Your wordpress plugins

14 years ago

It depends on the site but I use the usuals:

all in one seo
google xml sitemap
piwik (for analytics)
go codes if I'm using affiliate links
backup creator - to back it up

Thats everything off the top of my head.

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AnniePot

14 years ago

You should use only the plugins that are absolutely necessary to specific task you need performed in your blog.

Many plugins are poorly written, inefficient, resource hogs, creating a slow site and heavy server loads. You could end up receiving a complaint from your service provider because you are hogging too many server resources. There is even a plugin called PluginHogDetector which will help you track down the CPU hogs. No, I'm not recommending you install it!

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NoviIM

14 years ago

Akismet
AllinOne SEO
ClickBump SEO
Contact Board 7
Dashboard Heaven
Gocodes
Google Analytics For Wordpress
Google XML Sitemaps
Hello Dolly
Reactivate posts via categories
WP-table Reloaded

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Chris Silvey 14 years ago

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BookMarkLovers
SEOPressor
WP-Robot
WP-Shopping Pages
Display Widgets
WP Touch
BulletProof Security
Feedburner FeedSmith
Google XML Sitemap
Internal Link Building
Pie Register
Use Google Libraries (sometimes, but not all)
Visual Form Builder Pro
W3 Total Cache (sometimes)
WordPress Importer
HMT Import/Export - for Heatmap Pro 5 Theme
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spicer 14 years ago

All in One SEO Pack
AStickyPostOrderER
Akismet
Contact Form 7
Copyright Proof
Google XML Sitemaps
Google Analytics for WordPress
Portable phpMyAdmin
Slick Social Share Buttons
WP Super Cache
WP Policies

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welshgirl2

14 years ago

Anniepot is right - A whole load of unnecessary plugins can slow down your site, and if they are not updated regularly can put your blog at risk of hackers.

However, having said that there are a few plugins that I feel are a must and I use them on all my sites. They are:

Askimet - To help fight spam.
All in One Adsense and YPN - helps me to easily insert Adsense at the top of every post.
Easy Contact - Easily inserts a contact form on your page.
Easy Privacy Policy - Creates a privacy policy with a few clicks of your mouse.
Google xml Sitemaps - Creates a Google complient xml sitemap.
All in One SEO - Good for search engine optimization.

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Jay Wessman

14 years ago

The three main plugins I use are:

Yoast SEO Plugin - Great for SEOing your blog.
Akismet - To eliminate spam.
Sharebar - To encourage my visitors to share my content.

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Jill Carpenter 14 years ago

Originally Posted by zonkow

How many wordpress plugins do you use?
Which are most useful?

Depends on the site and what I need it to do.

Less I need to use, the better.

What is most useful to me may not be anything helpful toward the goals of your website.
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macker2298

14 years ago

funny how most of us use google xml sitemaps plugin

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SteveJohnson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Kent

The only one I use is statcounter. The rest suck.

People love plugins like they're accessories to show off to others. Most just aren't needed, especially the SEO ones.

WP is SEO'd great out of the box. Do people honestly think that Google doesn't know the WP structure inside out already and need to spoon feed it? C'mon.

WP is NOT "SEO'd great out of the box". WP itself has NOTHING to do with SEO.

The theme controls the SEO aspects of any WP site. Crappy theme structure, crappy SEO result. It so happens that the original (and subsequent) 'standard' WP themes were well-crafted in terms of HTML, and so performed well in the search engines.

SEO plugins (the good ones, anyway) do things that most themes don't do out-of-the-box, like customizable titles, meta descriptions, etc. That is their only function, and if your theme has those aspects included there is no need for an external SEO plugin.

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Here's a little hint - if you're using WP to build a site with no visitor interaction, you don't need Akismet, just turn off commenting site-wide. One less plugin to worry about.

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Only use plugins that you absolutely need for your site to function how you want it to. Every plugin you add increases your page load time or server load, however minutely.

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Sean Tan

14 years ago

Here are some i always use.

All in One SEO Pack
Akismet
Contact Form 7
Google XML Sitemaps
Google Analytica
W3 Total Cache

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emotainment 14 years ago

Completely depends on the site. Some of my sites are cobbled together almost completely by plugins. I've learned over time to use less plugins and/or those that can do multiple things like Wordpress SEO, which takes the place of several smaller plugins.

The ones I almost always use basically fall into spam blocking/seo/security categories:

*Akismet if commenting is open
*Wordpress SEO
*Contact Form 7
*WP Firewall 2
*File Monitor (let you know immediately if a file has been changed on your site which is very important as WP continues to become a bigger target for hackers)

Those are all free, but I use an array of premium/WSO plugins that extend functionality further when needed.
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yjtung

14 years ago

Yoast is one of the better SEO plugins

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TweetGirl

14 years ago

A couple that come to mind are:

AllinOne SEO
Contact Form 7
Google XML Sitemaps
Pretty Link Lite
Si Captcha
Daily Stat
Sociable
Wp Super Cache

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Premier Plugins

14 years ago

I second Yoast SEO plugin.

