Most of bloggers use wordpress as their blog software. There are quite a few reasons for this as well. Firstly wordpress is free and simple to use and secondly you can install plugins of your choice to make it even better. I would here discuss some of these essential plugins that can make your blogging experience much better. In this post and some other post to come I would be discussing some of the important plugins that I use.

Akismet: Akismet generally comes preinstalled with wordpress software and I would recommend you to always keep it on. I have been getting over 20 spam comments a day and without akismet it would take some pain to go through all these link saturated comments. For blogs with greater traffic rankings this value of number of spam comments goes somewhere up to 500 comments a day.

One Click Installer: this is one plugin that we abuse the most. It is a wonderful plugin and allows you to directly upload a file from your computer or from a remote source. You must have us changing our theme and plugins more often than not. It is all credited to one click installer.