Porn blogs require setups similar to any other niche blog, but has a few specific needs. These are the basic Wordpress plugins I use on my porn blogs. There are a few I use for special cases that I will cover later.

Stop Spam and Bots

All blogs have a problem with spam and bots, but you can bet you’ll get spam and bots all over your site if you’re blogging about porn related topics.

Akismet: This is pretty standard. Akismet is a plugin designed by the creators of Wordpress and uses a central real time server to determine if a comment is spam. Its a great plugin in and does a great job at catching spam.

Bad Behavior: Is a nice plugin used to stop bots from even accessing your site. Akismet checks comments left and determines if they’re spam or not. Bad Behavior works by stopping bots before they ever enter your site. This is a good plugin to stop spam and to prevent resources being wasted by useless bot traffic.

SEO Plugins

Since we’re dealing with a market that is visually heavy, it is important that we optimize every factor that we can. Since image SEO is limited, be sure to have every other SEO factor optimized.

All in One SEO Pack: This is an incredible plugin for Wordpress SEO and takes care of a lot of SEO factors. It improves site titles, improves duplicate content, and allows you to edit the meta tags for each post.

Google Sitemap: Internal linking is challenging on a porn blog, because there isn’t much text to deal with. Help Google find all the pages on your blog by providing them with an XML sitemap.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: Creates an HTML sitemap that can be browsed by both bots and humans. It improves your site crawlability and site depth.

SEO Friendly Images: Improve you image SEO.

Reduce Resource Usage

Porn blogs use more resources than a text only niche blog. Not only do they use more bandwidth and HD space, galleries usually require more CPU and ram usage. Dynamic resizing and watermarks put a heavy load on your shared server’s resources. One way to improve your blog’s efficiency to install caching plugins

WP-Cache: This is the standard caching plugin. It does a great job reducing your blog’s load.

WP Super Cache: Works similar to WP-Cache but is an improvement upon the work of WP-Cache and reduces the load even further. This is the plugin that helps blogs live through the Digg effect by generating static pages saved to your server.

Manage Media

Of course, porn blogs are media heavy. You’ll want a few plugins to help you manage your pictures and videos.

Next Gen Gallery: This a nice gallery manager. Wordpress now has a gallery upload feature included, but this plugin provides a few more options. You can import galleries uploaded via FTP. It’ll resize and watermark them for you. It also provides a few image effects like lightbox. It makes managing your images easy.

Lightbox: Overlay images on top of the page using the Lightbox Javascript. I believe Next Gen does this for you, but if not, this plugin can be used for the same effect.

Viper’s Video Quicktags: This is the plugin I use to manage my videos. It can handle a variety of formats including Youtube and Google videos. It can handle locally hosted avi,mpg,flv,mov, etc.

Yet Another Photoblog: If you want to move away from the traditional blog format and focus on photo-blogging, this plugin does the job.

Be A Little Sticky

Having a lack of content, makes searching a little harder. Its important to use good tags and keywords. One way to help users find quality content though is to allow rankings and voting on posts.

WP-PostRatings: This plugin allows visitors to vote on a post. Default setup is 1 to 5 stars. Posts can then be outputted to a list and ranked by most votes and highest votes. It also allows you visitors to interact and give feedback on what they like the most.

Popularity Conest: This will also create a list of “best posts”. It doesn’t use a voting system, but ranks the posts using factors like page views and comment count.

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