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Empowering Your Blog with these 50 Best WordPress Plugins

By admin ⋅ June 4, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Looking for the most popular and best wordpress plugins used by professional bloggers? Google will provide you many suggested links that might suit on you. Some people has written articles about best wordpress plugins. But I know for sure, open source always encourage people to do better and better. So does plugins, there will always a better plugin if you want to figure it out. Let’s see 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging that people love most.

50 Best WordPress Plugins and Widgets

These wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest WordPress version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in comments that I can add to this list.

Manage WordPress Comments

• Subscribe To Comments - Instead of subscribe to rss comments feed, you can also able to submit to a comment through this plugin which allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Some comments may be contain usefull link and information, so You prabably need this plugin for your readers stay alert.
• WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments using AJAX. This is a featured plugin with various admin option. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?
• Get Recent Comments - displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog. This easily modifiable plugin displays your most recent comments on your blog to your sidebar with the ability to link back to the original post or the individual’s site, encouraging more comments by users
• Wordpress Thread Comment - This Plugin is an enhancement for Wordpress’s comment function. It enables users to reply on a exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested. Another comparasion for Brian’s Threaded Comments
• WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
• AJAXed Wordpress - AJAXed Wordpress basic features include inline paginated posts, inline comments, threaded comments, the ability to submit comments with AJAX, pagination of your homepage, live comment preview and much more, but it does not, however, force you to use any feature, and it also allows all aspects of the plugin to be easily customized through a single Administration panel. It also has special features that will ensure compatibility with many other plugins..
• Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. This plugin uses only client-side Javascript to format a preview, it does not make any Ajax requests to the server. This provides a smooth live preview as you type.
• Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
• WordPress Gravatar Plugin - outputs the gravatar based on the commenters email address.
• MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments
• Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
• Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
• Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better.
• Dofollow - lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments.
• OpenID Comments for Wordpress - allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
• Extended Comment Options - allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.

Stop WordPress Spam

• Akismet - intelligently blocks spam comments. Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
• Spam Karma 2 (SK2) - is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.
• Bad Behavior - is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.
• Math comment spam protection - Adds a math question to comments form to detect human input and block automated spambots.
• WP-Contact Form with Spam Protection - creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you easily.

Expert WordPress SEO

• Google XML Sitemaps Generator - creates a sitemap of all articles on your WordPress blog. Helps Google and other search engines index every article you write.
• Permalink Redirect - replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
• All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
• Head META Description - Insert HTML META description tags using post excerpts.
• SEO Title Tag - Optimize your wordpress title tags for search engines. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages etc.
• Enforce www. Preference - 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.
• Optimal Title - allows you to have your blog name tacked on to the end of the page title instead of having it appear first.
• Quick META Keywords - will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post based on categories under which the article is categorized.

Easy WordPress Navigation

• Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Increase pageviews by providing targeted related content.
• WP-PageNavi - Adds a more advanced page navigation to Wordpress, which is very useful for navigation on index and category pages.
• Evermore - Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. Helpful to create expandable posts summaries in Wordpress. Combine with Less that changes the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”.
• Random Redirect - Allows you to create a link to a random post on your blog. Lets readers browse in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
• Lightbox JS Plugin - used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.
• WordPress Mobile Edition - shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.
• 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.
• Extended Live Archive - implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog.
• Landing Sites - When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, it shows them related posts to their search on your blog.
• Clean Archives - designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year, the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article, and the number of comments that have been made on each article.
• Custom Query String - set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website like categories, archives, or search results pages.
• Feed List - very useful for adding other RSS feeds to your site.
• Sidebar Widgets because it allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar. Not required for WordPress 2.2 and above.
• KB Advanced RSS Widget - a wordpress widget that gives you complete control over how RSS feeds are parsed for your sidebar.
• Category Cloud Widget - Adds a sidebar widget to display the categories as a tag cloud.
• Adhesive - lets you make the posts “sticky”, such that the posts will remain at the top of the page.
• Permalinks Migration Plugin - safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website or affecting your search engine rankings.

