Your Best Wordpress Plugins

[Jeremy]

Since a good majority of us are using wordpress on at least one of our sites, I thought this would make for a good post. I just discovered a YouTube plugin that makes posting videos very simple, and it allows you to change the border colors and size with one click.

http://www.jenst.se/2007/11/01/wp-youtube

A couple other of my favorites are

SEO Plugin: http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Mobile/PDA Plugin:
http://imthi.com/wp-pda

Real Time Stats - For the stats junkies that want to see their traffic in real time.
http://www.headzoo.com/live


Alright, share yours!

[Brandon]

Advanced TinyMCE Editor

All in One SEO Pack

Breadcrumb Navigation XT

Easy Tube

Kimili Flash Embed

MyDashboard

Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form

ShareThis

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

WordPress Database Backup

[Jeremy]

Brandon Berndt goes "All-In"

Nice plugins dude, thanks for posting.

[TheShortStack]

I think Brandon's got most of mine already ... but here are a few more I find useful:

Akismet - Great at blocking spammy comments on your posts.

SEO Title Tag - Lets you define the title content for every blog post and category. Really helps with SEO if you can get it right.

Google Sitemaps - Essential as far as I'm concerned. Pretty much the first plugin (after the All in One SEO that I install!)

Related Posts - Lists a a few related posts.


Has anyone found a decent 'Playing Card Generator' for WP? I've messed around with a few but they have been pretty tempromental when it comes to displaying correctly.

Any thoughts appreciated though!

[hazo]

Yeah mate top thread. I had to ask around a bit to get the plugins I use. I'd be very interested to see what everybody else likes to use. Thanks for the input Brandon. I'm checking some of those out as we speak. Great value.

[Geof - bet365affiliates]

oneclic installer, real cool to install themes and plugins in one click, not fully compatible with FF3 yet though
headspace2, much more complete than all-in-one SEO imho, it really does it all for SEO
NAVT breadcrum to ease navigation with added SEO benefits

[newjabber]

Its great with these plugin advises but please also post what they are used for @ jeremy and brandon

[PokerProp]

I'm not a guru at all with Wordpress, so there might be better options that do the same things, but here are a list of ones not already mentioned that I use some places:

Execute PHP - Allows USE of PHP code in posts, also allows divs and spans to be used etc which otherwise wordpress has a habbt of changing to paragraphs etc.

IP2Nation - used in Geo Targeting both content and templates

Math Comment Spam Protection - I get TONS of spam on some sites so this with akimet combined elminates like 95% of it - still pleanty I need to go through from actually human spammers though.

Periods in Tilte - If you want to name "post Pages" .html or .php or event .wtf or anything else you can think of this does the trick allowing periods to be used in Page slugs.

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by newjabber

Its great with these plugin advises but please also post what they are used for @ jeremy and brandon

Laziness on both our ends

I was in a tournament last night but wanted to at least get them posted. Here is what they do.

Advanced TinyMCE Editor: Turn your existing WordPress editor into the following WYSIWYG powerhouse: http://www.mkbergman.com/?page_id=383 (this one actually has some issues with uploading/adding images, so if anyone has a better one I would love to see it)

All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog

Breadcrumb Navigation XT: Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location

Easy Tube: Plugin to easily place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content

Kimili Flash Embed: Provides a wordpress interface for Geoff Stearns’ excellent standards compliant Flash detection and embedding JavaScript. The syntax is [kml_flashembed movie="filename.swf" height="250" width="400" /]

MyDashboard This plugin provides a replacement ajax based Dashboard for WordPress

Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind.

ShareThis Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation

WordPress Database Backup On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.



[SunPoker.com]

Broken Link Checker

Sitemap Generator

Wordpress Database Backup

Mark