Essential Plugins for WordPress
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One of the features that makes WordPress so powerful and popular is the sheer number of plugins (chunks of php code that make WordPress do fancy things) that are available for free that will do just about anything your imagination can come up with.
I love comparing notes with other designers and bloggers to see what everyone else is using. Here are just a few of the favorites that have been mentioned recently:
- Randa Clay shared her 5 new favorite plugins today – among them a slick new featured content gallery and cforms.
- Blog for Profit launched a new design recently and was kind enough to include a list of plugins installed as well – definitely a few I need to check out.
- Jeff at Performancing has started something new – with new plugins being released daily, Jeff is putting together recaps of the plugins launched the previous month. September’s plugin roundup can be found at Performancing.
- I like the list of 11 plugins every site should have at Yoast – the iPhone plugin just looks cool!
- Looking to really push the edge of the WordPress envelope and use it as a very powerful CMS? Check out this list of 20 plugins to really transform WordPress into a full featured CMS.
My list of essentials you ask? I like All in One SEO, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, Akismet, WP Super Cache, and Comment Luv (which I will be implementing soon)
Testing info – Compiling questions for 640-822 or 70-236 can be hard for a 70-640 student who has only heard of complex tests like 640-863 and 642-436.
So, what plugins do you consider essential for your site? Join the conversation because I always love comparing notes with others in the field!
5 Comments
October 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Thanks for noticing the new design. And we are having fun with the plugins we are trying too. I wanted to try some of the plugins available today before I recommended them to our clients and thought this was the best way. The new design we did on Blog For Profit has been great. Traffic is up as are subscribers to the RSS.
October 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Grant – the new design looks great. There are so many new plugins it is hard to keep up with them all, but the best seem to rise to the top pretty quickly.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I have been using wordpress for a couple years not and i love the plug ins feature. it makes having your own professional website so much easier that trying to build it from scratch. thanks a lot for this list of plug ins!
November 10th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Wow. There are some really great ones among here. And many which I have never seen before. Actually it’s been a long time since I looked for plug-in’s. The all-in-one seo has been with me from the beginning
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 am
This is my first visit and am amazed with the way you collect and maintain the resource lists. Thanks so much for this particular resource list on essential plugins