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Stuart Foster · 1 year ago

Woot! Awesome list, I can not wait to try these out on my blog. Every single one of these is useful, and I found some that I had not been using yet. Thanks :)

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Matt Siltala · 1 year ago

Great list Andy! Thanks for sharing. There were several of these that I had not heard of.

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Frank Reed · 1 year ago

Nice list, Andy. I had to tell you nice list so I can take full advantage of the CommentLuv plug in ;-). Seriously though, this is the kind of stuff that serves people and that's a great thing. Thanks.

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Chris Goward · 1 year ago

Some gems in here, Andy. Some new ones I haven't seen. Thanks!

FeedFooter and Redirection will be time-savers.

Chris

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Nick Stamoulis · 1 year ago

This is a great list. I love the comment spam math plug in. That thing is a must for any blog.

Dan Foley · 1 year ago

Andy, Thanks for these plugins! There are some awesome plugins that I didn't know existed and I'll be using them. I've also bookmarked this page.

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Tom Lambert · 1 year ago

Andy,
check out Headspace2 - the Swiss Army Knife of WP SEO plugins - custom title tags, meta descriptions, nofollow, and more and more, most of which can be bulk edited.

Also, if you're willing to require javascript to post comments immediately, WP-hashcash does it without annoying your readers by making them add. If the user has JS off, it goes into your queue of comments awaiting approval.

And what about Joost's Sociable? I haven't used it actually, but it seems like a good pairing with Notable.

Travis Campbell · 1 year ago

Andy-

Excellent list of plugins here. Can you comment on the use of these plugins in the recently released WP 2.7. Are you planning to upgrade to that version soon? (maybe the conflict with WP-Cache and Math Comments would be fixed?)

Thanks again, nice work.

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Travis - all are working well in WP 2.7. :-)

David Wallace · 1 year ago

Great list Andy.

Also like the following plug-ins:

Category Order (http://wpguy.com/plugins/category-order)
DoFollow (http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/do...)
TwitterTools (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress)
Wordpress Mobile Edition (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress)

Cathy Stucker · 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this list. I am using some of these, but found others that I had not seen before. These all look great, and I have an immediate need for a couple of them.

I keep a file of plugins that I install anytime I set up a WordPress site. These will definitely be in that file.

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Travis Campbell · 1 year ago

That is great news! Thanks for the speedy reply (subscribe to comments works well, eh? :-)
Keep up the great work.

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Matthew Diehl · 1 year ago

Killer list Andy! I think all of these combined together will get an blogger's site up to speed with tons of functionality. However, for SEO I use the All in One SEO Pack - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-.... It lets you do titles, descriptions and keywords.

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Saad Kamal · 1 year ago

This is good Stuff. Dugg!

http://digg.com/tech_news/21_Awesome_WordPress_...

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TheMadHat · 1 year ago

Great work. There were a couple in there I'd never heard of, after shaking my head saying "not another ## plugins you should use post ;)

1 note, WP Super Cache (not the regular WP cache) and math spam plugin don't play well together. Found that out the hard way!

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Carrie Hill · 1 year ago

I like StickyPost. Sometimes we have a lot to get in the blog but a particular post should stay at the top of the homepage for a few days. Stickypost will let you do that very easily
http://www.wptextads.com/blog/2007/05/05/sticky...

Thanks for the awesome list, Andy - I think we're going to try a few of these out!

~Carrie

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Saad - thanks!

@TheMadHat - yeah, I noted that above. It tends to cache older questions, but not the answers--leaving some folks scratching their head as to how they got 3+5 wrong! ;-)

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Carrie - with WordPress 2.7 you can now sticky any posts without the plugin. ;-)

I just "stickied" this post and it seems to work well.

Carrie Hill · 1 year ago

@andybeal - well for anyone that has to wait for someone else to upgrade their blog (like I do) the plugin is neato :) yeay WP 2.7!!!!

