Top 13,5 Wordpress Plugins That I Use
OK. Long way back from plenty of reading that I came through on the weekend, now it’s time to spell out Wordpress plug-ins that I excessively use in blogs:
A brilliant must have one . It works pretty well being used on each post and for the whole site. Well, it’s hard to say how would it go without it, but who cares…simple the core one if you need the organic search. I does allow specifying the page apperance in google and has entry form for practically non limited number of keywords associated with the post.
Initially, I’ve made a mistake using WP default numeric permalinks that are uselles when you track back page analytics. Having referrals to these posts already at place the migration could be very troubled without this bolt-on. I just simply intalled it, named the old permalinks strusture in the plug-in settings as “/?p=#” andthen changed permalinks to the standard them to “/%postname%/”. Now analytics is totally readable plus old referrals are redirected to the correct page.
Once blog has a structure, it is handy to make the sitemap with certain rules. This one does it pretty well.
Well, not quite sure that this is in use. All in one SEO generally covers most seo needs. But some tags are keyworded as well.
Having many tags this addon makes a drop down list in the tag field. Very usefull for the comprehensive tag list.
Must have another one. Apart from the Google Analytics this one works online. The only concern of when it actually counts our own visits. This was manually excluded from google analytics script but the plug-in shows visitor results that are different from analytics.
It generaly make a descent graph of visitors, crawlers, rss reads, serach engain referrals, referalls from other sites, OSes and browsers and so on.
Twitter Tools
I gave this uplifting trend a go in my case and get quite satisfying results . The add-on allows to publish automatically new post announcements in the mapped twit account.
Fantastic tool that backups database automatically and even sends me the backup file via email.
A reader popped into some particular post could be interested to keep browsing the related materials on the site. The plug-in perfectly fits the purpose and generates a list of related posts at the end of the post. Very handy to my mind.
WYSWYG. Better than publishing direct email.
Every post can be printed out and this quite demanded for recipes for example. The tool does that pretty good.
Gonna be tested quite soon but seems to be all right if you need some kind of the donate button.
Makes caching of the blog appearance. So basically it serves the perfomance increase. The only drawback that I found is in having rotating images control where the first image being cached still shown all over the whole session. Not critical though.
Nice animated cloud… being off however. Simply it just undermines you tags seobility.
Well, folks and girls that is what I use so far. If you recommend some great ones being skipped, you comments are highly appreciated.
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3 Comments on Top 13,5 Wordpress Plugins That I Use
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Ilya Genkin on
Mon, 20th Apr 2009 5:13 pm
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svox on
Mon, 20th Apr 2009 5:29 pm
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Ilya Genkin on
Mon, 20th Apr 2009 6:19 pm
Nice one!
Mine plugins are:
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget - Quite nice. Adds “Add This” button instead of “Share and Enjoy”. It covers much more social networks.
FeedBurner FeedSmith - The best way for burning feeds.
Will definitely check the other ones. Especially the ContactForm and DatabaseBackup.
What was the problem with Google Analytics and the old links style?
Cheers Ilya. I didnt have time to plug the feedburners but certainly need to
Well, Google Analytics is quite comprehensive one but lacks to show full refferals to forum threads for example pointing to your post. The other issue is in visitor number per day that differs from what I see in the stats addon. I tend to trust google more but still curious why it’s the case.
Old links that I mentioned are blog permalinks. Once you see smth like “2009/04/15/surfers-paradise-gold-coast-qld-australia/” over your post - it’s ok.
I started blog with the default settings initally and seen “?p=127″ page links.
When changed them, I needed to keep referrals from other places to the particular post records as is. That was the issue and the plagin serves fine 
A-ha! My initial thoughts were correct at the time when I was configuring my blog.
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