Interactive WordPress Posts

• Share This - lets your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail to a friend.
• Digg this - detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.
• Delicious Cached++ - uses the built-in MagpieRSS engine functions to create a list of the latest bookmarks on a del.icio.us account, from its RSS feed, keeping the feed cached in the database.
• WP-Notable - displays a series of icons below each post allowing your readers to easily submit you to many different social bookmarking and networking sites.
• WP-Email - Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
• WP-PostRatings - Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
• EasyTube - allows you to easily embed YouTube and Google Videos using one simple tag.
• Twitter Updater - automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. More best Twitter plugins.

WordPress Admin Management Tools

• WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Back up your blog today.
• WP-cache - Very fast cache module. Survive a Digg traffic spike easily.
• WP-Supercache - A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
• Batch Categories - Easily manage the mass categorization of posts that match various criteria. Power edit your categories.
• podPress - adds lots of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.
• TinyMCE Advanced - adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, the WordPress wysiwyg editor. Adds over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row.
• Exec-PHP - allows php tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files.
• Wordpress Reporter - allows you to easily view your Google Analytics and Feedburner reports in your WordPress administration area.
• WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
• WP Tiger Administration - Uses power of CSS2 to manipulate the functionality of the WordPress administration area
• Admin Drop Down Menu - eliminates the need for this double clicking on the Admin screens by allowing you to see the second level menu just by placing your mouse over a main menu.
• InstantUpgrade - provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click.
• 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.
• Theme Test Drive - allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as an administrator, while visitors continue to see the default one.

Advertising on WordPress

• Ad Rotator - Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file.
• 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 Cup of Coffe - yes, it is a Buy Me a Beer which allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal on pretext of buying a beer.
• Wordpress BankRoll - offers to help you cut out the middleman by allowing advertisers to buy reviews directly on your blog.
• Gaboinked! Chipin WordPress Widget - ChipIn allows anyone to collect money for a personal cause, group purchase, or fundraiser using their own custom ChipIn page or a Chipin Widget which is displayed on your blog or website. Using a Chipin Widget, as a blogger, you are able to create an interactive widget that allows you to raise money directly through blogs and other social media. Non-profit organizations are empowered to engage a distributed network of supporters in “blograising” campaigns for major fundaising efforts.

Wordpress Blog Translation

• Global Translator - Translate your blog into multiple languages in a search engine friendly way. This is a cool stuff since it will translate your blog in a certain language. Some people said their site got banned by using this plugin since Google thought as a spam
• Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro - provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 13+1 languages. Costs $30.

Enhance Wordpress RSS Feeds

• Feedburner Feedsmith - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
• Simple Feed Copyright - adds a simple copyright notice to full text wordpress feeds.
• Full Text Feed - Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed. Ensures you get full text feeds.
• Add Related Posts to Your Feed - adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. Requires either UTW or Related Posts plugin installed and activated.
• RSS Signature - allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or copyright message to the wordpress generated rss feeds.

Random WordPress Stuff

• Democracy - adds AJAX polling functionality to your WordPress blog.
• flickrRSS - allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your weblog.

Last But Not Least

• Wp-Cumulus - This could be one of the coolest plugins for WordPress 2.3+ that I’ve seen. WP Cumulus creates a flash based revolving tag cloud that has to be seen to be appreciated. The plugin also gives you the option to change color, background, width, and height to fit your blog.

Have made decisions to plug some thing in you your blog? These are my recomendation:

• Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better.
• Akismet - intelligently blocks spam comments. Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not.
• Google XML Sitemaps Generator - creates a sitemap of all articles on your WordPress blog. Helps Google and other search engines index every article you write.
• All in One SEO Pack - Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
• Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. Increase pageviews by providing targeted related content.
• WP-Supercache - A modification of WP-Cache that produces static html files.
• 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.
• Feedburner Feedsmith - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
• flickrRSS - allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your weblog.
• Wp-Cumulus - This could be one of the coolest plugins for WordPress 2.3+ that I’ve seen. WP Cumulus creates a flash based revolving tag cloud that has to be seen to be appreciated. The plugin also gives you the option to change color, background, width, and height to fit your blog.

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