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Carrie - which is another good thing about 2.7, it includes auto-upgrades for future WP versions--no more waiting! ;-)

Saad Kamal · 1 year ago

OK just to add to the list:

1. All-in-one seo Pack is just awesome! I think it works better than SEO Title Tag.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-...

2. Exclude Pages from Navigation -- Sometimes I like to create "pages" but I dont want them to show up in my navigation bar. So this plugin can help you to exclude 'pages' from your nav bar.
http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress-plugin...

3. PageMash -- Makes it really easy to organize pages. (e.g. Parent -- Child)
http://joelstarnes.co.uk/pagemash/

4. Referrer Detector --- Automatically detects where your visitors are comes from and you can set to displays a corresponding greeting for each of those visitor. I love this plugin because I can set specific call-to-action for different sites. So for instance, if users are coming from digg.com I can ask them to "digg my post", if from SU then Stumble etc.
http://www.phoenixheart.net/2008/11/referrer-de...

5. Robots Meta --- This is VERY useful, if you want to play with the robots Meta tags of your pages. So Say you have a "Thank You page" that you dont want Google to crawl, u can easily use this to set that particular page as "no-index, no follow" etc.
http://yoast.com/wordpress/robots-meta/

6. WordPress Database Backup ---- If you are not backing up your WP DB then you are at HIGH risk. Use this plugin to get your DB backup directly via EMAIL or just let it store in your server.
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

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Jay · 1 year ago

Great list, thank you. Although for tying in Flickr images into WP i'd say http://tylrslidr.com/ is a must have.

Daniel Dessinger · 1 year ago

i'm a big fan of the following plugins:

easytube - easiest way i know to post YouTube videos in a post. amazingly easy.
feedwordpress - this is for mashups, or to have topics delivered to your CMS for you to consider/approve/etc.
subscribe to comments - allows readers to be notified of responses to their comments, because many will forget where they've commented and won't come back to continue the conversation without some assistance.
wp-polls - there's a whole segment of blog readers who aren't comfortable commenting but will answer a poll. by adding a poll to some of your posts, you get reader feedback you would have otherwise lost.

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Utah SEO Pro · 1 year ago

Nice! There's quite a few I'm going to try out right now.

virtualimpax · 1 year ago

Awesome list! This is the first time in a LONG time there have been a couple of plug ins that I didn't know about!!! No Self Pings is AWESOME!!!!! WP-EMail is another AWESOME plug in!!!

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Saad - thanks for sharing. I'm going to check out Referrer Director.

Dana Lookadoo · 1 year ago

Thanks for giving us this early Christmas present!

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Marko Saric · 1 year ago

Wow some very interesting plugins here... I love the sound of "Theme Tester" and "No Self Pings"... about to check them out...

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Peter Young · 1 year ago

Great Post Andy - Noticed a couple of these obviously whilst doing some of the guest posts but didnt have a clue what they were.

Now to install....

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Mike · 1 year ago

Thanks Andy - I'm installing the backup right now!

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Jesse Liebman · 1 year ago

I have to admit I had not heard of most of these prior to this post. I guess, as someone who strives to produce a solid SEO blog, why you would go with the plugin route rather than physically code in the programs themselves? Afterall load time is a huge factor when it comes to ranking. If I actually put all of these plugins on my site it'd probably take an hour for it to load the homepage. Thoughts?

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Janet Thaeler · 1 year ago

@Jesse - same thought I had. My blog is already slow with too many plugins. Don't know how to program them. Would love to know which plugins will weight down a blog because right now I'm testing them ONE AT A TIME.

@Andy - thanks for your generosity in sharing your secret plugin sauce.

-Janet

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Ray Dauphinais · 1 year ago

I've already found and am using a couple of your suggestions but will look into the oters. Thanks for a great list.

Carrie Hill · 1 year ago

@jesse
@Janet

I dont find plugins weigh my blog down at all - loads pretty fast. What does slow my loadtime down is the ad server I use - which I will probably remove.

The issue with hacking your code to add all of this functionality comes in updating to new versions of WordPress. If it's hacked up - it has to be hacked up every time you update. Also the more you mess with your code outside of plugins - the more opportunities there are to break your site. If a plugin messes things up - usually you just deactivate it and everything goes back to normal.

