15 Top Wordpress Plugins, well for this blog anyway

Posted by Colin

September 26, 2007

I am placing a top what ever list on this blog as apprantly google likes them.

1. Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu. By Acme Technologies. http://presentia.net/didzis/wordpress-plugins/adsense-deluxe/

2. Allow your blog visitors to buy you a beer by sending you money through PayPal. A special BlogClout plugin By Sherief Mursyidi. http://www.blogclout.com/blog/goodies/buy-me-a-beer-paypal-donation-plugin/

3. Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner. http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart

4. This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

5. Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments. By Nick Momrik. http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/

6. Retrieves a list of the most recent comments. By Nick Momrik. http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/

7. Returns a list of the most recent posts. By Nick Momrik. http://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/

8. Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page - indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags. By Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts. http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/

9. Simple page-based forum By Andy Staines. http://www.yellowswordfish.com/index.php?pagename=my-wordpress-plugin-library

10. Social Bookmarking RELOADED - Add the social bookmarks services’s icons to your articles in your blogs in order to submit them easyly. Plugin based on Apostolos Dountsis one By valent http://www.valent-blog.eu/social-bookmarking-reloaded/

~~11. Add custom footers (copyright, notices, advertisements) to the bottom of your posts in your RSS feed. A special BlogClout plugin By Sherief Mursyidi.~~ ~~http://www.blogclout.com/blog/goodies/feed-footer-plugin/~~ (has been deleted from my list as It does not work correctly for me)

12. Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use By Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin & Alex King. http://www.text-link-ads.com/

13. A plugin that provides a WordPress Shopping Cart. Contact Instinct Entertainment for support. By Thomas Howard of Instinct Entertainment. http://www.instinct.co.nz/

14. Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri (i.e. http://abc.com/ to http://www.abc.com/ ) By Justin Shattuck. http://www.justinshattuck.com/wordpress-www-redirect-plugin/

15. This plugin adds a more advanced WYSIWYG editor to the Wordpress post editing screen. It includes advanced image handling, including on-the-fly thumbnail resizing and compression. It also includes Martin Chlupác’s excellent Iimage Manager v 1.4.1. By MudBomb.com. ~~http://mudbomb.com/~~ (has been deleted from my list as It does not work correctly for me)

15. Replaces the default Wordpress editor with FCKeditor 2.4.3 By Dean Lee. http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/

What’s your favorite plugin, please let me know by leaving a comment or even start a new discussion area in the forum.