Top Wordpress Plugins
posted by: Vlad Akilov
Here is a great list that I whipped together of some of the most useful and most popular Wordpress plugins, if you don’t yet have wordpress, or don’t know what it is head over to wordpress.org, its a blogging software, which is awesome!
Enjoy the list.
Akismet - Is a spam filter that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not, also checks the trackbacks for spam.
Ultimate Tag Warrior - Best Tag system for WordPress. You can use categories and tag system on one website which is very cool.
Exec-PHP - Execute PHP code in posts or static pages. When this plugin is on you can add php code to static pages or even posts.
Google Sitemaps - This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
No Ping Wait - Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.
PXS Mail Form - Creates a mail form with multipart verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. It is much more easy to contact with website author.
Super Archive - Implements a dynamic archive, the best archives system i know.
SRG Clean Archives - Super clean archive. Very simple and useful.
WP lightbox 2 - Overlay images on the current page for WordPress. You can turn it on and all images are now working with it.
fQuick - Sidenotes, short notes for WordPress. You can place it for example in sidebar.
CG-FlashyTitles - Implementation of sIFR 2.0 Flash-based - Nice graphical flash titles for WP. Very easy to install.
flickrRSS - Integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Show flickr photos on your website.
Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
Gravatars - Adds a nice looking graphic next to the persons comments.
Get Recent Comments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar or where you want.
WP Paginate - Create pagination for pages. It is the best plugin for that makes navigation easy with many static pages.
wp-notable - Add social bookmark links such as digg or del.icio.us to each blog entry
Adsense-Deluxe - Support for AdSense ads and allows you to add ads to posts.
WP-ContactForm - A way for people to contact you without actually emailing you, saves time, and great way to avoid spam.
PodPress - Got a podcast? PodPress makes it really easy to post podcasts, also includes an inline media player.
Related Posts - Link to related posts on your blog, which is based on the content of the post.
Update:
WP-Cache - An extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.
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August 29th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Hey great list, I never even heard of some of these plugins.
I also put this article on digg
August 30th, 2006 at 12:15 am
Askimet is a life saver. Thanks for the list!
August 30th, 2006 at 5:18 am
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August 30th, 2006 at 10:43 am
After Akismet went down last week I tried out Spam Karma and it is way better! You actually get control over how your spam is filtered.
August 30th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Great list, I already use a good number of these.
I would also recommend wordpress-reports at http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-reports/
August 30th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
I like the updated today plugin. Adds a small banner the day you update your blog.
http://www.insomniacsyndicate.net/speak/projects/
August 30th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Thanks, I didn’t know half of these existed. Very usefull
Cheers!
drinks.hscene.com
August 30th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
what about search and replace?
August 30th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Great list. I look forward to playing around with these.
August 30th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
I like this formmailer more myself
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/
August 30th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Very nice list, I will use some of them in my new blogs for sure. Thank you!
August 30th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Can anyone recommend a good ‘code view’ plugin. I post a bunch of source code and wrapping in code/pre sometimes works, sometimes not. I’m guessing there is a good plugin for this sort of thing.
August 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Útiles para Wordpress: plugins y themes minimalistas…
Vía digg os remito un par de enlaces útiles para WordPress, el primero, y enlazado en este meneo, los mejores 20 plug-ins, según un usuario del popular CMS. El otro, interesante articulo que recoje los mejores themes "minimalistas" del CMS…
August 30th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
One I really like is G2WP to integrate wordpress with Galleray2.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Great list! Some of these I never would have found!
August 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Hey,
I tryed Ultimate Tag Warrior but disabled it because I didn’t really get it (still don’t). Why are categories not enough?
Nice site, really like the design (are those icons at the bottom yours? can I borrow some of them?
August 30th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Update, I got Dugg and apparantly the server went down, CRAP. I was at college today and had no idea, thanks everybody for the comments.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
some of them were new to me. thanks for metioning pxs mail form. really nice plugin.