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Jesse and Janet - I run all of these plugins on MP and you can see for yourself how fast it loads. As for SEO - I have plenty of #1 rankings. ;-)

mike · 1 year ago

Some of these plugins are very useful, thanks for putting up this list!

richardbaxterseo · 1 year ago

Nice post and very very useful, thanks Andy - just ftp'ing a few of these to my site now!!

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Steven-Sanders · 1 year ago

I love Ad Rotator, been using it on my blog since day one!

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redwall_hp · 1 year ago

Nice roundup. I use a few of them, but there are some I hadn't heard of before.

I'd also recommend (if you don't mind a shameless plug) the WP125 ad management plugin for 125x125 banners. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/

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indocontest · 1 year ago

Nice list, I'm gonna try some of this plugin.
Thank you!!

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Satbir Singh · 1 year ago

Thanks for this awesome post, some of these i never heard of, now trying hands on theme tester, wp-email & redirection

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Evan · 1 year ago

Great post Andy! Also, thanks to all those who have posted more plugins in the comments. I've got a dozen tabs open now checking out the ones that piqued my interest.

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Hannelore · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great list! Some finds here. I never tried a database backup plugin. I rather do it manually. Can I rely on it? I will check it out - finally... taking a deep breath

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Dulce · 1 year ago

I'm using 6 of those plugins. I'm sure am missing some of it. Thank you for sharing. I'll be checking the rest of it.

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John Hrastar · 1 year ago

Thanks Andy, great list! I've been using a few so far. Since I'm still new at this knowing what someone is really using successfully is very helpful.

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Miguel Wickert · 1 year ago

Andy

Useful set of plugins you got here. What (if there is such) is the most underrated plugin? Thanks in advance- if you feel like there's more than one feel free to cite those as well. :)

-Mig

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Matthew Block · 1 year ago

I went and downloaded 7 of those plugins tonight!! I haven't even had a chance to rummage the comments section for additional plugins yet! Stellar post, thanks for the insight.

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Alexander Morentin · 1 year ago

Thank you.
This a great list.
I have a pretty good selection of plugins, but there are a few here that will definitely make my life easier.

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Matt Helphrey · 1 year ago

Sweet list! I have bookmarked to make sure to utilize this post and have past it around.

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SeoBrain · 1 year ago

Very big thanks to marketingpilgrim to put top commentators plugin, here i can show off my blog and also can get backlink.

Maybe you can add threaded comment (forum like comment) plugin here.

David Towers · 1 year ago

Great post, really useful list, thanks for sharing.

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Nichole · 1 year ago

Wow ! This is very useful list for those who love wordpress. I have used some of them but hope rest will be useful for me.

Ami Ohayon · 1 year ago

Tahnks, a nice list. I haven't tried the Email plugin, but plan to experiment with it soon.

Web Design Beach · 1 year ago

Wonderful list indeed. I have found many plugins that i will find very useful for my blog, so i have bookmarked this page for later deep examination.

Peter van Veen · 1 year ago

Nice list, Andy, thanks for sharing. I've seen some I've heard of before.

One of my favorites that's not mentioned here is Headspace 2.

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Designer · 1 year ago

wow....... thanks for the list

Robert "Butch" Greenawalt · 1 year ago

Excellent list to include some of the additionals in the comments. You've got yourself a new reader and fan. Very much appreciated. Cheers, Robert "Butch" Greenawalt

Seshu · 1 year ago

Terrific list. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.

Jim Hickey · 1 year ago

Hello Andy,

Great info and thanks for the link from twitter-land. Content that actually helps ... very cool!

Jim

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Susan · 1 year ago

I love this list of plugins. There are a few on here that I didn't know about.

Adam Doolittle · 1 year ago

Subscribe to Comments has boosted my re-comments 10 fold, ie, the person who left a comment the first time comes back to comment again.

