50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging

thomas | 11/12/07  #

Custom Query String - set the number of posts (custom queries) for every single page on your website like categories, archives, or search results pages.

Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog | 11/12/07  #

This is a most EXCELLENT article. I’ve spent some time searching for such a list but only found some intermediate level lists that were mere preferences rather than with the goal of powerblogging in mind. Your experience is invaluable.

Thanks,
Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog

Ben | 11/12/07  #

I second the suggestion of Custom Query String. Great list though. Very helpful.

Techblissonline.com | 11/12/07  #

Headspace is also a good SEO plugin…

u-psa | 11/12/07  #

Respect, thanks and tausend Dank!

This plug-ins are really very helpful for high-quality content management!

Im writing the same article about Joomla CMS extentions, which are helpful for easy and semiautomated Joomla Blogging. There are not many plattforms, which give so much extentions and freedom on publishing methods as Wordpress and Joomla CMS.

Sangesh | 11/12/07  #

Wordpress rocks, but wordpress with power pluggins will add more ammo to your ammunitions.

You will be twice as much stronger.

Cheers.

David | 11/12/07  #

additions

Trackback Validator - *extremely* valuable - highly underutilized
http://seclab.cs.rice.edu/proj/trackback/

Wordpress PDA - makes simple mobile phone site
http://imthi.com/wp-pda

attribtuion link welcomed

Davinder | 11/12/07  #

Timeless post, it is going to my bookmarks… keep rocking!

Balakumar Muthu | 11/12/07  #

Great List buddy!!

Abdul Rahman | 11/12/07  #

Thanks a lot for this list. I never knew the existence of Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin…

Hope you will make more list like this one in future.

- Abdul Rahman

flyingtiger | 11/12/07  #

I believe the best plugin for inserting adsense into posts is the “All in One Adsense and YPN” plugin:

http://www.linewbie.com/wordpress-plugins/all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn

Terinea Weblog | 11/12/07  #

A fantastic list which is well worth bookmarking!
My Favs are:-
- All in one SE
- Google XML sitemap

Jamie

Brown Baron | 11/12/07  #

Awesome list. I’ll be looking over a few of these. Thanks

Rodzi at 101stuffs.com | 12/12/07  #

Great collection of plugins for total newbies to explore.. Awesome job!

Style Snatch | 14/12/07  #

I’m interesting in a plugin to serve geo located ads. Any idea ?

maestroalberto | 14/12/07  #

For spam the best one surely is Hiddy

http://hiddy.etechs.it/

Ben | 15/12/07  #

great list! thanks for sharing

Tom Colvin | 15/12/07  #

I love plugins! I would also recommend StatsPress and WP-Polls, once traffic is beginning to build up. Both can be used to gain insight into your readers. Thanks for your list, which includes a number that are new to me. Especially like your brief description for each one — very helpful.

Pasquale | 15/12/07  #

Incredible!
Great List! Thanks a lot

Freetagger | 15/12/07  #

Beautiful, some new Plugins for me.

NetzNews | 15/12/07  #

Very finest Plugin Index.
If is so much importent.
goood Luck NN

hebrink | 15/12/07  #

waw… there are so many useful plugins, thanks for the info.

Dustin Brewer | 16/12/07  #

Great list of add-ons, I just recently migrated by custom blog to Wordpress so I’m in the business of finding random plugins right now. I’m trying not to get too carried away with features.

I have seen some sites that have entirely too many options that make everything a little confusing when all you want to do is read the post.

Lana | 17/12/07  #

Great list, a lot to learn.
Somebody, please, explain why can’t I see at the WP Admin Page for Plugins the plugin I’ve uploaded to FTP? I can’t see it, I can’t activate it. Do I have to chmod anywhere?

Veron | 17/12/07  #

This is an awesome list. Most of the plugins that I’m using are on this list. There are many more I could use, especially the RSS-related ones.

Great job

Lynne | 17/12/07  #

Thanks for this great list! I just finished installing the math comment spam plugin and am looking at a couple others to add as well. I’ve linked to this post on my site, this is valuable information!

Dru | 17/12/07  #

You’ve saved me a ton of time by compiling and sharing this list. A couple of these plugins are going really helpful additions. Thank you!

The first plugin I now install on a new blog is “PlugInstaller”. Gets me out of ftp mode.

VDIAS | 18/12/07  #

Great list, Thankz!

Nadim | 21/12/07  #

great post to let every one know on one place what to choose rather than search for each one

Vladimir | 22/12/07  #

What about Theme Test Drive for safely testing new themes live on your blog? http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/theme-test-drive

Cruiser | 27/12/07  #

You missed forum plugins… Best one is over at:

Simple Forum.

SearchSAHomes | 27/12/07  #

Great post with a great list of Wordpress Plugins. I’m starting a new blog and now I have a great list of plugins to use. Thanks

VagabondoDigitale | 31/12/07  #

Good Collection.. Great ! Thx.

Glen L Graham | 8/01/08  #

I loved the article I found some useful goodies for my blog thanks.

Live Large | 9/01/08  #

Awesome List! Great Job!

