30 Essential Blog Plugins

October 27th, 2009 | Author admin

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This blog is still new and I have just installed my ‘30 Essential Blog Plugins’, and would like to share these with you.

They are in no particular order of any kind.

Zemanta

Get suggested links, images, related content, and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and more efficient.

Broken Link Checker

This useful plug in checks your posts for broken links and notifies you on the dashboard if it finds any.

Simple Tags

Tagging simply. Autocompletion, suggested tags, tag cloud widget, mass edit tags, related post tags.

Twitter Tools

Provides complete integration between your Wordpress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog, and your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your Wordpress admin panel.

SmartYouTube

Easily insert You Tube videos in your posts. Simplest of the YouTube plugins.

FeedBurner FeedSmith

This plug in detects all ways to access your feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every subscriber.

YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin)

Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorythm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A template feature allows customization of the display.

MaxblogpressPingOptimizer

This overrides the Wordpress automatic pingign function, and just pings when you first publish your post, and not each time you edit and update as Wordpress does.

Photo Dropper

Add Creative Commons licensed photos to your posts from Flickr.

Quick Flickr Widget

Display up to 20 of your latest Flickr submissions in your sidebar.

Sociable

Automatically adds links on your posts to all your favourite social networking sites, and adds the pretty icons.

Odiogo

Gives your blog a voice. Adds ‘Listen Now’ button to your blog so readers can listen to your posts and download podcasts.

Google News Sitemap Generator

This generates an XML sitemap for submission to Google.

CommentLuv

This plug in shows a link to the last post of the commenters blog when they leave a comment at yours. Rewards your readers and encourages more comments.

Wordpress Backup

Backsup your upload directory, current theme directory, and plugins directory to a zip file, and can optionally be emailed to your email address.

Login Lock Down

This adds extre security to your blog by restricting the rate at which failed logins can be re attempted.

Permalink Redirect

Redirects all ugly looking characters on the end of the URL.

PingPress Fm

Connects your blog to Ping.fm, where you can connect other social networks and spread your blog content.

DJ Email Publish

Publishes your blog posts to other blogs by email

Livespace Sync

This plug in allows postings to your Live Space blog.

Top Commentators

Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site.

Social Follow

This plugin allows users the ability to add links to their social media profiles in their blog.

Askimet

As most bloggers know Askimet checks comments to see if it looks like spam, and informs you.

Do Follow

Removes the nofollow attribute that Wordpress adds in comments.

SEO Friendly Images

Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C valid.

Simple Archive Generator

A plugin which lists all posts by category on one page.

Thank Me Later

Send an automatic thank you email to those who comment on your blog. Engage your readers by reminding them to check back for responses or new blog posts.

WP-Polls

Adds a poll to your blog post or page. Customizable via templates and css styles.

Widlink Widget

Created especially for Alex Jeffreys Coaching Students.

Clickbank Hop Ad

Allows you to create Ckickbank ads in your sidebar, based on your chosen keywords.

If you have any ‘can’t live without blog plugins please share.

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mickfallon:

November 2, 2009 at 6:57 am

Hi Sue ,
just found out your a fellow student of Alexes
so just wanted to welcome you.
some great plugins here Sue .
thanks for sharing them.
cheers
mick

admin:

November 2, 2009 at 9:06 am

Thanks Mick for your comments – I have already discovered some more great plugins so I will probably be updating the post soon – a few months and it could be 100 Essential Blog Plugins!!

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November 12, 2009 at 9:43 pm

http://www.sueworthington.com is very informative. The article is very professionally written. I enjoy reading http://www.sueworthington.com every day.

Lee Parry:

November 17, 2009 at 4:42 am

Hi Sue,
As a fellow alex jeffreys student I think your blog is terrific by the way, this post is awesome there are some great plugins here that I will be using for sure, If you can remember, I left a post on the AJ forum about Help with setting my blog up, I would be really greatful if you could look at mine and leave comments. I will be coming back here for sure Sue…

Many Thanks
Lee Parry

November 26, 2009 at 6:21 am

Hi Lee
A delayed thank you for visiting and commenting
Sue

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November 29, 2009 at 6:39 pm

there are some good ones here, some i haven’t seen before, thanks for the ideas, i think some of these would be great for me. you can always improve your site.

Roberta:

December 7, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Sue, that’s a wonderful list of plugins! I won’t use all of them, but probably most of them, as time permits. I’m always intrigued by new stuff, so will want to try the ones I haven’t seen before. If they work great for my needs …cool… if not, they are easy to remove.

Roberta