Sunday, July 30th, 2006...10:23 am by Leroy Brown
Top 9 Wordpress Plugins
My list of essential Wordpress plugins.
- Akismet – absolutely essential to reduce or eliminate spam comments. Since I set up Akismet, I have had no spam comments get through. It’s that good.
- Bunny’s Technorati Tags – Many use Ultimate Tag Warrior to tag their posts, but I find Bunny’s Technorati Tags gets the job done more easily, and with a less confusing configuration.
- Optimal Title – Reconfigures the default title of your post – a more detailed explanation is here.
- Ultimate Google Analytics – Makes adding Google Analytics to your blog a simple, one step process, instead of a chore.
- WP-Cache – This one is included with the standard Wordpress package, yet it warrants inclusion here. It speeds up page loading slightly, but more importantly, it vastly reduces server load. If you’re Dugg or Slashdotted, this plugin may keep your server from crashing.
- WP-Cron – Allows you to set automatic tasks to run at periodic intervals.
- Wordpress Database Backup – works in conjunction with WP-Cron, allowing automatic backups to be emailed to you.
- SpotMilk – doesn’t do anything functional, but sure makes the wordpress admin panel a lot nicer to look at.
- Wordpress Reports – Puts your Google Analytics and Feedburner stats in the admin panel.
These aren’t all the plugins I use; in fact, I have quite a few more. These are what I consider to be the absolute best of the bunch, and the ones I wouldn’t want to run a Wordpress installation without.
25 Comments
August 1st, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Thanks for the links.
August 2nd, 2006 at 5:48 am
Good point. I’ll update later today with the links. Thanks for pointing out that glaring error!
August 2nd, 2006 at 5:54 am
Updated with links.
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:26 pm
The best Word press plugins available today. If you don’t have these installed, you’re doing it wrong!…
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August 3rd, 2006 at 5:15 am
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August 8th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Check out Simpletags: http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/
At the end of a post, you just put a pair of [tag][/tag] tags (with the brackets, not carrots), and toss the tags you want in between separated by a comma. Like this:
[tags]blogging, ranting, wordpress plugins[/tags]
It’ll show up like “Technorati Tags: whatever” with the necessary links. Excellent stuff.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Zach, thanks for pointing that one out. If you post by email, then Simple Tags looks fantastic. One day I’ll setup the post by email stuff.
August 20th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
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September 11th, 2006 at 3:28 am
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September 28th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Good stuff!
September 29th, 2006 at 7:36 am
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December 12th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Hey guys. What about WP e-commerce – don’t forget us. A wordpress site isnt a site without a working wordpress shopping cart
December 26th, 2006 at 9:11 am
I found a good plugin for myself – IMG-Shark. It’s allows you to insert images into posts form other sites without any problems. http://www.wp-digger.com -on this site
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
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August 2nd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.
Thanks
Vic
September 26th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Thanks for the cool list
Would try to implement the plugins in my blog
January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Wordpress 2.3.x supports tagging natively, so why would you need an additional tagging plugin? I have most of these (minus the tagging) but I also use CG-Flashytitles for Sifr headlines. For me, it was alot easier than trying to set up Sifr on my own. Just my $.02…
January 30th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Troy – you’re right. But when I wrote this way back in June of 2006, Wordpress didn’t support tagging natively. Nowadays things are a little easier.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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March 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
It’s very beautifully.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
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November 20th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Thanks for informing me about the various ecommerce shopping carts out there.It has been very helpful to my research and here is what,I came up with over the past few days.
There are different types of ecommerce shopping cart available in the market for small as well as large businesses. Whatever business you are running, you must pick a top slot ecommerce shopping cart to boost up your online sale transactions.
The top ecommerce shopping cart for your online shop should be such that it is easily customized with your website. It must incorporate attractive design and shape to your webpages displaying the product range.
Ecommerce shopping cart provides complete business solution to all your online business websites. The main features of the top shopping carts include complete user control.
When a web designer or developer starts working on a website, he requires complete control over the whole process. So the whole process has to be user friendly. The software must be such that it is able to manage your site completely. The software must not give unnecessary problems to the user.
The software must be designed to be compatible to the changes. The designer must be able to include new innovations to his web pages. The layout design must be compatible to the site and the software must provide for these provisions. There should be a provision for products’ image uploads, change in prices, and inclusion of descriptive texts and many other things.
The most vital element that all top ecommerce shopping cart software should take note of is the security. When an online buyer wants to buy a product, he enters all his financial details in to the website. The softwares should be so designed that they provide complete protection to the buyers. The customer’s personal details should remain a secret at all times.
No third party should be able to access it.In this age and time of advanced technology, many changes are being incorporated into these ecommerce shopping carts. This helps in attracting more and more buyers to your website. Many sites are coming up with the well designed schemes to sell their shopping cart software.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Hi – some good suggestions for plugins there – definitely a few to try.
I’d like to suggest a plugin I’ve written for inclusion in your next list though – 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!
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