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My top 10 favorite wordpress plugins
Here is a quick round up of my favorite wordpress plugins, and those I deem essential for a successful wordpress blog. All of these plugins I personally use, and recommend to others, so improve your blog today and check them all out!
- Number 10. Google (XML) Sitemaps – Google sitemaps is great for letting google know where your pages are so It can index your site more efficiently. But who wants to site their telling google where all your posts are? Thats where this plugin comes in handy, it generates an XML sitemap of your blog and submits it to google automatically. Great bit of kit.
- Number 9. Feedburner Feed Replacement – Feedburner is a great RSS feed publishing tool, and this plugin makes it a hell-of-a-lot easier to link the wordpress feed to your feedburner account.
- Number 8. SEO Title Tag – Changes page titles on your pages and posts to make them more search engine friendly.
- Number 7. Sociable – Shows nice little icons in your posts to allow users to submit them to social bookmarking sites, in turn leading to more hits for you in the long run!
- Number 6. Ultimate Tag Warrior – A behemoth of a plugin. Lets you tag posts to make them easy to find by visitors. Also lets you display tags in lists and clouds which is a very nice feature.
- Number 5. Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form – Hmm i wonder who wrote this plugin… eh-hem Forgetting I wrote this this plugin with Mike Cherim, it really is a wonderful bit of kit. I was using his contact forms well before we made this plugin, the plugin just makes adding a contact form to your blog a piece of cake. And with its unique anti-spam and security features, it really is a good deal.
- Number 4. Adsense-Deluxe – I like having adsense ads in my posts, *hopefully* to get me a little income for my hard work. Without this plugin I would have to copy and paste adsense code everywhere, which is boring and inefficient. With this plugin you just insert a simple tag into your posts (e.g.
<!--adsense-->
) and voila, adsense appears. Magic.
- Number 3. Popularity Contest – This plugin tracks your post views etc to work out their popularity. A posts popularity is shown at the bottom of a post. Another great feature is the ability to show the most popular posts in a list, look at my sidebar to see this in action.
- Number 2. Paged Comments – Have popular posts? Have lots of comments? Have stupidly long pages because of this? This plugin is for you, it allows you to have comment pagination to show less on a page at once.
- Number 1. SRG Clean Archives – Makes your archives easy to view and use. I absolutely adore this plugin, it really is an essential plugin for your blog.
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Anthony Brewitt says:
I’ll back the Accessible contact form its a cracking well thought out plugin, and the ultimate tag warrior which is very versatile. Good list!
Comment made on March 2, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Mike Cherim says:
Sweet. I’ve been seeing our contact form pop up on all sort of top plugin lists. I think the world has had it with spam so making it was a salvation to many.
The paged comments plugin sounds very useful. Hopefully I’ll need it some day
Comment made on March 2, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Devon Young says:
SRG Clean Archives sounds interesting. Nice list.
Comment made on March 10, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Elias says:
Ultimate Tag Warrior is out of date. The Simple Tagging Plugin is really better. Do you know it? (http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/simple-tagging-plugin/)
Comment made on March 16, 2007 at 7:22 pm
heriyanto binduni says:
yes, i agree The Simple Tagging Plug in work better then Ultimate Tag Warrior.
Comment made on March 19, 2007 at 8:37 am
Anthony brewitt says:
You have started a domino effect now, my list differs greatly to yours – Here’s my Top ten WordPress plugins
Comment made on March 26, 2007 at 9:19 am
Marc says:
Nice list, the others i found online are a bit outdated, but yours is getting me up to speed with this specific publishing platform really quickly.
Thanks!
Comment made on June 22, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Karen Bryan says:
I recently wrote about the 10 WordPress plugins that I found most useful for my blog:
http://www.businessblogboost.com/2007/07/09/top-ten-wordpress-plugins-for-your-blogs/
However I may have to change that to 11 now I’ve discovered the Stats plugin:
http://www.businessblogboost.com/2007/07/28/how-to-use-wordpress-stats-to-improve-your-blog/
Comment made on July 28, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Watcher says:
Thank you! Nice list. After read use SRG Clean Archives plugin. Very like.
Comment made on August 2, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Mosey says:
The Clean Archives page doesn’t seem to give much info about what it does >_
Comment made on September 3, 2007 at 10:07 am
Michael says:
Nice list, the others i found online are a bit outdated, but yours is getting me up to speed with this specific publishing platform really quickly.
Thanks!
Comment made on September 22, 2007 at 12:59 am
Hanson So says:
I really like this! Sitemaps ARE one of the best ways to get indexed, and it’s also my favorite when doing blogs.
Comment made on October 11, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Jimm says:
Thanks for such a great list of plugins!!
Comment made on November 19, 2007 at 8:39 am
Free Money Maker says:
Thanks for this great list.
Comment made on November 29, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Dirkut says:
Thanks for a nice list but you are missing some of the top wordpress plugins.
Take a look here for my list http://www.dirkut.com/top-wordpress-plugins/
Comment made on December 14, 2007 at 2:07 pm
gnamusic says:
nice, boz thx for the plugins …. i will try
Comment made on December 25, 2007 at 10:05 am
Eric says:
Great list. I’ll give them a go!
Comment made on January 5, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Sue says:
Is there a plugin to set up a contact form with my autoresponder?
Sue
Comment made on February 11, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Squeaky says:
SRG Clean Archives looks like a nice plugin, but your link goes to a 404 page. I will do a search in Google and see if I can locate the plugin.
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Lee says:
I just put together a list of my own. Take a look! http://www.wuhangotyouall.com/2008/07/11/my-favorite-wp-plug-ins/
Comment made on July 11, 2008 at 7:00 pm
ccspic says:
Adsense-Deluxe is really gives comfort
Comment made on July 19, 2008 at 10:30 pm
George Serradinho says:
A nice list but what about adding some plugin for database backups and so on. I think backing up your database is N.B.
Comment made on March 19, 2009 at 7:26 am