@dennis: akismet is default installed in every never wordpress version.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
hey there…have you seen the meebome wordpress plugin? works in both wordpress.com and wordpress.org and lets you directly embed IM on your wordpress blog…
August 30th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
I’d have to agree with the above about Spam Karma 2. That’s definitely my plug-in of choice for fighting spam. It can also be combined with Bad Behavior.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Good work, I will definately use most of them! I use Social Bar (http://www.dountsis.com/articles/wordpress/social-bookmarks-bar-plugin-for-wordpress.php) instead of WP-notable.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Great article! I’ll try a few of them that I did not know before.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
yeah akismet is a life saver, and all this i hear about it going down didnt affect me at all apparently. i also really like the adsense plugin. very convenient
August 30th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
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August 30th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
So far Akismet has worked excellent for me and by some of the comments I see like from Dennis, David, and Egon. Also others who use Spam Karma which is also cool!!!
August 30th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Try wp-cache. It caches your wordpress posts, and speeds up the page load considerably.
August 30th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Neotorama: Thanks for the heads up about the plugin (Wp-Cache) I just installed, because my site was done for about an hour during the initial wave from digg.
August 30th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Thanks for linking to Silent Bits
August 30th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
To add the Add to Any button that allows subscription to any of the RSS readers:
http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/mp_addtoany_fr/
August 30th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
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August 30th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
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August 30th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
thanks a lot, ill check out the sitemap
August 30th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
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August 30th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
http://plugins.atterberry.net/lazy-k-gallery/
http://moho.optera.net/projects/wordpress/linkblock/
LazyK is the best photo gallery organizer. (easy and works perfectly)
Linkblock is a organizer for links using widgets
August 30th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Great list. These plugins and more are already being used at the SharePoint BUZZ
Visit http://www.sharepointbuzz.com
August 30th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
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August 31st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Great list! This is very helpful… a sort of filtered list.
I have a question for those reading: Has anyone seen a good plugin for rating/voting on posts? I’m looking for one that will let the viewer vote and then sort the posts by the highest vote per category.
August 31st, 2006 at 12:16 am
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August 31st, 2006 at 5:59 am
I have written an anti-spambot plugin which adds an “authentication” code into wp-comments-post.php like wp-comments-post-xxxxxx.php. Later on it becomes wp-comments-post.php?cpr_code=xxxxxx by xxxxxx is a MD5 hash of several “server-unique” data like current server’s date, IP number and WP_SECRET.
See my blog under “Plugins” and scroll down a little.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:29 am
Well, it’s not really a plugin, but this one is very useful to change hoover titles
http://www.dustindiaz.com/sweet-titles
August 31st, 2006 at 7:45 am
Admin Drop Down Menu : this is *zeee* must have plugin.
August 31st, 2006 at 8:33 am
Warning: self-promotion ahead
I made a plugin that works pretty much like the flickrRSS-plugin, but connects to the 23hq photo service (which is superior to flickr!) instead - it also has some caching features…
August 31st, 2006 at 9:12 am
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August 31st, 2006 at 10:01 am
Thanks for the list. Very good information.
August 31st, 2006 at 10:09 am
nice work, i’ve written about it in my blog
August 31st, 2006 at 10:14 am
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August 31st, 2006 at 10:45 am
Nice review of Wordpress plugin’s, although I think Sociable plugin (http://push.cx/sociable) is much better than wp-noteable.
August 31st, 2006 at 11:59 am
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August 31st, 2006 at 12:22 pm
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August 31st, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Glenn,
Try the Post Star Rating plugin (Spanish I’m afraid though) -
(http://blog.abusemagazine.com/index.php/2006/01/28/wordpress-plugin-post-star-rating/
August 31st, 2006 at 2:03 pm
This can help me now!
xD
Tanks.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:00 pm
If you use Ultimate Tag Warrior, I’ve put together some bugfixes and mods for version 3.14 that are available here. The mod adds an autotag feature that will search your current tag database and return suggested tags for the current post. It also fixes the yahoo and tagyu suggest features on some browsers, as well as the superajax function.
