What plugins should I install?

Nick · 05-28-2006, 10:46 PM

Getting my new blogs up and running (see sig), what plugins should I look into installing?

Let's make a "Best Plugin" List

**John Scott** · 05-28-2006, 11:05 PM

The do-follow one. ( See http://www.internet-marketing-blog.c...ollow-removed/ )

The Sitemap one. ( See http://www.internet-marketing-blog.com/news/ )

DarrenC · 05-29-2006, 03:38 AM

Akismet - great for getting rid of spam
Adsense plugin - to add Adsense
Mailform - for a contact form
Recent posts - to list your recent posts
Mobile Blog - to get your blog on mobiles and PDA's

Sabeur · 05-29-2006, 02:00 PM

Get :

poll plugin
Audio Player- Very good if you want to steam .mp3 files.
Blogbling - Add social bookmark links to each blog entry.

Those are the best ones which i use for all my blogs.

Abhishek · 05-29-2006, 05:33 PM

The Widgets Plugin is really good too. Apart from that the do follow one is good, as also sitemap is a must too.I guess, Akismet comes in default with WP.
The choice of plugins should depend on your need, as to what you want. You can find a lot of plugins at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins
http://wp-plugins.net/
http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/...press-plugins/

If you are a less frequent blogger .. Try Wp-cache
Works leaps and bounds in reducing your server load and makes your site more responsive!
A final word, don't overload your Blog with plugins, since cluttered blogs can be an open doorway to exploits, hence better be safe than sorry

Abhishek

**cldnails** · 06-08-2006, 03:59 PM

Great list guys, definately mention any others.

Julie · 06-08-2006, 04:09 PM

You don't need a plug-in for adsense though. You can do that without it.

Webfu · 01-03-2007, 08:41 PM

Woah found this old thread looking for new tools....

Anyone else know of a good contact form plugin for wordpress besides Mailform ?

Avinash · 01-03-2007, 09:42 PM

GPixel-Contact

http://v1.ghettopixel.com/downloads/

Webfu · 01-25-2007, 04:57 PM

This ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files on/to your server. My favorite plugin I've found so far -

http://www.soderlind.no/archives/200...agemanager-20/

casperl · 01-26-2007, 05:35 AM

Thanks for the post. This list looks really good.

Richie_Ni · 01-27-2007, 11:06 PM

Wordpress Related Posts
But the site seems to be down ATM.

casperl · 01-28-2007, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Wordpress Related Posts
But the site seems to be down ATM.

That was one of the plugins i am looking for (was familar to it from vbulletin's "related threads" feature.) I think it is very aluable. I will install it once that server became alive again. Thanks.

ilu · 01-28-2007, 09:04 AM

After the above mentioned plugins I can recommend you Meta-tags, Sticky post and Technorati plugins.

Richie_Ni · 01-28-2007, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by casperl

That was one of the plugins i am looking for (was familar to it from vbulletin's "related threads" feature.) I think it is very aluable. I will install it once that server became alive again. Thanks.

Yup,the plugin is just awesome!
But AFAIK,the site has been down for more than 1 month so far!

ThreeGuineaWatch · 01-29-2007, 10:48 AM

Hi,

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this one yet:

Social Bookmarks

and this is always helpful:

Sitemap

Cheers,

casperl · 01-29-2007, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Yup,the plugin is just awesome!
But AFAIK,the site has been down for more than 1 month so far!

Hmm, that is bad. Anybody have any idea where can i find that software if the server is down?