global $jal_db_version;
$jal_db_version = "1.0";

function jal_install () {
   global $wpdb;
   global $jal_db_version;

   $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . "liveshoutbox";
   if($wpdb->get_var("show tables like '$table_name'") != $table_name) {

      $sql = "CREATE TABLE " . $table_name . " (
	  id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
	  time bigint(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
	  name tinytext NOT NULL,
	  text text NOT NULL,
	  url VARCHAR(55) NOT NULL,
	  UNIQUE KEY id (id)
	);";

      require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php');
      dbDelta($sql);

      $rows_affected = $wpdb->insert( $table_name, array( 'time' => current_time('mysql'), 'name' => $welcome_name, 'text' => $welcome_text ) );

      add_option("jal_db_version", $jal_db_version);

   }
}

Now that we have the initialization function defined, we want to make sure that WordPress calls this function when the plugin is activated by a WordPress administrator. To do that, we will use the activate_ action hook. If your plugin file is wp-content/plugins/plugindir/pluginfile.php, you’ll add the following line to the main body of your plugin:

register_activation_hook(__FILE__,'jal_install');

In wordpress 3.0 limiting the excerpt is very easy. the_excerpt function is very useful and helpful in wordpress.

In many wordpress theme we used the excerpt. Many times we need to control excerpt characters as per our wordpress theme requirement. You can easily change the excerpt length using wordpress hook.

You just need to open your functions.php file from your wordpress theme folder and put following code in that.

function change_excerpt_length($length) {
    return 100;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'change_excerpt_length');

This filter is used by wp_trim_excerpt() function. By default the excerpt length is set to return 55 words.

<?php register_activation_hook($file, $function); ?>

If you can going to create the wordpress simple plugin then this function is very useful. this function you can use as follows in files.
If you have a function called myplugin_activate() in the main plugin file at either

* wp-content/plugins/myplugin.php or
* wp-content/plugins/myplugin/myplugin.php

you can use code as follows:

global $myvar;
$myvar='whatever';

function myplugin_activate() {
  global $myvar;
  echo $myvar; // this will be 'whatever'
}

register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'myplugin_activate' );

1. register_activation_hook() must be called from the main plugin file – the one that has “Plugin Name: …” directive.
2. Your hook function must be in the same file as well. From that function it is ok to call other functions defined in other files.
3. Doing echo “My hook called!”; – does not work from it. So this is not a good way to judge whether it working or not.
4. Your global variables must be explicitly declared as global for them to be accessed from inside of my_activation_hook().

Check the sample wordpress plugin code.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: A Test
Description: A Test
*/

require_once (dirname(__FILE__) . '/my_other_file.php');

// This code *will not* work. Activation hook function must be defined in the main plugin file.
//    register_activation_hook (dirname(__FILE__) . '/my_other_file.php', 'my_other_function');

// This code will work.
register_activation_hook (__FILE__, 'test_activated');

// This is correct way to declare/access globals.
global $some_var;    // globals must be declared explicitly. Without this you will not be able to access '$some_var' from within 'test_activated()' function.
$some_var = 'hey';

//===========================================================================
function test_activated ()
{
   global $some_var; // Now it will be 'hey'.

   // This function is defined in 'my_other_file.php'
   my_other_function ();

   // This will not work, so don't try. If you need logging write something in temporary log file in here via fopen/fwrite.
	// If you want to quickly test if your activation hook works - put exit() into it. At least you'll see error during activation.
   echo 'test_activated called!';
}
//===========================================================================

?>

The function register_deactivation_hook registers a plugin function to be run when the plugin is deactivated.
following function will deactivate your plugin

register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__, 'myplugin_deactivate' );

First reason I must say that google does not like the wp-robot wordpress plugin. Unique and good quality contents are what you need to RANK.

What is Wp-Robot?

WP Robot is an autoblogging plugin for WordPress weblogs. It will enable the user to create targeted blog posts on any topic without having to write anything. Blogs will be set on auto-pilot and fresh content will be entered on a schedule that the user specifies and the posts can be on any topic and will be targeted to any keyword desired. Content can be taken from any source including Amazon, Ebay, ClickBank, and YouTube.

Many People think they will earn money easily from this plugin. But that is not true. If you use wp-robot plugin for month you will get to know. Not single article is indexed by google.
Because Google will check the article title and content and That content is duplicate then google never index that page.
Your articles will never comes in picture. It might be possible in that blog you will right the your own articles but still due to wp-robot google will never index your article.
Google might ban your domain name due to wp-robots. Earlier this is happened with some domain names due to wp-robots.
So My advice to all bloggers dont use wp-robots ever.

Adding and managing the New User types and role management in any CMS is very basic requirement of any CMS. In wordpress also we can create the multiple User types and manage there roles through admin panel.

For managing the Role capabilities we need to include one wordpress plugin. This plugin is compatible upto wordpress 3.0.1 and we can create multiple user roles and set user permissions through admin panel.

User Role Editor

User Role Editor WordPress plugin makes the role capabilities changing easy. You can change any standard WordPress user role (except administrator) with a few clicks. Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done. In case you made some unneccessary change you always have the “Reset” button to restore roles state from the automatically made backup copy. Add new roles and customize its capabilities according to your needs. Unnecessary self-made role can be deleted if there are no users whome such role is assigned. Role assigned every new created user by default can be changed too.

Creating, editing and deleting the user account is a very basic need of any CMS. We can easily allow to user to register there account in wordpress sites. We can use many wordpress plugins and create User profile and manage there profile.

But in wordpress deleting the User from wordpress site is not easy. Here in this article I will tell how can we easily delete the user account without administrator permission.

Using following wordpress plugin we can achieve this functionality.

User Self Delete

This plugin will allow your users to delete their own account without any need for interaction on the administrator’s behalf.

When a user wishes to delete their account, they are taken to a confirmation page where they must enter the word “yes” in order for the deletion to take place. Once they type “yes” and press the delete account button, they are redirected to the login page and they no longer exist as a user on your site.

I got around 400 spam comments daily. Spam comments are increasing daily. when I got fed-up the these comments I deiced to use the Akismet plugin.
But What I found with plugin is That plugin is good comments also putting into spam.
I recomend to use the capcha plugin for protecting from spam comments. I like the wp-recaptcha wordpress plugin and I recommend to use that plugin.

Here are some very nice wordpress capcha plugins for wordpress comments.

WP-reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuosly typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a different approach.

