Useful WordPress Plugins
The plugin’s below are the ones that I use at this blog. I try to focus on plugins that don’t require modification of the theme and that are compatible with my web-host GoDaddy.
Generate money easily from your blog by transforming brand names and product keywords into affiliate links. There’s no need to apply to affiliate networks or programs – we do it all for you. Just install the plugin, sync your posts and we’ll automatically add relevant, money-making affiliate links to your blog. This has been the most effective in terms of money generating plugin I have used.
| AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttons |
Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. |
Add to Header (Great banner software!)
Add stuff to your theme header, such as CSS, Javascript, metadata, Google Analytics etc.
Antispam Bee (Better than Akismet)
Easy and extremely productive spam-fighting plugin with many sophisticated solutions. Includes protection again trackback spam.
Flickr Feed Gallery
Enables easy integration of Flickr photo feed to a WordPress blog. Configure feed parameters from settings page. Use php show_flickr_feed_gallery();?> in your theme or add plugin as a Widget.
Google Analytics
Enables Google Analytics on all pages.
Google Analytics Dashboard
Google Analytics graph integration.
Google Site Verification Plugin
One-click Google verification for your website!
Grunion Contact Form
Add a contact form to any post, page or text widget. Emails will be sent to the post’s author by default, or any email address you choose. As seen on WordPress.com.
Image Widget
Simple image widget that uses native WordPress upload thickbox to add image widgets to your site.
IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Full comment and account data sync between IntenseDebate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
myEASYwebally
More than a simple plugin, myEASYwebally lets you save quite a good amount of time when doing your WordPress blog maintenance! You need a free API key to use it.
post-views
Record how many times the post have been views and show it.
Search Meter
Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter section in the Dashboard to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.
SEO Friendly Images
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
Twitter Fans
Displays your twitter followers just like facebook fan widget.
WordPress.com Custom CSS
Allows CSS editing with strict filtering for malicious code
WordPress Popular Posts
Showcases your most popular posts to your visitors on your blog’s sidebar. Use WordPress Popular Posts as a widget or place it anywhere on your theme using php wpp_get_mostpopular(); ?>
WP-Cleanup
Cleanup your WordPress database in one click!
wp-Typography
Improve your web typography with: (1) hyphenation — over 40 languages supported, (2) Space control, includes: widow protection, gluing values to units, and forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses, (3) Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of: quote marks, dashes, ellipses, trademarks, math symbols, fractions, and ordinal suffixes, and (4) CSS hooks for styling: ampersands, uppercase words, numbers, initial quotes & guillemets.
WPtouch
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.
Zemanta
Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient.
