Best Plugins for Wordpress
Posted by David on 06/5/08 in Blogs, Featured, Plugins, Wordpress
Let’s consider this subject an ongoing and expanding list of good plugins for Wordpress that deliver valuable and useful features for bloggers. Plugins are a big reason for choosing the Wordpress blog platform. For example, the ShareThis at the end of this post is a plugin. Subscribe (in the center column under Pages) is a plugin. And, there are many plugins that run behind-the-scenes that I will detail.
- ShareThis. Developed by Alex King, this is perhaps my favorite plugin for Wordpress because it permits readers to email and to share your posts.
- Popularity Context. Another neat plugin from Alex that ranks the popularity of posts on a blog. See it in action at BoomerCafé.
- Jerome’s Keywords. This plugin creates a box to the post editing screen for entering or editing keywords. Those keywords make it easy for search engines to track your blog.
- Global-Translator. When I first installed this on the site I created for the Baha’i Community of Arlington, I was amazed how a simple plugin could provide such valuable, free and accurate language translation.
- WP-Contact-Form. Every blog needs a professional-looking contact form to enable visitors to send you a message and to create interactivity. This is the best contact form I’ve found. Many thanks to Douglas Karr for creating it.
- Google Analytics for Wordpress. This plugin falls into my essential category. Developed by Joost de Valk, the plugin enhances the accuracy of Google Analytics to track traffic to a blog.
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Douglas Karr | Jun 7, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the mention! I didn’t actually create the original, I just rewrote most of it
brian | Jun 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for sharing these — I did not know about Sharethis — but it’s great. One I might also suggest is Search Unleashed: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed/
It does a nice post preview with the search text highlighted.