Top 10 WordPress Plugins
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I’ve been a WordPress user for many years, and during that time I have seen a lot of plugins. I have compiled the following not only to share my favorite plugins with you, but also to hopefully make your life as blogger easier. All of the plugins listed below are currently in use, or have been used, on this site.
Advanced Category Excluder
This plugin helps to manage where posts should appear, and where they should not.
cforms
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.
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.
Recent Comments
Retrieves a customizable list of your most recent comments.
Search Everything
Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts (including private posts).
Similar Posts
Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags.
Sociable
Automatically adds links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
Wordpress Thread Comment
wp thread comment allows users to reply directly to other comments and uses a clean Ajax form.
WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced paging navigation system to your WordPress blog.
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September 23, 2008 @ 8:38 am
Hey, nice list of useful plugins.
On the other hand I really appreciate that, my plugin is the first in your list
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zacheos
Nice… I use the category excluder to keep my daily marketing tips from flooding the rest of the blog. Nice work
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October 15, 2008 @ 4:49 am
He’re another one for you to check out - Kaltura’s Interactive Video plugin. This is not just another video embed tool - the plugin enables you to enhance your blog with a full video experience. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
Check it out and download it here: http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?general&campaign=wordpress-comments
Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4
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