Wordpress Plugins I Use
I’m often curious about which Wordpress plugins experienced bloggers think are most important. Like most other bloggers, I’ve looked through several “top plugins” posts to come up with my own list.
However, rather than telling you which plugins I think are the most important by making a “top 10 Wordpress plugins” or “my favorite plugins” post, I’ve installed the WP-PluginsUsed plugin, which will automatically update this page as I try out new plugins and replace any when I find something I like better.
Also note that I have several inactive plugins. With these I’m either trying to figure out if I need them, I like the concept and I’m trying to figure out how I can fit them in, or I’m testing different plugins with similar functions.
Anyway, here’s the list:
There are 42 plugins used: 30 active plugins and 12 inactive plugins.Active Plugins
AddToAny: Subscribe Button .9.8
» AddToAny (url)
Help readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader or feed service. [Enable Widget | Settings]
All in One SEO Pack 1.6.8.1
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist
Aweber 1.0.0
» Guru Consulting Services, Inc. (url)
Aweber allows you to subscribe people to an aweber list when they register or post a comment to your blog.
Better Extended Live Archives 0.40
» Charles (url)
The famous ELA for WP 2.7.
Brian's Latest Comments 1.5.8
» Brian Meidell (url)
This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. Original idea and code fixes contributed by Michael Heilemann.If you have Dunstan’s Time Since installed, this plugin uses it for the title=”" attributes on the comments and posts. (For WordPress 1.5)
Comment Approved Notifier 2.2
» Yakup Gövler (url)
Send an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.
Comment Prompt/Reminder 0.4
» Tim Nash (url)
Displays a custom message to regular visitors who have yet to comment. Based on the What would Seth Godin do plugin by Richard K Miller.
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
FREE LINK EXCHANGE 1.0
» FREELINKEXCHANGEDIRECTORY.COM (url)
This is the plugin that adds your site to a network of like minded link exchanging websites. Once installed your site will be able to swap and attract reciprocal and 1 way links from other sites in the network.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.2
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
Highlight Author Comments 1.0.2
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Automatically applies a distinctive style to comments by the post’s author.
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer 2.2.5
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin. Adjust your settings here.
NoFollow Free 1.6.3
» Michele Marcucci (url)
Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc… Supports multilingual and a Top Commenters sidebar Widget.
Nofollow Reciprocity 2.3.1
» Lazar Kovacevic (url)
Searches for links to large sites using ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on links to those sites (Wikipedia.org, StumbleUpon.com, and similar) Added top 1000 sites from Quantcast.com. This plugin is based on Wikipedia nofollow and Identify External Links.
Page Link Manager 1.0b
» Garrett Murphey (url)
Adds admin panel to choose which pages appear in the site navigation.
Quoter 1.1
» Daniele Mancino (url)
Allows commenters to quote other comments (dynamically or server side if they have Javascript disabled) and any other text in a page (Javascript only).
Related Posts 2.04
» Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne (url)
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
SexyBookmarks 3.2.3.1
» Shareaholic (url)
SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. See configuration panel for more settings.
Thank Me Later 2.0.0.1
» Brendon Boshell (url)
Automatically send a ‘thank you’ e-mail to those who comment on your blog. This plugin engages the visitor by reminding them to check back for responses or new blog posts. The plugin is highly configurable with multiple messages, variable delay and restrictions.
Top Commentators Widget 1.3
» Lorna Timbah (WebGrrrl.net) (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin.
TweetSuite 0.6
» Dan Zarrella (url)
A WordPress Plugin to integrate Twitter and WordPress
Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0
» Dean Robinson (url)
Designed for Wordpress 2.1 – Display a weighted list of category links. Mods for coloured/weighted list by Dean Robinson. Based on Weighted Categories Plugin by Matt Kingston
What Would Seth Godin Do 1.7
» Richard K Miller (url)
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.5
» Keith Dsouza (url)
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.
Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure 1.0
» Badi Jones (url)
Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-PostViews 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.
WP-reCAPTCHA 2.9.7
» Jorge Peña (url)
Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam solutions with wordpress
wp-recent-links 2.08
» Markku Seguerra (url)
A linklog plugin for WordPress, allowing you to have your own blog of links without the need for another wp-powered weblog or (gasp!) another weblog software. More information at the project’s page.
WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2
» WP-SpamFree (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.
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Posted on July 7, 2010 - by Kelly Verge
WP Syndicator – Great Product, Great Price, Great Cause
Recently Andy Fletcher asked me to test a new product that he’s created. It’s called WP Syndicator, and it’s a plugin that syndicates your posts across 15 different web 2.0 properties. But that’s not all…
Andy is donating 100% of the sale of this plugin to Asthma research.
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Bring the Fresh – My Review (part 1)
Back around the beginning of June I was given the opportunity by Kelly Felix to review Bring the Fresh (Full Disclosure version). This is his latest project in which he has partnered with Mike Long.
Unfortunately I was sidetracked by a trip to Summer camp with the Boy Scouts, so I’m just now diving in.
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