I don’t use every single one of these useful wordpress plugins on every site, but choose from this “menu” depending on the requirements of the site that I am building. In my opinion, these are the best wordpress plugins, but if you know of others, leave a comment here. Enjoy!
.html on PAGES 1.1
» IntroSites (url)
Adds .html to pages.
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget 2.3.2
» The AddThis Team (url)
Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs.
Akismet 2.5.6
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.
Auto-hyperlink URLs 3.0
» Scott Reilly (url)
Automatically hyperlink text URLs and email addresses that appear in plaintext in post content and comments.
Auto Content Answers 1.3.2
» Auto Content Answers (url)
Post questions from Yahoo! Answers based on your keywords
Broken Link Checker 0.9.7.1
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
ClickBank Hop Ad 1.0
» Hans Bakker (url)
This plugin allows users to add a ClickBank Text Ad as a configurable widget.
Cross-linker 1.4.3
» Jan Hvizdak (url)
A plugin which allows you to set-up words which are automatically hyperlinked to desired URLs
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
FeedWordPress 2011.1019
» Charles Johnson (url)
simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress
Future Calendar 1.6.2
» Aaron Harun (url)
A simple plugin that utilizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Includes a widget to display posts on your website.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4
» Arne Brachhold (url)
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.
GoTryTHIS 0.1
» GoTryTHIS.com (url)
The GoTryTHIS WordPress plugin redirects non-WordPress links through the GoTryTHIS link redirection application, thus eliminating conflicts between WordPress and GoTryTHIS.
Max Banner Ads PRO 1.4
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Easily rotate banners and ads in almost anywhere in your wordpress blog without editing the theme. Adjust your settings here.
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer 2.2.5
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin. Adjust your settings here.
Permalinks Moved Permanently 1.3
» Microkid (url)
When permalink isn’t found, this checks if a post with the requested slug exists somewhere else on your blog.
Platinum SEO Pack 1.3.7
» Rajesh - Techblissonline Dot Com (url)
Complete SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.
Plugin Central 2.4.4
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically installs WordPress plugins by name and URL. Provides automatic update of multiple plugins.
Post-Plugin Library 2.6.2.1
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.
RSS Footer 0.9.8
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
Secure WordPress 2.0.7
» WebsiteDefender (url)
Basic security checks for securing your WordPress installation
SEO Friendly Images 2.7.0
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.6.3
» Mike Challis (url)
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. Also is WPMU and BuddyPress compatible. Settings | Donate
SimpleTags 2.0
» Broobles (url)
Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor.
Simple Tags 1.8
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.0 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!
skaDoogle 1.26
» Tim Brechbill (url)
The Affiliate Plugin of the Century! Monetize your Blog with skaDoogle’s Contextual AutoLink Sensor, Ads, and Plugins for Clickbank and PayDotCom. Turn your static posts and articles into Cash…
Sociable 3.5.2
» Blogplay (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
StatPress 1.4.1
» Daniele Lippi (url)
Real time stats for your Wordpress blog
To Title Case 1.0.2
» Ryan McCue (url)
Automatically converts post titles on-the-fly, using Kroc Camen’s port of John Gruber’s title case.
Web Traffic Genius Pro 2.1.1
» The Marketing Assassins (url)
This plugin will when a new post is published, create and submit a new rss feed to the pre-configured RSS Aggregator websites, and where applicable will also include the tags used in the post.
WP-DBManager 2.60
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.0
» Scott Allen (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.
wpArticlePost 2.4
» Tim Brechbill (url)
wpArticlePost can schedule text articles from a directory and publish posts to a selected category at a time delay interval of your choice. wpArticlePost works great to schedule your future blog posts in a natural drip feed fashion. You may use PLR articles, your own content that you have pre-written or you can use content that is already fully monetized with ads and links to top selling Clickbank and PayDotCom products that you can get for free at http://.skaDoogle.com/tool1-Articles
WP Auto Tagger 1.3.2
» iDope (url)
Automatically finds tags based on your post content.
WPMetaTagsDX 3.00
» Edna Melendez (url)
Plugin to add custom META keywords and description tags to your pages. Paid license. This plugin only come
WP No Category Base 0.7
» iDope (url)
Removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks.
WP Super Cache 0.9.9.6
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
Here are even more “optional” but useful plugins mostly for Twitter users.
Auto-hyperlink URLs 4.0
» Scott Reilly (url)
Automatically hyperlink text URLs and email addresses originally written only as plaintext.
Auto Content Video 1.3.3
» Auto Content Video (url)
Post YouTube videos automatically based on keywords you setup.
Deep Link Engine 1.6
» Auto Content Cash (url)
Each time you create a new post it shows a list of possible pingback enabled blogs with relevant contents to your blog entry. You can then choose ones you will ping back and it will do this automatically. It also collects statistics about pinged blogs and relevant information so future blog posts will show even more relevant blogs to ping back to.
SEOPressor UNLIMITED 3.4
» Daniel Tan (url)
SEOPressor automatically optimizes your on-page SEO by bolding, italizing and underlining your main keyword. It also optimize title and image tags. You can use the Suggestion Feature to tweak your content for high search engine ranking. Read The Backlink Syndication System if you are after a lot of backlinks. Make money with SEOPressor by adding your ClickBank ID into SEOPressor footer link (in settings). Make money with SEOPressor.
TubePress 2.0.0
» Eric D. Hough (url)
Displays gorgeous YouTube and Vimeo galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar. Upgrade to TubePress Pro for more features!
TweetMeme Retweet Button 1.9
» TweetMeme (url)
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
Tweet This 1.8
» Richard X. Thripp (url)
Popular Twitter plugin inserts “Tweet This” links so your readers can share posts with one click. Automatically tweets new posts via OAuth.
Twitter Tools 2.4
» Crowd Favorite (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.
Twitter Tools - Bit.ly URLs 2.4
» Crowd Favorite (url)
Use Bit.ly for URL shortening with Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
Twitter Tools - Exclude Category 2.4
» Crowd Favorite (url)
Exclude posts in certain categories from being tweeted by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
Twitter Tools - Hashtags 2.4
» Crowd Favorite (url)
Set #hashtags for blog post tweets sent by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
wp secure 1.2
» jremillard (url)
wp secure
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