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Tom - StandOutBlogger.com · 1 year ago

I saw your post on ProBlogger, and this is a fantastic list. I am already heading over to download atleast 3 of them.

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Diet Cleanse · 1 year ago

What a great list of plugins. I bookmarked the list so I use start installing when I build the next wordpress blog.

Christian Connett · 1 year ago

This is an amazing list that we will surely use! I would like to point out a great plug-in that we discovered lately: http://semperfiwebdesign.com/custom-application...

MS Text Message is a plugin for WordPress to allow blog owners to update their readership via SMS.

A user comes to a site and wishes to be updated (daily, weekly, monthly, etc) via SMS Text Messaging. The user enters their 10 digit phone number on a sidebar widget. The number is then added to a database. Then every so often, the site admin can send an update via text about what is new on the site etc.

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

Thanks and welcome to Problogger readers!

Carey Suante · 1 year ago

Awesome list. Will refer this post when I get to build my wordpress blog. Thanks a lot!

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Kevin Wilson · 1 year ago

Very useful list, thanks Andy. I'll be using several of these for sure, especially the no-self-pinging one!

Another vote here for Headspace 2 for SEO.

Another useful one for the list - Google XML Sitemaps, to create sitemaps automatically and notify Google, MSN and Ask.

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Shapes of Sweetness · 1 year ago

Lists are dope.

Kyle Dylan Conner · 1 year ago

It's a good list, but I don't believe that any of them are "secret."

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Kyle - you're right, they are all publicly available. The "secret" was that I had not shared my list of plugins used on MP before. :-)

Chris Howard · 1 year ago

Andy, I know Akismet is good, but I turned it off once I went to WP-SpamFree (http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree)

Wp-SpamFree blocks all automated comment spam from even being posted, which accounts for 99.99% of spam. In the few months I've used it, it's blocked over 9,000 spam comments from even entering my system. And in that time there has been just 4 manual spam comments - which Akismet probably wouldn't have picked up either.

The technology in WP-SpamFree should be built into every blog engine.

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Ajith Edassery | DollarShower · 1 year ago

Hey,
Thanks for disclosing your closely guarded secret :) A few notable omissions are feedsmith, all-in-one-seo, comment relish. Btw, please check out this new plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-com...

Cheers,
Ajith

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Ian · 1 year ago

Great List Andy. I am going to pass this along to my readers.

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Derek Clark · 1 year ago

Wow, great list. I am definitely going to add a few of these to my blog. Thanks.

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Vaibhav · 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this wonderful list.

I would also suggest
1.) FeedSmith which is useful if you wish to have better feed management and consolidate your feeds into one feed managed by Feedburner.
2.) WP- Popular Posts : Displays popular posts on your blog. Uses Wp-Stats

Cheers
Vaibhav

ethan · 1 year ago

Thanks for the list.

It was super helpful.

Dave F · 1 year ago

Thanks for the awesome round up Andy!

Here is my favorite ad managing plugin (Who Sees Ads?) http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress...

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Ness · 1 year ago

I'm so glad to have seen this list. Because it affirms for me that I've been labouring on the 'right track' and has filled in any gaps as well!

Thanks, info like this is really helpful.

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eric · 1 year ago

Fantastic list of plugins!!!

Btw, what plugin is being used in the right sidebar to get the 'fresh', 'popular', 'pilgrim's picks' posts?

Terry · 1 year ago

Yeah, you pretty well covered it I think. You have the nuts and bolts plugs and some cool bells and whistles plugs in that list.

I would agree that Headspace is a good on to add to the collection, but c'mon - where is HELLO DOLLY!

Like the Dolly.

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loy · 1 year ago

I have my own list of plugins:

The Best Wordpress Plugins for Blogging Newbies

http://loymeetsworld.com/2008/12/18/the-best-wo...

Check it out!

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hostingcoupons · 1 year ago

i preferred similar posts then related posts. and i would like also recommend seo slug, get recent comments, xml sitemap generator, seo friendly images, insights and popularity contest, they are great plugins.

