9 Essential Wordpress Plugins I Install For All My Clients

Whenever I install a new blog for clients, I always make sure that several essential additional plugins are installed and configured. Here’s my list of 9 Wordpress plugins that I install to make things easier for my clients, and easier for search engines to find my clients blogs. WP Spam Free WP-SpamFree is the worlds greatest (in my opinion) anti-spam plugin for Wordpress.  No signups or registrations, no captcha forms, no configuration, and works with most comment forms and contact forms that I’ve ever used.  Prevents trackback spam, comment spam, and contact form spam.  Just install and you’re done. ...          [ Read More ]

Headspace2 SEO Plugin For Wordpress

Many of you may not know this, but aside from running Blogging Emergency, my other life is that of an SEO consultant.  So as you can well imagine, an SEO plugin for Wordpress is of paramount importance to me, my sites, and those of my clients.  I’ve tried 3 or 4 different plugins, and every time, I come back to HeadSpace2. HeadSpace2 is simple to use, and provides a reliable mechanism to change meta data on a per group basis, or on a finer grained per-post basis. Titles of a page are about as important as important gets in SEO, so making sure that each page has the right title is important, but sometimes one doesn’t...          [ Read More ]