[e.calabio]

Please share the best must have WordPress plugins you've used and enter a brief description of what it's used for.

[Yaros]

I recommend:

All in One SEO Pack

KB Robots.txt

Popularity Contest

WP Cache

WP Robot ( if you want to make autoblog)

[Trent Brownrigg]

A few that I have on almost all of my blogs...

All-in-one-seo
Google XML sitemaps
Akismet
NoSpamNX
Fast and Secure Contact Form
Sexy Bookmarks, or another social plugin
Easy Privacy Policy

[Stephen Meyer]

There are hundreds of plugins that do hundreds of things. many you don't need. The best way to find the plug-ins for your purpose is to look for them in your Blogs Admin panel. Just go to install new plugins and search for what you want.

Remember one very important plugin, Data Base back up, WordPress › WP-DB-Backup « WordPress Plugins There's nothing worse than loosing everything.

A couple I use, one for a little pizazz and the other to optimize Pinging
MaxBlogPress*|*MaxBlogPress Favicon » How to use it
MaxBlogPress*|*MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer » How to use it

[Dele]

These posts aptly answers your question.

=> Essential Wordpress Plugins
=> Great Wordpress Plugins

[shaunchu]

Hi,

Good and effective plugins that I have used before:

1) All in one SEO package
2) XML Google sitemap
3) WP No Category Base
4) Easy Privacy Policy

Have fun!

rgds,
shaun Chu

[chooch]

The only ones I don't see listed are:

1. Deep Link Engine
2. WordPress Mobile Pack or WPTouch
3. Smart YouTube

[lamavridis]

By far WPRobot has to be the best I think it is a powerful plugin.
Lisa

[artmacc]

dagon design site map--creates human readable sitemap and uses google xml site plugin.
wp admin..
allinone seo - seo optimization
google analyticator- google analytics integration
seo robots file
google website optimizer--look for future now one
dean fckeditor..expands processor functions
wp security

[darrinmcl]

I think a critical one that no one has mentioned is a Back-up and Recovery plug-in like EZPZ OCB (One Click Back-up)

I created a short video showing how to download and install it from inside your Wordpress Admin area. You can see it here:

YouTube - Wordpress Back-up Plug-in EZPZ OCB

Other links you might find helpful

Visit my Website - http://www.pipstehelp.com

Follow me on Twitter - PIP Site Help (PIPSiteHelp) on Twitter

Like my Facebook Page - Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More

Watch my Videos - YouTube - pipsitehelp's Channel

[tjharris]

Originally Posted by silas82

Me personally like to use the following plugins on my blogs:

All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

GoCodes: Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin.

Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Spam Free: Hidden Anti-Spam plugin which automatically stops spam comments to your blog.

There are more plugins which I do use here and there, and also testing out, but the ones above are my main ones I like to use.

Spot on millsy, the first thing i do when doing a new website/blog is make sure i have
All in One SEO Pack & Google XML Sitemaps. BUT as far as using these 2 with it with our pips website i don't think they except it, better checking with pat first.

HEY MILLSY do they work with pips??????

[tjharris]

Originally Posted by silas82

Me personally like to use the following plugins on my blogs:

All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

GoCodes: Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin.

Google XML Sitemaps: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Spam Free: Hidden Anti-Spam plugin which automatically stops spam comments to your blog.

There are more plugins which I do use here and there, and also testing out, but the ones above are my main ones I like to use.

Spot on millsy, the first thing i do when doing a new website/blog is make sure i have
All in One SEO Pack & Google XML Sitemaps. BUT as far as using these 2 with it with our pips website i don't think they except it, better checking with pat first.

HEY MILLSY do they work with pips??????

i also ping my website around 4-5 times a day using pingler.com I think it's awesome

[Patrician]

It is up to you what you want to use on your own website (within reason = legal, ethical, no porno)

I didn't know SEO Pack does Site Maps? Wow we have so many people who can't seem to do it from the training - please confirm so I can tell them to get that plugin if they just can't do it themselves?

[tjharris]

Originally Posted by Patrician

It is up to you what you want to use on your own website (within reason = legal, ethical, no porno)

I didn't know SEO Pack does Site Maps? Wow we have so many people who can't seem to do it from the training - please confirm so I can tell them to get that plugin if they just can't do it themselves?

hey pat have you used the "all in one seo pack"

with the 2 plug-in's pat i think the pips website rejects it, i may be wrong but when i tried it i think it stuffed up???????????????

[DDavis]

These plug-in i use and i think they are very effective.

