Ok, not 1000 Plugins, but it feels like that when you are searching around trying to figure out which ones to add to your blog.
I thought I’d make it easy on you and share all the Plugins I have on my blog!
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| All in One SEO Pack |
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.Version 1.6.13.8 | By Michael Torbert | |
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| cbnet Ping Optimizer |
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer. (Note: this plugin is a fork of the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin, with registration/activiation functionality removed.) Version 2.3.3 | By Chip Bennett |
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| CommentLuv |
Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts. Version 2.90.9.3 | By Andy Bailey |
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| Do Follow |
Removes the evil nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments. Version 4.0 | By Denis de Bernardy |
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| Exclude Pages from Navigation |
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings. Version 1.92 | By Simon Wheatley |
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| FaceBook Share (New) |
Adds a button which allows you to share post and also shows the number of times the post or page has been shared through out the Facebook just like tweetmeme button does for twitter. Version 2.0.6 | By Appointy.com |
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| Fast Secure Contact Form |
Fast Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Super customizable with a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Includes CAPTCHA and Akismet support to block all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Version 3.1 | By Mike Challis |
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| fbLikeButton |
Allows you to configure and display the FaceBook Like Button before and/or after each post and/or page Version 0.4a | By Dean Peters |
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| Google Analytics for WordPress |
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking. Version 4.2.2 | By Joost de Valk |
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| Google Integration Toolkit |
Integrate Google services (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.) with Your Blog. Version 1.4 | By Daniel Frużyński |
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| Google XML Sitemaps |
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. Version 3.2.6 | By Arne Brachhold |
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| Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin |
Very simple plugin that adds a client side generated checkbox to the comment form requesting that the user clicks it to prove they are not a spammer. Bots wont see it so their spam comment will be discarded. Version 1.1.1 | By Andy Bailey |
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| Hello Dolly |
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. Version 1.6 | By Matt Mullenweg |
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| OnlyWire for WordPress [OFFICIAL] |
Easily post to millions of sites with one button. Version 1.6.6 | By OnlyWire Engineering |
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| search engine related posts |
When someone is referred from a search engine like Google, the plugin show your blog content matched the terms they search for. Version 1.2 | By Volcano |
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| SEO Friendly Images |
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well. Version 2.6.4 | By Vladimir Prelovac |
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| SEOPressor UNLIMITED |
SEOPressor automatically optimizes your on-page SEO by bolding, italizing and underlining your main keyword. It also optimize title and image tags. You can use the Suggestion Feature to tweak your content for high search engine ranking. Read The Backlink Syndication System if you are after a lot of backlinks. Make money with SEOPressor by adding your ClickBank ID into SEOPressor footer link (in settings). Make money with SEOPressor. Version 4.0.2 | By Daniel Tan |
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| Shareaholic | email, bookmark, and share |
Shareaholic adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. Seeconfiguration panel for more settings. Version 4.0.6.5 | By Shareaholic |
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| Smart Youtube PRO |
Insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds with ease and full customization. Version 4.0.3 | By Vladimir Prelovac |
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| Sociable |
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Version 4.1.5 | By Blogplay |
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| Thumbnail For Excerpts |
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…). Version 2.1 | By Radu Capan |
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| Time Between Comments |
Set time interval between comments. Version 0.1 | By Levani Melikishvili |
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| TinyMCE Signature |
Automatically adds a signature to your posts. Configurable via TinyMCE on the profile page. Version 0.6 | By Kyle Truscott |
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| TweetMeme Retweet Button |
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts. Version 2.3 | By TweetMeme |
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| Tweet This |
Popular Twitter plugin inserts “Tweet This” links so your readers can share posts with one click. Automatically tweets new posts via OAuth. Version 1.8.3 | By Richard X. Thripp |
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| Vimeo Quicktags |
insert vimeo quicktag with full embed options as provided by vimeo Version 2.0 | By Denzel Chia |
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| WP-PageNavi |
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog Version 2.81 | By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan & scribu |
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| WP Hide Post |
Enables a user to control the visibility of items on the blog by making posts and pages selectively hidden in different views throughout the blog, such as on the front page, category pages, search results, etc… The hidden item remains otherwise accessible directly using permalinks, and also visible to search engines as part of the sitemap (at least). This plugin enables new SEO possibilities for authors since it enables them to create new posts and pages without being forced to display them on their front and in feeds. Version 1.1.9 | By Robert Mahfoud |
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What are your favorite plugins! Share with me below which plugins you would add to this list!
Hi Heather, what a valuable post! Plugins are confusing for the beginner blogger such as I. Your post is a shot if encouragement in the process of figuring them out and prioritizing.
I appreciate that it’s very timely for me since this AM I am going through reviewing my site settings! WOW! You made my job easier. Thanks so much for caring enough to share your expertise with others.
Your welcome Delmy! That’s great you are getting into blogging. I would love to know your website!
Heather,
Thanks for the info. A lot of these I use but a lot I will be checking out. One I use that I don’t see listed is; Yoast WordPress SEO It really helps to get my keywords, title, meta, etc. ready for the search engines.
Keep up with the good posts.
Monna
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Thanks for sharing! I’m on my way to check out Yoast!
Heather,
I cannot thank you enough for this post. I just recently switched my wordpress.com blog to a wordpress.org blog and am trying to set it up myself. I’m going through these plug-ins that you listed as we speak. Thank you again for taking the time to help those of us “newbys” at this!
Woooo Hoooo! You own your blog now
I’ve had so much fun with blogging, but it definitely takes time to find your style and feel comfortable. Happy Blogging! I’m glad this was helpful to you.
this is fabulous Heather…THANK you so much for putting this together and sharing! You’re awesome!1
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Thanks Micki! Glad you found it useful.
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