My Favorite WordPress Plugins
Here is a list of my 12 favorite WordPress plugins that I use on nearly every website:
- All in One SEO Pack – the best Meta Tag plugin I’ve used
- Dynamic to Top – sweet little arrow key that shows up when someone scrolls down your page so they return to the top
- Google Analytics for WordPress – Easy Google Analytics implementation
- Google XML Sitemaps – I use this on all my sites and combine it with my Google Webmaster account to make sure Google receives updated sitemaps every time a new page or post is generated
- Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – Love this one – creates a horizontal menu within the WordPress admin area for better screen use
- SexyBookmarks – Plugin that makes it easy for blog readers to share your posts on pretty much anything
- WordPress Database Backup – See my previous blog posting
- WPtouch iPhone Theme – puts your blog posts in a cool format for those looking on their iPhones
- CForms – Easy to use Contact forms. I usually connect a PayPal feature with this so my clients can take payment after someone fills in a form
- PixoPoint Menu Plugin – Great drop down menu for use on your site – easy to change around, add, remove pages. Also places a nice search bar in your menu bar
- Reveal IDs for WP Admin – a must have for excluding pages in the menu – this plugin lets you know the id of pages, categories, posts, etc. within the admin area
- Content and Excerpt Word Limit – a plugin that allows you to limit the length of a blog post on a page to a certain amount of words or characters. Great for placing more blog posts in a small area
Please comment on this post with your favorite plugins and how you use them.
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For my main blog, I like to use:
* To Do LIst — This serves as a sort of notepad for ideas within my dashboard so I don’t forget post ideas, etc.
* Yet Another Related Posts Plugin — This little plugin seems to have done more than anything else to keep traffic on my site.
* Broken Link Checker — Very little irritates me more than finding a site with a ton of broken links. This plugin checks all my links every time I log into my dashboard to make sure I’m aware of (and can fix) any newly broken link.
* SidebarTabs — allows a widgetized tabbed sidebar in themes that don’t have one built-in. It’s the easiest interface (though not perfect) I’ve found.
* Feed Facebook, Leave Facebook — it allows me to create a truncated custom feed for other sites I use, like Facebook, while not reducing site traffic by feeding out the entire post. It works together with the Feedsmith plugin for Feedburner.
* Popularity Contest — This classic sort of goes without saying (though I’m experimenting with updated plugins that do the same things); I’ve seen data analysis that suggests a sidebar with “popular posts” and “recent posts” available helps keep traffic on-site.
Here is one that looks neat – it puts YouTube videos into a nice looking format and makes it easy to use on the iPhone – http://rodrigopolo.com/about/wp-stream-video
Good share, great article, very usefull for us¡thanks.
Here’s another list I came across:
http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/20-must-have-wordpress-plugins-for-every-website/