Raz-Captcha

Prevent registration spam and bots login by adding custom captcha tests in the registration page and/or login page

Featuring 5 different and customizable captcha algorithms with possibility to set your own random characters font, styles, colors background and more
For a working demo se login and register pages from the author home page

Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It’s simple and yet secure.

WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted. Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

CAPTCHA-Godfather

This plug-in protects the form for posting comments from spam by 4 ways; CAPTCHA code, Session ID (which is different from PHPSESSID), Timestamp, IP Address. Also allows the webmaster to choose between fonts.

Security Captcha

Prevent registration spam and bots login by adding custom captcha tests in the registration page and/or login page

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible.

You need to open the your index.php file from wordpress theme and put following code in that file.

<div class="navigation">
  <div class="alignleft"><? next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous') ?>
  </div>
  <div class="alignright"><? previous_posts_link('Next') ?>
  </div>
</div>

If you want the pagination in single post then you can use the following code:

<?php next_posts_link($label , $max_pages); ?>
<?php prev_posts_link($label , $max_pages); ?>

There are some very nice wordpress plugin available for wordpress pagination.
WP-PageNavi

PageNavi wordpress plugin is really nice. I personally like this plugin so much. With this plugin you can apply your custom css also.

Changing the CSS

If you need to configure the CSS style of WP-PageNavi, you can copy the pagenavi-css.css file from the plugin directory to your theme’s directory and make your modifications there. This way, you won’t lose your changes when you update the plugin.

Alternatively, you can uncheck the “Use pagenavi.css?” option from the settings page and add the styles to your theme’s style.css file directly.

Some time we need to execute and use the php code in wordpress post and page. There is solution for inserting the php code in to wordpress post.

I found very useful wordpress plugin for that. But my advise is don’t use this plugin ever try to put your php code as possible in wordpress theme.

Exec-PHP

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

Features:

• Executes PHP code in the excerpt and the content portion of your posts and pages
• Configurable execution of PHP code in text widgets (for WordPress 2.2 or higher)
• Write PHP code in familiar syntax, eg. <?php ... ?>
• Works in your newsfeeds
• Information about which users are allowed to execute PHP with the current security settings (for WordPress 2.1 or higher)
• Configurable user warnings for inappropriate blog and user settings (for WordPress 2.1 or higher)
• Restrict execution of PHP code in posts and pages to certain users by using roles and capabilities
• Update notifications through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress if a new version of the Exec-PHP plugin is available (for WordPress 2.3 or higher)
• Internationalization support (english and german included, many more available)
• Comes with documentation

Inline PHP

The plugin can execute php string in posts/pages, and display the output as the contents of posts/pages. Just quote what you want to execute in <exec>...</exec> or [exec]...[/exec] tag.

You can put the php code in post following way.

<exec>
       $filestr = file_get_contents('http://www.seocompany.ca/pagerank/page-rank-update-list.html');
       if (preg_match('/<p>.*<\/p>/ums', $filestr, $matches)){
           echo str_replace("<p><a href=\"#page-rank-update-list-history\">Top of Page Rank Update List History</a></p>", "", str_replace("<table width=\"65%\">", "<table width=\"100%\">", $matches[0]));
       }
   </exec>

When ever we write some code in post. That code need to visible very easily. There are some useful wordpress plugins for highlighting the code in wordpress post.

While WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to use potentially dangerous code on your blog, there is a way to post source code for viewing. We have created a shortcode you can wrap around source code that preserves its formatting and even provides syntax highlighting for certain languages, like so:

To accomplish the above, just wrap your code in these tags:

 your code here
 

The language parameter controls how the code is syntax highlighted. The following languages are supported:

• actionscript3
• bash
• coldfusion
• cpp
• csharp
• css
• delphi
• erlang
• fsharp
• diff
• groovy
• javascript
• java
• javafx
• matlab (keywords only)
• objc
• perl
• php
• text
• powershell
• python
• ruby
• scala
• sql
• vb
• xml

If the language parameter is not set, it will default to “text” (no syntax highlighting).

Code in between the source code tags will automatically be encoded for display, you don’t need to worry about HTML entities or anything.

There are some free plugins also helpful for syntax highlighting.  I specially like the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved wordpress plugin. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without loosing it’s formatting or making any manual changes.

You can download this plugin form here:

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

There is another plugin for syntax highlighting which also really nice.

WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting using GeSHi — supporting a wide range of popular languages. It supports highlighting with or without line numbers and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.

It avoids conflicts with other 3rd party plugins by running an early pre-filter and a late post-filter that substitutes and pulls the code snippets out first and then pushes them back in with highlighting at the end. The result is source code formatted and highlighted the way you intended.

You can download the this from here:

WP-Syntax

Mysql load will impact your server.  Many people are suggesting to use the WP-DBManager wordpress plugin. But forgot about plugin feature. That plugin specially made for database backup and managing the tables.

If you want to optimize your wordpress database then you need to use wp-optimize wordpress plugin. I found that is only plugin is helpful for really keep optimize your wordpress database.

I used that plugin. Before using that plugin my mysql database size was 135mb. After using that wp-optimize plugin features database size was 4mb. That means my database really really optimized.

My sites performance was also improved.

What is features of wp-optimize?

• Remove the existing wordpress post revisions
• Remove all the comments in the spam queue
• Remove all the un-approved comments
• Rename one username to another username, it’s designed to rename default “Admin” user to something else
• Apply MySql optimize commands on your database tables without phpMyAdmin.
• Display Database table statistics.

I really liked this wordpress plugin. Thanks to Ruhani Rabin who wrote this plugin.

You can download this plugin from here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize/

Below is the most downloaded image gallery plugins that we have choosen directly from thewordpress plugin directory. To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every image plugin! All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.

Using Lightbox, Thickbox, and Fancybox Effect

NextGEN Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 1.5.5 | Updated 2010-6-14 | Downloads 2,007,702)

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Lightbox 2

Demo | Download (Version 2.9.2 | Updated 2010-2-10 | Downloads 385,160)

Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

Shadowbox JS

Demo | Download (Version 3.0.3.2 | Updated 2010-4-6 | Downloads 175,656)

Shadowbox is an online media vieiwing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media.

Lightbox Plus

Demo | Download (Version 2.0.5 | Updated 2010-7-2 | Downloads 112,323)

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.

Lightbox Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 0.6.2 | Updated 2009-12-20 | Downloads 87,964)

This plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.

jQuery Lightbox

Demo | Download (Version 0.10 | Updated 2010-6-29 | Downloads 69,992)

Used to overlay images on the current page.

