70 Best Wordpress Plugins to Supercharge your Blog
There are quite literally thousands and thousands of WordPress plugins out there. Well, here is a list of my top 70 plugins, most of which I have used on some blog or another at one time or another. Enjoy
WordPress SEO Plugins
- Google XML Sitemaps Generator – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
- All In One Seo Pack – Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog.
- Enforce www. Preference – This plugin will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
- Quick META Keywords – The Quick META Keywords Wordpress Plugin will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post on your wordpress blog. The keywords will be derived from the categories under which the article is categorized.
- Broken Link Checker – A plugin for WordPress that checks your posts for broken links, and lets you know if any are found.
- SEO Friendly Images – automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes
- Robots Meta – the easiest way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages
- Redirection - helps you manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have
- Homepage Excerpts – Easily show only excerpts on the home page, thus minimizing duplicate content issues
Plugins which Help Fight Spam:
- Akismet – Akismet is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
- Bad Behavior – Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.
- Comment Timeout – closes comments on old posts on your blog. It takes into account ongoing discussions by allowing you to keep comments open for longer if you have recently had any comments.
Plugins which encourage Comments:
- DoFollow Plugin – strips the nofollow tag from all links in comments.
- Lucia’s Linky Love – Similar to the above plugin, but gives you more control over dofollow / nofollow options.
- Commentluv – This plugin will automatically show a link to a commentators last blog post inside their comment.
- Top Commentators Plugin – Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names (linked to their website if desired) and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
- KeywordLuv – Reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website, giving them improved anchor text.
Other Comment Related Plugins:
- WP-Gravatar – This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments.
- Edit Comments XT Plugin – A simple WordPress plugin that allows commentators to edit their own comments.
- Comment Karma – A plugin that allows users to rate or moderate other users comments. You can click thumbs up or down, and it will give them a positive or negative number.
- Highlight Author Comments – Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files.
- Comment Relish – Sends a customized email to first time commentators on your blog.
- OpenID – allows users to leave authenticated comments using OpenID.
- WP Grins – provides clickable smilies for both the post form in the admin interface and the comments form.
- Riffly Webcam Video Comments – Bring some spice to your page by allowing audio / video comments.
Administrative and Stats Plugins
- Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – The lazy and the productive will love it, all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu.
- Ajaxed WordPress – An extremely powerful plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and WordPress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any WordPress based blog.
- pageMash – Customise the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output.
- MyFTP WordPress Plugin – Manage files on your server from within WordPress. WordPress administrators no longer need to rely on using a stand alone FTP client to edit, delete, upload and create files and folders.
- TinyMCE Advanced – This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor
- Dashboard Editor – This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the WordPress dashboard through PHP and HTML
- Manageable – A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections
- One Click Plugin Updater – Let’s you easily update and install plugins, with a single click.
- WordPress.com Stats – provides statistics about your visitors.Requires API key.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
- Maintenance Mode Plugin – Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
Database Plugins
- WP-DB-Backup – Plugin allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables.
- WP Super Cache – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
Advertising/Donation Plugins
- AdSense-Deluxe – AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.
- Buy Me a Beer – allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin is widget enabled.
- AdRotator – A plugin which lets you easily rotate between different ads specified in a text file.
- WP125 – A 125×125 ad management solution for Wordpress
Image, Audio and Video Related Plugins
- NextGEN Gallery – A full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option
- Featured Content Gallery – Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Note: not compatible with WordPress 2.8.
- Flickr Gallery – allows you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your WordPress pages and posts.
- Audio Player – allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages
- Smart YouTube – allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – easily embed videos from sites like youtube, metacefe, dailymotion etc.
Post, Category and Tag related Plugins
- Popularity Contest – Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular
- WP-PostViews – Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
- Simple Tags – The perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP tags
- sCategory Permalink – Plugin allows to select category which will be used to generate permalink on post edit page.
Navigation Related plugins
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – displays a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site
- WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
- Custom Query String – lets you set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website.
- Pixopoint Multi-level Navigation Plugin – The plugin generates the code necessary to create a horizontal dropdown, vertical flyout or horizontal slider menu.
- Yoast Breadcrumbs – This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme.
