Top Must Have Wordpress Plugins
Updated:02/04/2008
You knew it was coming! After switching from blogspot to wordpress, I just had to put in my 2 cents on the best wp plugins to have:)
This is my absolute favorite!!! Installs any plugin or theme without having to upload them manually via ftp. Can also delete theme and plugin folders. Once you install this puppy, there won’t be any use for that ftp crap!
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values.
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. A great way to reward those who visit and comment often.
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.
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. I love this. I have my backup mailed to me nightly.
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and encourages visitors to subscribe to your feed!
A text widget with support for including PHP. I LOVE this one. It keeps me from having to go into the theme editor and insert php code.
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. A great way to keep your readers on your blog longer.
Displays Technorati links on your blog admin Dashboard.
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. Again, this keeps me from messing with the theme editor.
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.
Plugin to easily incorporate FeedBurner’s StandardStats into your blog.
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.
Emails commenter when an admin replies to the comment, if commenter is not subscribed to email updates via Subscribe-to-Comments.
This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form.
Add custom footers (copyright, notices, advertisements) to the bottom of your posts in your RSS feed.
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”
Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file
If you run adsense on your blog, then this is the number one plugin to implement. Adsense Deluxe allows you to automatically insert Google Adsense with ease.
This plugin is an extremely efficient page caching system that will make your site much faster and responsive. This plugin is very useful for handling sudden bursts of traffic coming from social bookmarking sites like Digg and Slashdot. WP-Cache basically creates static versions of your pages so that they can be served to your visitors without querying the MySQL database.
This plugin will automatically create a Google compliant sitemap of your Wordpress blog to ensure that all of your pages are indexed in Google. This is one plugin you definitely don’t want to be without.
If you’re looking to avoid email spam, then this is the plugin for you. This plugin allows people to contact you without actually emailing you.
This plugin will automatically look for an RSS feed at a commenter’s site and insert a link to their latest entry. Don’t worry, it’s a “no_follow” link so you won’t be involuntarily passing on link juice, but you will be helping publicize the people who take time to say something at your site.
This plug-in sends a “thank you” note including your link and where to find your RSS feed to someone after they leave their first comment at your site.
Leaving comments open on old entries is not a good idea. You are inviting spammers. Install this plugin to close comments on older entries automatically. You can also configure it on a per-post basis to allow more popular discussions to continue.
Install this plug-in and it will do that dirty work for you, automatically adding META tags to your front page and single entries
When you’re the blogger, you’ve got the luxury of going back to edit your misspellings, fix grammatical errors or just plain polish up your writing. Commenters don’t have that option. Give your commenters the option to edit themselves and you just might find them eager to leave comments on your blog.
A very cool plugin that allows you to put in keywords and find relevant photos from Flickr with Creative Commons License. VERY NEAT!
Whew! There’s my list. It turned out to be much longer than I thought it would be but they are all worth having! I hope this helps you guys out:)
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Thanks for the link :)
You bet!
I have added two so far, I hope to add more later! Thanks for the tips!
I found a couple of more that are neat…I’ll try to update it later :D
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