Must Have Plug-Ins For Wordpress

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What are the plugins for Wordpress that you would not want to go without?
#plugins #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author xlfutur1
    Headspace 2
    phpbay
    wp polls
    next gen gallery
    google site map generator
    Cforms
    Caffeinated content

    There are others but those are the ones I usually end up installing first because I use them constantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author faverr
    1. Generator for a sitemap that gets displayed on a page.
    2. Generator for a sitemap file that gets fed to search engines, so it's not intended for human viewing (it generates an XML file in a format that was originally defined by Google, I think). This helps pagess get indexed a bunch faster than they otherwise might be (though other things that happen in Wordpress might achieve the same thing, but I like to know that I can feed Google with a list of my pages in a way that Google likes to see them).
    3. A page caching plugin (I haven't actually used one yet, but as soon as my traffic numbers start getting high, I'll put one in place immediately).
    4. All-in-One-SEO - allows me to do some nice SEO things, like explicitly providing a Meta description and Meta keywords for each page or post.
    5. A plugin that makes it easy to build a contact page that also provides security against spamming.
    6. So far I've only built used WP for sites where I don't accept comments, but when I eventually build ones that do, I'll want a plugin that can automate approval of comments as much as possible while still doing a good job of preventing SPAM comments.
    7. A PHP plugin (if you don't know what PHP is, it's the programming language that WP is written in). If you can program, the plugin allows you to use PHP code inside a page or post. Of course, if you can't program in PHP, there's no point in having this one.
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  • Profile picture of the author grumpyjacksa
    all in one SEO
    wp opt-in
    related posts
    wp-tweaks
    wp-sticky
    exec php
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Forey
    Auto Social Poster
    Ping Crawl
    alinks
    All In One SEO
    Google Sitemap
    Maxpress Ping Optimizer
    Related posts
    Socialble
    Twitter Tools

    Hope this helps.

    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    I just found this today and I am blown away with it... It's going to be a must have for all my blogs for me...

    Zemanta - instant smart links, pictures, tags and more!

    Blog Smarter | Zemanta Ltd.

    Demo | Zemanta Ltd.

    - Jared
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  • Profile picture of the author callmestrip
    I hate zemanta, just had to throw that out there.


    1. All in one seo
    2. related posts
    3. Contact form by Dagon Design (love this guys plugins)
    4. Exec. PHP widget
    5. UBD block ad plugin
    6. Popular Post plugin
    7. Brians threaded comments


    Maxblogpress has some great stuff too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
      Originally Posted by callmestrip View Post

      I hate zemanta, just had to throw that out there.
      Could you expand on why you hate zemanta? I just found this plugin today, and other than the fact that you need to delete the link references to zemanta's homepage, and the 'repost' links point to their homepage (which can also be deleted...)

      Just curious, I don't know much about this plugin... just found some of it's functionality useful... like automatically coming up with keyword tags for you, as well as links to relevent topics...

      What are your experiences with zemanta, and why do you hate it???

      - Jared
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  • Profile picture of the author e-mail2u
    DeansFCKEditor

    Here is a video on just why it is so good.


    It saves me having lots of different plug ins plus that action will only happen on that posting and no others will be effected.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richardo
    Dagon Design Sitemap Generator and DoFollow- I think these are pretty useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author clare1982
    Hiya

    My favourite Wordpress plugins are:

    Al in one SEO
    xml Sitemap
    Automatic upgrade
    Add to any
    wp-statpress
    All in one Adsense and ypn

    These are the plugins I automaticaly install each time I use Wordpress.

    Thanks
    Clare
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  • Profile picture of the author curious1960
    I tried to download Deans FCKEditor, but it is not showing in my plugins.
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