I’m on my way to check out some of the other plugins in your list that I’ve never heard of!
August 31st, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Thanks for the heads up on the link, Brett, glad you enjoyed the post.
September 1st, 2006 at 6:19 am
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September 1st, 2006 at 11:00 am
The best WordPress plugins…
Blogging enthusiast Vlad Akilov has put together a stellar list of the most essential WordPress plugins. There’s some old favorites on here, such as Akismet, Ultimate Tag Warrior, and flickrRSS, but there’s also quite a few I haven’t seen……
September 1st, 2006 at 11:05 am
I feel Plugins like social bookmarking, Authimage are also important.
wp-sociable http://www.maxpower.ca/sociable/2006/01/26/:
A simple plugin which lists a range of social bookmarking sites allowing visitors to quickly socially bookmark the post/page they are currently viewing.
Authimage http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376 :
Creates an authentication image to help combat spam in comments.
thanks!
September 1st, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Woah, this is freakin’ brilliant and timely. Thanks a ba-zillion!
September 1st, 2006 at 12:19 pm
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September 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pm
And if you’re into instant podcast creation via phone: http://www.phoneblogz.com has a WordPress plugin.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
you can also check on my site.
A must have 10 Wordpress plugins for your website
September 1st, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Extended Live Archive
http://www.sonsofskadi.net/extended-live-archive/
definitely add Ozh’s Admin Drop Down Menu to that list as well.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
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September 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pm
I posted a similar list of favorites on my blog a few weeks ago and am glad to see that a lot of the items on your list match my own.
I updated my Akismet plugin with the modified version made by Rich Boakes. His version gives the option of adding the IP address of the spammers into your htaccess file and blocking the spammers from even accessing your site. I went from getting 20-30 spam comments a day down to 1-3 per week. Plus, I don’t waste bandwidth sending pages to spammers.
September 1st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Does Feedwordpress classifies as a plugin?..
if so, IT SHOULD be on the list.
September 1st, 2006 at 5:25 pm
I wouldn’t recommend UTW for blogs with lots of posts or hits as I’ve seen it cause some serious performance problems.
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:41 am
Wonderful. Thanks for the list. It’s a great starting point/launchpad.
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:18 am
Starting a wordpress blog? Make sure you get the top plugins!…
Thanks to Digg.com I stumbled across this blog entry on the theblogjoint.com. It list some of the best wordpress plugins around.
Personally I’ve replaced my adsense plugin as a consequence and haven’t looked back. Adsense Deluxe offers amaz…
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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September 3rd, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Thank you for the list. I gave you a plug at my blog and a few other sites. I’ll be launching bloggertalk.net by September 19th and will be sure to ad your link to my resources.
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
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September 3rd, 2006 at 5:29 pm
What a fantastic list–thanx for such a resource, and so many metalinks too!
I wanted to ask: does anyone know offhand of any good moderation enhancers to ban blog comment abusers? Akismet doesn’t seem to work effectively for such a purpose.
Many thanx in advance.
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Hey Rose, I’m glad you liked this post and am very thankful that you linked to me on bloggertalk.net, thats awesome thanks.
Torley, if you’re not satisfied with Akismet you might want to try Spam Karma
September 3rd, 2006 at 9:09 pm
[...] There’s some old favorites on here, such as Akismet, Ultimate Tag Warrior, and flickrRSS, but there’s also quite a few I haven’t seen before that look extremely useful. What’s your favorite WordPress plugin? Thoughts to comments or to tips at lifehacker.com. — Wendy Boswell Top Wordpress Plugins [theblogjoint.com] [...]
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:29 pm
[...] There’s some old favorites on here, such as Akismet, Ultimate Tag Warrior, and flickrRSS, but there’s also quite a few I haven’t seen before that look extremely useful. What’s your favorite WordPress plugin? Thoughts to comments or to tips at lifehacker.com. — Wendy Boswell Top Wordpress Plugins [theblogjoint.com] [...]
