Top Wordpress Plugins

Posted in Scripts | On 1st September 2009 | Comments Off

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Wordpress is probably the most used platform for bloggers, it’s straightforward and easy to use and has a pretty gentle learning curve, due to this more and more people are using wordpress as a content management system and building video sites, job boards, online stores as well as general websites.

One fantastic part of wordpress is the community, literally thousands of people are sharing their addons for wordpress, what we are focusing here in this article is plugins.

Plugins can vastly alter your wordpress install or simply add to or improve the standard model, below are some of the most useful plugins a blogger might need.

Contact Form 7
Possibly the best Wordpress contact form, handles multiple forms, fields and has a captcha plugin.

Sociable
Social Bookmarking Plugin which allows users to share your posts on various social bookmarking sites.

WordPress Super Cache
Makes your Wordpress faster, using static caching.

Slideshow
Allows you to make slideshows or presentations, uses jQuery.

ShareButtons
Easy to add sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc…

Twitter Widget Pro
Twitter widget that works with feeds,@, hashtags and links.

All in One SEO Pack
Does what it says on the tin, its a automatic SEO plugin which will optimise your blog.

WP-PageNavi
In my opinion the best pagination plugin for WP, easy to customise and add to your blog.

Theme Tester
Allows you to test new themes on your blog without disturbing your readers.

Do Follow Plugin
Allows you to remove the “nofollow” attribute from your comments pages.

WP Cumulus
Flash driven tag cloud, very pleasing on the eye.

WP-PostRatings
Ajax powered rating system for your blog, used alot on video and gallery WP installs.

Democracy AJAX Poll
Polling system for your blog, easy to create polls and install.

flickrRSS
Allows you to display Flickr photos on your blog, very popular on personal blog sites.

WP Touch
Makes your blog load up on a mobile device super fast using its custom theme package, as used by WebM.ag!

McBonio

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