As I continue my journey down life’s pathway of success through my blog, I’ve come across literally thousands of useful plugins for my blog platform, wordpress. Obviously some of them don’t apply to my blog, or some aren’t useful for my niche.
Those that are useful for me have been great in lessening the burden and the work of maintaining a well oiled blog.
I’ve already listed 26 of the plugins I use many many posts ago, but I did promise you that I would share new plugins that I implement on my blog. And when you go from 26 to 42 plugins, that’s not a small change.
For your sake I’ve added the previous listed 26 to this list, so you won’t have to go back and re-read that post.
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. It comes already preloaded into wordpress.
All In One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
Broken Link Checker
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
Chunk URLs For WordPress
This plugin shorten urls in comments so that they won’t break your site.
Commentluv
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.
Comment Relish
Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your blog.
Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin
The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets.
Exclude Pages from Navigation
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
Exec-PHP
Executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
Feed Footer
Add custom footers (copyright, notices, advertisements) to the bottom of your posts in your RSS feed.
Feed Wrangler
A feed utility for creating custom feeds. Useful if you need a clean feed that doesn’t go through FeedBurner for example.
Follow Me
The Follow Me plugin is designed to allow users the ability to add links to their social media profiles in their blog.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo.
Gravatar
This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options.
Lighter Menus
Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the WordPress 2.6 interface taking the least room possible.
MaxBlogPress Favicon
Easily add favicon to your blog and rss feed without editing any wordpress files.
A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog.
Ozh’ Absolute Comments
Reply instantly to comments, either from the email notification, or the usual comments page, without loading the post first.
Displays the page peel in the upper right corner of my blog, can also be put on all the other corners, or any one single corner you choose.
The plugin that is used to display the performancing ads affiliate buttons and banners.
Psychic Search
Secretly discover what your visitors want to read on your blog.
Recent Posts
Returns a list of the most recent posts.
Related Posts
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
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.
ShiftThis Newsletter
Customized Newsletter Creation & Mailing List Management.
Show Top Commentators Widget
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your WordPress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). Widgetized version with full database driven option panel.
Simple Recent Comments
Shows a list of recent comments.
The plugin I use to display the text link ads affiliate network’s text ads.
Twitter Updater
Updates Twitter when you create a new blog or publish one.
Ultimate Google Analytics
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.
WassUp
WordPress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.
Woopra
This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Simply sign up at Woopra.com, then activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade
Allows a user to automatically upgrade their wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
WordPress Mobile Edition
Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device.
WP-DBManager
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
WP-PostRatings Widget
Adds a PostRatings Widget to display most rated and/or highest rated posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostRatings first.
WP Security Scan
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.
WP-Sticky
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog.
WP 125
Easily manage 125×125 ads within your WordPress Dashboard.
FeedSmith
This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Hidden Affiliate Links
Hides affiliate links by wrapping them into a page that will redirect to the actual link.
Let me know of anymore great plugins that you use for your blog.
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My name is Steven Sanders and I'm a Professional Blogger, Izea Insider, Web Designer, Social Media Enthusiast, Dad, Husband, and Friend.
I’m surprised KeywordLuv isn’t on this list.
Hey, wow thats some list! Could you add links to them all or are they all from different sourses? Are all plugins different depending what type of blog you use? I use wordpress, and I find it very confusing to find plugins that are explained nicely.
Nice list Steve…I agree with Webdesi3, I use wordpress too…could you provide a link to the plugins?
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I like the idea of comment luv. But I dropped disqus and installed comment luv and I’m having the biggest difficulty getting it to work. I think I might go back to the disqus plugin. The other plugins are great.
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I like knowing what other bloggers use. This list has helped me a lot. Look forward to an update
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I really love to try it out. This is something new