Top 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins

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Running a Wordpress Blog on your martial arts website? Here are 10 essential plugins you can use to enhance the functionality of your martial arts schools Wordpress blog.

1. Akismet
   This is a great feature to block comment spam. This will save you a ton of headaches. You must first get a Worpdress API key to activate this plugin but worth the time.
2. All in One SEO Pack
   Great search engine optimization (SEO) plugin that allows you to customize the title tags, meta descriptions, and meta keywords you want for each post and page.
3. cformsII
   A highly customizable plugin that allows you to have as many forms on your site as you need. Great for contact forms or offer forms and doesn’t require any knowledge of programming whatsoever.
4. Google XML Sitemaps
   Another great SEO friendly plugin. In order to maximize this plugin, you should also register a Webmaster Tools account with Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
5. Wordpress Automatic upgrade
   Not very tech savvy? No worries! This plugin saves you the hassle of having to manually upgrade or waiting for your webhost to update to the latest version.
6. Event Calendar
   This is a great plugin for those martial arts schools with a lot of events they want to promote. Simply install and you can display a calendar with events in your sidebar.
7. ShareThis
   Makes it easier for your site visitors to share you content and make your blog more popular. Connects to popular social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, digg as well as facebook, email a friend, and more.
8. WordPress Related Posts
   This plugin uses “tags” and places links to related posts at the bottom of every page. This is particularly useful for your readers and also helps with search engine optimization. As an example, you will see related posts at the bottom of this page.
9. Google Analyticator
   Makes inserting your Google Analytics code a snap so you can easily track key performance website statistic metrics.
10. Flickr Photo Album
    Connects your photos from FLICKR to your blog and allows you to build photo galleries. Another great photo option is NextGEN Gallery that allows you store the photos on your website.

If you don’t yet have a wordpress blog and would like one, I recommend Blue Host to get your very own blog, domain name, and hosting.

What plugins do you recommend and what do you like about them?

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