In front of every great Wordpress blog, there is a great Wordpress theme. Behind every great Wordpress blog, there are a set of highly functional, efficient and effective Wordpress plugins. This ultimate list of quality Wordpress plugins includes them all.
The ultimate SEO solution for your Wordpress blog, Platinum SEO pack does everything All In One SEO can do plus a few extra features. If you’re still using the outdated All In One SEO Wordpress plugin, I recommend switching.
From the author: “You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings > Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of Page rank or google penalty.Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO.”
Redirection manages your 301 redirects, automatically adding redirections for URL / permalink changes. Redirection also tracks 404 errors and allows you to setup custom redirects for any file within your Wordpress installation.
Visible at the bottom of this post, Sociable is a clean social bookmarking plugin for your blog.
From the author: “Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!”
The realtime stat program of choice for wp-admin blog statistics, StatPress Reloaded provides accurate realtime tracking of unique visitors, pageviews, spiders, rss feeds, referring sites, search engine keywords and more.
A fantastic plugin for displaying comment excerpts in your sidebar. Much nicer than the default Wordpress widget, you can see WP-RecentComments in action on our sidebar. Highly customizable, fits in with all theme designs.
An absolutely necessity for all Wordpress installations, Google XML Sitemaps plugin for Wordpress automatically generates a standards-compliant sitemap for your blog and notifies Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and MSN Live Search about changes via ping.
Easily switch your Wordpress RSS feed links with FeedBurner links. FeedBurner provides statistics about your RSS feeds and makes it easier for people to subscribe to you.
From the author: “SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.”
There’s nothing more convenient and relieving than knowing your Wordpress database will be backed up and emailed to you everyday. A quick check through the options page and you’re good to go. A must have.
Suggests tags for your posts. Simple, and useful.
A simple contact form generator, used on our Contact page. Why Contact Form 7? It’s simple, clutter free, can be set up in minutes, supports CAPTCHA, is filtered by Askimet and is easily customizable. Sold. Used on The Theme Blog’s About page.
A given on all Wordpress installations. If you haven’t bothered to sign up here for your API key, do it now. Once your website starts getting indexed in search engines and gains backlinks, the spam starts coming. Askimet cuts down on comment / trackback spam hard. Why not? It’s free.
Reduces traffic load on your server by converting your posts and pages to static .html files. Recommended for underpowered servers or periods of heavy traffic.
Extensive download monitor / manager for Wordpress.
Easily and efficiently manage your 125×125 advertisments with this plugin. Used on The Theme Blog’s sidebar, WP125 provides a simple admin panel system for creating new ad campaigns, setting a time for removal and reviewing click statistics.
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13 Comments
Great list of plugins… I use 9 of them on my site
Great list….I want to check out the Statpress Reloaded…..
thanks for this useful plugins list, its very helpful for me.
Word, I use about half of these. Thanks for the heads up about the Platinum SEO pack.
Hi,
will keep these in mind when starting a new blog, I didnt know a few.
Great list!
Excellent list. It’s a good idea even for people who have been blogging for awhile to revisit their list of plugins. Thanks!
Woah nice, just started out with WP and most of these (bar the ads, im sworn off on site advertising) look extremely useful.
Hi,
Great list, I will be chacking out some of these.
Thankyou.
Ken
Instead of Platinum SEO Pack I recommend wpSEO, it has much more features and it free for private blogs. Try it out http://wpseo.org
And instead Akismet, try out the brand new Antispam Bee http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/antispam-bee/
Spam is history and no need to check if there are some false positives in your spam list.
A good list but sadly the majority of them haven’t been tested with WP 2.7
I personally use all of the above plugins, all are 100% functional.
Nice List !
I have found another great plugin:
“TargetDomain Analyzer” which is quite a compleete domain analisis tool like domaintools.com for your wordpress blog. Shows WHOIS, SE popularity and much more … (There is also a Joomla version available).
See: http://resource.targetdomain.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=86&func=fileinfo&id=8
Thanks for the list,
Checked all plug inns,
worked with wp 2.7.