What follows below are some of my favorite WordPress plugins and why. Many of them I have in common with Cavemonkey’s excellent Top Ten WordPress Plugins list. Here’s my list, in no particular order:
- PodPress – makes it super-simple to post podcasts; includes an inline media player
- Popularity Contest – offer a leaderboard of your Most Popular posts based on views and ratings
- Google Sitemaps Generator – creates a Google Sitemaps XML file. What’s killer about this is that it uses Popularity Contest’s ratings for the priority scoring that Google uses to determine how frequently to spider your pages
- Akismet – you’d be a fool to run a blog with comments turned on and not use this plugin to stop the flood of comment spam. ’nuff said!
- Adhesive – gives you the ability to flag certain posts as “Sticky” so they float to the top of the category page regardless of whether it’s the most recent
- Ultimate Tag Warrior – creates tag pages and a tag cloud. Great for SEO as I’ve said before.
- EmailShroud – an email address obfuscator to thwart those evil email harvesters. Scans for email addresses in posts, but won’t work on email addresses hard-coded into your theme.
- Transpose Email – another email address obfuscator. Doesn’t automatically scan for email addresses, but can be used from within your theme files.
- WP-EMail – “Email this post to a friend” functionality
- WP-Print – Printer-friendly version of posts
- Subscribe2 – let your readers subscribe to your blog updates via email
- In-Series – link posts together into a series, regardless of dates posted or categories selected
- Permalink Redirect – fixes the canonicalization problem where the same page loads whether the slash is there or not. Important for SEO.
- Gravatars – puts the commenter’s “Gravatar” image next to their comment
- Subscribe to Comments – a commenter can check a box on the comment form so that they get notified of further comments to that post
- WP-Notable – places a row of buttons alongside your posts so the reader can easily add your post to their favorite social bookmarks service (del.icio.us, digg, etc.)
- A Different Monthly Archive – a pretty way to display links to archives by month
- Related Posts – link to related posts automatically based on the content of the post
- Related Posts for your 404 – your File Not Found error page can now suggest related posts to the misguided user. Cool!
What are your favorites? Did I miss any important ones?
Two plugins you missed out are Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2. Both of which can be used with Akismet.
Regarding my Transpose Email plugin, besides theme files, you can also use it within posts. Only thing is you will have to add the code manually.
I am currently working on adding buttons to the WYSIWYG and the quicktags, but that should take a while.
Comment by Ajay D'Souza — March 14, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
A great list, Stephan.
One more for you, one that I find indispensible – FeedBurner Feed Replacement by Steve Smith.
Simple in concept: redirects subs to the blog native RSS feed to one at FeedBurner. So if someone subscribes to the native feed, they’ll get your content via the FB feed. FB feeds offer richer options for subscribers than native feeds.
It also means should you move your blog and have a new feed (as I did), subscribers to the old feed need do nothing: they’ll continue to get your stuff.
Cool.
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The download link on the ‘Popularity Contest’ page gets you a file without expension. Does someone know which type of file is that? I even tried to open it using Winzip, but it didn’t work.
Tks!
.ra
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I think you also forgot to add WP e-commerce which is an actual business plugin for selling products, services, and accepting fee’s etc online.
WP e-commerce (the first wordpress shop plugin) is ajax ready, comes as a widget, and supports the K2 theme.
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Nice collection of plugins. Thanks, Stephan. Think I’ll try some of them.
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Definitely not a comprehensive list but a very impressive one at that. I’d like to have most of those options on my WordPress blog. I better start installing.. thanks
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