Shutter Reloaded

Demo | Download (Version 2.4.1 | Updated 2009-12-17 | Downloads 64,557)

Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.

FancyBox for WordPress

Demo | Download (Version 2.7.2 | Updated 2009-12-20 | Downloads 58,120)

Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. No further configuration needed.

Lightview Plus

Demo | Download (Version 2.5 | Updated 2010-5-13 | Downloads 54,341)
Seamless integration of Lightview (similar to Lightbox, Thickbox, Floatbox, Thickbox, Fancybox) to create a nice overlay to display images and videos.

Using Flip Effect

Page Flip Image Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 0.5.11.1 | Updated 2010-6-25 | Downloads 469,854)
FlippingBook WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.

Simple Image Gallery

Post videos and photo galleries

Demo | Download (Version 1.67 | Updated 2010-6-30 | Downloads 341,511)

Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.

Yet Another Photoblog

Demo | Download (Version 1.9.24 | Updated 2009-12-27 | Downloads 109,879)

Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

WP-SimpleViewer

Demo | Download (Version 1.5.4 | Updated 2010-1-9 | Downloads 91,836)

Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.

WP Photo Album

Demo | Download (Version 1.5.1 | Updated 2008-9-25 | Downloads 54,185)

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site.

Lazyest Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 0.16.3 | Updated 2010-6-21 | Downloads 54,160)
Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation, comments on images, and a slide show.

Flickr Gallery

flickrRSS

Demo | Download (Version 5.1 | Updated 2009-4-29 | Downloads 184,471)

Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.

Flickr Photo Album

Demo | Download (Version 1.1 | Updated 2008-10-6 | Downloads 99,638)

This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

Flickr Gallery

Release Page | Download (Version 1.4.0 | Updated 2010-7-4 | Downloads 62,143)

Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.

WordPress Flickr Manager

Demo | Download (Version 2.3 | Updated 2009-2-15 | Downloads 58,330)
Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts.

Image Tools

Scissors

Demo | Download (Version 1.3.7 | Updated 2010-2-8 | Downloads 99,029)
Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.
For WordPress 2.9 – 3.0 please download here :http://dev.huiz.net/2010/01/03/wordpress-plugin-scissors-for-v2-9/

Using Flash

• Simple Viewer
• Postcard Viewer
• Auto Viewer

GRAND Flash Album Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 0.49 | Updated 2010-6-28 | Downloads 85,050)

GRAND Flash Album Gallery is a full integrated (flash skin based, slideshow) Image Gallery plugin with a powerfull admin back end.

NextGEN-FlashViewer

Demo | Download (Version 1.3 | Updated 2009-2-1 | Downloads 79,004)
The famous Adobe Flash Plugins from Airtight Interactive for NextGEN Gallery.
Other Demo :

Slideshow

Featured Content Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 3.2.0 | Updated 2009-3-9 | Downloads 212,344)

Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

WP PicLens

Demo | Download (Version 1.0.5 | Updated 2008-1-29 | Downloads 72,379)

Creates an immersive, full-screen slideshow presentation of photos and images in your blog.

Dynamic Content Gallery

Demo | Download (Version 3.2.3 | Updated 2010-4-11 | Downloads 54,089)
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one category, a mix of categories, or pages.

Source Link

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
But that plugins create some tables in your wordpress database. You need to remove that tables from your wordpress database.
Imp note: when ever you are cleaning the database or deleting the unwanted tables from wordpress database. Please consult with your web administrator.
Dont forget to take a full backup of your database.

This tutorial should be forward-compatible with WordPress 3.0

1. Install WP-DB-Backup by Austin Matzko

2. Mouse over Tools so that the down arrow appears

3. Click the down arrow

4. Click Backup

5. You’ll see something like this:

On the left are the default database tables included with WordPress. All of these are included every time you backup. The only thing you have to decide here is whether to exclude spam comments from being backed up (I recommend this) and whether to exclude post revisions (I recommend excluding these too, unless you have a specific reason for keeping revisions).

On the right is a list of additional database tables, most of which were probably created by plugins. There’s also a table called that will end with the name “commentmeta” – this can be used by plugins.

If your plugins have created a lot of data that you would like to save, or you’ve spent a lot of time configuring particular plugins, you’ll want to backup these tables. Otherwise, you can keep your database backups smaller by not checking them.

7. Next we see the Backup Option. There are three choices here:

A. Save to the server

This will save a backup of your database as a file on your web server. I don’t recommend this.

B. Download to your computer.

This will create a database backup file that you can save to your local computer.

C. Email backup to:

This allows you to send a copy of the backup to any e-mail address you’d like.

8. Let’s go ahead and download a copy to our hard drives now.

Check options you want in the Tables section then click “Backup now!”

You should see a progress bar, and when that’s done your browser will prompt you to save the file. You can save this file wherever you’d like.

9. There’s another section called “Scheduled Backup.” This is where this program gets really great.

Here we can schedule a backup to be e-mailed to a particular e-mail address however often we’d like. I recommend checking selecting “Once Daily.”

10. On the right, you’ll see that list of optional tables again. Check the ones you want to backup every time the backup runs.

11. Enter the e-mail address you want the backups delivered to in the “Email backup to:” field.

12. Click “Schedule backup.”

13. You should now get a backup file as an e-mail attachment every day. You should save these attachments to your local computer. If you’re using Gmail or another web mail host that has a lot of storage space, you might want to leave your databases on their server as an additional off-site backup. Be aware that that’s an additional security risk – if your e-mail account is ever compromised, the would have access to all of your database backups.

Many times you website content is not suitable for all the age group. There is very nice wordpress free plugin available.

Restricted to Adults

There’s a lot of content which isn’t appropriate for all ages. The [Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)](http://www.asacp.org/ “ASACP) has developed the Restricted to Adults (RTA) tag which most online protection software respects.

Installing the RTA tag on a WordPress install can be somewhat complicated, so the Restricted to Adults plugin makes it one click — activate the plugin and your site is restricted to adults.

WordPress has just announced the 100th million plugin has now been downloaded. It’s a smaller milestone but just as impressive if not even more so, since blogging tools are not going to have the same mainstream audience or appeal as a web browser. WordPress is also celebrating a smaller milestone, the newly launched WordPress 3.0 has just passed three million downloads.

What wordpress is saying?

There are now a little over 10,000 plugins in the WordPress directory which really puts the 100 million downloads number in perspective. Of course, some plugins are more popular than others, but it does indicate that bloggers are very interested in the added functionality these plugins provide.

