Great WordPress Plugins You Must Check Out!
One of the things that separates WordPress from other blogging platforms is that it is open source. There are many benefits that go along with this. The main one is the plethora of plugins available to save you time, help you earn money, and organize your online business. You can easily add functionality to your sites without programming experience and this makes the entire WordPress platform flexible.
I often get asked what plugins I use on my WordPress blogs and sites, so I thought I’d make a list of the main ones I use. I don’t use them all on every site, but here are the best ones I’ve found.
Advertising manager – Control and organize your advertising and referral blocks on your WordPress blog.
Akismet – How to Spam Protector
All-in-one SEO package – SEO out of the box for your WordPress blog
music player – Audio Player is a highly configurable yet simple mp3 player for all your audio needs.
cbnet ping optimizer – Prevents your WordPress blog from being tagged as a ping spammer
Contact form 7 – Contact form plugin. Simple flexible goal.
embedded video – Easy embedding of videos from various portals or local video files with the corresponding link.
Embed QuickTime – Embed QuickTime movies in blog posts easily.
extended profile – Detect and import hCard data on new users, extended data for user profiles, easy hCard generation.
FasterIM Opt-In: Free Version – FasterIM Opt-In will show a popup opt-in form to your visitor.
Embed FLV – Standards compliant FLV embedding in your blog posts using SWFObject
Free Traffic Get SEO PluginTM 2.0 – find the best SEO plugins available for WordPress and then optimize their settings so you don’t have to.
GoCodes – Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the Internet, right from your WordPress admin.
Going up! network analyst – Web Analytics is an advanced website visitor and traffic analytics application that provides comprehensive visitor activity as well as search engine optimization and site ranking.
Google Analyzer – Add the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap that will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
HeadSpace2 – Metadata manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, style sheets, and many other goodies.
KB Robots.txt – Manage your robots.txt file from within WordPress.
MaxBlogPress Unlockable Popup – MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup generates a custom popup to boost your WordPress blog.
more fields – Add any number of additional fields, in any number of additional boxes in the admin.
openxwpwidget – Sidebar-Widget, displays a banner in a sidebar and replaces {openx:zoneid} magic with calls to an openx adserver.
Link Manager Page – Adds an administration panel to choose which pages appear in the site navigation.
Permanently moved permalinks – When the permalink is not found, this checks if a post with the requested slug exists elsewhere on your blog.
Platinum SEO Package – Complete SEO solution for your WordPress blog.
share this – Allow your visitors to share a post/page with others. Supports email and posting to social bookmarking sites.
Simple CAPTCHA – A simple captcha system for the comment system to prevent spam.
Sociable – Automatically add links in your posts, pages and RSS feeds to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
TinyMCE Advanced – Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.
Wish List Member – WishList Member is the most comprehensive membership plugin for WordPress users. It allows you to create multiple membership levels, protect desired content, and much more.
WP-DB Administrator – Manage your WordPress database. It allows you to optimize the database, repair the database, backup the database, restore the database, drop the backup database, drop/empty tables, and run selected queries.
WordPress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
Hope you find these useful..
For your success!