All in One SEO Pack

BWP Google XML Sitemaps

EZPZ One Click Backup ( Good idea to back up your site- A MUST )

OnlyWire for WordPress ( use the FREE version then you get 300 bookmarking posts per month) " visit only wire first"

Pingler ( anoth place where you can use the free stuff, MAX 5 per day) but it pings to 84 places.

goodluck and happy marketing

[marknel]

SEO Booster Pro is another effective tracking tool for your blog or website.

[MIRENGE]

I agree with you. You will always need to be an SEO guru for you tom succeed in internet marketing.

[darrinmcl]

I have links to videos that show you how to use many of these on my PIP Site Help: Home site

[bushmaster1123]

I have been creating sites using WP platform and have an "essential" list of plugins.
Here is my list which I hope you can benefit from:
1. BackupBuddy
2. BrokenLinkChecker
3. cbNet Ping Optimizer
4. Chennai Central
5. Easy Privacy Policy
6. Google Analyticator
7. Indexing Tool
8. No Self Ping
9. Plugin Central
10.Quick Cache
11.Really Simple Captcha
12.RSS Footer
13.SEM External Links
14.SEO Automatic Links
15.SEO Image
16.Sexybookmarks
17.Shockingly Simple Favicon
18.Trackbackfeed
19.Wordpress SEO
20.WPTouch
21.XML Sitemaps
22.Yet Another Related Posts

Of course, you can take a way a few that might not be useful.

[DDavis]

Originally Posted by bushmaster1123

I have been creating sites using WP platform and have an "essential" list of plugins.
Here is my list which I hope you can benefit from:
1. BackupBuddy
2. BrokenLinkChecker
3. cbNet Ping Optimizer
4. Chennai Central
5. Easy Privacy Policy
6. Google Analyticator
7. Indexing Tool
8. No Self Ping
9. Plugin Central
10.Quick Cache
11.Really Simple Captcha
12.RSS Footer
13.SEM External Links
14.SEO Automatic Links
15.SEO Image
16.Sexybookmarks
17.Shockingly Simple Favicon
18.Trackbackfeed
19.Wordpress SEO
20.WPTouch
21.XML Sitemaps
22.Yet Another Related Posts

Of course, you can take a way a few that might not be useful.

thankyou for your useful post. i added the plug ins that are usefull to our pips sites, there is many more plugs i do use but i dont think they suit pips sites.
do you know about pingler? as i have checked this out i notice they ping the same as other pinger but also have a lot more sites to ping to

[bushmaster1123]

Yes, I know pingler and have used it for some of my posts. However, I have a standard ping list which I place on the WP sites so I don't have to think about pinging. Maybe worthwhile to use this WP feature too.

[ToneUK]

All in One SEO Pack: What it says on the tin. Allows you to auto generate meta descriptions or add specific meta tags and keywords to posts. Also prevents duplicate content.

Broken Link Checker: Checks for broken links which is useful for affiliate marketing. Broken links are displayed when you login to the dashboard.

Date Exclusion SEO Removes the post date from posts. Also possible to do this by modifying the theme but saves code editing with this module.

External Nofollow: Lets you add the no follow attribute to external hyperlinks in posts.

Google XML Sitemaps This is essential.

Login LockDown: Makes wordpress more secure by preventing brute force attacks.

Ultimate Google Analytics: Track hits with Google analytics.

WP Super Cache: Speed's up Wordpress.

[DDavis]

Originally Posted by bushmaster1123

Yes, I know pingler and have used it for some of my posts. However, I have a standard ping list which I place on the WP sites so I don't have to think about pinging. Maybe worthwhile to use this WP feature too.

yer pingler also auto pings all my blogs for me as a WordPress plug in. I dont think or have to worry about it

[dbarrel]

Thank you for this!! I'll check out the ones that I haven't tried.

[gearmonkey]

Originally Posted by bushmaster1123

I have been creating sites using WP platform and have an "essential" list of plugins.
Here is my list which I hope you can benefit from:
1. BackupBuddy
2. BrokenLinkChecker
3. cbNet Ping Optimizer
4. Chennai Central
5. Easy Privacy Policy
6. Google Analyticator
7. Indexing Tool
8. No Self Ping
9. Plugin Central
10.Quick Cache
11.Really Simple Captcha
12.RSS Footer
13.SEM External Links
14.SEO Automatic Links
15.SEO Image
16.Sexybookmarks
17.Shockingly Simple Favicon
18.Trackbackfeed
19.Wordpress SEO
20.WPTouch
21.XML Sitemaps
22.Yet Another Related Posts

Of course, you can take a way a few that might not be useful.