September 4th, 2006 at 12:27 am
As someone mentioned before, Bad Behavior can’t be ignored for easy spam fighting. I’ve found it extremely effective. Just a few stragglers I have to pick off. But it blocks hundreds of bots a day.
I know it will never make a top plugins list, but I just finished my first wordpress plugin. It’s another AJAX contact form, but with better feedback and security. Fully accessible and degradable, designed with web standards in mind. Sorry to keep plugging my own stuff here, it just seems like such an enthusiastic group and exactly the type of people who might be interested.
I’ll shut up now.
September 4th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Thanx for the suggestion Vlad! Pardon, I should clarify: I’m looking for a tool to specifically target and ban abusive users, as opposed to a broader spamnet sort of solution. Anything you’d recommend for that? I’ll check out Spam Karma too. Muchly appreciated!
September 4th, 2006 at 8:57 am
@Torley
You can enter IP addresses in the comment moderation and blacklist text boxes under options->discussion to ban specific IP addresses. You should also check out the resources here.
September 4th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
^ Thank you Brett! I’m still finding my way around WordPress. The advice is gratefully appreciated.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
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September 6th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
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September 7th, 2006 at 4:11 am
Great list, thanx i’ll link this to mine.
September 7th, 2006 at 5:27 am
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September 7th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
will try out a few of these, thanks for the list
September 8th, 2006 at 11:34 am
I found this useful compared to the many lists i have seen, as there were some new plugins. I use akismet and it is very helpful, but one of the great advantages is I use wordpress as a module in the excellent XOOPS cms (www.xoops.org) this allows xoops to carry a lot of the ‘contact me’ stuff and its security problems in wordpress.
September 10th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Thanks for the list! Too bad WP Paginate isn’t available for WP 2.0. Does anyone know an alternative?
September 10th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Useful list! Added to howtohut http://www.howtohut.com/top_wordpress_plugins
September 10th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
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September 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Great collection of wordpress plugins. The feed burner feed replacement plugin has been updated and can be found here.
Less is a simple plugin that removes the #more-ID from the read more link. Instead of jumping to the middle of the post where the #more tag is, it shows the entire post. Makes things a little neater.
I have another one that cleans up the dashboard a little bit, and leaves only the important info, but can’t find the link to the page for it right now because it replaces the index.php file in the admin folder and isn’t actually activated through the plugins page. It’s a good one to have though. Just my thoughts on a few good plugins to add to the list.
September 18th, 2006 at 3:39 am
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September 20th, 2006 at 1:07 am
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September 20th, 2006 at 7:10 am
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September 22nd, 2006 at 2:30 am
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October 1st, 2006 at 12:40 am
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October 6th, 2006 at 4:00 am
Wow, this is a really comprehensive list. Thanks heaps. I will be implementing at least 3 of these the next moment I have a chance to my site.
October 20th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
This is the best list I have seen. Do you know of a plugin for managing a large number of categories?
For instance, I have these base categories: TV, movies, celebrities, sports, music and videogames…
With about 300 sub-categories. This is primarily for search engine optimization, but we post frequently to literally all of them.
So, my only problem is that all of the categories display on the main page, with the parent categories next to the child categories. I don’t want someone seeing “TV” between its child categories.
Is there a plugin that makes them expandable/collapsible based on category depth? Or, for best SEO, one that only shows the parent categories on the main page, then when you click on TV the next page only shows TV, with its children in a collapsible tree? Anything like this would be great…
I have tried the “Fold Category List” plugin by Robert Schumann but it has some problems.
Thanks a bunch of your concise list of great plugins!
Nick at FanSpoiler.com
October 20th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Nick: Thanks for the comments, I’m not quite sure about the plugins for categories, but I found one called Collapsing Category Menus, its worth a try.
