This post is a tribute to the WordPress plugins I use. Since I have no html, php and (?) knowledge I heavily depend on plugins for adding extra functionality to Wordpress. My Thesis theme has some of the very important plugins like “All in one SEO Pack” and “Google Analytics” built-in .
- Akismet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not
- Broken Link Checker – Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found
- cforms – formsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog
- FeedBurner FeedSmith – this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber
- Recommended Reading – Pulls shared items from your Google Reader account for display in sidebar or elsewhere. Includes sidebar widget
- Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
- Thesis OpenHook – This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into the many hooks that the Thesis Theme Framework provides
- What Would Seth Godin Do – Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors
- Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog
- NextGEN Gallery – A full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option
- WordPress.com Stats – You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system
- WordPress.com Popular Posts – Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin
- Wordpress Gravatars – Makes use of Gravatars (…) in the comments section. Uses the comment authors email to display their Gravatar
- Wordpress Thread Comment – wp thread comment allow user can reply comment and same comment On display
- WP-DownloadManager – Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog
- Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible
- Sociable – Automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites to your posts, pages and RSS feed
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more
- Simple Tags – The successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to perfectly manage your WP tags
Are these the best plugins? Do you still use any of them?
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The Thesis theme absolutely does not have All in One SEO Pack built into it.
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Jan Scherders
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July 14th, 2009 at 12:59
no, maybe not. I am not an expert, but as far as I know most SEO functionality is built-in
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Hi,
I use a lot of the plugins you wrote about it.
Plus:
- IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website.
- OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds
Cheers,
roberto
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Great post – Just subscriped to your RSS feed.. Thanks
Very interesting post – Might be old new, but it was new to me. Thanks.http://mubseo.com
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