Ultimate Plugins For WordPress
No doubt that WordPress is the bread and butter of blogging platforms. But really, bread and butter is just toast without the plugins.
Here’s some jelly.
I have compiled a list of the ultimate WordPress plugins (71 total plugins) that will make blogging easier, more productive, and visitor interactive.
If I have left out a plug-in you find useful, be sure to drop me a note and let me know.
Admin (15 Plugins)
WordPress Database Backup: I have said many times that backing up your website is important. Now you can streamline this process using this plugin.
WP-Cache: Efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.
Batch Categories: Lets you batch edit your posts: assign multiple posts to a category or delete multiple posts from a category in one fell swoop.
PodPress: A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress.
Blog Voyeur: Using the cookie left by WordPress when a person leaves a comment on a blog they can be tracked when they come back.
TinyMCE Advanced: This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor.
Exec PHP: The Exec-PHP plugin executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
WordPress Reports: View Google analytics and Feedburner reports in your admin area.
WordPress.com Stats: Tracks views, page views, clicks, and search phrases in your admin panel. (Requires API key).
WordPress Instant Upgrade: Fully automatic upgrades of your WordPress!
Maintenance Mode: Adds a splash page to your site for site upgrades while only allowing editors and admins to access your site.
Theme Test Drive: Test out your latest theme on your blog while visitors still see your default theme!
WP Tiget Administration: Manipulates the default style of your WP admin area to create easier navigation.
WYSIWYG Editor: Replaces the default Wordpress WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor with a more advanced version.
Time Zone: Automatically set the weblog time offset based on the time zone of the server, or using an explicit TZ value.
Navigation (12 Plugins)
Related Entires: Outputs a series of “related” entries based on keyword matching.
Evermore: Displays short previews of your posts on your home page.
Random Redirect: Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
Lightbox JS: Overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
WordPress Mobile Edition: Shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
Popularity Contest: Keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.
Landing Sites: Referred visitors to your site automatically get shown a list of related posts based on search engine keywords that brought them to you.
Feed Lists: Post a feed from another site on your site.
Extend Live Archive: Implements a dynamic archive with many features.
Sticky: Create a sticky posts that stays at the top of your site.
Permalinks Migration: Safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.
Top Categories: Tell it how many of your most frequently posted to categories you want it to show and it will display an unordered list of those categories.
Better Blogroll: The Better Blogroll widget for WordPress allows you to display a configurable number of random links from your Wordpress blogroll.
Posts (9 Plugins)
Share This: Easy way for your visitors to post your site content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail.
WP-Notable: Displays a series of icons below each post allowing your readers to easily submit you to many different social bookmarking and networking sites.
WP-EMail: Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
This Day: After every post, this plugin will list other posts on the same day from previous years.
WP-PostRatings: Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
No Ping Wait: Prevent waiting time for all of the update services to respond to new post pings.
Simple Tags: Easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries.
Twitter Updater: Automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.
Ultimate Tag Warrior: Add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors (or internally, if you’d like).
RSS Feeds (4 Plugins)
Feedburner FeedSmith: Redirects WordPress’ feed to your FeedBurner feed.
Full Text Feed: Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.
Simple Feed Copyright: Add a simple copyright notice at end of full text articles in your feed.
RSS Signature: Allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the wordpress generated RSS feeds.
Comments (16 Plugins)
DoFollow: Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
Subscribe to Comments: Allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments.
WP Ajax Edit Comments: Allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post.
Extended Comment Options: Switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.
Recent Comments: Displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.
CommentLuv: Place a link to a commentators last post under their comment on your blog.
Close Old Posts: Closes comments on old posts on the fly, without any database queries.
Paged Comments: Useful for those popular blog entries receiving many comments, or a simple guestbook page within WordPress.
NicEdit: Content editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser.
Live Comment Preview: Simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
Moojax Comment Posting: Allows comments to be posted without refreshing the page.
Show Top Commentators: Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names (linked to their website if desired) and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
WordPress Gravatars: Outputs the correct gravatar URL based on the commenters email address.
MyBlogLog Avatars: Displays MyBlogLog avatars next to comments.
Brian’s Threaded Comments: Creates a “reply to this comment” link to comments.
Comment Relish: Sends a thank you e-mail to first time commentators.
SPAM (6 Plugins)
Akismet: Blogs comment SPAM. (Requires API key).
Word Verify: Asks visitors to enter a specific word along with their comment.
Math Comment Spam Protection: Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question.
SPAM Karma: Stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. (Heavy on mail servers).
WP Contact Form w/Spam Protection: Creates a contact form for your blog that includes spam protection.
Defensio: An alternative to Akismet, stand-alone SPM plugin.
SEO (9 Plugins)
All In One SEO Pack: Streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. (I love this one the most).
Google XML Sitemaps Generator: Generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
Permalink Redirect: Replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink.
Head META Description: Provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog.
SEO Title Tag: Dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website.
Enforce WWW Preference: Preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference.
Add META Tags: Adds XHTML META tags to your WordPress blog.
Optimal Title: Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.
Quick META Keywords: Automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post.
UPDATED 1.13.08 : 3 to Admin, 1 to Navigation, 1 to SPAM
UPDATED 2.22.08 : 2 to Navigation,
This post was written by I’m Blogging That’s former owner, Katy Castro who can now be found blogging at Unedited Life.












