Essential WordPress Plugins
Essential WordPress Plugins
I though I would share some of the plugins I use most often and I have good results with. Most the time it depends on which site I’m using so not all of them may be installed on this site.
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
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All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO.
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Adman
Plugin for inserting ads in to your post.
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AdServe
AdServe is the advertising server for WordPress.
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Adsense-Deluxe
Another ad inserting plugin.
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Archives By Category
Creates a list of posts by category.
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Dofollow
Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
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Fgallery
Image gallery plugin I use on a few of my design/photography sites.
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FeedBurner FeedSmith
This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed.
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Flexible upload
Resize picture at upload and make thumbnails. Pertty handy.
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Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WP blog.
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GotBanner
Great plugin for adding those 125×125 ads. See my sidebar.
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Hidden Affiliates Links
Hides affiliate links by wrapping them into a page that will redirect to the actual link.
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DownloadNiceAdmin
Give your WP admin area a nice clean look.
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Popularity Contest
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity.
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RSS Footer
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
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ShareThis
Great Social Bookmarking plugin.
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Simple Tagging
A tagging plugin.
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Social Bookmark Creator
Create Social Bookmarks to your blog.
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Related Post
Returns a list of the related entries.
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Text Link Ads Plugin
Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use.
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Top Post Category
Create a page for your top post. (not working for 2.3).
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Ultimate Category Excluder
Easily exclude categories from your front page, feeds, and archives.
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WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
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WordPress.com Stats
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.
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WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
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