I am often asked what WordPress plugins I am using and which I suggest. Here is a list of the ones I am using in alphabetical orders. I have labeled the MUST HAVE plugins with *** at the end.
Askimet – A must have comment spam blocker!!! 1,764 spam comments caught since January of this year***
All In One SEO Pack – Automated SEO***
Brian’s Threaded Comments – Gives the ability to reply to comments below the original, better flow for conversations
Contact Form 7 – Exactly what is says
Flickr Photo Album – Showcases my Flickr.com photos
Google XML Sitemaps – Generates a sitemaps.org compatable sitemap***
MaxBlogPress Strip Ad *Paid plugin* – allows me to post text ad/links to the very top of the site
My Twitpic’s – Showcases my twitpic.com photos
PodPress – Podcast player
SexyBookmarks – Bar with pop-up images below each blog post used for social bookmarking*** (Social bookmarking, retweets and so forth have become extremely popular and can increase your blogs traffic tremendously. Because of this reason I suggest getting a similar bookmarking tool to the one I use. Feel free to use the same one but I’d suggest picking one that fits with your blogs layout/theme)
Subscribe To Comments – allows your readers to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is a great plugin to grow your blog community by letting your readers stay up to date in the discussion that they already are interested in***
Top Commentators Widget – Shows top commentators, mine are located in the site’s footer
WP Cumulus – Flash based tag cloud located in site’s footer
WP Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to blog
WP Polls Widget – Controls WP Polls display
WP Greet Box – Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more!
WP Super Cache – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. Basically speeds the load time for visitors.
Although this is not a plugin I wanted to add OpenX Ad Serer. I use this free tool to manage and rotate my advertiser banners. Visit OpenX.org for more information.
So that was my list, what are you using that’s a must have?
@Patrick
Good list. I would add the following WP Plugins
1. Google Analytics For Wordpress
2. Wordpress Page Navi
3. Feedburner For Wordpress
I actually have WordPress Page Navi. I didn’t list because I have no idea what it does, lol.
:-p its the paged navigation buttons at the bottom Patrick.. t
Nice list dude. I’ve had some issues w/Super cache where my admin pages wouldn’t load right or at all so instead I use Hyper Cache. Not everyone has that issue but most don’t know that there is an alternative which works very well if a problem would come up.
And hey, why no “Sharing is sexy!” image above your bookmarks? LOL
Great post, I’m also using Feedburner for Wordpress. It basically gives your RSS address a new RSS address with google feedburner. Must have Feedburner account and set up through Feedburner to use it.
List was not needed….your plugins can be found here…..:)
http://www.chefpatrick.com/wp-content/plugins/
Good info Patrick!
I’ll be trying some of the ones I’ve never seen before out.