November 6th, 2006 at 7:51 am
i have no idea how akismet work or eat spam. but Spam karma work great. SK2 send email notification when somebody post a replay.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
surf your blog archives with our new plugin:
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/2006/11/06/blog-surfing-is-born-sellsius-blogging-systems-collaborate-on-new-fun-wordpress-tool/
November 7th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Might I suggest one more for your list? I do see you have one listed but options are always good: http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136
Mike
November 12th, 2006 at 6:46 am
How to add Meta Tag keyword plugin to wordpress, which is the best one ?
Thanks for such a great list. I am using most of plugins on my technology blog http://www.scriptdebate.com
November 13th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
nice list… Thanks
November 20th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
I had trouble making flickrRSS dynamic. It’s cool but needs some improvements. What the best text replace plugin?
December 1st, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Here is a worthy contender for your list of great wordpress pluins:
http://counterblog.gostats.com/how-to-install-a-gostats-hit-counter-using-wordpress-plugins
This one allows you to use GoStats in your site. (A very power web stats engine)
December 12th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Hey guys. What about WP e-commerce - don’t forget us. A wordpress site isnt a site without a working wordpress shopping cart
January 18th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
A few questions from a blog idiot
How do you keep the spammers from eating you alive? i\’ve seen blogs with nothing but spam postings.
How do you keep some left wing extremist from posting racist or defamatory rhetoric? and if you cant stop them, what are you legally liabel when they do?
can viruses be posted to blogs?
January 21st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Fundraiser: Well to keep the spammers away, you need to activate Akismet, which is automatically installed with all wordpress powered blogs.
And you can always moderate every comment in the admin in wordpress, you will not get any comments that are racist or any hatred comments if you moderate them and activate wordpress.
And I haven’t heard “viruses” being posted on blogs.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am
If you’re using a lot of plugins you might find one of my new plugins useful…
Update Manager helps keep all your plugins up to date with the latest versions available, allowing you to check with one-click whether you need to upgrade. New versions will support background checking & notification emails, etc.
It’s so useful, even I use it
February 7th, 2007 at 8:43 am
some of those plugins are very useful for me.
Thanks.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:30 am
I think my wordpress plugin should be included in this list because it prevents automated comment spam without verification, check out the blog :- http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2007/02/12/spambam/
March 5th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Wow, Great list! Thanks
March 12th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
[...] I’m getting more and more comfortable with Wordpress. Wordpress is not difficult to use at all, but the more I dig into the guts of it the more I want to extend it. The easiest way to do this is of course via plugins. There are tons and tons of WP plugins out there. The Blog Join listed their top 10… I gotta say some of they sound seriously cool. The ones that really stand out are Google Sitemaps which generate Google compliant sitemaps of your WordPress blog, SRG Clean Archives a super clean archive, and WP Paginate which lets you create pagination for static pages (something I’ve always found limiting in WP). [...]
March 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Top (must have) WordPress Plugins…
I’ve been using WordPress for eJabs.com for just over 3 months now. For those of you who don’t know, Wordpress is a great blogging software, that just so happens to be free! I have spend a great deal of time trying out & troubleshooti…
March 17th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Hey guys, thanks for the really good list of links. It makes easyer to find the plugins i need. Thanks a lot. Jürgen
March 31st, 2007 at 9:11 am
video plugin for wordpress here http://wordpress.vidavee.com/
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:51 am
Great List! This is going to keep me busy going through these.
Hopefully this insn’t covered in one of the above, I did a quick browse first, but what I am looking for is a way to fill my main blog site with random or recent content from my subdomain blogs.
I have checkmyhead.com and users can register and get a free blog and it becomes a subdomain, like bill.checkmyhead.com so I want the main domain blog to just kind of fill up and display content from the subdomains, or maybe even theblogjoint.com or some other blogs.
I have a feeling this is similar to what feeds are, but I am getting pretty confused. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I also want to have a blog somewhere else, but have it pull the articles from my personal blog, I see people do it all the time, but I dont know how.