The most popular plugin is the antispam tool Akismet with over 8.5 million downloads to date. The tool comes pre-installed with WordPress, so that may explain its popularity, although, these installs may not be counted as downloads. However, later updates are probably counted. Other popular plugins are the All in One SEO Pack with five million downloads and Google XML Sitemaps with close to four million.

Given the popularity of WordPress plugins, it’s no surprise that they are now getting some attention from the development team. Having wrapped up WordPress 3.0, the team decided to focus on some of the things surrounding WordPress rather than the software itself.

“The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory,” Andrew Nacin, a WordPress developer, announced.

“We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins,” he explained.

In last few years wordpress become most popular CMS in the world. WordPress has great support of wordpress plugins which are free.
Many people many types of wordpress plugins as per there use.

Here I am going to give you the list of most popular wordpress plugins which are downloaded millions times.
I recommend if you hosted your website with wordpress you must use following wordpress plugins.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
This Plugins is downloaded 8,477,963 times.

All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
This Plugins is downloaded 5,291,396 times.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
This Plugins is downloaded 3,935,776 times.

WP Super Cache

A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.
This Plugins is downloaded 94,084 times.

WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when vie
This Plugins is donwloaded 876,885 times.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
This Plugins is downloaded 1,988,926 times.

Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
This Plugins is downloaded 2,021,419 times.

WordPress.com Stats

You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.
This Plugins is donwloaded 1,688,181 times.

Fast and Secure Contact Form

A super customizable contact form that lets your visitors send you email. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem.
This Plugins is downloaded 343,069 times.

ourSTATS Widget

create a widget for the ourstats.de counter service
This Plugins is downloaded 80,348 times.

Post videos and photo galleries

Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.
This Plugins is downloaded 326,804 times.

AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg and many more.
This Plugins is downloaded 995,509 times.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.
This Plugins is downloaded 868,432 times.

Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics data display.
This Plugins is downloaded 936,897 times.

WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.
This Plugins is donwloaded 220,359 times.

Seo WordPress Plugins

1. All in One SEO Pack – By far the gold standard of SEO plugins, “All in One” provides a multitude of easy to understand options to get your blog up to par SEO wise. 99% of WordPress users will agree when I say this is an absolute must have when it comes to plugins. With over 2 million downloads and growing, you can’t go wrong.

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2. SEO Title Tag – Although the plugin above can control title tags on your WordPress blog, this plugin is an outstanding solution to optimize and customize every title tag on your blog.

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3. HeadSpace2 SEO – This handy dandy SEO plugin will allow you to customize meta-data for nearly every aspect of your blog including posts, pages, categories, home page, search pages, author pages, and even 404 pages. This is a super alternative to All in One SEO Pack, just not quite as popular.

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4. SEO Smart Links – A great little plugin that will allow you to automatically link specific phrases and keywords in your posts and comments with corresponding pages on your blog. This one is very handy to have and a great compliment to All in One SEO Pack.

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5. Platinum SEO Pack – Another good competitor for All in One SEO Pack, this one will do a lot of the same stuff, and allow you to control 301 redirects for permalink changes, control nofollow, noindex attributes, and more.

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6. SEO Friendly Images – A lifesaver for that pesky and annoying alt tag (for images) that you always seem to forget to add. Alt tags can make a difference in your search results, and it’s important to optimize each and every image on your blog. This plugin will make that process a lot easier.

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7. SEO Slugs – This is a great utility SEO plugin that removes words like “the”, “a”, “in”, and related words from your post slugs, which will help improve SEO performance. Some might argue that it doesn’t matter, but why not play it safe and build the most SEO friendly post slugs possible?

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8. SEO Watcher – A fairly new plugin, this one claims to watch your daily Google rankings for up to 3 keywords and 3 URL’s inside your WordPress platform. Not a bad idea, but I personally haven’t tested this one yet. Try it and let us know what you think.

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9. Meta Robots Plugin – For an easy solution to adding meta robot tags to your pages in WordPress, this is the plugin for you. It provides a whole host of capabilities, from preventing the indexing of subpages to your homepage, to nofollowing outbound links on your home page.

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10. SEO Blogroll – A very cool plugin that allows you to take control over the “links” widget in WordPress and slap a nofollow attribute on links in your blogroll. Why? Because your blogroll is shown on every page of your blog, needlessly “leaking” pagerank from every page on your blog to external sites that you link to.

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11. SEO Tag Cloud – Whether you love or hate tag clouds, they’re only useful for your visitors and not for SEO purposes, unless you use this plugin. This awesome plugin will display a tag cloud using HTML markup, which of course is SEO friendly.

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12. Simple Tags – Tagging your posts, whether you know it or not, can play a HUGE part in how your posts are indexed and the type of traffic you drive into your blog. Most people don’t know how to properly tag a post, as easy as it is. This plugin will suggest tags to use for each post that you write, and it’s a wonderful plugin!

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13. Redirection – This plugin is more of a utility plugin to manage different redirects and and stuff like that, but as you know, properly managing redirects and error pages plays a huge part in your SEO efforts, so the more organized you can be, the better your blog will perform. This plugin will support Apache and WordPress based redirections.

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14. Nofollow Case by Case – This plugin will allow you to eliminate the nofollow attribute from specific comments, and/or allow you to nofollow specific comments. This is a good way to reward regular contributors and keep the spamming noobs away.

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15. Google XML Sitemap Generator – This will be tagged as a must have plugin for any WordPress blog. Anyone who wants to take advantage of every aspect of SEO for their blog, including making Google happy by submitting proper sitemaps, should use this plugin on their blog. It’s easy to implement and is a bazooka in your plugin arsenal.

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Analytical WordPress Plugins

16. Google Analyticator – This plugin makes it easy for you to enable GA logging on your WordPress blog. Will also show visitor stats and track all links on pages.

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17. Ultimate Google Analytics – Just like the plugin above, this will allow any WordPress blogger to add Javascript GA code to each page on your blog without the need to edit your template and potentially screw up your code.

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18. Blog Metrics – A simple plugin that allows you to see average number of posts per month per author, average number of words per post, and some other cool information about your blog that you might want to have handy.

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19. Search Meter – A real gem of a plugin, Search Meter allows you to find out exactly what people are searching for on your blog. If you have a search box enabled on your blog, you can gain some valuable insight from the data that this plugin will produce. Find out what your visitors are searching for the most, and give them more of it!

