When I began with Wordpress, I wrote about my favorite plugins and themes earlier.
After a couple of months experimentation and learning – here I am with the new list. Don’t forget to let me know your thoughts !
Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments. By Denis de Bernardy.
Google Sitemaps 2.7.1
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold.
Optimal Title 2.0
Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before. By Aaron Schaefer.
SEO Title Tag 2.0beta
Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page – indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags. By Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts.
Ultimate Google Analytics 1.5.2
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site. By Wilfred van der Deijl.
What Would Seth Godin Do 1.2
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors By Richard K Miller.
Utility Plugins
Dnghu_en_v 1.0 By Carlos Quiles.
This Wordpress Translation Plugin is the very, very simple PHP script, which adds translations from and into most language pairs offered by Google, Altavista and Tranexp. Unlike others Wordpress translator utilities, dnghu does not use flag images, it is probably the simplest possible script you can write to add this functionality, and it should be valid XHTML.
Search Meter 2.1
Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter Statistics page to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog. By Bennett McElwee.
Spam Karma 2 2.2 r3
Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.
WordPress Database Backup 1.8
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.
wp-cache 2.0.22
Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. By Ricardo Galli Granada
Visualization Plugins:
Extended Live Archives 0.10beta-r18
Implements a dynamic archive, inspired by Binary Bonsai and the original Super Archives by Jonas Rabbe.. By Arnaud Froment.
Fancy Excerpt 2.6
Enhances WordPress’ default excerpt generator by generating sentence aware excerpts. By Denis de Bernardy.
Gravatar 1.1
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. See the documentation for syntax and usage. By Tom Werner.
Less 1.1
Change the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “moreâ€. By Bennett McElwee.
MightySearch 1.1
Create your onsite Google Search with wordpress. By mightyhitter.
Popular Tags for UTW widget 1.0
Displays the n most popular tags in a tag cloud – requires Ultimate Tag Warrior! By James Carppe.
Previous Posts widget 1.0
A more customizable version of the built-in Recent Posts widget. By James Carppe
Related Posts 2.02
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.
Sidebar Widgets 1.2.1.20070210b
Adds “Sidebar Widgets†panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc..
Text Link Ads v2 2.0.1
Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use By Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin
Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis.
Ultimate Tag Warrior: ReTag Post-Extention 0.11
Extention for UTW2 that allows you to edit the tags of multiple post at the same time. Based on Christine Davis UTW. By Tobias Jordans.
WordPress Mobile Edition 2.0
Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device. By Alex King.
Community Plugins:
WP-UserOnline 2.10
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots). By GaMerZ.
WP-UserOnline Widget 2.10
Adds a UserOnline Widget To Display Users Online From WP-UserOnline Plugin. Please Activate WP-UserOnline First. By GaMerZ.
Technorati Rank 1.1.1
A plugin for users who wish to display their Technorati Rank. Requires a Technorati API Key, WordPress 2.1+ and PHP5+ (uses SimpleXML). By Douglas Karr.
Subscribe To Comments 2.1
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.
Full Text Feed 1.03
Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed. By Ronald Heft, Jr.
Feedburner Feed Replacement 2.2
Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith
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Thanks for the mention!
Great list Vinod, there’s some on there I’ve not seen before that I’ll be trying, thanks!
I do prefer the V2 of the backup plugin though, the automatic backups mean I never forget :-)
That is an amazing list of plugins. Everyone of them really seems to be useful and important. I use many of them, but I’m going to be checking out the others now.
I like most of the above stated plugins, but some of them virtually killed my blog!
My blog is hosted on Wordpress unfortunately WP don’t allow Plug ins. But thanks for mentioning it.
Nice collection, Vinod! There are a few plugins in this list that I find highly useful for every WordPress user. By the way, there is a question: Are you sure that all the plugins listed in this article work perfectly in WordPress 2.1.2 without breaking anything?
Thanks!
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Thanks for the comments buddies!
I have made an update of this post today.
Thilak!, can you be specific which was causing load on wordpress?
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Yes Avinash!. I have listed only the ones which I am using. for more updates please read the first post today.
By the way, the Related Posts plugin homepage has moved. The link you have here for it (and most people have for it) doesn’t work. The new link is http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related Entries
By the way, how do you get the flags, OS and browser to show up in the comments boxes? I’ve never seen that before.
Hi Miriam, thanks many for the comments and link correction. I am posting from my mobile now… I shall reply to your queries tomorrow for sure. cheers!
I’m too gonna install DoFollow and spread few link love ;-)
Great list of plugins, Vinod.. I found some interesting ones I’ve not seen before :)
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Miria: I have done it with firestats.
A very good and sophisticated article.
Great list of plugins and I use several of these myself. However, how many of these are you actually using on your blog? I’m always concerned about page load times so I’m curious what you’ve found.
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This post was done couple of months back. A few have been added and removed these days. Pageload time is definitely affected if you’ve got more and more plugins. esp. the ones like UTW slows down quite a bit.
This is a nice list. But what I miss is the plugin, that makes “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:”-list. Can you tell me, what the name of this plugin?
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Jens – its a plugin known as “Where did they go from here”. This won the plugin competition award also. You can get it from:-
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/06/04/wp-plugin-where-did-they-go-from-here/
I need to publish an updated list of my current plugins :)
You could also try Categories Autolink http://www.centrostudilaruna.it/huginnemuninn/2007/07/17/plugin-per-wordpress-categories-autolink/
It automatically converts categories names, when cited in posts or pages, into links to the same categories.
It means that if writing an article you cite a category of your blog (for instance “Software“), that word is automatically turned into a link to the cited category.
Really nice collection of plugins, thanks for sharing it.
It will be useful for my blog.
Gracias por tu lista. A mi me gusta siempre ver los plugins que tienen los otros. A mi me gusta el plugin: Dofollow.
Nice Collection, thanks!