Top 15 + most useful Wordpress Plugins

Nov 25 2006

Posted by Carol in Blogging, Freebies, Lists, Tech Blogs, Technology, Wordpress tools |

Admin Menu - add admin menu links to the top of your blog
Advanced WYSIWYG Editor -more styling options to the WYSIWYG editor
Akismet -fight spam
Contact Form - allows site visitors to contact you
FireStats - statistics plugin for WordPress
Google Analytics - adds Google analytics to your blog
Google Sitemaps - sitemap generator - better search engine indexing of your blog
Math Comment Spam Protection - extra protection against spam comments
Related Posts -returns a list of the related entries on your blog
Sidebar Widgets - adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu
Simple Trackback Validation - eliminates spam trackbacks
SpotMilk - enhances and beautifies your admin theme
WordPress Database Backup - backs up your blog
WordPress Reports -Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data
Comment Quicktags + -Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form

Avoid stuffing your blog with unnecessary plugins.Use only what you really need.

I still have to discover lots of useful wordpress plugins so the list will stay a Top 15 for the moment and I will try updating it as soon as I can.

Update. A friend of mine,Shiva,made a list too with the wordpress plugins he found very useful.Thanks Shiva.
So here it is:1.Ultimate Tag Warrior
Allows tagging posts in a non-external-system dependent way; with a righteous data structure for advanced tagging-mayhem.
Get it here
2. Spam Karma 2
One of the best spam killing plugin for wordpress. I don’t use akismet as many times it considers genuine commentor’s comment as spam so I use spam karma 2 and it rulez.
Get it here
3. Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
Get it here
4. Gravatar for wordpress
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options.
Get it here
5. Browser Sniff
Detects web browser type and operating system of your commenter.
Get it here
6. Brian’s Latest Comments
This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them.
Get it here
7. Bannage
Bans commentors by IP, username, email, or URL.
Get it here
8. Popularity Contest
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. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports.
Get it here
9. Show Top Commentators
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
Get it here
10. Sociable
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
Get it here
11. WP-UserOnline
Adds A Useronline Feature To WordPress
Get it here
12. Landing sites
When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines!
Get it here

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19 Responses

Chris

November 25th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
1

Great list thanks. I have some, but will get the others. Unfortunately my hosts database servers have been down all day, & I’ve got withdrawal symptoms! Thanks for the stumble the other day-a nice boost to traffic, I just hope I get online again soon.

Maths questions are hard :-~
carol

November 25th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
2

You are welcome Chris.Have you got an account there?
Hope your host will come back to life soon.
You should try mine.(host i mean)
Chris

November 26th, 2006 at 12:33 am
3

I do have a stumble account yes, it’s like internet crack…

Who does your hosting if you don’t mind me asking? Do you like them?
carol

November 26th, 2006 at 10:40 am
4

I love my hosting company. And is not like i know them from now.I know them since 2004 or so and they very serious people,always there and their servers are reliable.
The name is In Hosting. http://www.in.be/
Unfortunaletly their English page is not in English.
Chris

November 26th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
5

“Unfortunately their English page is not in English.”
Shivaranjan

November 27th, 2006 at 6:29 am
6

I would like to add few wordpress plugins which I consider pretty useful.

1. Ultimate Tag Warrior
Allows tagging posts in a non-external-system dependent way; with a righteous data structure for advanced tagging-mayhem.
Get it here
2. Spam Karma 2
One of the best spam killing plugin for wordpress. I don’t use akismet as many times it considers genuine commentor’s comment as spam so I use spam karma 2 and it rulez.
Get it here
3. Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
Get it here
4. Gravatar for wordpress
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options.
Get it here
5. Browser Sniff
Detects web browser type and operating system of your commenter.
Get it here
6. Brian’s Latest Comments
This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them.
Get it here
7. Bannage
Bans commentors by IP, username, email, or URL.
Get it here
8. Popularity Contest
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. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports.
Get it here
9. Show Top Commentators
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
Get it here
10. Sociable
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
Get it here
11. WP-UserOnline
Adds A Useronline Feature To WordPress
Get it here
12. Landing sites
When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines!
Get it here
carol

November 27th, 2006 at 10:02 am
7

Lol!But it’s true what i say. I was a bit surprised to see that the Eng. page was in Flemish.
K

November 28th, 2006 at 11:30 am
8

Hi Carol, thought I’d give you a visit. I’m liking it. And wooooh so many thinks to check on those linkage.

Have a great day!
carol

November 28th, 2006 at 11:58 am
9

You know most of the entries,K.
Have a great one too.
Justin Shattuck

November 28th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
10

Appreciate the mention. Bannage seems to be pretty popular and I wish I had an easy method for tracking exactly how many users are utilizing the plugin. It has some new bugs reported so I will be releasing version 0.3 very soon.

Check out WWW-Redirect for wordpress as well. It will eleminate some hefty SEO issues with www and non-www prefixed domains.

Once again, appreciate the mention!
carol

November 29th, 2006 at 10:21 am
11

Thank you for visiting and for your comment,Justin.
I didn’t know about Bannage until my friend Shiva made the second list and after having a look at it,i decided to install it.It’s a good plugin and i needed something like that.
Ajay D'Souza

November 30th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
12

Carol you forgot Bad Behavior from the list. Definitely very useful when it comes to spam.
carol

November 30th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
13

Ajay,i didn’t forgot it. I just publish only what i was using at that date and found to be very good and that’s one reason i say “for the moment“.

The list will be update it in about a month and if you would like,you can share the plugins you use and find to be essentials to you blogging experience.

Thank you for the comment and hope to see you back here.
Britgirl

December 3rd, 2006 at 11:57 pm
14

Great list Carol. I have some and am looking forward to getting many of the others. The plugins list is like being in an Aladdin’s cave sometimes… all those goodies. Thanks for this useful resource. And I have just discovered StumbleUpon - thanks to you
carol

December 4th, 2006 at 11:23 am
15

You are welcome,girl.

AS for SU ,i hope you got some traffic from there.
Britgirl

December 8th, 2006 at 4:49 am
16

Hey Carol - oh yes I am getting traffic It’s great. Thank you - I probably wouldn’t have discovered it if not for you.. heh!
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