Social Bookmarking and Twitter Plugins
- Sociable – Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
- ShareThis – lets your visitors add your post to various social bookmarking sites. Note: not compatible with WordPress 2.8
- Add To Any – Helps readers share, save, and bookmark your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and all the rest
- Digg This – automatically displays a digg this button in posts.
- Twitter Tools – creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
- WP-Email – Allows people to send your WordPress blog’s post to a friend.
- TweetMeme Button – integrates the TweetMeme button which easily allows your blog to be retweeted
- WP Twitip ID – Adds a field for twitter user names in the comment form
RSS Feed Plugins
- FD Feedburner – Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com.
- Feed Footer – allows you to add footers under all your blog posts in your RSS feed
Miscellaneous Plugins
- WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog
- Contact Form 7 – A simple but flexible contact form plugin
- Global Translator – automatically translates your blog into 41 languages.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:39 am
LOVELY, Thank you!!!
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August 10th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Nice list, thanks, I will be checking some of these plugins in the future.
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August 11th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Very nice awesome cool List!
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August 11th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
wonderful plugin list, thanks for share..
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August 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Amazing! Thank you! Will definitely be checking some of these out on my blog!
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August 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
An excellent list, thank you! I’ll make good use of this
Lee
UK Music Jobs
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August 21st, 2009 at 1:55 am
wow.. i loved them all.. thanks for sharing
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August 22nd, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Hey there,
Thanks for the great list! Very useful.
- Dan
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August 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 am
Hi, Tanay
Could you please help me, as I am new to wordpress. I am planning to get a good domain and a best for wordpress. As I am impressed by your WP Plugin collections, I want your suggestions for as to which plugins are suitable for me. Coz I am a newbie and don’t know anything about SEO/SEM. Thanks.
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August 25th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Thank you about this topic. I check everthing
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
great list! thankyou ^_^
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September 11th, 2009 at 1:04 am
i got lots of information from your site, thank for your sharing…
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September 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Great list i dont think any plugins left which must be used to get more traffic.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 am
Hey! Thanks for such a great list. I have tried several of them and now use these which I believe to be the best. So consider this list my shortlist if you care:
Add to Facebook: This is simple and very useful for increasing hits.
Addtothis: This is easy to edit and looks great. Way better looking than the other social bookmarking plugins.
Akismet: This is the must have spam protector for your wordpress blog.
All in One SEO Pack: Honestly, I have no idea how this works and what it does but I use it because everyone else seems to say it does something.
Chitika: Why have a blog and not make any money on it? This pops up a window of other things people might be looking for when arriving from a search engine (without actually popping up).
Contact Form 7: Every site needs an easy way to contact you. This one, in my opinion is the best.
Do Follow: This one I am confused about, and still up in the air about. So my opinions on it may change.
Executable PHP Widget: This is great for adding more things to your sidebar.
Get Recent Comments: Nice to add to your sidebar to see what people have posted recently.
Google XML Sitemaps
Similar Posts
Thank Me Later
Tweet Meme
Twitter Tools
WordPress.com Stats
WP Smush.it: If bandwidth is an issue, this makes all your uploaded pictures just a teensy bit smaller.
WP Super Cache: Fast caching for your site
Well there you have it. In my opinion the essentials that work great and every blog needs.
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November 9th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I’m a beginner in the world of blogging, and this is an outstanding resource you put together.
This will definitely be a “desk reference” for me!
Thanks!
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November 17th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Awesome info and very clear and easy to follow…I love the way you categorized everything!
DJ Morris
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December 30th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Wow. I didn’t even know there were this many plugins available… If you haven’t guessed I’m new to blogging. Do you really use all of these plugins on all of your blogs?
I’m always concerned about using too many plugins, because I’m afraid that they might not work with the next Wordpress upgrade!?
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January 16th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Thanks for compiling this list, are all of these free plugins or are some of these commercial?
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February 18th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Hi, I found another cool flash photo galleries plugin for WordPress. Named GRAND Flash Album Gallery – multi category flash skin based photo gallery with powerful admin. I used it in my blog. There are so many different settings. You can adjust the color scheme for your blog as you wish. There are many different skins. You can present your photo gallery in a wonderful way, there is a full-screen mode. This is a very cool plugin.
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April 21st, 2010 at 7:57 am
A Great write up, I will be sure to save this post in my Diigo account. Have a good day.
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