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BlogPiG · 1 year ago

I'm a big fan of tags and use SimpleTags all the time to semi-automate my post tagging.

On blogs where I post remotely (via email) or simply want to posting run on autopilot (scheduled) I had my own TagPiG Autotagger plugin built, it works well but should be used with care.

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Andre · 1 year ago

This is a great list and also thanks for the others that also added some more. I use quite a few of these and they are awesome.

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eGruve.com · 1 year ago

Great list thank you very much .

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EzyBlogger · 1 year ago

Thanks andy... Some of the plugins I have never heard of before :)

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Debbie James · 1 year ago

I am in the process of changing to the self-hosted WP. Some of these plug-ins will be added. I had not heard of many of these. Thanks for the post!

Lindsay · 1 year ago

thanks for this list. I am going to check some of these out - I would love to get more comments.

One of the plugins that I have been using on a couple of blogs that is really helpful for generating some quick content is Postalicious - it takes my delicious links and makes a daily post. Has lots of options to customize the look of the posts.
http://neop.gbtopia.com/?p=108

I also really like draft notification - sends me an email when one of my other authors has saved a draft.
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/draft-notif...

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e-Patient Dave (deBronkart) · 1 year ago

The real-time previewer used on e-patients.net is wicked excellent. Aside from being cool, it FINALLY makes it easy to check my HTML, avoiding all kinds of forgotten stuff.

I don't know the plugin's name but if anyone begs I'll find out.

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Frank Merlott · 1 year ago

That is a great list and I will be adding some of those plugins to my site, but the most obvious which I think it is missing on that list is the Googlemaps plugin, it should come as a default with Wordpress but it doesn't. I highly reccomend it.

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Passion Parties by Alana · 1 year ago

Thanks! I've been looking for some good suggestions! I love the Comment Luv plug in!

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Hilmy · 1 year ago

This is a great list. About half of them I had not used.
To add to the list, I also love wp-super-cache, google analyticator, google sitemap generator, all-in-one SEO, auto tagger, better tag manager and internal link building. These are my "can't do withouts" :)

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Brian · 1 year ago

Smart Ads is the most interesting of these, love the idea of only showing ads to visitors coming into older posts. No Self Pings would come in handy as well.

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BloggerSavvy · 1 year ago

I particularly liked the commentluv and feedfooter plugins. I'd also suggest "Comment Approved Notifier" found here: http://www.yakupgovler.com/?p=291 and Subscribe2 found here: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/ Finally one real good plugin for twitter users who manage their blog is TwitMe found here: http://www.phpvrouwen.nl/twitme

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Outlet · 1 year ago

Pretty cool article. Thanks for sharing your tips!

Blogguebo · 1 year ago

This is just awesome list Andy. I just starting my new other WP blogs and surely will consider these cool plugins.

Thanks a bunch!

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NSJ · 1 year ago

What makes Wordpress so great is the plugins. For just about every plugin listed above, I can think of a viable alternative, some even better in certain circumstances.

Ken Acton · 1 year ago

Thanks for the list. There are some new ones there that sound useful for me to try. The redirection plugin in particular sounds really good to me.

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Breakline · 1 year ago

Andy,

Good stuff. I'm still learning the ropes. Being a new blogger I didn't realize I was using two different versions of Wordpress. Never knew there was a difference between wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org. Needless to say due to this blog I figured out why one would accept plugins and one doesn't.

Anyways a cool plugin I found was WP Cumulus

http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-r...

It's an animated tag cloud. Check it out in action on my blog

www.breaklinemarketing.com/blog

I'm still having issues with getting comments after a post. Ever dealt with this before? I can't find out how to enable them. Seems like it should be so simple.

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Jaydip Parikh · 1 year ago

This is realy practical list and very useful list for any blogger. Thanks for the same.

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Corey · 1 year ago

Thanks for the plugins. I've been looking everywhere for good ones and trying to filter out the ones that don't do it for me.

Any word if these are all compatible with the new 2.7?

edy · 1 year ago

Big thanks for decent list

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Dan · 1 year ago

WordPress.com Stats is another great plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ It gives better stats than Google Analytics.

