16 Must have Plugins for a Wordpress Blog

 If you have a wordpress blog then you must make sure that you have these wordpress plugins in your blog. The plugin help enhance your blog and add extra features in blogs. These 16 plugins are the basic plugins that a wordpress blogger must have in his blog.

1. All in one SEO: This plugin is the most popular SEO plugin for wordpress. It helps you to add meta keywords and descriptions to your posts and home pages and also you can change the post title structre with the help of this plugin.
2. Google XML sitemap generator: This plugin helps you to create a dynamic XML sitemap of your site. You can change the properties also from the panel of the plugin. After creating your sitemap dont't forget to submit it to Google webmasters.
3. SEO smart links: This plugin interlinks your posts by linking keywords with related posts and categories. This is a great way to make people read more posts from your blog.
4. WP super cache: The dynamic php pages take more time in loading and also puts more load on the server, this plugin creates an HTML page of your content in a folder on server. So when someone opens the same page again, the page will load faster and also there will be much lesser load on the server. This plugin is must for blogs that have large amount of images hosted on their blog.
5. Yoast breadcrumbs: This plugin helps users to navigate in your blog. This plugin creates a structure like this: You are here: "Home » Category » Gadgets » Apple".
6. Bad behavior: This plugin protects your blog from receiving comment spams. It's very smart plugin and identifies the source whether it's human or a spam software and keeps the spam away from your blog.
7. No self ping: After you post an article or update any article your blog starts pinging and also it pings it self also, this slows down the posting process. This plugin will stop self pining of your blog.
8. Sociable plugin: Add bookmarking sites to your posts with the help of this plugin. You can choose the selected bookmarking sites to be shown below the post by changing the settings from the admin panel in sociable plugin.
9. Contact form 7: This plugin adds a contact form to your wordpress blog. Make sure you have this plugin so people can reach you and send their queries related to your blog. The plugin is easy to install and works smoothly.
10. Popular posts plugin: Shows the most popular posts of your blog.
11. Recent posts plugin: Shows the recent posts of your blog.
12. Light box plus: This is a new plugin and it opens the full size of image in a transparent ajax window, which is beautiful to look at.
13. Recent comments: Show the recent comments posted on your blog with the help of the plugin.
14. WP Content protector: If you want to protect your unique content from being coped by other, then make sure you use this plugin. The plugin disables right click feature on the page and also disable the selection of the text. This way you can protect your unique work.
15. Simple CAPTCHA: Protects spammers from spamming your blog.
16. Related posts: Show related posts below your posts. You can always edit the look feel by editing through CSS file in your blog.