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1. WP-DB-Backup
This plugin helps you take the backup of your database and gets the backup file sent to your email Inbox. It's a hassle free and simple process to backup your blog database without much effort and also you can configure the plugin to take the backup automatically after some interval.
With backup of your blog you can restore the data if any mishap happens.
2. No Self Ping
This plugin stops your blog from pinging its own posts and sending trackbacks to the posts of your blog only. The trackback links are created whenever you link your post with another blog post. The trackback links are shown in the comment section of your wordpress blog and receiving trackbacks from your own blog is no use rather waste of bandwidth and running some extra process on server.
3. WP Super Cache
This plugin generates a static HTML file for your dynamic blog pages. So whenever someone opens your blog the data will be fetched from static HTML page instead of running a heavier PHP script file which puts more load on CPU of the server.
If you are on shared hosting and you intend to drive traffic from sites like Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon and more than this plugin is must for your blog.
4. WP Security Scan
This plugin will scan your wordpress setup for any vulnerabilities and also suggests you with corrective suggestions. This plugin hides the version of the wordpress from the header, so that your readers wont know the wordpress version you are using. This is a very important security plugin and you should scan your wordpress with this plugin once in a while for any vulnerabilities in your blog security.
5. SEO No Duplicate
If for some reasons you have duplicate content on your blog or you are facing duplicate content issues on your blog then this plugin will help you sort it out. This plugin will inform the search engine about the preferred version of the post or page which should be indexed and leaving the rest. At the end helping you from being penalized by search engines for having duplicate content in your blog.
6. Maintenance Mode
This plugin will add a splash page which will let your visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance. It will display a default message informing your visitors about it.
7. Scissors
The plugin will add cropping, resizing and rotating functionality to your wordpress image upload management. It also allows you to crop image automatically and also manual watermarking of images.
This is a great plugin for those wordpress blogs where images are uploaded more often and are main part of content feed.
8. Broken Link Checker
This plugin will scan your blog for any broken links and inform you about those broken links in your blog, it also detects redirect links. You can easily monitor for broken links and improve your SEO status of your blog.
9. Register Plus
If you want to allow your readers to register on your blog and publish articles on their own then this is a great plugin for an enhanced registration form.
This plugin allows you to change the logo on the registration page. No more emailing of passwords in emails, instead allow your users to create their own custom password and also check the strength of the password in the strength tool and many more features.
10. Plugin Central
It will help you to update all your plugins at once and moreover if you shift your blog or change your hosting then this is a great plugin in that case as multiple-plugin install feature allows you to move plugins from one blog to another. A real time saver.