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Alan Bleiweiss · 1 year ago

Great resource list Andy. I've had a number of these for a while. Til now I'd been using the WP export feature which is okay, but the backup plug-in is great!

I use Feedburner, so I have the Feedburner Feedsmith plug-in to help track things.

I also use the Subscribe-To-Comments plugin - it helps my subscribers stay informed. And for my ego, since my blog is not massively popular (yet), I have the WP-PostViews plugin that shows how many views each post has garnered. This one is a real bonus because Google Analytics shows only how many times someone has been to a page on the site, and doesn't show how many times someone has viewed a post through an RSS feed...

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Jennifer - YRP Jen · 1 year ago

Great info - I'm putting the Math Content Spam plug-in on my site right away!

Donna Maher · 1 year ago

Andy - That's also my son's name. :)

Thank you for sharing these awesome plugins - some I use, many I'm going to start using!

I didn't see anyone adding All-In-One-SEO but it's really a good one because it adds more SEO functionality.

Happy Holidays,

Donna

Adam · 1 year ago

That math content spam deal is a winner - Geez I hate that stuff! Thanks

Small Business Marketing · 1 year ago

Thanks for the list Andy. I use a few of them but I found some new and interesting ones here.

drivelocity · 1 year ago

I'm glad you posted the link to updated version of the Top Commentators plugin - I initially installed the one from wordpress.org and found that people could still hijack the links, even with Hijack Proof enabled. I ended up finding the one you linked to and updated mine today and posted about the fix.

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Bobbi Jo Woods · 1 year ago

Found your blog via a fellow Tweeter.

Great list, I plan to use a few of these, at least. I'm migrating from an MU Wordpress blog to my own domain and can't wait to see how some of these might help.

Thanks, Andy!

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Robbert · 1 year ago

I definitely going to install related posts and wp-email on my blog! Thanks for sharing!

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Clare · 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your plugins - I haven't heard of some of these and am off to investigate. Personally I don't set up a new WP site without All in One SEO and Amazon Reloaded. If you are an amazon affiliate it's the quickest way to add products to your blog without even logging into amazon!

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Gobala @ Profit Blogging Tips · 1 year ago

Great list. There's also a plugin that automatically shares the name and url of all the plugins you're actively using on your blog. Not sure what it's called but I came across it recently.

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Blogevolution2.0 · 1 year ago

This is absolutely awesome! I'm truly loving this, Thanks Andy I currently use a couple of those plugins and will be using a lot more thanks to you now.

Terry

Van · 1 year ago

Andy thanks for taking the time to put this list together. This is my first time to your site (by way of ProBlogger) and will definitely stop back by from time to time. I am new to blogging and WordPress and was only using a couple of plugins. I have pulled down around 10 so far to play with and already put some into production. So far the Post Teaser plugin is my favorite. Thanks again.

wisdom · 1 year ago

Again great list. I was inspired to add Matt Comment spam to my blog because of it.

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Anthony Arias · 1 year ago

Hi just found your blog as I'm new to blogging. This type of information is exactly what I need a one stop shop for the best plugins for my wordpress blog. As newcomer to internet marketing and blogging, I really appreciate this.

Anthony Arias
http://anthonyarias.net

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bradhart · 1 year ago

Thankfully you aren't pushing All in one SEO pack, as I have said more than once it is a set it and forget it flop that hurts more bloggers than it helps. It has become about as useful as spray on hair or the pocket fisherman.

I have used a lot of these in the past and some of them I still do. Despite using on average more than 60 plugins per blog, I am not a fan of duplication. I include as many functions as I can built into the theme where they tend to take up less cpu time. I use headspace 2 which eleminates the need for a great many other SEO plugins. You still have to do the work of writing a title tag, cleaning up your post slug, write your own page description, etc, but in the end this takes up about 2 extra minutes and you know it is done right.