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20. Google Analytics For WordPress – A hugely popular plugin, this awesome tool will track all sorts of analytical information such as Adsense clicks, image search queries, outbound links, links within comments, and other helpful data that you might want to have.

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21. StatPress – One of my personal favorites, this plugin will provide real-time analytical information of your blog within your WordPress back-end. It will show you who is coming to your blog, how long they stay, how they got there, and so much more. I will not set up a blog without this plugin – it’s that good.

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22. WordPress.com Stats – One of the heavy hitters in the stats plugin world, this one will show you a multitude of information about your visitors that you’ll probably want to know. This plugin does require an API key from WordPress, which can be obtained from WordPress.com.

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23. Feedburner Feed Stats – If you’re lazy like most of us bloggers, you want the ability to check all of your stats in one central place (like when you’re logged into WordPress). This plugin will show you your Feeburner feed stats from your WP admin interface. This is another must have plugin if you have a sizeable amount of subscribers.

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24. Popularity Contest – Have you ever wanted to know which posts are the most popular on your blog? This plugin gives a weighting to each post based on several different factors and ranks them in a nice list of most popular posts. This is a nice one to have for visitors to find your best articles, which of course in turn will make them even more popular!

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25. StatBadge – A simple plugin that displays different metrics in your sidebar like Alexa ranking, number of comments, Pagerank, and related data that you can show off to your visitors (and to yourself).

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Anti-Spam WordPress Plugins

26. Akismet – This one is a no-brainer. Akismet is the gold standard in spam fighting WordPress plugins. It is one of two plugins included in the default WordPress installation, so that should tell you something right there. Every blog should have this enabled, without a doubt!

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27. Bad Behavior – This anti-spam plugin will block link spam with a PHP-based system. This awesome plugin is like a personal bodyguard for your blog, and will stop spammers dead in their tracks.

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28. Spam Karma 2.3 – Although this plugin is no longer being supported or developed, it’s still very much worthy of mentioning on this list. I’ve used Spam Karma for years, and have rarely had a spam comment get by without SK shooting it down. Get it while it’s still available!

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29. Email Spam Protection – This spam fighter will convert email addresses (such as yours) that are posted on your blog to an un-scrapeable JavaScript one. A simple plugin, but useful if you drop your email address a lot.

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30. Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam – I only added this one because it appears that it gets a lot of downloads, so something must be good with it! This just appears to be another anti-spam plugin for your WordPress blog, so it doesn’t hurt to mention it.

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31. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam – This is another anti-spam powerhouse (like Akismet). If you want to try out a plugin that does not allow any spam comments (including trackback and pingback spam) on your blog, this is the one for you.

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Social Media WordPress Plugins

32. Add to Any – This plugin will allow you to add a cool widget which will make it easy for your readers to bookmark your posts to all the big social bookmarking/social media sites. There are quite a few of these types of plugins, but this is one of the more popular ones.

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33. Social Bookmarking RELOADED – This is another plugin that will allow your visitors to bookmark your articles to a multitude of social bookmarking sites.

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34. Twitter Tools – This plugin will allow you to seamlessly integrate your blog and your Twitter account which will help drive traffic to your blog from your Twitter updates.

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35. Twitter For WordPress – For a quick and easy way to show your latest tweets on your WordPress blog, this is the plugin to use. It’s easy to install and a must have if you maintain an active Twitter timeline.

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36. flickrRSS for WordPress – One of the hottest flickr plugins ever, this will allow you to pull in photos from any flickr RSS feed right into your blog. This can be customized and made to look extremely nice, providing a perfect way to show off your photog skills to your readers!

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37. Add To Facebook – This is a simple plugin that adds a footer link which will allow you and your visitors to add your post to their Facebook page.

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38. Facebook Dashboard Widget – Wow, finally another lazy blogger developed a solution for us WordPress bloggers to check our Facebook data within WordPress! Install this and save yourself from having to visit Facebook.com several times per day.

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39. Sociable – Easily my favorite bookmarking plugin, Sociable is good at updating information and will easily and attractively allow your readers to bookmark your articles across many different sites.

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40. FriendFeed Comments – Great plugin for FriendFeed fans that will allow you to integrate Friendfeed information on your blog.

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41. Follow Me Plugin – This convenient plugin will give your readers a chance to follow all of your social media profiles from one easy place. This one is great if you maintain an active presence across various social media sites.

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42. Tweetmeme – This is a hugely popular plugin that will put a little “retweet” button in your blog posts (like you see for the posts on this blog) which easily allows readers to quickly retweet your post. Obviously, it helps to increase the chance of a post going viral on Twitter, which will lead to a boost in traffic and exposure. This is a must have, in my opinion.

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43. LinkedIn hResume – This interesting plugin (which I haven’t tried) claims that it will pull the hResume microformat block from your LinkedIn page right into any page in your WordPress blog.

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44. WP Greet Box – This incredibly useful plugin will actually greet users with a custom reminder depending on how they arrived to your blog. (Example, if they came from Twitter, it will remind them to follow you on Twitter and to retweet the post.) Awesome plugin to say the least.

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Internet Marketing wordpress plugins

45. Adsense Manager – This plugin will make it easy to add Adsense advertising into your blog posts, and allow you to determine when they will and will not appear. Great for anyone that likes to run ads to make a little extra cash.

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46. All in One Adsense and YPN – Another popular plugin that allows you to manage all aspects of adding in Adsense and Yahoo! ads into your blog. The ad code is dynamically inserted, so it requires no manual work.

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47. Split Test Plugin – A very unique plugin that allows you to show two different versions of a particular post, and see which one generates more clicks. This would be good for those that promote affiliate products in WordPress posts.

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48. Affiliate Link Cloaker – For those of you that include Amazon affiliate links or whatever site you like to promote, you know that usually affiliate links are pretty nasty looking. This link cloaker will change that, and also help prevent affiliate link hijacking.

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49. WP-Affiliate – Another great link cloaking plugin that is quite popular.

50. Random/Rotating Ads – This plugin will make it extremely easy for you to show and/or rotate a variety of ads (Adsense, affiliate ads, banners, flash, etc…) using widgets or in your template files for your blog. This seems like a very convenient plugin for the “make money online” crowd.

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51. CafePress Plugin – This plugin allows you to easily integrate any of CafePress.com’s millions of products and customize the layout of them for your visitors. For those that promote CafePress products, this is a very good plugin.

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Contact Form WordPress Plugins

52. Contact Form 7 – One of many contact form plugins for WordPress. This one is easy to work with and will get the job done. This just seems to be the more popular choice.