Thanks
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 am
@ Bill: You might want to check out this plugin called firstRSS
May 20th, 2007 at 10:36 am
WOW Good list of WP Plugins. I blogged about WP Plugins and inculuded a link to your blog http://nichm.com/?p=40
May 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am
[...] Great Plugins - If you want to incorporate a handy feature in a regular webpage, such as a star rating system for [...]
June 11th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Good list, I would personally add one or three more, but these are certainly the best or very close. Bookmarked!
June 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Great list, that helps me to narrow down to know which plugin I should install on my wordpress blog…
Cheers…
June 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I have also written a SEO plugin for WordPress that optimises the use of ALT tags for better SEO placement.
The plugin can be found at
http://www.indiana-loans.co.uk/wordpress-plugin-seo-alt-tag-optimzer-font-resizer-tool/
June 30th, 2007 at 5:36 am
[...] Include AdSense and YPN ads automatically. AdSense-Deluxe offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. (TheBlogJoint.com) [...]
July 12th, 2007 at 9:55 am
The Google sitemap plugin makes the job so easy! One click of a button and it generates your sitemap then pings Google to let them know about any changes.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Hey,
For all you guys out there supporting video content, you can now monetize it free with the NoPrimeTime wordpress plugin. You can also crosspromote your sites if you lack advertisers.
The plugin can be found here: http://www.noprimetime.com/plugin
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.
Thanks
Vic
August 14th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Great list, I added your post to a post of mine about Wordpress Plugins as a good place to start for highly recommended plugins…
You can see my post here…
http://www.affiliatebestprograms.com/2007/07/27/wordpress-plugins/
You should check out GaMerZ Wordpress Plugins (listed in my post). He’s got some really top notch plugins. I also have a few cool Wordpress hacks for those who have PHP coding skills on my blog.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:44 am
I like the wordpress plugin that generates content from RSS feeds. Those are automatically updated blog, and if you put some adsense, get indexed by google, you can make money everyday automatically.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 am
Nice. Thank you.
I’m still looking for a good ‘rating’ plugin - - five stars is not working for me. Any suggestions?
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 am
Hi!
I’ve made a plugin called WP YouTube. You can edit colors, borders, width, height of all the YouTube videos at the same time in just one setting. Very easy to use!
WP YouTube
Created 2007-11-01 so it BRAND NEW!
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:36 am
Hi, great list, but.. why none of the seo plugins made it? I am a long time Xoops and Drupal cms user and there is a big problem to make content search engine friendly.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
A very useful collection. However, I think that there are just a few plugins that really matter: akismet (anti-spam protection), SEO plugins, e-mail this to a friend and similar ones, but visual stuff is just made for fun. IMHO, it doesn’t add to usability or functionality: like all those flashy things, avatars, etc. Nice list anyway.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Hey! Awesome collection of plugins. I found this plugin the other day, I’ll link it — SodaHead Wordpress Plugin — It lets you add a fully customizable poll to your Wordpress blog/forum… Though some of you might find this handy
January 19th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Wow, that’s an awesome list! You’ll definitely want to add WP-SpamFree and WordPress Automatic Upgrade - those two rock!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Excellent collection of plugins. Great suggestions for plugins in comments as well.
Thanks.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Seems like everyone has a few cool plugins they have made, here is mine.
It blocks spam and eliminates the need to moderate spam comments. Also does not use a captcha and takes about 30 seconds to install.
http://www.amazingwordpressthemes.com/wordpress-spam-blocker/
March 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
We used several of these on our blog! Found you via lifehacker. Thanks for all the great plugins!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Really a useful resource. Everyone always looking for new plugins and try to use those new plugins. Please continiue to provide this kind of info.
Regards
April 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for the list! You were #1 result on google for “best wordpress plugins list” search - congrats
April 11th, 2008 at 2:53 am
You can add to this list the new WordPress plugin : DivvaFlip
DivvaFlip 1.0 : make your photos galleries more glamorous with a flipping engine on your WordPress blog
A very cool website with quality photos. it’s fun , easy and it’s free : so enjoy !