Continuing on without duplication I like using sociable for my social media links but I have dropped other email and print plugins and just added them to the list of options from sociable. Another thing I recommend is adding the sociable css to your theme so you don't have to edit out the opacity level every time it is updated with new social networks.

I use a couple of related post plugins, but I only use them occassionally. I like to turn them on see what comes up and then hard code anchor texts for the links. I am really looking for a one I like that can be widgetized for some my blogs with older blogs with lots of content.

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Joe Lofshult · 1 year ago

These are great plugins and I'm testing out some of them on my sites. The wp-cache and FeedFooter plugins are the ones that have me the most excited right now, but I'm planning to test all of them. Thanks for the great information.

Charles Lamm · 1 year ago

Good article. I find a few more indispensible:

One Click Plugin Updater - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-p...

and

HeadSpace2 - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/

Charles Lamm

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Wii Fit · 1 year ago

Theme tester is my favourate plugin

John Robertson · 1 year ago

Nice list.. Been looking for a few of these!

Thanks

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Cynthia · 1 year ago

I will definitely try some of these out!

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Jens · 1 year ago

Thank you for this very nice list...

with kind Regards,

Jens ( Germany )

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p@r@noid · 1 year ago

Nice list and above all you tried explaining them ..!!!

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wpdigger · 1 year ago

Nice post. I love the way you explained each plugin. Got lot of knowledge here.

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julie · 1 year ago

great post. and you're right - now i need to read a lot of other posts on your site! glad i found you...

julie

Christopher · 1 year ago

I was aware of several of these, but I did find some that I had to install immediately. Thanks for the informative list.

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Thomas · 1 year ago

This is a fantastic list. The best one (I think) is CommentLuv!

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ViralWordpress · 12 months ago

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Franck Silvestre · 12 months ago

I didn't backup my blog, and I lost it. This backup plugin is awesome, it send a backup to your email address without you having to do nothing. It's a blog saver.

Guys, I lost a 2 years old blog, so Backup your blog!

Franck

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Malte Landwehr · 12 months ago

Err, are you sure that the "Force Word Wrapping" is correct? Looks more like a phpBB2 than a Wordpress plugin.

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Joseph "Giuseppe" Zuccaro · 12 months ago

Great list! Found five plugins I never used before!

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julie · 12 months ago

well i have to say i'm a bit disappointed. i was most interested in CommentLuv, but having left a comment here five days ago, CommentLuv has not picked up a headline from my blog, despite the fact that it has worked for other bloggers who have commented. :( and yes, it's enabled below, and yes, i entered my website url above.

julie

bradhart · 12 months ago

Julie if your comment is not picked up automatically it is one of two things. First It can be the blog you you leave a comment on. There are half a dozen things things than can stop it from communicating with your blog. This happens a small percentage of the time, but it almost always happens to every comment left over a long period of time. The more likely scenario is it is your blog that is the problem. commentLuv goes looking for your feed. if you direct your feeds away with feedburner and other such services and don't leave traditional rss/atom feeds in place it can affect your blogs ability to communicate with commentLuv. There are also a number of plugins that interfere with commentLuv getting your feed. Last but not least there are a lot of servers that are too slow to feed commentLuv. If you don't see a comment instantly then you won't get see one ever.

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SEO Pakistan, Karachi · 11 months ago

Great Incomings

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Bill M · 11 months ago

A good one also is the 404 Not Found Google Search that was not on the list from AskApache.

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Christine · 11 months ago

Great list -- very practical, and lots of good plugins in the comments as well! I am happily plugging away, now.

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SEO Googles (Tigis) · 11 months ago

wow, thx for the list. Actually I've been searching for this kind of list. One plugin that I've been searching is top comentator. It's a simple way to attract many comments :)

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Maureen · 11 months ago

Thank you so much for this post! I just had been looking at several of these plugins, but didn't quite understand what they did (yes, I'm a newbie blogger). I wish they had summaries like yours on the description pages. Something like, "For those of you who only understand plain English, this is what this plug-in does."

