5 Best WordPress 3.0 Plugins

As we know, the plugins become a big issue in every new WordPress new version launching. If one or some of your installed plugins is not compatible, your blog will be broken for sure. I sometimes face this broken blog problem if upgrade my blog to new version immediately when it is available. Therefore I have a rule that always wait for some duration time (a month or more) before upgrade to new WordPress version available. However, I know that it is hard to wait longer if you know how great the newest version is. As example, the bloggers may be in rush to upgrade their WordPress platform to 3.0 version since this version is claimed the best WordPress version ever.

It is hard to hold back since there is many good review of WordPress version 3.0. I my self already write a simple good review for WordPress version 3.0. also review a new WordPress 3.0 plugin. In this blog post, I will introduce more of WordPress 3.0 plugins – the 10 best WordPress 3.0 Plugins indeed. These plugins are the WordPress plugins that compatible with WordPress version 3.0 – I tested them by my self. I call these plugins as 10 best WordPress since the plugins is a must for blog in my opinion. OK, let’s go to the core! Here, welcome the 5 best WordPress 3.0 Plugins:

1. Akismet

Akismet is a spam filter WordPress plugin. Akismet is created by Automatic, the creator of WordPress itself. This plugins is usually already in WordPress platform by default. We only need to activate it if want to use Akismet service. I my self already use it from the very beginning of this blogging tips blog. In my opinion, Akismet is the best spam guard available for WordPress blog. It is because the learning process in this plugins. The bloggers always can teach Akismet become the better spam filter and if all of bloggers always teach, I believe Akismet is the nearest perfect spam filter available since there are many bloggers who always teach it. Akismet is surely a must plugin for your WordPress 3.0 blog.

2. All In One SEO Pack (AIO SEOP)

All In One SEO Pack (AIO SEOP) is a plugin that help WordPress blog to rank well in search engine. AIO SEOP is a Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) WordPress plugin which surely help WordPress bloggers to get good result in Search Engine Result Page (SERP). However, we should use all the option available for optimum benefiting. We surely still benefit if we use default configuration but for optimum benefiting, we must customize the configuration. I my self get the significant Search Engine traffic improving by utilizing the title, description, and keyword part of this SEO plugin. If you really care (target) the traffic from search engine (especially from Google search engine), All In One SEO Pack (AIO SEOP) WordPress plugin is surely a must for your WordPress 3.0 blog.

3. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 is a WordPress plugin that offer a good contact form for WordPress bloggers. This plugin support many great features such as, CAPTCHA, file uploading, AJAX submitting, Akismet spam filtering etc. This plugin allow us to have comment form in every part of our blog easily. I my self use Contact Form 7 to provide contact form in this blog. I use it in page form. You can see how it is working in this blogging tips blog contact form. A contact form is a must for bloggers since it allows our readers or advertisers to directly contact us. Believe me, you will get so many benefit from contact form such as blogging idea or advertising. Since offer a great features of contact form as well as ease of contact form using, Contact Form 7 is a must for your WordPress 3.0 blog.

4. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache is a cache and more WordPress plugin. W3 Total Cache optimize a WordPress blog so have optimum performance. This plugins is claimed be used by so many big website such as yoast.com, personified.com, mashable.com, tutsplus.com, and many others. I believe this claim since this plugin offer great performance benefits such as 10 times speed improvement, 80% bandwidth savings, reduced page load time, improve web server performance, and caching after first view. I my self use this W3 Total Cache in this blogging tips blog and experience significant improvement. Before I use this plugin, this blog often face load problem but after use this plugin, the load problem is reduced significantly. Since really help to increase blog performance, W3 Total Cache is a must for your WordPress 3.0 blog.

5. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a social networking button WordPress plugin. Digg Digg offers some easy and great ways to integrate social networking buttons into our blog post. One feature that I like the most from Digg Digg is the Ajax Floating Style feature which offers the great looks of integrated social networking buttons in each of our blog post. Base on my own experience, It is always great to integrate social networking at obvious place such as at each of blog post side. As we already knew, social networking optimizing (SNO) become more equal from day to day if compare with search engine optimizing (SEO). Therefore Digg Digg is a must for your WordPress 3.0 blog. It is since Digg Digg offer the great ways to optimize social networking.

Final Words

Since the plugins compatibility is very important for each WordPress upgrading, we should always take care WordPress plugins carefully before decide to upgrade our WordPress blog to new versions. In other words, we should make sure that our installed WordPress plugins compatible with the new version of WordPress before upgrade it. In this blog post, I share 5 WordPress plugins that already tested for WordPress 3.0 so you surely can use it in your WordPress 3.0 without any problems. Of course, there are many others WordPress plugins that not covered in this blog post yet. I may write about the others compatible WordPress plugins in another blog post after this. For now, enjoy these 5 best WordPress plugins in your blog.
 
 
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