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53. WP Contact Form – You can drop this form into any page or post on your WordPress blog. Very easy to use.

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54. WP Contact Form III – This contact form is simple, secure, and easy to customize.

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55. Enhanced WP Contact Form – This plugin is simple, good against spam, and gives the user an option to copy him/herself on the form submission.

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Video Related WordPress Plugins

56. Viper’s Video Quicktags – This is an extremely popular WordPress plugin that will make it easy for any blogger to quickly insert video from sites like YouTube, Google Video, and more. This is typically considered a must have for your WordPress blog.

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57. Smart YouTube – Again, this is a plugin that makes it easy to insert YouTube videos into your post, comments, and even your RSS feeds. This supports the playback of HQ (high quality) videos as well.

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58. Lightview Plus – If you’d like to overlay videos/images into a lightbox format, this is the plugin to use.

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59. WP-SWFObject – For all of you flash freaks, or for those that need the ability to add flash movies into their blog, this plugin was created solely for that purpose.

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60. Embedded Video – Another popular plugin that allows you to easily add video to your WordPress posts or pages.

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61. WordPress Video Plugin – Hard to get creative for the description, as it does the same thing as most of the video plugins above. This one seems to support quite a few video sites though, so that could be a plus!

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62. Interactive Video Plugin – This one is unique in the fact that it allows you to record/import/upload videos directly into your post and edit and remix with an online video editor. I haven’t used this one, but thought it was unique enough to add to this section.

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Various Utility WordPress Plugins

63. WP-UserOnline – This is a really cool plugin that will add a widget to your sidebar that shows how many users are on your site in real-time. It’s great to watch when a post gets stumbled or bookmarked, the user count rises immediately!

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64. Close Old Posts – This is a great plugin because as your posts get older and gain PageRank from Google, spammers will target them like crazy to try and get their links posted without you knowing it. This plugin allows the automatic closing of old posts for a time that you specify.

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65. Super Archives – This plugin will take your current archive setup and inject it with steroids. Details can be found on their page.

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66. WP-Cache – This is almost an essential plugin these days with all of the social bookmarking sites out there. What this does is prevent your site from going down after getting popular on any of the big social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit. It makes your blog run faster and more efficient as well.

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67. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – As the title says, this plugin will show related posts under your posts. This has several benefits including better SEO, and driving up pageviews as visitors are encouraged to check out the related posts.

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68. WP-Table – This is a handy plugin that will easily allow you to create tables for your posts in a fixed table format.

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69. Subscribe To Comments – This is a very popular plugin that you’ve probably seen on many blogs. It provides a little check box for visitors to check if they want updates on a particular comment string.

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70. WordPress Automatic Upgrade – Tired of seeing that “you need to update your version of WordPress” message in your WP interface? Well, install this one-click upgrade plugin and it will upgrade you to the latest and greatest version of WordPress.

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71. KB Robots.txt – If you want total control over your robots.txt information, then you’ll need this plugin.

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72. NextGen Gallery – Any plugin that makes it to the “most popular” category on WordPress.com is worthy of mentioning, especially this one. This plugin is a fully integrated image gallery with a flash slideshow option. You’ll see this on MANY blogs.

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73. Global Translator – A lot of bloggers forget that not everyone in the world speaks/understands English. This translator has the capability to translate your posts into 34 different languages, which will surely please most of your visitors.

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74. WP-PageNavi – This plugin is built into a lot of premium themes, and for good reason. It enhances your page navigation for your blog, making it easier for readers to advance through your posts with ease.

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75. Comment Relish – One of my favorite plugins, this sends a custom email to a reader after the first time they comment on your blog. A FANTASTIC way to get them to subscribe, or even buy something. Easy way to do some shameless plugging.

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76. WP-Polls – The time will come in your blogging career where you want to poll your readers on something. Readers typically love polls, and to manage the whole process, this is the plugin you’ll need to use.

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77. WP e-Commerce – This plugin will give you the ability to transform your WP blog into an attractive shopping cart enabled, e-commerce solution. This is a great plugin if you sell products or services online.

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78. FeedWordPress – With this RSS aggregation plugin, you can pull in feeds of your choice right to your blog. This makes a great way to showcase feeds from popular blogs in your niche, or perhaps other blogs that you own.

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79. Front Page Excluded Categories – If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to exclude certain categories on your blog’s home page, this is an easy way to accomplish that.

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80. WP-DB-Backup – If you’ve ever lost access to your db or if something has ever crashed on your where you lost all your blog’s information, you’ll appreciate this plugin beyond words. This should be included as a default plugin for every WordPress installation.

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81. Broken Link Checker – A great utility plugin that will automatically check your blog for broken links and notify you if any are found. This is a very handy plugin to have installed.

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82. Advertising Manager – Another ad management program that is really popular, as it recognizes ads from a wide variety of networks (Google Adsense, AdBrite, CrispAds, Chitika, etc…).

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83. WP-PostViews – If you’re like me and need an ego inflation every once in a while, adding this plugin to your blog will show how many views each post on your blog has received.

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84. WordPress Mobile Edition – This should be on every bloggers list, as the amount of mobile internet users increases by the day, you need to make sure your blog is accessible by all the iPhone and Blackberry freaks out there. This sector could make up a noticeable percentage of your users, so keep them happy by installing this.

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85. Search Everything – This is another plugin that will enhance the ability of your WordPress search box on your blog.

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86. Disable WordPress Plugin Updates – If you’re like most bloggers, you’ll agree when I tell you that the plugin updates messages are quite annoying. This awesome plugin will get rid of that problem for you.

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87. Events Calendar – If you need an enhanced version of the default WP calendar widget, then you’ll want to check out this plugin. It allows for the integration of a high organized calendar to post events and related items.

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88. Exec-PHP – Sometimes you’ll find that you need to add PHP code (for certain widgets and such) straight into a post or page. By default, you can’t do this, but with Exec-PHP, you can.

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89. CommenLuv – This is another plugin that you’ll see on many, many blogs. What it does is reward your readers when they comment by linking back to their latest blog posts, recent tweets or digs, which they can choose from when they submit a comment on your blog. It encourages more commenting, and is a win-win situation for you and the reader.

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90. Wp-o-Matic – For all of you wannabe spam bloggers out there, WP-o-Matic allows you to create blog posts out of specified RSS feeds.