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Shirley · 11 months ago

Very good list. I couldn't live without Akismet, WP-Cache, and Subscribe to comments. And I've just added CommentLuv and, well, I love it! haha.

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Andy Beal · 11 months ago

@Maureen - happy to help. Good luck with your blog!

SEO Pakistan, Karachi · 11 months ago

I am using Akmisat, Ad rotater, Bookmarks, Sphinn, URL FREINDLY tag etc.

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Adam · 11 months ago

I wanted to share an easy way to Google Optimzer tests.

http://www.impressionengineers.com/wordpress/ea...

Genel kultur · 11 months ago

i use wordpress before. i think all of the the plugin listed upper is good but Akismet is some times creates problems .For example it sometimes filter qualified comments.

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Oliver · 11 months ago

This is a really nice list! Congrats! I will try out Theme Tester. Could be very handy.

Greets,
Oliver

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ClickBank Bonus Domination · 11 months ago

Woah! I was looking for most of this plugins :)

Thank you so much!

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Simon Sigurdhsson · 11 months ago

Don't forget the excellent tweetback plugin: http://yoast.com/wordpress/tweetbacks/

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Tibor · 11 months ago

Nice list!

I posted a list of 5 on my blog recently, of which MyCustomWidget and Widgets Reloaded come in very handy.

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Mike · 11 months ago

Thanks for this post. I searched Google for this! I personally love CommentLuv!!

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Kaierlino · 11 months ago

Awesome list.
Basically, about 18 of all of them i install in every new blog :D

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Peter Mitchell · 11 months ago

Thanks for this list.
I never even knew half of these existed.
It will most definitely come in handy.

Jeremy · 11 months ago

This is awesome...THANKS!

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Mark · 11 months ago

There are some great plug-ins listed here which I'll definitely be checking out! Thanks.

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Wii · 11 months ago

Thanks for the list, I currently use about 13 of these plugins and have never heard of 4 of them so will definitely be research them to see if they can help me in my quest

diet zone · 11 months ago

These are great plugins..

Website Marketing · 11 months ago

Installing math comment spam right now from the plugins article - great post indeed.

Ali Hussain · 11 months ago

I disagree that Askimnet is the best Anti-Spam Software. I really adore WP-SpamFree. Try it and use it. Really works

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audiostein · 11 months ago

Great list! Thanks.

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Marnie · 11 months ago

CommentLuv and Related Posts are two of my must haves!

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ayodeji · 10 months ago

The first key in creating the best online business is to help you identify a niche that you can work in. this can be a bit tricky but you must make sure that it has a few characteristics. First, you will want the subject to be something that you are interested in hopefully.

Rudi · 10 months ago

Great info. For SEO I use Headspace2.

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Kimberly Spencer · 10 months ago

That was a wonderful read, thanks for sharing. We just started a blog ourselves and I'm a complete newbie at this so kudos for such a good job on your blog! :-)

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Colleen · 10 months ago

Hi Andy,

Just wondering if you've ever checked out Apture. We are a small company that is trying to create a rich media experience for readers of the web, and we have a plugin for WordPress too. You can check out examples of how to use Apture on our website, and it's free to sign up!

Please feel free to let me know if you have feedback or questions about our app.

Cheers!

Seth · 10 months ago

Thanks for great plug-ins. I am definitely going to have to use a couple of them. Who knew there were so many useful plug-ins available for wordpress

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Mike · 10 months ago

Whoah, thanks for the write up on all the great plug-ins, there was few there that I never new existed and I thank you for turning me on to them.

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EDELE KELLY AT SOLO · 10 months ago

Thankyou for your article! Am very glad you decided to release your secrets to the masses! I have taken notes and hopefully start the action. It was very useful and much appreciated :)

J. Rocker · 10 months ago

This Plugin is absolutely amazing!I don't know what I would do without it. Nice post! I'm Going to try ad rotator next.

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Type Approval · 10 months ago

Thanks for the great lists...i will try some of them

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kampanye damai pemilu indonesi · 9 months ago

Thanks for the great plugin. I’m Going to try Theme Tester, because I often mutually themes