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Wordpress Plugins I Use
August 6th, 2008 by John Herman, under Wordpress. No Comments
I get asked a lot what Wordpress Plugins I recommend a lot. Here is my first stab at coming up with a list.
SEO Plugins
Permalink Redirect
Ensures consistent formatting of page links in permalinks for good SEO
http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/
Broken Link Checker
Will deactive links when they become broken
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/
SEO Smart Links
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/
Google XML Sitemaps Generator (links to Google to keep your site up-to-date in the index)
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
Platinum SEO
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/
All in One SEO Pack (Well Known but recent change in developer … Platinum SEO has some more features)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Comments
Absolute Comments
Allows for a quick way to respond to comments
http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/
Subscribe to Comments
Allows people to get email notifications when new comments appear on a post so they can go back and keep the discussion going
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
Comment Relish
Sends email to someone after they comment so you can thank them, etc.
http://www.justinshattuck.com/comment-relish/
Akismet
Most popular Spam for Wordpress (also made by the company that manages the Wordpress project)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
Akismet does have some false positive issues and blacklisting people os you may also want to look at Six Aparts spam filter … it is a nice product also
Typepad AntiSpam
http://antispam.typepad.com/info/get-started.html
RSS Feeds
Feedburner Feedsmith
Redirects your feed to feedburner so you can get stats. Feedburner is a Google product for managing RSS feeds. It is free and you should definitely sign up
http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/topic.py?topic=13252
Managing Content
Flexi Pages Widget
Great if you are going to have Pages links in your sidebar instead of static
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexi-pages-widget/
Pagemash
Great Plugin for a WYSYWIG way to order and hide your pages from view
http://joelstarnes.co.uk/pagemash.php
Backend Admin Stuff
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
A must have .. it will let you automatically upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
WP Super Cache
Great Caching plugin that will prevent your site crashing if you get a lot of traffic at once
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
Search Everything
Extends the search to cover more parts. Wordpress used to not even search pages but that has been fixed. This is still a good plugin to have because it extends the search to cover more ground.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/
Favicon Header
Adds a favicon without having to change template code
http://timjoh.com/wordpress-plugin-favicon-head/
Misc Great Tools
Share This
Allows people to bookmark the page on sites like digg as well as email someone about a link
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/
cformsII
Great form creator
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cforms/
Next-Gen Gallery
Great photo gallery plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Twitter Tools
Notifies Twitter of new blog posts
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
Slideshare Plugin
Slideshare.com presentations tend to mess up the code on Wordpress sites. This fixes that and allows you to give it a specific width.
http://yoast.com/wordpress/slideshare/
Viper Video Tags
Video Sharing Sites tend to mess up a Wordpress page also this helps fix that
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
Wordpress Video Plugin is also a good option
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/
WP Audio Player
Some people prefer Podpress for podcasts, but I have found it overkill for what I need. Audio Player covers all the things I need,but Podpress is great too if you want to check that out for Audio Podcasts.
Similar Posts
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/similar-posts/
Stats
Wordpress.com Stats
A good second set of stats to have and run
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
Google Analytics for Wordpress (adds the Google Analytics code to your template without having to put it in manually)
Now with Wordpress 2.5
March 30th, 2008 by John Herman, under Succeeding Steps, Wordpress. No Comments
I have been playing around with Wordpress 2.5 all weekend. This Wordpress update has been really scary for me. Things are really different in the back end now. I feel like the blind leading the blind, but we have now made it. There were some bumps in the road, along the way. Luckily the plug-in issues have all been resolved this morning because of a mad rush of updates on Sunday. I also feel comfortable recommending the upgrade to my clients starting next week.
Look for the new design and new interesting in blogging on here again … Coming Soon.