Many good ones listed already.

Haven't seen backWPup mentioned yet, that's another good one for site backups.
TinyMCE for more advanced content creation is good too.

I'll be adding some of the posted ones to my "must have free plugin package" for my site. Thanks for the shares everyone. Much appreciated.

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MidlandsMarketer

14 years ago

Like others have been saying, it depends on the site.

However, there are a bunch that I use whatever, and these are:

Google XML SiteMaps
Akismet
Tantan AntiSpam
All in one SEO

Except for very rare circumstances, I'll also make use of AdRotator.

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ayhaah

14 years ago

AllinOne SEO
ClickBump SEO
Contact Board 7
Dashboard Heaven
Gocodes
Google Analytics For Wordpress
Google XML Sitemaps
BulletProof Security
Feedburner FeedSmith

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CyberSEO

14 years ago

Originally Posted by zonkow

How many wordpress plugins do you use?
Which are most useful?

Only Askimet, WP Super Cache and my own code. Less plugins -> faster loading times -> one more score to your karma in the eyes of Panda.

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lossman29

14 years ago

I try to use the bare minimum when it comes to plugins.

Akismet
Easy WP SEO
Share This
Backup Buddy
W3 Cache

The less number of plugins you use, the better.

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Marsala

14 years ago

I don't use too many plugins. They can become a distraction and keep you make you waste some time instead of doing productive work. Some plugins can also distract your users. Whatever plugins I use, I make sure they add real value to me and my users.

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chistyle

14 years ago

Wordpress Core Plugins I use.

All in One SEO Pack
Better WordPress Minify (excellent!! minifys your Js, CSS, style Sheets on site to Load Faster)
BWP Google XML Sitemaps (great alternative to Google XML sitemaps)
Easy WP SEO (great plugin for onpage SEO, similiar to SEOPRESSOR but better)
Google Keyword Tracker
Quick Cache (I think its quicker than w3 cache)
Quick Page/Post Redirect DEV (quicker to use than Redirection)
Spam Free Wordpress (I like it better than Akismet)
TinyMCE Advanced (great for extra functions on your post/page visual editor)

Wordpress 2nd bunch of plugins I use on sites.

AdRotate (excellent adrotating plugin I use it for google Adsense, also widget ready)
WP to Twitter
WP Robot 3
Dynamic Content Gallery (great Slider plugin)
ALO EasyMail Newsletter (excellent Email Newsletter plugin, also send out emails from your host).
amazonpress (adds amazon products to your site post/pages etc)
Contact Form 7

Other wordpress Plugins I use now and then.

WordPress Importer
Maintenance Mode

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socialbookmark

14 years ago

I only run one wordpress site and i use these plugins:

Akismet
All in One SEO
Google XML Sitemaps

Also i use a free theme for it. But plugins can be changed according to your needs. If i need a new feature, i will install more plugins.

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ferenan 14 years ago

All in One SEO Pack
Akismet
Contact Form 7
Google Analytica
W3 Total Cache
Google XML Sitemaps
Google Analytics for WordPress
Portable phpMyAdmin
I used some others but I turned them off since made my site simetimes to load slower.
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Deacon Blues

14 years ago

Yoast Wordpress Seo
All in one favicon
statpress reloaded
Share This - important to add social buttons to all pages

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14 years ago

all in one seo
getclicky
sharaholic
elis related posts
google xml sitemap

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savvybizbuilder

14 years ago

Allinone SEO and Akismet.

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Artwm

14 years ago

Originally Posted by zonkow

How many wordpress plugins do you use?
Which are most useful?

I use as less as possible since hostgator disabled my account. WP Super cache is a must for everyone I think.

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JohnMcCabe 14 years ago

There are so many plugins that become totally unnecessary if you (or your webmaster) have even a rudimentary grasp of HTML and WP.

Things like privacy page builders, contact forms, anything you can add directly to a theme template once and not have to worry about it.

I use Akismet, a sitemap builder, and a few security plugins (I'd have to log in to check the list). Started using a backup plugin that runs daily on a cron job in the wee small hours when server loads tend to be lighter.

That's about it. Just about everything else I want to do, I can do by modifying the theme or the style sheet, or by calling an external script that handles many sites on an on-call basis.
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fxstay

14 years ago

All in One SEO
Akismet
Contact Form 7
Google XML Sitemaps
but i think all in one seo is the best one

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

There are no "most..." and "best" plugins. Period. Only ignorant uneducated WP users making up this kind of BS-list...

And, of course, there are the experienced and knowledgeable users who try to teach everybody else about this - but nobody listens.

Think I am exaggerating? READ every post in this thread before answering my question