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6. Broken Link Checker
As a blogger or even static website that does not change, we often share web links. How to know if any of those links are broken much after we have written about it? We have usually two choice, go manually and check each link manually periodically or have some reader/clients tell you about it as they find it. However the best way is to install broken link checker plug-in, that does superb job for finding such links and show you location of it so either you can fix it, delete it or keep as it is (if it is still working).
Click here to download Broken Link Checker Plug-in
7. WP Cache Plug-in
Have you visited some cool website, only to find that website is taking too long to respond? The reasons are many, it could be our internet connection or web server itself. However often time it is problem with cache within our site itself. WP cache plug-in reduces the load time of your blog by caching your post and pages and speed up the process of viewing. It does this by giving static file to your visitor instead of making several calls and downloads to your database. Must have plug-in for your blog, even if you do not have lot of images or content, it sure helps the loading faster.
Click here for more info and download on WP Cache plug in
8. Add to any
If you use social media such as Twitter, Face Book, this plug in can help your reader bookmark your articles to various popular bookmark sites and social media.
This is one of the best and complete plug in that I found as it does three things in one. This plug-in can share your posts, bookmark your site to social medias and email your articles to other people. This plug in has all of top favorite sites such as Twitter, Face Book, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious and over 100 sites to pick and choose from. You can decide if you want to add the icons on bottom of posts or top or both as you can customize it based on what you want to use.
Click here to download Add to any Plug-in
9. One Click Plug-in updater
I have noticed one thing that themes and plug-ins gets updated frequently and one can get tired updating all plug-ins, one by one and manually. This One click plug in updater will come to rescue to make a quick update by pressing “update all” just once making recent upgrades and updates making your life much easier, leaving you to do better things.
Click here to download One Click Updater
10. LinkWithin
You will not find Linkwithin Plugin from Word Press plugin site, how it is very powerful plugins that shows related posts at the bottom of the articles saying, you might also like this , with images and little blurb about the post. You can show 3-5 similar posts and set up is very easy. If I can do it, any one can do it. It is free plug-in that is similar to Yet another related plug-in, but powerful and easy to install.
Click here to install Linkwithin
Summary:
There are still great many plug ins that available for free and fee based. These are the best ones that I have found for blog sites. One caution, do not add so many plugins, it can effect your blog site negatively.
Do you have other great plug-ins to share?
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