My Favorite WordPress Plugins
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It’s been a while since I posted here…so I thought of starting by listing the WordPress Plugins I currently use, now that I am back. Below are the WordPress Plugins I currently have activated:
- Adsense-Deluxe: Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts
- Akismet: Prevents Spam
- Chunk Urls for WordPress: shortens urls in comments so that they won’t break your site
- Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents
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Full Text Feed: Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed
- Google Sitemap Generator: Generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO
- Head META Description: Inserts HTML META description tag: excerpt/content brief for post/Page, description for category, and blog tagline for everything else.
- Less: Changes the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”
- Live Comment Preview: Supplies users with a live comment preview
- MyAvatars: Allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to WordPress comments
- Permalink Redirect: Ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued
- Popularity Contest: Enables ranking of your posts by popularity
- PXS Mail Form: Creates a mail form
- Related Posts: Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches
- SEO Title Tag: Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags
- Show Top Commentators: Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers by linking the sites of the most frequent commentators.
- Add Related Posts to Feed: Adds Related Posts to your full content feed
- Subscribe To Comments: Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
- Ultimate Tag Warrior: Tagging plugin
- WordPress Reports: Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data
- WP-PageNavi: Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog
- WP-Polls: Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog
- WP-UserOnline: Enables you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are
- WWW Redirect: Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri
I have listed many useful WordPress Plugins last year, check them out too. Is there any good WordPress Plugins that you think I should try out?
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Posted on August 18th, 2007 | Category: WordPress Plugins |
Napolux
August 18, 2007 at 2:15 am
Thanks for the link
Have a nice day…
Alberto
August 18, 2007 at 2:46 am
There is a new, easy plugin you could check too: Categories Autolink http://www.centrostudilaruna.i.....-autolink/
It automatically converts categories names, when cited in posts or pages, into links to the same categories. It means that if writing an article you cite a category of your blog (for instance “Web Design“), that word (or words) is automatically turned into a link to the cited category.
Santosh P
August 18, 2007 at 4:27 am
Plugins were helpful, Welcome back..was waiting for your post from a long time…
What are you doing these days?>
Vijay Teach Me
August 18, 2007 at 4:49 am
Hi John,
I also use most of the plugins and they are very usefull, I am not activating the google adsense now, prefer to have my visitors with no ads for now.
Vijay
Balinese
August 18, 2007 at 5:51 am
Nice to see you back again John.
Good list of plugins. Must have for most WP users.
Shankar Ganesh
August 18, 2007 at 7:14 am
I use some of the plugins listed here. I’d say that the Full Text Feed is one that everyone should start using if his/her blog displays post excerpts on the front page.
Google Sitemap generator is a great plugin too.
WP-UserOnline - I’ve not heard of, I think I should give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this list.
Nirmal
August 18, 2007 at 9:08 am
Nice to see you back John after a long break.
I’m using most of the plugins from the list mentioned.
Ashok Arora
August 18, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Nice to see a post after long break, I am using some of the plugins. Will add some more from the list.
Vijay
August 18, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Glad that you are back, John! I too use most of these plugins that you’ve mentioned here..
James Leger
August 18, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Good to have you back John.
And I see you also use the Top Commentators plugin.
Vikram
August 18, 2007 at 5:48 pm
These Plugins are really helpful john.. Thanks !
NSpeaks
August 18, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Good to see you back John. You can use one plugin instead of these two plugins: Wasabi Related Posts and Show Related posts in Feed
Try this: http://dev.aizatto.com/categor.....ated-post/
It shows related posts both in post and feed. Two in One.
JohnTP
August 18, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Alberto and NSpeaks- Thanks, I will check them.
James Leger - I have been using the Top Commentators plugin for a long time now.
All - You can find more useful plugins here
Shivaranjan
August 19, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Hey John glad to see you back in blogging…
Bidding Directory
August 19, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I’m using at least 15 plugins of this lists. But i found some plugins that i didn’t know and they are interesting. Thank you for this
Mani Karthik
August 20, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Hi John,
Welcome back.
Am sure many of use are using many of those plugins and many not even heard of. Now that we know your secrets
JK
Cheers!
Mani
Becky
August 21, 2007 at 12:16 am
now that is one comprehensive list ! good work. One I love that you are missing is
WP-PostRatings
http://www.lesterchan.net/port.....amming.php
I have it on my site and it’s nice when people give you a nice rating
Ram karthik
August 21, 2007 at 1:00 am
John, good to see you back. Great list of WordPress Plugins. My favorites are Adsense deluxe, Full Feed and WWW-Redirect. I use WWW-Redirect so that people linking to me will always use WWW and hence my blog’s PR will increase.
Mohsin | Blogging Bits
August 21, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I ditto your list. All plugins are a must-have for Wordpress bloggers.
Mike
August 21, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Also, you could use WP-Cache. Might come in very handy when hit by the digg effect or Slashdot. Without it you’re kind of screwed.
Anyway, from all these plugins, i was wondering how many do you use?
JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes
August 21, 2007 at 7:36 pm
John - How come you don’t use the official Feedburner plugin? It redirects to your feedburner feed as well, but then you can use the ‘flare’ function (both in your feed and on your site) as well…
Tupac
August 21, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Thanks for the list John.
I use a lot of them also, but a few handy plugins I wasn’t aware of.
Bidding Directory
August 21, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I’ve bought 10 domains today.. I will use them on my blogs:)
Google Fan
August 22, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Chunk urls and www redirect are two good ones I learnt from this list. Thanks John.
Shashank
August 23, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Welcome back John
Superb list..i was searching for the full feeds plugin after my posts are being to cutted down to half in audio podcasts..
praveen
August 24, 2007 at 6:28 pm
But some of the Plug-ins are limiting me to make a change to my sql, for me which is difficult , so i am not able use some plug-ins listed above
NSpeaks
August 24, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Praveen - Which plugins are you referring to?
Shashank
August 27, 2007 at 11:37 am
which plugin luckily i never encountered such a plugin :d
Crystal
August 29, 2007 at 7:31 am
These plugins really make me wish I was on wordpress instead of blogger. Blogger really needs to step it up a notch
max
August 30, 2007 at 1:46 pm
I remember when I first came to this site, it’s looking better and better. Thanks for the plugin info, I think I will have to use the Feedburner one for those user-agent crawlers…
Dity
August 31, 2007 at 4:46 pm
John , have you plugin for add news from rss? (but smartrss)
Cash property sale
September 12, 2007 at 10:26 pm
I think UTW is by far the most useful plugin from the list. Another important one in terms of SEO is “All in one SEO” plugin.
Stephen Hopson
November 25, 2007 at 3:21 am
Do you know anything about the DoFollow plug-in? I’m confused about whether I need this or not.
Thanks!
fr33mumia
January 22, 2008 at 8:13 am
hi johntp, is there any plugin to cleanup database for unused or leftover plugins data? Great post anyway
bomme
May 29, 2008 at 2:03 pm
what the basic plugin in wordpress…..i hate when using too many plugin