awesome Ads is a free plugin that automatically insert Google Adsense and Chitika ads into your Posts and Pages. You’ll never need to copy and paste codes again, let Awesome Ads plugin do the hard job for you.