Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. WordPress plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize coding. So it so easy to add a plugin or remove a plugin from your blog site. WordPress Plugins are available from several sources. The “official” sources for WordPress Plugins are:
There are hundreds of WordPress plugins available in the Internet, but you may not require all of them for your site. I selected 14 essential plugins which I am currently using.
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put
All in One SEO pack
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
Some features of this plugin are:
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
- For Wordpress 2.3 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- You can fine-tune everything
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
DMS GuestBook
DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features. You can customize the whole DMSGuestbook to your desireThe plugin features are:
- Simple work on the attitudes over front-end (e.g. text color, guestbook width, border color…)
- Extended attitude possibility over the css file
- Preset DMSGuestbook caption text in german, english and swissgerman
- Make your own language template in few minutes
- Set mandatory fields where user must be filled out
- Set text hidden in the DMSGuestbook (e.g. ip address)
- Captcha antispam (image, mathematically)
- Manage the DMSGuestbook user entries. (e.g. name, message, url, ip adress)
- Sidebar widget
- Administrator can review posts before shown this
- Create your own guestbook template (beta)
- Administrator can search entries in guestbook (beta)
Embed It
Embedit is one of the most useful plugins made for Wordpress which allows publishers to put all pieces of embeddable code, (widget, javascript, adsense) inside their blog post, by allowing to overcome any number of obstacles about this problem. It been developed by Matteo Lonescu. This truly simple plugin resolves what for many has been a frustrating problem for any type of “embeddable” objects to add to any post. Instead, EmbedIt allows you to embed any html code in a post, by deciding precisely where you want to put it, allowing you freedom of coding your html without being annoyed by the wysiwyg editor.
Key Features are:- embed Youtube videos into wordpress
- embed ustream into wordpress
- embed a custom Google Map into wordpress
- embed whatever html code into wordpress
- embed specific Adsense code into wordpress posts deciding WHERE it should go inside an article
FeedSmith
FeedBurner have taken over the development of the Feedsmith Wordpress plugin that removes the worry from Wordpress user about visitors requesting their RSS feed. When using Wordpress there are a number of ways a user can request your RSS feed by clicking on different links. The Feedsmith plugin handles these requests to ensure the visitor is directed to your Feedburner RSS URL.
Global Translator
Global Translator automatically translates your blog in the following fourteen different languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch and Norwegian. The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
Main features are:- Four different translation engines: Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations
- Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URL
- Fast Caching System: a built-in cache is provided in order to reduce the online connections to the translation engines
- Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors
Google Analytics
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. In the options panel for the plugin, you can determine the prefixes to use for the different kinds of outbound links and downloads it tracks.
Show-My-PageRank
If your wordpress blog has a better page rank, here is a better chance to reveal it to your blog readers. That is Wordpress Page Rank Plugin Show-My-PageRank. What you want to do is just download this plugin and activate it. All of your wordpress post automatically tagged with your google page rank. This will increase your readers interest. More page ranked articles / post get more readership. Just try. Remember , you DON’T need to enter your page rank manually; This plugin automatically pull up your page rank directly from server each time (Live Results). You can also add your page rank any where in your blog by
Features:.- Live Page Rank : You need not to specify your page rank. Plugin automatically checks google server each time
- Cute Page Rank Show : Greenish-white combination
- Fast loading : It never affect your normal page loading speed
- Auto Embedding : All of your post automattically get embedded with its page rank (You can also disable this)
- Replaceable : You can place your page rank anywhere as you wish
- Readablity : Your user get more enthusiasm when he/she read your blog post if you have better pager rank for that post
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo!, are notified about the update.
Increase Sociability
The best way to increase your traffic from Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com is to get more votes. Often you may have a great blog post, and people do visit via these websites.
My Page Order
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.
Share This
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more. ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to post your site content to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail & other communication channels (like Facebook and MySpace) to a friend.
Subscribe Me
The Subscribe Me plugin for WordPress adds buttons at the end of your sidebar so your visitors can subscribe to your blog via services such as Bloglines and MyYahoo!.
Yahoo! Shortcuts
Yahoo! Shortcuts for Wordpress plugin intelligently enriches your blog post with great content from Yahoo! Maps, Finance, and beyond. Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin for Wordpress available under the BSD license. The images, designs, logos, modules (including the content and services that flow through the plugin) are provided under the terms located here, which you have to agree to activate the plugin.
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