April 16th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Thanks for this list, it helps a lot rather than wading through the endless list of plug-ins on the WordPress site!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
for me the DivvaFlip is a great plugin . you can generate you existing album into a flippin one very easily . So photographs or comics editors can now show their work with a great eye-catching impact
i built several Divva Flip … a bit addicted now
May 8th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
hey, nice list.
i’ve added your page in my “top 100 resources for web development” on http://www.namehugger.com.
if you want more resources for buying domain names or setting up wordpress sites, check it out!
cheers
June 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Thanks for compiling the list recently I have been hit by some drive by comments, and was looking for a plugin to use to curb that
June 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Here is one wp plugin that helps to increase the number of feed subscribers.
Sure it should be used wisely.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
This isn’t really a plug-in but a stand alone app that easily puts video on WP blogs (free).
http://www.easywordpressvideo.com
August 26th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
wp-cache the most important plugins for me. It’s help me reduce my server resource activity
August 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for the list. I’m going to set up wp-cache right now!
August 28th, 2008 at 2:34 am
List my “WordPress Theme Changer & Showcase Plugin” too, please. Thanks.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I simply like the no ping wait WP plug in, It’s awesome for me and saves me a lot of time for pinging.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:41 am
AdSense Deluxe is still the best for me as I have an AdSense-ready wordpress theme used in my blog.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I like your showcase of WP plug ins in here. get’s me to choose using the short description and makes my work easier. It’s very hard to choose especially if there are about 100 or more choices unlike here.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Hi,
I just write a new plugin WP Widget Cache, which can cache the output of your blog widgets. You can treat it as a plus to WP Cache, especially when Google is crawling your site, I think it will significantly reduce your server usage.
Will you please have a try, and add it to this list. Thanks very much.
Here’s the plugin url:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/
September 10th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Today we released Version 1.1 of the Kaltura Interactive Video plugin! This is not just another video embed tool - the plugin enables you to enhance your blog with a full video experience. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
The new version includes many enhancements and fixes including: three different player styles to choose from, custom sizing of the video player and advanced sharing options for videos.
Check it out and download it here:
http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?campaign=wp-comments
Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4
September 11th, 2008 at 2:03 am
is there any plugin which could embed icons/links of all famous social bookmarking site with every post?
September 30th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
ExecPHP is by far the most useful plugin in that list. There is no way that I could have my blog running without this plugin.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Nice list, most of them are really helpful for running a successful blog. Creating a Google compliant site map is an important part of SEO since it makes it easier for Google to index your page.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
My I recommend my own plugin to this list? I might be a bit biased, but I think it could be very useful to people. I’d love to hear your opinion of it or even a review…
http://www.warkensoft.com/products/amazonfeed-wordpress-plugin/
December 13th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Check out my new plugin at: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easysms/
It’s an easy way to send group SMS messages from your WP admin panel. Enjoy!
December 14th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
You got a great list there to work off of. I use a lot of those, I guess its all in what you are looking for right. Here is a few more good ones tan tan noodles and optimal title. Google search them to find out more or visit my blog for more info.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Great list! For beginner bloggers I would recommend these most useful plugins:
http://interactivewoo.com/2008/11/21/top-10-most-useful-wordpress-plugins-plus-a-few-more/
January 11th, 2009 at 12:29 am
If you need auto content, check out RSSdoodle and Twitterdoodle.
January 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am
THat’s a pretty good list!I Will definitely install it to my new blog.
Do any of you guys know the wordpress plugin that does this at the bottom of your post: “Read the rest of the Article”
I’ve been looking all over for that plugin. How do you do that??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again
January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Great List! And love the additions by folks in the comments!
One I don’t see here that is a HUGE time saver and helper to keep your stuff up to date is Wordpress Automatic Upgrades It also works for updating many Plugins. However, I generally wait before upgrading the entire wordpress system as there is often bugs to be worked out shortly after release.
