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When setting up your WordPress blog, adding plugins means adding functionality, personality, and ease to your brand. Plugins come in all shapes and sizes; if you’ve got a blog-related need, there’s likely a plugin for it. Better than that, there’s likely a free plugin for you to quickly download and install without about 45 seconds. WordPress is constantly evolving and becoming more efficient, but in the meantime, where there’s a good idea, a plugin isn’t too far behind.

In my years of professional blogging, I’ve had everything from short-lived flings to long, intimate relationships with a variety of WordPress plugins. If I were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring 10 plugins with me, the following would be on my list:

All In One SEO Pack
This is an incredibly valuable plugin that’s still, shockingly, available at no cost. This plugin automatically creates meta-tags on each post page, allowing you also to pre-establish any meta-titles or meta-tags you want included. All In One SEO is one of the best “plug & play” style plugins available – even if you’re new to WordPress and know next to nothing about SEO or WordPress development, all you need to do is install, activate, and write up a storm! There’s also a “pro” version available for $39 (for an unlimited license), which is allegedly the “#1 Most Downloaded WP Plugin.” They update frequently (sometimes too frequently), but it will definitely do its job in getting your website optimized for search engines.

I-Max Width
Blogging is definitely a writing-based sport, but as most bloggers know, without visual aid, a wordy blog post can make a reader’s eyes glaze over with boredom. Particularly for design, fashion, or photography blogs, I-Max width can save you valuable time and frustration by automatically adjusting every image to fit in the content column of any theme. By setting a pixel maximum (i.e. 400px wide), you can ensure that your theme doesn’t get distorted, and neither do your images.

ShareThis
In a world of constantly evolving social media, plugins like ShareThis become increasingly important. What sets ShareThis apart from the rest of the social sharing plugins is its compact, flash-based user interface. You can control the number of social media sites to include, as well as the color scheme, text, and general appearance of the plugin. It’s by far the easiest way to get your post submitted to important outlets like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, etc.

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