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25 WordPress Plugin You Should Use in Your Blog

Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Editor in Resource

If you are not literally living in a den, you must here about the wordpress blogging system. It’s the most widely used blogging platform available in the industry. The reason behind this popularity is extensive list of plugin and themes available. Let’s take a look on the 25 wordpress plugin that you should use in your blog to start your blog with a bang.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a popular spam-fighting service that is different from other spam filter. It checks the content of the comment anonymously with an online server, to determine whether it is spam or not and it pretty good at separating spam and reliable comments.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet

Plugin Site: http://akismet.com

2. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator

Plugin Site: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home

3. Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress

Plugin Site: http://yoast.com/wordpress/analytics

4. WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache

Plugin Site: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache

5. Sociable

The Sociable plugin is packed full of social bookmarking sites, allowing you to instantly add various buttons through one simple plugin file.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable

Plugin Site: http://blogplay.com/plugin

6. cForms II

cforms is a feature rich plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. It’s versatile and can be customized to your preferred design and feel.

WordPress Location: http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin

7. WP Cumulus

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus

Plugin Site: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released

8. All In One SEO Pack

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack

Plugin Site: http://semperfiwebdesign.com

9. WP PageNavi

WP-PageNavi adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi

10. FeedBurner FeedSmith

This plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed and optionally, your main comments feed as well.

Plugin Site: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/static/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3.zip

11. WordPress Automatic upgrade

WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the WordPress installation to the latest one provided by WordPress.org using the 5 steps provided in the WordPress upgrade instructions. It automatically does the backups and provides links for downloading.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade

Plugin Site: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html

12. WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup

Plugin Site: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

13. Simple Tags

Simple Tags is the perfect tool to manage perfectly your WordPress tags.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags

Plugin Site: http://redmine.beapi.fr/projects/show/simple-tags

14. WP Poll

WP-Poll is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls run the way you wanted. It now also supports multiple selections of answers.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls

Plugin Site: http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php

15. WPtouch iPhone Theme

A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch

Plugin Site: http://bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch

16. TweetMeme Retweet Button

Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme

Plugin Site: http://tweetmeme.com/about/plugins

17. Smart Youtube

Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube

Plugin Site: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube

18. SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks

Plugin Site: http://shareaholic.com/sexybookmarks

19. Twitter Follow Me Box

This plugin will generate a follow me box of the twitter in your site.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-follow-me-box

Plugin Site: http://www.geniusdeveloper.com.br/plugins-2/twitter-follow-me-box/?lang=en

20. Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks can be used as well.

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WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager

Plugin Site: http://code.openx.org/projects/show/advertising-manager

21. Advanced User Agent Displayer

This wordpress plugin adds user agent information to your blog comments by adding browser and platform icons and lets visitors know the user agent of every one who comment on your blog. You can also view the user agent of the commenters in the admin’s comment page. Settings can be customized within the admin menu.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-user-agent-displayer

Plugin Site: http://www.moallemi.ir/en/blog/2009/09/20/advanced-user-agent-displayer

22. Global Translator

Automatically translates a blog in 48 different languages by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt).

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator

Plugin Site: http://www.n2h.it/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin

23. Separate Comments & Pings

Removes all pings & trackbacks from comments and puts them into $pings.

Plugin Site: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/separate-comment-pings

24. Smilies Themer

Smilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the wordpress default ones.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smilies-themer

Plugin Site: http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/smilies-themer

25. jQuery Comment Preview

jQuery Comment Preview WordPress Plugin allows the live comment preview without page reboot. It works on jQuery.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-comment-preview

Plugin Site: http://articlesss.com/jquery-comment-preview-wordpress-plugin

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