Starter Blogger’s Plugins
Plugins is one of the most important feature in WordPress. With plugins you can add a lot of useful tools/options to your blog. Just choose the desire plug-in put it in the plugins folder activate it and that`s it!
So let`s see what plugins do we really need. But first let`s continue from where we stopped last time.
As we saw in this series so far, we almost done everything! The only thing we need to start is to install WordPress. Which can be done easily, just take a look on the installing steps and you`ll know what I`m talking about!
Oh I think these steps are difficult!
Really?!!
Well I don’t know what is your problem but, fortunately install4free offers you a free installation for your blog!
-install4free rejected your request for any reason..well check out this video tutorial!
OR you can check if your host has “WordPress Auto-Install” feature! or if WordPress is listed in your Fantastico list or “Addon Scripts” in your cPanel (if you have these features) or simply ask your host about them!
Now after installing WordPress you need to upload your theme to the themes directory and then activate it from your Admin Panel(under Presentation).
Now you are ready to install the necessary PLUG-INs that you may need!
This is a list that may help you:
1- Akismet
The first Plugin that should be active -when your blog is online- is Akismet.
What did this plug-in do?
Well let Akismet answers you:
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
To active Akismet you need an API key. You can get one by registering an account in WordPress.com. he API key will be emailed to you after you register. Please note that
the use of the key is covered by our TOS and that free keys can only be used for personal blogs. If you are a commercial entity or if you are making more than $500 from your personal blog, please get a commercial key instead.
P.S. me too need to know if your are making more that 500$ from blogging 
2- Contact Form
A very useful Contact form that can be integrated easily to your blog!
3- Adsense Deluxe
This plugins will help you manage your google adsense placment. It`s the best Adsense Plug-ins ever!
4- Subscribe To Comments
A great plug-in that give your commenters the ability to receive an e-mail for any updates in comments.
5- Brian’s Latest Comments
Brian’s Latest Comments shows the latest activity on the website, see the left sidebar in my home page
6- Related Posts
It`s a great plug-in that shows you a list of related entries to the original article.
Well there`s a lot of great plug-ins such as Live Comment Preview, Show Top Commentators and WP Database Backup. For more Plug-ins please visit WordPress Plugin Database.
Do you think that I miss a “for beginners” plug-in?!
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Most people always forgot about how important their blog post data. Imagine if you lost all your previous post due to server/database failure. I think you should add WP Database Backup plugin
Here is the link http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-db-backup/
Thank you Zealios…I don’t think that this plugin is very important for NEW bloggers since there`s nothing to backup!
Anyway this plugin is VERY important indeed.(Plugin added)
nice post for the beginners:)
Thanks Vibhash
Thanks for the post!