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91. WP Super Edit – If you’re not satisfied with the default WYSIWYG WP editor, this is an enhanced version that will give you a bit more control and more options when editing a post.

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92. Scissors – This is a great image handling plugin that will make it possible for you to rotate, crop, and resize images right inside WordPress. This can boost efficiency by allowing you to bypass the time it takes to edit an image before posting it.

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93. Role Manager – This plugin will allow you to handle different user levels and allow a more detailed set of user permissions for each user. This is great if you have a blog that has multiple contributors with multiple roles.

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94. Time Zone – No matter what, it seems that even though you set your timezone correctly in the WP admin interface, it’s still an hour off. This can be quite annoying when scheduling posts for the future. This is because WP doesn’t recognize DST (daylight savings time). This plugin will fix that little annoying problem.

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95. WP Ultimate Gamer’s Pack – If you have a need for your users to be able to view your site with their Wii’s, DS-Lite’s, or PSP’s, then you need this plugin to make that happen.

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96. No WWW plugin – For SEO purposes, it’s essential that you have everyone going to the same post URL, and if you don’t have this plugin enabled, some people might arrive to the WWW version of your post, and some the non WWW version. This plugin will make sure everyone arrives at the right one.

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97. WWP Ajax Edit Comments – If you’ve ever left a comment on a blog with a humiliating typo or error, you’ll have wished that the blog had this cool plugin enabled. This plugin will allow your users to quickly edit a comment after submitting it. Trust me, they’ll love this option.

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98. Lifestream – This is another popular plugin that will display your social networking feeds and images on your blog in the sidebar or in widget format.

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99. Old Post Promoter – This is a fantastic plugin that will help promote those golden oldies you have in your archives. This will lead to more pageviews and return readers. Very clever and very useful plugin to say the least.

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100. Author Image – For those bloggers that like to show off their pretty faces (who doesn’t? lol), use this plugin to display author images in posts and on pages in your blog. This is actually a great way to boost brand exposure.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this awesome list of WordPress plugins.
Thank You!

Category Specific RSS feed Subscription

This WordPress Plugin allows you to present a menu with multiple RSS feed subscription option to your site’s visitors in addition to your normal RSS subscription option.

If your site covers multiple topics then your subscribed readers may get annoyed when you update your site with content that they are not interested in and they get a notification in their RSS reader.

I found that most of the time I never subscribe to a site’s RSS feed when it doesn’t have the topic/category specific subscription option, specially when the site covers multiple topics cause I don’t like to be hammered with all the unwanted content updates.

This plugin allows you to configure up to 8 different topic specific RSS feeds.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-specific-rss-feed-menu/

WWSGD Plugin

This plugin which uses name of one of the top web celebrity Seth Godin, allows you to display a subscription reminder message above or below blog post.

You can control position & content of message. Also you can customize if message is to be displayed always for only or few initial page views.

What Would Seth Godin Do

Vertically scroll rss feed

his plug-in will scroll the RSS feed title vertically in site sidebar, admin can add/update the RSS link & style via widget management. Internet connection is required to load third party RSS.

1. Easy installation.
2. Widgets, so you can add pretty much anything.
3. Easy style-override system.

Click on the configure button (small down triangle) for the ‘Scroll RSS Feed’ widget and here you can customize all the Scroll RSS Feed front end styles.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vertically-scroll-rss-feed/

Show RSS Feeds

Displays RSS feed in templates

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/show-rss/

Feed Widget Plugin

This plugin will add a WordPress widget, which will display links to various relevant feeds for your WordPress blog. It will always at least display links to the two standard feeds: All Entries and All Comments. It will also display links to category feeds, post feeds or search feeds, depending on the current page being viewed.

I used this long time back. But now this blog have three top level feeds, so I guess using this plugin here will result in too many options. I will definitely add this plugin to my orkutfeeds blog.

Feed Widget Plugin

JP’s Get RSS Feed

This plugin uses WordPress’ ability to return feeds, to get the last X number of items from a given RSS feed. Display the last few items from any RSS feed of your choice. For example, your Twitter feed, or another blog or forum that outputs a RSS feed. Any RSS feed can be grabbed. Call it in your footer to list your last few tweets, and your sidebar to showcase content from another one of your blogs.

Uses fetch_feed, which was introduced in WordPress 2.8. Works and tested in WordPress 2.9.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jps-get-rss-feed/

URL Absolutifier WordPress Plugin

URL Absolutifier changes all relative URLs in posts to absolute URL, to make the entries work in feed readers that don’t work with relative URLs.

I used a relative URL trick for higher earnings from AdSense product referrals long time back. If you are not sure about your usage of relative URLs then I will strongly recommend you should activate this plugin and then just forget it. I really feel this should be default behavior of wordpress.

URL Absolutifier WordPress Plugin

Full Text Feeds

There was a bug in wordpress which used to cut your feeds in the middle of the post. This behavior used to annoy blogger who like to publish full text feeds.

I am not sure if this bug is fixed in latest version of wordpress as I have modified wordpress core feed files completely when applying firefox full feed hack.

Anyway, if you see partial feeds even after choosing option to display full feeds, you can use this plugin to overcome wordpress bug.

Full Text Feed Plugin

RSS FEED anywhere

You only have to place the swf-file on a server (free-hosting..) and edit the embed-Tag. Finished! With the proxy-feature, you are allowed, to feed your RSS-Stream from anywhere. (Myspace etc.)

You also can get your RSS-Feed from free hosts wordpress.com blogs. (without upload or edit the template files or stuff like that.) You dont have to place a crossdomain.xml (thats useful, because in some cases thats not possible: if you dont have enough permissions.. etc) on your Server! (you can, if you want to disable the proxy-function. But you dont have to! )

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-feed-anywhere/

FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin

If you use FeedBurner and love its subscriber count chicklet, then this plugin is must for you.

WordPress have lots of feed formats and most probably you had burnt only one of them with FeedBurner. Now if a user access your wordpress feeds via other URLs then their subscription will not be counted towards FeedBurner count.

This plugin will take care of this. You just give it your FeedBurner URLs and it will redirect all wordpress custom feed requests to your FeedBurner feed.

Originally developed by Steve Smith, this plugin is now officially maintained by FeedBurner.

FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin

Feed Footer Plugin

This plugin allow you to customize footer text of each post in feed completely. I use this to show referral ads in my feeds. Please do not try AdSense or any JavaScript code in Feed Footer. It will not work as feed readers ignores JavaScript.

This plugin is really basic, but I don’t mind taking some efforts for some extra bucks.

