
If you ever wondered what plugins I use on my WordPress blog, here are my top recommendations:
- Akismet – Comes with the standard installation of WordPress for eliminating comment spam! A real must.
- All In One SEO - allows you to create custom tags and permalink titles
- Audio Player – allows you to add audio to your blog posts.
- AYB Javascript in Posts – A plugin that allows javacript to be used in your WordPress post.
- Executable PHP Widget – A widget that allows PHP code to work in your sidebar.
- Google XML Sitemaps – automatically creates and submits your blog sitemap to Google.
- LightBox 2 – creates a lightbox effect on any linked images in your posts.
- Recent Comments – a widget that displays a list of your most recent comments added on your blog
- Recent Posts – a widget that displays a list of your most recent posts.
- Related Posts - displays a list of related posts at the end of each blog post
- SEO Friendly Images – automatically adds relevant tags or keywords to the “alt” tag of your blog images.
- Sociable – allows your reader to quickly submit your post to major social bookmarking sites and social media sites.
- Subscribe Remind – adds a reminder at the end of every posts to subscribe to your blog.
- Subscribe to Comments - allows your blog commentators to leave an email so that they can be notified of new comments.
- Top Commentators – A widget that displays a list of your top commentators.
- Ultimate Google Analytics – inserts your Google Analytics tracking code in your entire blog. A real time saver.
- Viper Video Quicktags - allow you to use a simple video tag to add YouTube videos to your posts instead of having to use the embed code. Also compatible with other popular video hosting/ sharing sites.
- WordPress.com Stats – provides detailed analytics of your blog
- WordPress.com Popular Posts - Displays a list of your most popular WordPress posts based on the statistics gathered from the WordPress.com Stats plugin.
- WP-Table – allows you to create a table in your posts. Additionally, the tables are editable, sortable and you can even create hyperlinks in you tale data.
I am always on the look out for cool plugins. If you have some cool plugins to recommend, please post a comment and tell us about it!
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Leave A Reply (8 comments So Far)
Kenneth
1446 days ago
Nice list, you may want to look at cformsII, it’s a cool plugin that allow you to customise form and create as many form as you want. A very nice plugin.
Brian Wong
1445 days ago
Hi Kenneth, Thanks for the recommendation. cformsii is indeed a very nice plugin.
Mo
1034 days ago
Hi, Thanks for the recommendations. Can you advise how to use the AYB Javascript in Posts.
Johnny
592 days ago
Hey Brian,
I’m very new at the blogging. in fact I just started my website and started blogging 2 weeks ago.
The plug-in list is great. I use about a third of them now. But I’ll start looking into the rest of them–because I always follow successful people.
Thanks
Arianne Malcolm
590 days ago
Many thanks for the great list with plugins, i have some favourites to, including the all known “All IN SEO “and also the easy privacy policy and also SEO friendly images (got some great results with it)and lastly pretty links (great for cloacking) affiliate links…
Todd P. Pennington
454 days ago
Hey Brian, I appreciated all these plugins but I think you should also include nextgen plugins too in that list. It’s also cool.
Rain Wilber
407 days ago
Great list Brian. Really good looking and interesting blog too!
I see you use NetworkBlogs to post to facebook, there is also Wordbooker, not sure if there is much difference, NetworkBlogs may be better for some things. Here’s a couple others that certain people may find use for:
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.For a contact form: Fast Secure Contact Form
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.Order your links: My Link Order
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.Cool (faster use) admin interface: Fluency Admin
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.Best WordPress Search plugin: Relevanssi
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.Automatic Database Backup Utility: WP-DBManager
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.Testimonials/Reviews: WP Customer Reviews
Mike Ramesy
396 days ago
Thanks for these great WordPress plug-ins, I have been using some of themes from last 2 years but I would also like to use others which you have mentioned here..