Whoa that's a lot of plug-ins. I see you have lots of SEO plug-ins, but too many is actually detrimental. What is your page speed?
Page Speed Online

[ThisTimeNextYear]

Hi all,

I’ve finally started getting some traffic on my sites and some money from CPA, Clickbank and Adsense. The only problem is I don’t really know which ads earn me the most per click.

I want a plugin that I can define an an ad group, add some ads to it and it will cycle through those ads serving each ad a roughly equal number of times as the others. It should report CTR so I can then cross reference that with google / cpa / clickbank and work out which one make the most money.

I’m happy to pay for a plugin or pay somebody to develop one if it doesn’t exist.

Thanks for your help
Rob

[ahmadbasyir]

Thanks for the great sharing.. ;-)
Besides all plugin that have listed, how about the auto post plugin, which is the best? ;-)

Cheers,
Basyir

[homerunhitter]

This widget reads the content of the page and pulls out relevant reviews from the SearchReviews' database. Sort of like like Adsense, but reviews instead ads. Studies have shown people are simply more likely to click on relevant reviews than ads.

Users can read reviews in the widget
- Once a user clicks “Learn more”, they get affiliate credit and send YOU a check for 75% of the revenue generated.

You can download the widget for free.



It is a simple drag and drop code, drop anywhere you want to show product reviews.
The wordpress plugin is available here:
WordPress › SearchReviews.com Widget « WordPress Plugins

You can get the widget code here: Publisher Signup | SearchReviews



I really hope this helps some of you guys make some money. Its free to downlaod and run so it should only benefit you. Thank you so much.
Peace and LOVE

[Jayce]

As mentioned by a few there are literally THOUSANDS of plugins out there fro you to sift through.
The trick is in finding the ones that will actually serve your specific needs and work together without conflict or redundancy.
My highest priority at all times with any site is SEO (as I'm sure is anyones) so I simply try to keep things clean and simple as possible both in front of and behind the scenes.
My list of core plugins that are installed from the very start on any site are:

1) All in One SEO Pack - It's pretty much ready out of the box with all of the best settings enabled. All you have to do is activate it. Allows for you to easily add title, description and keyword tags to each new page or post.

2) Google XML Sitemaps - This one's fairly self explanatory. It simply creates a sitemap of your site to make sure that nothing gets missed by Google, but it's still a must have.

3) SEO Smart Links - The following is directly from the WordPress plugin's description (I really couldn't put it any better than they already have)

"SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

It is a perfect solution to get your blog posts interlinked or add affiliate links to other sites.

Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel."

4) SEO Friendly Images - Pretty quick and simple. Merely allows you to easily add the appropriate meta tags to your images.

5) SEO Slugs - Removes the words that search engines ignore from your post slugs to make them shorter and improve their SEO.


A few others that I include if I have reason to that you may want to check out as well are:

HeadSpace2 - People generally choose between this and the All in One SEO Pack, but I really like the "different plugins for each page" and "different themes for each page" features that HeadSpace offers so I run both and just disable everything, but these two features in HeadSpace.

Exclude Pages From Navigation - Pretty self explanatory. I use this one when I'm trying to keep a particular area of my site out of plain view.

Sub Page Navigation Widget - This plugin actually adds a sub pages widget to your dashboard that you can place in your sidebar. Great for when you have parent pages and any kind of hierarchy to your site navigation. very customizable.

Easy Noindex And Nofollow - Adds a simple option box to each new page or post (much easier than creating a Robots.txt file)

In the end it all depends on what intentions are, but I hope these helped

[JennyZ]

Originally Posted by gearmonkey

Whoa that's a lot of plug-ins. I see you have lots of SEO plug-ins, but too many is actually detrimental. What is your page speed?
Page Speed Online

This is certainly something to keep in mind. So, what would you recommend on the limit of the number of SEO plugins for WP powered websites?

Thanks
Jenny

[Jeff Casmer]

Hi,

I really like this plugin...its a great way to get your site noticed when commenting on other blogs...

WordPress › CommentLuv « WordPress Plugins

Take care
Jeff Casmer

[KenW3]

Absolutely great list!! Thank you for starting this thread :~)

A couple I didn't see listed, that are quite useful are:

WP-Sticky - I do store sites and reviews, and this plug-in keeps my 'welcome to the web site introduction' posts at the top of page 1

Breadcrumb NavXT - This will make your site more user friendly, especially for sites that have a lot of content.

