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Important Plugins For Your Blog

Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by admin in Blogging

WordPress plugins make configuring and customizing your blog a snap. Here is a list of popular and very usefull plugins
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet database to
see if the post is spam. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it.

All in One SEO Pack
SEO plugin for your WordPress blog.

Collapsible Archive Widget
Display Collapsible Archive in your sidebar.

CommentLuv
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.

Comment Redirect
Redirect commenter who just made their first comment to a page of your choice.

Contact Form 7
WordPress contact form plugin.

Exclude Pages from Navigation
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the
primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer”
side page listings, which may not be limited to your page
navigation listings.

Featured Content Gallery
FeaturedContentGallery.com Provides the ability to place a
visual slideshow on your blog.

Google Translator
Translate your blog from sidebar instantly

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of
your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.

Homepage Excerpts
(Search it on Google) Shorten post previews on your home page.

LinkWithin
LinkWithin.com  Displays recommended stories and associated
thumbnails from your blog.

MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder
put optin forms on your blog as a widget or within posts. Customizable

OnlyWire Button
OnlyWire WordPress plugin for multiple social bookmarking
submissions

Pretty Link
Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your
WordPress website!

Really Simple CAPTCHA
Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called
from other plugins.
originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

Recent Posts
configurable list of the most recent posts.
Instructions and help online.
Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be
installed.

RSS Shortcode
Makes it easy to display an RSS feed on a page

SexyBookmarks
SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social
bookmarking icons to each of
your posts. See configuration panel for more settings.

Simple Facebook Share Button
Painlessly add a Facebook® Share button to your posts and/or
pages. Supports all five
button types, including custom button text, and placement above
or below content.
Includes compatibility modes to ensure seamless theme
integration. Button can also be
added using a shortcode or by inserting a function in your
template.

TinyMCE Advanced
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE. This helps
when writing posts. It
makes the writing section more like MS Word.

Top Commentators Widget
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP
site. Adapted from
Show Top Commentators plugin.

TweetMeme Retweet Button
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

Ultimate Google Analytics
Enable Google Analytics on your blog.

Video widget
Adds YouTube/Dailymotion/Google… sidebar videos. This
plugin is based on Executable PHP widget for multiples widgets, YouTube widget for
the idea and Video Embedder for the video html library.

Viral Tweets
software that you place on your website that
allows your users to send out a Twitter Message on your behalf.
You decide what the message is and they send that message to
their Twitter Followers. The Premium version of Viral Tweets also
allows your website visitors to automatically follow you when
they tweet out your message.

What Would Seth Godin Do
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to
return visitors.

WP-Cumulus
Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress

WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools Z
Backup to get started.

WP likes
Allows visitors to “like” your posts on the fly if they find it
interesting. Now with a
sidebar widget and customizing options.

WP Photo Album
Easily manage and display your photo albums within your
WordPress site.

WP Super Cache
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Chris