But when your all set this plugin is Great.
Cheers!
Jeromy
HillbillyDIrect.com
January 28th, 2009 at 8:57 am
does anybody have the copy of wp-autoblog plugin? i really need this plugin. thanks.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:06 am
is there any plugin which could embed icons/links of all famous social bookmarking site with every post?
February 4th, 2009 at 9:08 am
If you need auto content, check out RSSdoodle and Twitterdoodle.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Nice List !
I have found another great plugin:
“TargetDomain Analyzer” which is quite a compleete domain analisis tool like domaintools.com for your wordpress blog. Shows WHOIS, SE popularity and much more … (There is also a Joomla version available).
See: http://resource.targetdomain.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=86&func=fileinfo&id=8
March 17th, 2009 at 4:49 am
My favorite plugin would have to be WP-O-Matic. This plugin is amazing and basically you get content to your blog for free. I also like to use All in One SEO Pack to optimize my meta tags which help with my search engine ranking. Sociable is also a cool plugin for posting all the social bookmarking sites links on your blog post.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Great list!!
I’m using the plugin PHPMyVideoBlog to automatic publish video posts in my site. It’s great!
I really recommend it to everyone!
Cheers!!
May 5th, 2009 at 4:52 am
How about this allrounder?
Use wp-insert to insert every kind of code you will ever need to insert into your blog. The plugin features 5 ad widgets, provision to insert ads into right,left,top and bottom of your posts/pages, feed management options like adding your logo to your feeds, redirecting your feeds to feedburner, feedburner subscribe via email widget, Provisions to insert ads above or below your feeds, Subscribe to feed widget, Provision to insert google analytics code easily, Provision to add any kind of code to your header and footer area.
Future plans include sections for SEO and social bookmarking..
Download
July 1st, 2009 at 4:18 am
The most useful plugin for me is the IBL Builder linkbuilding plugin. I have gained over a dozen decent one way backlinks to my site in a week. It’s in their homepage at http://www.iblbuilder.com
August 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am
Good list - definitely a few good ones there!
But I’d like to suggest my plugin for addition!
It’s called the Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress and it mobilizes your blog. It works for every single device, from a WML phone to a brand new swanky phone with XHTML. Images are dynamically resized and you get the option to really customize your blog any way you want.
In addition, you can upload mobile logos and style your site so the mobile version matches the website and you retain your brand identity.
If you fancy giving it a go, the URL is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wapple-architect/ - it’d be great to hear your feedback!
If you need any help setting it up or would like any assistance enhancing your mobile blog, get in touch over at http://mobilewebjunkie.com and I’ll do my best to lend a hand!
November 19th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I agree with this coment, most of them are really helpful for running a successful blog. Creating a Google compliant site map is an important part of SEO since it makes it easier for Google to index your page
December 28th, 2009 at 3:46 am
I suggest to use free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition with special WordPress plug-in.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Another great plugin is Blog Protector plugin for Wordpress. It prevent images and posts content from being copied.
February 18th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Hi, I found cool flash photo galleries plugin for WordPress. Named GRAND Flash Album Gallery – multi category flash skin based photo gallery with powerful admin. I used it in my blog. There are so many different settings. You can adjust the color scheme for your blog as you wish. There are many different skins. You can present your photo gallery in a wonderful way, there is a full-screen mode. This is a very cool plugin.
March 24th, 2010 at 6:51 am
I use a very cool tool that you might also find helpful - it is called ‘AllWebMenus” and they have an “AllWebMenus WordPress Menus Addin/Plugin’ as well.
With this tool you can create very nice, cross-browser web menus for your blog/site, to add optimized navigation experience.
For those interested, the tool is found here:
http://www.likno.com/addins/wordpress-menu.html
Cheers!
Ron
April 6th, 2010 at 4:59 am
@bluemontoya: Dude Blog Protector is a great plugin but after i started using it in my blog .. my visitors bounce rate has increased and number of visitors dipped down