With this plugin, you can publish comments that have stayed in your moderation queue for a specific number of minutes. It will then automatically publishes them. Logging in as an admin also triggers this plugin. You can change the settings of it under Discussion options of WordPress.

I personally prefer getting notified when a comment is posted to my website. You can always turn that option off. This plugin works fine for short periods of time but I don’t recommend auto-approving comments by any means.

Plugin Test Drive: want to adopt a new plugin on your website but not sure how it will affect the experience of your visitors? This plugin lets you test your plugin out before letting your visitors see the changes.

Max Landing: allows you to create and test powerful landing pages for your website. It is compatible with Max A/B testing plugin.

Theme Test Drive: want to test new themes on your website without disturbing your visitors? This plugin lets you do just that while showing your default theme to your visitors.

A/B Theme Testing Plugin: this plugin puts multiple themes against each other and shows you which one performs the best on your website.

The Developer’s CodeBox: a testing plugin for developers. Enables them to test their code snippets and functions before fully integrating them into their products.

Headline Split Tester: want to find the most effective headlines for your website? This plugin lets you rotate your headlines to do just that.

GWO4WP: allows you to integrate Google Website Optimizer into your website in a flash. Google Website Optimizer lets you go beyond A/B testing and do some serious testing.

If you want to test different things on your website without taking away from your visitors’ experience on it, the above plugins can help.

Akismet: a great plugin for beginners and advanced users. In fact, you should not go live with your blog without having this plugin (or an alternative) turned on.

WP-reCAPTCHA: CAPTCHA can’t stop all spam comments and registrations. At the same time, it can make life difficult for spammers who want to mess with your website.

AVH First Defense Against Spam: checks comments before they are posted to your website and blocks spammers before they can do any harm.

Fast Secure Contact Form: so you thought your e-mail account would be safe against spammers when you used a contact form plugin? That is simply not true. This plugin lets you protect your forms and contact page against spammers.

Bad Behavior: a powerful plugin that could limit access to your site for spammers and keep robots and junk content away from your WordPress site.

CryptX: if you are sharing your e-mail and others’ emails on your website, you want to install this plugin to keep those addresses hidden from e-mail scrappers.

AntiVirus: spam injections and viruses are very nasty and hard to deal with for webmasters. This plugin can help you reduce the chances of your website getting infected.

Anti Feed-Scraper: content theft is a big issue these days. Some people don’t seem to have too many issues using other people’s works to their advantage. With this plugin, you can stop feed scrapers.

Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin: those of you who have owned a WordPress membership site in the past are familiar with this issue. Spam accounts are annoying and sometimes dangerous. This plugin can help you reduce their numbers.  It checks emails, username, and IP against an online database before users can register.

User Spam Remover: sometimes people create junk accounts on your website and don’t use them for a while until their chance comes. This plugin lets you remove those annoying accounts fast.

What’s your favorite anti spam plugin for WordPress?

All In One SEO Plugin: used by a whole lot of WordPress bloggers and portal owners. It allows you to customize your titles for your pages, posts, and everything in between.

Yoast WordPress SEO: one of the best developed SEO plugins for WordPress. It goes beyond your title tags and lets you manage many on-page SEO factors for your WordPress site.

Platinum SEO Pack: very similar to All In One SEO in many ways. It even allows you to import your settings from that plugin. On some hosts, this plugin performs a whole lot better than All In One SEO (main reason we switched to it on some of our sites).

Greg’s High Performance SEO: a light-weight and thorough SEO plugin for WordPress that covers tens of on-page SEO factors. Of course, you want to know what you are doing before messing with some of these options. It helps you address your duplicate content issues too.

HeadSpace2 SEO: allows you to configure meta data for your posts, pages, categories, and so on. Covers page titles, indexing issues, and descriptions and much more. Just don’t be too lazy when using this.

What’s your favorite title plugin for WordPress?

What Would Seth Godin Do is a plugin that allows you reach out to your new readers and provide them with a call to action.

As you can see in the image above, you can use the box provided to you by WWSGD to communicate all kinds of information to your visitors. I use it to talk about the latest GPS or PC Deals on my tech blog. The good thing abut it is that you can specifically target the new users and make them feel welcome. At the same time, you can give them the opportunity to sign up for your newsletter or feed, or join your YouTube subscribers.

WWSGD is a free WordPress plugin and is compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Check it out here.

If you are serious about blogging and using the WordPress system, you should definitely try to optimize it for search engines so you get ranked high and get some free traffic. One very handy plug-in that allows you to do just that is SEO all-in-one pack plugin. It allows you to change the title and META tags for each page on your blog. So you can put keywords that are in your post inside your title tags (and everything gets done automatically).

But not every blog is compatible with this SEO plugin. The theme that I am using for this blog was not compatible with SEO blog. The title would not show for the homepage, and that is a big deal if you are trying to get ranked for anything. So here is what you need to do to fix the issue if your title is not showing up.

1. Go to your Design tab on your WordPress blog.
2. Search for the following: <?php wp_title(‘ ‘); ?>
3. Grab the <title> before the above statement and copy through </title>.
4. Paste it right after where it says <head>

This is not really a complicated thing but for some reason the plugin wouldn’t work if your <title> tag is way down inside your header. This should fix any issues with your home page. Have fun!