My Favorite WordPress Plugins
The Plugins listed on this page are the ones that my mentors recommended I use. I don’t claim to be a “Plug In” expert; however, at the time I initially posted this page, my Blog had an Alexa score of 428,000 and my Hub Page Rank was 96% so they must have given me some useful advice. I would recommend you look at the ones I have and see if you have something similar and add the ones you don’t have.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog
Calais Auto Tagger Suggests tags for your posts based on semantic analysis of your post content with the Open Calais API.
CommentLuv Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.
Contact Form 7 Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
CR Post to Ping.fm This plugin will submit your new post to ping.fm account.
Digg This O’ Mine Place a “Digg This” button at the end of your posts, pages, or anywhere at your choice.
Disqus Comment System The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System.
Exclude Pages from Navigation Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.
Flex Feature Slider Adds feature area rotating content to FlexSqueeze and Flexibility Themes
Flex Pretty Fonts Use more creative font styles in FlexSqueeze and Flexibility 3
Google XML Sitemaps 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.
HeadSpace2 Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies.
Inspirational Quotes This simple WordPress plugin displays an inspirational quote in your blog’s sidebar. To install, click activate and then go to Appearance > Widgets to find ‘Inspirational Quotes’. All settings are contained within the widget.
OnlyWire for WordPress Easily post to millions of sites with one button.
Pretty Link (Lite Version) Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website!
Quick Cache Dramatically improves the performance & speed of your site! Also compatible with WordPress® Multisite/Networking.
Redirection Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
Robots Meta This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
SEO Friendly Images Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
SEO Slugs Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.
SEO Smart Links SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. (Brian Edition)
ShareThis Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.
Simple Crumbs Generates a breadcrumb trail for pages and blog entries. Requires use of permalinks, and php > 4.1.0, tested WP 2.7
Simply Hide Pages Easy way to hide some pages from wp_list_pages output. Simply add the custom field ‘hide’ with any value to your page, and this page will no longer appear on the page list.
TinyMCE Advanced Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.
Top Level Categories Removes the prefix from the URL for a category. For instance, if your old category link was /category/catname it will now be /catname
Traffic Geyser Social Poster An interface to Traffic Geyser’s social bookmark sites post engine
TweetMeme Retweet Button Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
Ultimate Google Analytics Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.
Viper’s Video Quicktags Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.
What Would Seth Godin Do Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.
WordPress.com Popular Posts Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin.
WordPress Related Posts Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress
WP Hide Pages Hides selected pages. You can manage this from your admin panel, so you don’t need to open template
WP Super Cache Very fast caching plugin for WordPress
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