[JhezeR]

AIO
XML sitemap
WP Firewall
STT2

[mrsray]

two more I haven't seen here

SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2
Multiply blog traffic by strengthening on page SEO, increasing the number of indexed pages, auto convert search terms into post tags, and more.

AddToAny
Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more

[Timmy Deleu]

Wordpress SEO by Yoast

For me the best Wordpress SEO plugin

W3 Total Cache

Speed up your site up to 10x

WP Smush.it

Optimize your images and make them smaller without loss of quality, thus speeding up your site.

SEO Friendly Images

SEO optimize your images

Smart 404

Searches your content and tries to redirect your visitors to relevant content instead of showing them an error page.

YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin)

Show relevant posts at the end of a post.

WP-Paginate

Creates numbered links at the bottom of your blog or category pages.

SEO Smart Links

Interlinks your content which is good for many reasons and a very good plugin for bloggers.

Share and Follow

The best social plugin out there

Kind regards,
Timmy

[martin61]

Hello PIPS Friends,

I have resently bought and installed the WP SEO Thunder Plugin from Traian Turcu. Just wonder if anyone of you is using this plugin and could give me any feedback on it. This plugin is producing a lot of article related keywords (well not all keywords are) and I wonder with having so many keywords on my site, wouldn't that be spamming for the surge engines? If you are using this plugin I would appreciate if you could comment. Thank you guys.

Cheers, Martin

[busygal21]

Hey Martin..I also purchased and have set up on a couple of sites. I don't think that have lots of keywords hurts as long as the words tagged at your main keywords or LSI keywords. If they are not, and are not related, then I would probably delete them. But this plugin is supposed to work off the wonder wheel, so more than likely they are LSI keywords.

I was specifically looking for as accurate as possible tagging plugin for posts created via auto blogging. Hopefully it will work out as I want it too. I think that they've released an update to better accomodate existing posts.

Regards..

Valerie

[martin61]

Thank you Valerie for your comment. Could you please tell me how to delete any of those tags this plugin produces. What are LSI Keywords? Thanks again.

Cheers, Martin

[tadsam12]

All in one seo pack plugin is used to edit the meta tags for word press website

[kaila123]

hi,
i like to use these pulg-ins:

Meta Robots WordPress plugin – Adds meta tags automatically to posts

Aizatto’s Related Posts – Adds related post information to posts and feeds

Cross-Linker – Set up commonly used words to link to posts or redirects (also useful for affiliate links)

Sitemap Generator – Automatically builds and HTML style sitemap

Google (XML) Sitemaps – Automatically build and ping multiple sitemap services with an XML file

HeadSpace 2 – A monster plugin that lets you rewrite titles, meta data, and host of other features watch the video on the page for the full list of features

SEO Title Tag – Don’t need all the power of Headspace try SEO title tag

SEO Slugs – keeps slugs from becoming too long

[martin61]

Hi Kaila and Tadsam,

Thank you for your response. Sounds like you got a view great plugins there Kaila I will check them out. Thanks again.

Cheers, Martin

[Stephen Meyer]

This plugin helps attract commentators (people who like to comment) which means visitors and some free content.

WordPress › Top Commentators Widget « WordPress Plugins

[seanpar]

For right now all i use is:

All in one seo
akisment

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[yourstory]

Hello! I want to use a plug in that puts the tweet this, facebook like, plus 1 etc icons and links at the top of my articles. The one that I am using works when I preview the post from my admin panel, but not when I just go in and look at my site. Any suggestions? I don't want a pop up one.

Thanks in advance
Vicky

[Clint Butler]

Are you using a PiPs site or Wordpress?

Regards,
Clint

[Patrician]

HI Clint

PIPS version 2.0 is a Wordpress enabled website.

So both

(if Vicky is a PIPS member with the latest version of the site)

[yourstory]

Hi! I am not a PIPS member, and am not sure what it is.
tHANKS
Vicky

[gmc193]

Originally Posted by yourstory

Hello! I want to use a plug in that puts the tweet this, facebook like, plus 1 etc icons and links at the top of my articles. The one that I am using works when I preview the post from my admin panel, but not when I just go in and look at my site. Any suggestions? I don't want a pop up one.

Thanks in advance
Vicky

You can get a great free plugin to do that here:
Plugin Download Page

There's not even a sign-up to go through.

I know Mike Baker from another forum (not sure if he is a member here).

George.

[GT]

Wow! Lots of great WP plugins here, and all the essentials!

Here's a new one I installed last week:

Google Plusone(+1) Button

It's a quick and easy "like" button that lets people demonstrate their appreciation for the good content on your site.

GT