Comments on: Which WordPress Plugins Do You Use?

By: moving quotes

moving quotes — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:51:00 +0000

Over my head….do you have a resource to learn the ABCs of blogging. I guess WordPress is a good choice, but why? I wonder.

Anywasys, great post,….I have bookmarked it.

Nick

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:06:15 +0000

It has to be the ‘All In One SEO Plugin.’

I’m just starting blogging and about three days ago I started to changed on of my sites http://www.vegetarian-worldwide.com from a standard site to a blog and I’m adding one or two pages that I have each day. Today I added a recipe ‘American Blueberry Toast,’ and just 18 minutes later it ranked No.1 in Google!

I’ve tried a number of the other pages I have and they are also ranking on the first and second page.

Recommendation: get All In One SEO plugin today (well not if you’re running a vegetarian site :) )

Kevin

By: internet branding

internet branding — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:40:07 +0000

1.All in one SEO pack
2.Permalink redirect
3.Akismet
4.Enforce www preference
5.Google sitemap

These are the essentials.

By: hip hop videos

hip hop videos — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:26:22 +0000

Related posts, audio player, post ratings, post views and seo all in one plugin <- very very useful!

I also use Windows Live Writer to write all my posts, incredibly useful if you’re like me and hate logging in the wp-admin interface all the time.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:55:33 +0000

I use seo pack, related posts, xml sitemap, do follow, popular etc…

By: Joshua Clanton

Joshua Clanton — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:56:50 +0000

David Airey mentioned a bit further up in the comments that the Seth Godin plugin will often give you the welcome text even after the first time you visit. This isn’t a bug with the plugin, but an option that you can configure.

By default the welcome message will show up 3 times, but you can go into the plugin options and change this to any number that you want. (Well, any positive integer anyway. :-) )

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:35:27 +0000

Great list. Here is my list of my favorite plugins, but some of them interfere with each other, so I have a page on my blog that is powered by WP-PluginsUsed - a great plugin to list all the plugins that are enabled, and disabled! Thanks for the list

By: neil khakheria

neil khakheria — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:34:50 +0000

Thanks for the info.

I use SEO title tag, alongside editing the permalinks to %postname%. Great SEO advantages.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:55:10 +0000

This is a great list Darren. But as wordpress plugins are always evolving was wondering if you could do another list in the near future with all the latest greatest.
Would be appreciated!
Cheers

By: javed khalil

javed khalil — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:05:58 +0000

Problogger is best.
Here is my list.

http://javedkhalil.com/techBlog/wordpress-essential-plugins-widgets-spice-up-blogging-experience/

Thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:44:41 +0000

I see that you use the Share This plugin on your blog Darren, but have the sharing options on a separate page, instead of as a drop down AJAX box.

Is there a reason you chose to do it this way?

I just installed it on my blog, and was wondering which way you would recommend?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:19:44 +0000

Thanks for the post and for your prompt response to the question I emailed last week.

As you know from my question last week I am considering moving to WordPress. Actually I’ve decided to, it’s just a matter of when and how now. This post I’m sure will prove to be very valuable to me.

By: Satish Talim

Satish Talim — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:14:02 +0000

Some other plug-ins I use are -
404 Notifier
Add Sig
Adhesive
Text Link Ads

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:10:39 +0000

Mark, could you elaborate on your replacement approach to the WWSGD plugin? I’d be interested to know what solution you came up with.

Thanks for the tip on Comment Relish, I hadn’t heard of that one yet.

By: Mark McGuire

Mark McGuire — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:55:34 +0000

I have used the What Would Seth Goodin Use before and it did not do anything for me so I tried a different approach, just the same concept but without the annoying box by using my own Feedburner and my readership went up.

I use these plugisn

Askimet
All in One SEO
Articles (Top 5)
Google Analytics (Top 5)
If You Like That… (Top 5)
wp-cache (Top 5)
Wordpress Report
Language Translator (Top 5)
Comment Relish

The last one, Comment Relish, has really made a bigger difference than the Seth Goodin plugin because it sends out a thank you email note to those who comment and those people have returned to my website more than once…

By: Jason Tucker

Jason Tucker — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:15:35 +0000

Wow, some great lists here. I’m going to have to try a bunch of these. Here’s my list:

- Advanced TinyMCE Editor
- Akismet
- All in one SEO
- Enforce www. Preference
- Feedburner Feedsmith
- Google Sitemaps
- NoFollow Free
- Sociable
- Subscribe to Comments
- Ultimate Tag Warrior

By: Bull3t

Bull3t — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:38:45 +0000

Here is my list:

Akismet
Code Extractr
Contact Form 7
Comment Relish
Category Tagging
Dofollow
Exec-PHP
Enhanced Widgets
FeedBurner FeedSmith
FireStats
Google XML Sitemaps
Gregarious
iMP Portfolio
Improved Include Page
iMP Download
Notations
Post Footer
Plugins Used Plugin
Reinvigorate
Redirection
Subscribe To Comments
Simple Spoiler Enhanced
SparkStats
Search Engine Optimisation Pack
Show Top Commentators
Ultimate Google Analytics
WordPress Database Backup
WP-Untexturize
WP AJAX Edit Comments
What Would Seth Godin Do
WP-PostRatings
WP-PostViews
WP-Stats Widget
WP-Stats
WP-Sticky

See the updated list here: http://blog.bull3t.me.uk/about/statistics/plugins/.

By: JerkyBeef

JerkyBeef — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:47:26 +0000

Great post Darren,

This blog site is still one of my favorites.

plug-ins:
1. All SEO in One
2. Adsense Deluxe
3. Feedburner Feed
4. Popularity Contest
5. Google Sitemap
6. Akismet
7. Technorati Tag Bunny
8. Search Meter
9. Better Comments Manager

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:06:51 +0000

I use several of the plugins listed but what I am really interested in knowing is if there are any tools/ tricks which can tell you which plugins a given site uses. This would more likely be something along the lines of a Firefox extension (e.g. WASP – which tells users the analytics package(s) a site uses – or Web Developer – which gives you a whole host of tools including seeing the CSS a page uses) than a plugin. If this does exist, it woudl be an extremely useful tools for new blogger to identify and discover useful plugins.

By: Serge

Serge — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:02:28 +0000

So far, I’m not using any WP plugin yet. I’ll have a look at the list mentioned in this article. It makes me curious.