The 12 Essential #WordPress Plugins That EVERY #BLOGGER NEEDS

I am truly  a reformed WordPress basher and I fully admit that I was totally wrong. I use WordPress.com for this blog and WordPress.org for a few additional blogs that I write for.  I have tried practically every blogging platform available, Posterous, Blogger and Tumblr ( I still use Tumblr and I love this platform as well).  I have found WordPress to be an amazing platform and this is primarily due to the abundance of plugins available.

1. Google Analyticator: Any an all online presences need analytics!  If you create a blog or website you really need to have the ability to monitor the effectiveness of your work.  The Google Analyticator does just that.
2. Googlyzer: Is a plugin that I just started using and I really love it. This plugin allows you to pull Google Analytics from Google right into a WordPress Dashbord. This is a great time saver!
3. My Category Order: As you know the listing for Category is in a default order but this plugin allows you to rearrange the order according to your needs.
4. My Link Order: This is the same as My Category Order except it allows you to change the order of your links.
5. My Page Order: I absolutely LOVE my page order because like the above two plug ins, My Page Order allows you to change the order of your WordPress Pages.
6. Pinterest Pinboard Widget: Everyone loves Pinterest and we all want to show off our Pin Boards. This Plugin allows you to do just that.  You can select how many columns and rows that you’d like to display.
7. Trackable Social Share Icons: Everyone uses social media icons to share their content, but as a lover of Analytics I love this plugin because it allows you to attach analytics to social sharing icons.
8. Ultimate TinyMCE: I absolutely LOVE this plugin!  This tiny, yet very powerful plug in allows you to add an amazing editing ability to your blog posts.  It’s like a little HTML Editor build right into WordPress and this is one plugin that I can’t do without!
9. Tweet old post: Tweet Old Posts allows you to share previously created blog posts with your Twitter followers.
10. Tumblrize: Allows you to autopost to Tumblr.
11. wpSUBpages Redirect: This is another favorite! This plugin allows you to redirect WordPress Pages to other page, subpages or URL’s
12. Twitter Badge Widget: This simple but wonderful plugin allows you to add your tweets to your blog.

One of the most powerful thing about a WordPress blog is its ability to create an easy avenue in which to add different functionality as needed. The plugins are on of the things that make this platform so attractive to bloggers.  The amazing array of plugins created by these amazing developers have really propel this platform to the forefront and it’s what truly makes WordPress the ROCKSTAR of blogging platforms.

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