Plugins I Use on My WordPress Sites
Actually, I use many of these on this site as well. It just depends on what I need and like for each site. I get asked a lot how certain features are accomplished, and since most are done with plugins, now you can take the links to the plugin home pages for more information and downloads.
Automatically add the ad code, related post, optional custom paragraph or technorati tags to the end of every posts. All options can be fully customized though Add Post Footer tab in the option panel within wordpress admin. It’s also possible overide the setting for specific post by adding custom field key and value. Please refer to the tips and addtional info provided at the Add Post Footer Page. By freetime.
Advanced Category Excluder 1.3.2
This plugin helps you to manage your content, and fine tune where you want to display your posts, or hide. By DjZoNe.
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.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. By Michael Torbert.
Angsuman’s Permanent Redirect 1.0
Permanently redirects posts and pages that contains “redirect” custom field, to the value of the “redirect” custom field. By Angsuman Chakraborty.
Apture 1.0
A plugin for easily enabling Apture on WordPress blogs. By Apture, Inc..
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes. By Oliver Seidel.
Adds a sidebar widget to display random videos of your own choice. You can mix Google, Myspace and YouTube videos. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. Syntax: [MySpaceID/Google video ID/YouTube ID]@[Title*]@[Link*]. * Is optional. Do not add a after the last video in the list. By Rune Fjellheim.
Create and manage FAQs. A short overview is given on the help page. By John Godley.
FirstRSS is a simple RSS aggregator for posts. Insert “[rsspara:URL]” or “[rsslist:URL]” into the post for paragraph or list format respectively. Replace “URL” with the URL of the RSS feed starting with “http://”. By Chris Hatcher.
Tools for adding maps to your blog, and plotting posts on a master map. Configure in Options->Geo Mashup after the plugin is activated. By Dylan Kuhn.
Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts, inside or outside “the loop”. The power of custom fields gives this plugin the potential to be dozens of plugins all rolled into one. By Scott Reilly.
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog and/or your BBPress forum. By Rich Boakes.
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.
Adds a multi-language sidebar widget which enables visitors to translate your blog in their own language. By Lancelhoff.
LinkedIn hResume grabs the Microformated hResume block from your LinkedIn public profile page allowing you to add it to any page and apply your own styles to it. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. By Brad Touesnard.
MemberWing Premium PU Edition 3.32
Allows to use any WordPress blog/site as a Membership Site. By Gleb Esman, http://www.memberwing.com/.
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site. By Michael D. Adams.
Display Google Pagerank of each page of your blog in one page. By Neekey.
Lets you add Creative commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr. By activating this plugin you agree to be fully responsbile for adhering to Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog. By Photodropper.
PicApp WordPress plugin. By activating the PicApp plugin you agree to the picapp.com Terms of Service. By Watershed Studio, LLC.
Adds full podcasting support. By Ronald Heft, Jr..
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin. By Rob Marsh, SJ.
This Plugin can be used to manage several different types of projects with redundant data. This could be athlet portraits, DVD database, architect projects. You can define different form field types and groups to sort your project entries. By Kolja Schleich.
Search Engine query in WordPress 1.0.7
If the visitor comes from a known search engine, the widget grabs the used search query and shows internal blog posts that match that query. By Francesco Castaldo.
ShareThis 2.3
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Configuration options are here. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com).
Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. Don’t be disturbed if it takes a few moments to complete the installation — the plugin is indexing your posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed. By Rob Marsh, SJ.
Gets weather information from www.geonames.org based on lat and long taken from wp-geo plugin (http://www.benhuson.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/wp-geo/) By Blair McMillan.
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton.
WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started. By Austin Matzko.
WordPress Google Calendar 0.8.5
This plugin allows for the integration of a Google calendar into a WordPress blog. By L1 Jockeys.
Retrieves the most active entries of your blog and displays them on a list. Use it as a widget or place it in your templates using <?php get_mostpopular(); ?> By Héctor Cabrera.
Make nice notes with WP-Note in your post. By Luke.
Adds geocoding to WordPress. By Ben Huson.
Very fast caching module for WordPress. By Donncha O Caoimh.
Cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the sql queries to your database and speed up your site. By Andrew Zhang.
Contextually relevant suggestions of links, pictures, related content and tags will make your blogging fun again. By Zemanta Ltd.
That’s them for now!
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