All my favourite WordPress plugins, I use them all on a regular basis, on my own and my client’s WordPress sites.
Using WordPress as a business site tool
http://codex.wordpress.org/Business_Blogging_and_shopping
WordPress Database Backup
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
Please feel free to add your recommendations of groovy plugins.
My Favourites
| Plugin | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin | Version | Description |
| AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget | 2.2.1 | Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services. By AddThis.com. |
| Akismet | 2.5.3 | 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. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg. |
| All in One SEO Pack | 1.5.5 | Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. By Michael Torbert. |
| Google Analyticator | 6.2 | Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. By Ronald Heft, Jr.. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | 3.2.5 | This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold. |
| NextGEN Gallery | 1.8.3 | A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. By Alex Rabe. |
| pageMash | 1.3.0 | Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows quick sorting, hiding and organising of parenting. By Joel Starnes. |
| Quotes Collection | 1.5.4 | Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes on your WordPress blog. By Srini G. |
| Redirection | 2.2.9 | A redirection manager By John Godley. |
| Script Compressor | 1.6.2 | This plugin compresses javascript files and css files. By Regen. |
| Search Everything | 6.6 | Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content. By Dan Cameron. |
| Simple Tags | 2.1.1 | Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags ! By Amaury BALMER. |
| Subscribe To Comments | 2.1.2 | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith. |
| WordPress.com Stats | 1.8.5 | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton. |
| WordPress Database Backup | 2.2.3 | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools ? Backup to get started. By Austin Matzko. |
| WP-DBManager | 2.63 | 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. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. |
| WP-SlimStat-Ex | 2.000 | Track your blog stats. Based on Mr. Coolmann’s Wp-SlimStat. By Cheon, Young-Min. |
| WP-Table Reloaded replaces wp-Table |
1.9.1 | This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. A comfortable backend allows an easy manipulation of table data. You can then include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML. By Tobias Bäthge |
| wp-typogrify | 1.6 | Prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some By Hamish Macpherson. |
| WP Ajax Edit Comments | 2.2.6.0 | Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments. By Ronald Huereca. |
| WP Security Scan | 3.0.5 | Perform security scan of WordPress installation. | By WebsiteDefender |
| WP Super Cache | 0.9 | Very fast caching module for WordPress. By Donncha O Caoimh. |
Other Useful Plugins
| Plugin | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin | Version | Description |
| 404 Notifier | 1.2a | This plugin will log 404 hits on your site and can notify you via e-mail or you can subscribe to the generated RSS feed of 404 events. Adjust your settings here. By Alex King. |
| AJAX Comments WPMUified | 0.2 | Started as adoption and ended up as a pretty much total rewrite of Mike Smullin’s original AJAX Comments plugin By Christian Knoflach (based on work of Mike Smullin). |
| cforms | 12.1 | cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes. By Oliver Seidel. |
| Email Users | 3.1.6 | Allows the site editors to send an e-mail to the blog users. Credits to Catalin Ionescu who gave me some ideas for the plugin and has made a similar plugin. Bug reports and corrections by Cyril Crua and Pokey. By Vincent Prat (email : vpratfr@yahoo.fr). |
| Flexible upload | 1.13 | Resize picture at upload and make thumbnail creation configurable, optionally include a watermark to your uploaded images. Support Lightbox-like plugins. By Antoine Choppin. |
| HP Blog Printing | 1.1 | Adds a PDF printing button to your WordPress blog. By Hewlett-Packard. |
| Lightbox 2 | 2.8.2 | Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Mad props to Tanin for his crucial regular expression code! You rock!! By Rupert Morris. |
| Lightbox 2 Plugin | 0.7 | Auto-converting all linked images in a post, excerpt and even comments to lightboxed links. (see options menu). — Using Lightbox v2.03.3 and compressed Prototype Javascript. By Kjell Bublitz. |
| ms_lightwindow | 1.0 | Used to overlay Movies, Flash, PDF’s, External Sources, Images, Forms, Pages, Inline Content on the current page. Lightwindow v2.0 by Kevin Miller. By Benjamin Guimberteau. |
| Popularity Contest | 1.3b3 | This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. By Alex King. |
| Random Quotes | 1.3 | This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console. By Dustin Barnes. |
| Sociable | 3.0.2 | Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Go to Settings -> Sociable for setup. By Joost de Valk. |
| WP-Members | 2.0.b | WP access restriction and user registration. By Chad Butler. |
| wp-scanner activator | 1.0 Beta | This Plugin adds <!- wpscanner -> to enable wp-scanner to scan your blog. By Philipp Heinze for BlogSecurity.net. |
Things to look at
Tag Cloud
Multiply
Google SiteMap
Analytics
Movable Boxes
WP-TABLES is now superseded by WP-TABLES RELOADED. This plugin is awesome!!
Thanks Reuben – I have upgraded to WP-Tables Reloaded. Simple as importing my old WP-Tables although I had to manually change the pages and posts that referenced the tables due to a change in the hook. Much appreciated