Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Best Wordpress Plugins Roundup

by Michael T.

Best Wordpress Plugins Roundup

While working with Wordpress to impliment our site, we came across many plugins that we recommend checking out if you are using Wordpress for a Blog or for a CMS (Content Managmenet System). And here is one rule to always practice – backup, backup, backup. Have fun blogging.

Add to Any: Subscribe Button

Lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader.


Akismet

One of the default plugin that arrives with wordpress but you must activate it. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” We consider this, the best spam prevention plugin.


All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).


Bookmark Me

A simple and light plugin to add social bookmarks (even non english) buttons to post and pages.


Broken Link Checker

Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.


Custom Field Images

Easily manage and display images anywhere using custom fields. Good for adding an image to your excerpts.


Easy Gravatars

Add Gravatars (image icons) to your comments, without requiring any modifications to your theme files. Just activate, and you’re done!


flickrRSS

This plugin allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams. The plugin is relatively easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server.

Global Translator

Automatically translates a blog in 34 different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian,…) by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt). Give options for turning off languages you think you do not need and best part, it shows an image link (flags) instead of text links for translation.


Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. This is a must have if you want your blog to move up on the Google index. Highly recommended.

NextGEN Gallery

A NextGENeration Photo gallery. Want to build a gallery of photo with ease and style? In our opinion this is the best.

Register Plus

Enhances your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more.


Search Unleashed

Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.

SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.


Subscribe2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog. Plaintext excerpt, plaintext full post or HTML full post.

WordPress.com Stats

Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

WordPress Database Backup*

WP-DB-Backup allows you to easily backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. * Highly recommended.


WP-DownloadManager

Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.


WP Ajax Edit Comments

Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments.

WP e-Commerce

The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. Works with many IPNs including Paypal & Google Checkout.

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December 1, 2008
Farmi Lawrence

A nice list you have here and a great site. Do you know of a plugin for wordpress that play mp3 files? Let me know?


December 3, 2008
Marquis

Nice set of Wordpress Plugins you are featuring here, I have been looking for some of these…

Farmi: Here are a few links to Wordpress Mp3 players, you can give them a try and see how they work for you.

Audio Player Wordpress plugin
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

Inline mp3 player
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inline-mp3-player/

Tag: mp3 player
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/mp3-player


December 3, 2008

1PixelOut has the best one I’ve seen yet. I used it on the http://thechisholmsource.com along with ‘Sermon Browser’ http://www.4-14.org.uk/sermon-browser
See them working here: http://thechisholmsource.com/audio/

Get the mp3 player here: http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/


December 4, 2008

Nice list! Thought I’d also let you know about Kaltura’s All in One Video Pack for WordPress blogs. This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists, sidebar showing all recent videos posted and video comments and much more. Check it out and download it here: http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?general&campaign=wordpress-comments. Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4


December 13, 2008

This is what I need.. I have some of this plugin and I will try the WP backup and register plus to enhace my new blog..

thanks!


December 30, 2008

Happy to be of service. Hope the WP backup works for you. I seem to be having some problems with it since I upgraded to WP 2.7 but, it's a very good plugin. Hopefully there will be an update soon to correct the problems I am having.


February 5, 2009

wonderful helpful plugins thanks..

http://www.joyoge.com/story.php?title=best-wordpr...


February 7, 2009

I would like to add a photo gallery to my wordpress blog where zip files are listed along with the photo for large wallpaper downloads. Any suggestions?


February 8, 2009

Thanks for the tips!


February 7, 2009
Michael T.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a plugin for that now. I accomplished it by using two plugins and Dreamweaver (web page building program) The Two plugins I use is NextGEN Gallery and WP-Download Manager. I layout my page with a width that equals the with of my blogs page area. So that when I place the page into Wordpress it does not overlap into the sidebar area. Create the page using tables. I use 4 columns and 7 rows. Your page may hold more or less depending on the size of your icons

Create Medium size icons of your wallpapers and upload them to the NextGEN gallery, zip your large wallpapers files and upload them to Wp-Download Manager.

In your web page you must now enter the code for a singlepic and your download in each grid.
Example:

[singlepic=688,151,111]  – This will show the small thumbnail for the Medium size icon with code 688, The other two numbers determines the width and height of the thumbnail.

[download id=103] – this will show the download link for the zip you uploaded with code 103

The plugins will give each item a code after they are uploaded.

When you are done laying out your page, copy the body html code ( Everything from <body> to </body>
Make a new post and paste the html code into it.

That's it.

See Sample here: http://inspiks.com/2008/09/30/wallpapers-pg1/


February 9, 2009

Nice list… one plugin you might consider – if you haven't used it, is the admin panel CSS menu plugin. It is pretty awesome and saves a lot of time using the back end.


February 10, 2009

That is a nice plugin, love that it enables you to change the colors of the interface :o )

http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-a...


February 10, 2009

Yah, the first thing I do when I set up a blog is install that plugin. I hate the standard menu – both pre and post 2.7.


February 21, 2009
piyush

gr8 idea for plugin,i used it…its very useful
thnx


February 26, 2009

Thanks for the list, I'm looking for all the good plugins I can find for my new membership site run by WP.


June 7, 2009

wow, a very good list for all the plugins, thx.



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