Feed Footer Plugin

RSS Footer

This is very simple plugin. It allows you to insert any message including HTML code into the feeds. You can also choose if added message is to be displayed at top or bottom of the post.

You can use this plugin for advertising instead of above Feed footer plugin. Main difference is, RSS Footer adds same footer at the end of every post, while above Feed footer allows you to add different footer for each post.

One plus point with RSS footer is, it allows addition of link back to your original post, which is good SEO as explained by Daniel Scocco.

RSS Footer Plugin

Similar Posts for Feeds Plugin

Many time, by giving full text feeds, blogger feel they are loosing page-views as a reader may never check their blog.

I use backlinking to my old posts whenever possible to bring readers back to the blog. But often such links go unnoticed or you may not find old post to link back if you are writing on a new topic.

Then its always good idea to display few related posts at the bottom which often attracts clicks. Of course too many links may annoy your reader. So do not show something like 20 related post!

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1. WP-Print

This Plugin displays a printable version of your blog when the reader requests for it. The user can directly take a print out from it. The documentation can be found here.

There is also another print widget by HP. This adds a print option to your blog posts. This plugin is available for WordPress and Movable type. This plugin can also convert blog posts into PDF files.

Download WP-Print

2. Convert to PDF

Converting your blog posts into PDF is useful when your blog has more content on tutorials and tips & tricks. Amit has written a post on how to save the blog posts to PDF file. Adding a “Save as PDF” button is really simple process. All you need is to add this link at the end of blog posts (for WordPress users).

http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=<?php the_permalink();?>

Blogger users can update the cURL link with the post permalink. This generates a PDF file which can be saved to hard disk.

3. Related Posts

As the name indicates, this plugin will show the related entries for a particular post based on keyword matching.

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4. WP-Email

This Plugin helps readers to share posts on blogs which they liked with their friends or even to their email. The plugin is easy to use and configure. The documentation can be found here.

Download WP-Email

5. Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments 2.1 is a plugin that allows commentators on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is useful to have a good discussion going on in your posts.

Download Subscribe to Comments

6. Popular Contest / Top Posts by Category

Popularity contest will help you see which of your posts are most popular and the Top posts plugin displays your top rated posts categorywise based on comments or page views.

Download Top Posts by Category

7. Related posts in your Feed

This WordPress plugin adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. For this plugin to work properly you need Related Posts plugin or Ultimate Tag Warrior

plugin activated.

Download Related posts in your Feed

8. qTranslate

Multilingual support is one of the biggest missing features of WordPress, but with qTransalate you can easily accomplish the task of managing different languages for your blog site.

http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/

9. Contact Form 7

Even though there are tens of contact form plugins out there, I’ve always liked Contact Form 7. The problem with most contact form plugins is that either they are too simple or way too complex. Contact Form 7, on the other hand, is extensible yet easy-to-use. It supports Ajax-powered submitting, multiple forms, CAPTCHAS, and Akismet spam filtering.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/30-cool-wordpress-plugins-for-web-publishers/#ixzz0rNIybFzW

10. Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in WordPress

by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and WordPress custom fields
http://buildinternet.com/2009/07/display-thumbnails-for-related-posts-in-wordpress/

WordPress.com Stats

All bloggers should track the activity on their blogs using a web analytics tool, but taking the time to log into that tool and navigate through the provided reports takes time. Often bloggers just want to take a quick peak at their top level stats. That’s where the WordPress.com Stats plugin comes in handy. Instead of logging into a separate application, you can view some of your key blog analytics right from your WordPress dashboard.

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WP-Polls

People love to participate in polls. Sure there are many options available to bloggers to add polls to their blogs such as PollDaddy, but the WP-Polls plugin allows you to create custom polls without leaving your WordPress account!

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No Self Pings

The No Self Pings plugin is a great time saver for bloggers who intralink to their own posts frequently. If your blog is set up to accept pings and trackbacks, then each time you link to one of your own posts in a new post, a trackback link is sent to your blog and published in the comments section of the old post that you linked to. Pings and trackbacks can slow down your blog, clutter your comments section, and be a nuisance if they’re excessive. Also, if your blog is set up to moderate all comments and trackbacks, this plugin will save you a considerable amount of time.

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Akismet

Make sure that Akismet is activated on your blog and configured to meet your preferences. Unfortunately, blogs get a lot of comments that are spam. Without Akismet (or another comment spam blocking plugin of some kind), your blog is likely to be inundated with spam comments over time. Blog readers don’t like to see spam comments. In fact, too many spam comments published on your blog can directly result in decreased blog traffic, so make sure you’re using a comment spam blocking plugin like Akismet.

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Math Comment Spam

Unfortunately, comment spam blocking plugins such as Akismet aren’t always enough to eliminate all spam comments from getting through to publish on your blog (or sit in your comment moderation queue). When you install the Math Comment Spam plugin on your blog, commenters will be asked to enter the answer to a simple math problem such as 2+3 before they submit their comment to ensure the comment is being submitted by a human being and not a spam bot. Users report a significant decrease in the amount of spam comments that get through Akismet (or their comment spam blocking plugin) once Math Comment Spam is installed.

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Theme Tester

If you want to change your blog’s theme but don’t want visitors to see your changes until they’re final, then Theme Tester is the WordPress plugin for you! When Theme Tester is intalled, your visitors see your existing blog design while anyone set up with administrator status in your WordPress account sees the new WordPress theme.

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WP-Database Backup

The WP-Database Backup plugin is a must-have for any WordPress.org user. Once installed, you can set up the plugin to automatically backup your WordPress database files and save them to your hard drive or send them to you via email. If your blog is important to you, do yourself a favor and install this plugin, and set it up to backup your WordPress database periodically. Keep in mind, the plugin only backs up your database files. You should also manually backup your wp-content folder from your blog hosting account.

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Easytube

If you’ve ever struggled trying to get a YouTube or Google Video to publish correctly on your blog, then the Easytube plugin is a perfect choice for you. It makes embedding YouTube and Google Videos into your blog posts a snap and even includes a preview image of YouTube videos in your RSS feed with a link to the video.

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Auto Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Old blog posts are bait for automated comment spam bots. In order to reduce spam on old posts, you can use the Auto Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks plugin. Simply install it, set the timeframe when you want comments to be closed on posts, and you’re done.

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Google Maps Plugin

If you like to include maps from Google in your blog posts, then the Google Maps Plugin will make the process of creating, inserting and customizing your maps faster than ever!

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Thank You!