Niyaz PK | 10/01/08  #

Thanks for the list..

techminds | 19/01/08  #

Thank you, this is a great post. We mentioned you on our site.

annwag | 25/01/08  #

What a great list! I’ve just started my blog, and this is just what I needed to find today. Thanks!

Anna Hackman | 27/01/08  #

I would also add Wordpress automatic upgrade. It is a life saver on updating wordpress. I never used the upgrade plug-in that you mentioned.

I also like better comments manager too because I hate going back and responding to commenters in a particular post. With this plug-in you can enter right there in the comment section of wordpress.

One thing I have found,the more plug-ins the slower the site. Has anyone else found this too? Plus I need a popular article sidebar plug-in for Wp 2.3.2. I just want my most popular read article to show up on a side bar. Simple.

Any suggestions. I tried Alex King’s popularity plug-in. I want something that just shows up on the sidebar. Anna http://www.green-talk.com

htwo | 31/01/08  #

I just recently converted my site to WordPress and this will really help me save time searching for all the great plugins. Thanks!

mitcho | 4/02/08  #

I would recommend my plugin, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin as an alternative to the Related Entries plugin. My new plugin does not require any SQL query or any tampering with theme files, and limits the number of related entries produced by a “relatedness” threshold rather than an arbitrary number of posts. Let me know if you have any questions!

mitcho

Sim Kamsan | 20/02/08  #

Great tutorial. thanks

JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes | 9/03/08  #

I’ve viewed dozens of these lists and usually don’t find anything new at all. You not only had some wordpress plugins I’d never heard of that do things I don’t currently have any solution for - but the way you categorized them and described them made it much easier to decide which ones I needed to download.

thanks - a great resource!

Dunn | 10/03/08  #

Awesome list! Thank you for posting it!

Welcome to Paradise | 10/03/08  #

This is an awesome article. I’ve downloaded more than 30 of them.

Thanks mate.

Chris Thomson | 13/03/08  #

Thanks for this great list. Also, some of these plugins won’t be needed with WordPress 2.5+ including “Full Text Feed”.

Just found this through one of the del.icio.us RSS feeds, and I’ve subscribed!

estetik | 13/03/08  #

I need a jukebox plugins for the WP 2.3.1 Anybody have or who can wirte it for me?

Kirill | 13/03/08  #

Great list.Thanks..

Net Faerie | 13/03/08  #

WOW!
Wonderfully useful article!
Thanks a lot, will share this

Squeaky | 14/03/08  #

Wow, this is even better than the previous post about plugins I found on your blog. I am pretty excited about checking some of these plugins out and getting them setup on my blog.

I am new to blogging and have 13 readers on my blog now. Man, I am impressed with the amount of readers you have…

Hope | 15/03/08  #

would be nice if the send email plugin could open in a pop up window and look like the one on the guardian newspaper!!

hitman | 27/03/08  #

Thats perfect article! I ll add this article my blog now.
Thanks!
Mehmet Tahta

Stephen | 27/03/08  #

Wow! Thank you for your post, it was very helpful!

Divva1 | 11/04/08  #

You could add to your list the new Divva plugin for WordPress: DivvaFlip

DivvaFlip 1.0 : make your photos galleries more glamorous with a flipping engine on your WordPress blog.
A very cool website with quality photos. it’s fun , easy and it’s free : so enjoy !

Web 2.0 & Usability Blog | 14/04/08  #

There’s nothing like adding a new plugin onto your wordpress blog!

Good list btw.

nakliyat | 15/04/08  #

Thanks for this great list. Also, some of these plugins won’t be needed with WordPress 2.5+ including “Full Text Feedâ€. see you all

Healthy recipes and meal ideas | 30/04/08  #

Thanks for sharing a great list of plugins i m sure it will help me in blogging

Masalaboard | 10/05/08  #

Wordpress rocks, but wordpress with power pluggins will add more ammo to your ammunitions.

You will be twice as much stronger.

Cheers.

Sarri | 18/05/08  #

Your site is very interesting

Paulszukerman | 23/05/08  #

Its a good source here.

Jocuri | 27/05/08  #

Good Collection

Hari | 27/05/08  #

Good work in this post , I’m really inspired by your post and blog. Well and im a lot from here.

Fun Free Games | 3/06/08  #

your post is very helpful and I already bookmark this post, nice one!

Daven DJ Slimchopstick | 5/06/08  #

This is an Awesome Post! Thank you very much for putting all the useful tools together, it helps WP newbies a ton. Quote WP “Code is Poetry” sometime you wanna shoot yourself when you can’t crack the Codes, this save us lots of time, thanks again, stay up!

Jason King | 10/06/08  #

Some good suggestions here. I just used Google XML Sitemaps Generator and it did a great job. I also like the idea of the Theme Test Drive.

Another couple of plugins for your list, to improve WordPress’s rubbish search facility:

Search Everything - search pages, not just posts.

Search Reloaded - lists search results by relevance.

Vikram | 10/06/08  #

One of the best plugins index.Better than the Wordpress plugins site itself.Thank You

small business web design service | 15/06/08  #

very useful article Thanks

Vic | 24/06/08  #

Hi there,
Know anyone which plugin to use if I want only a part of the article to be displayed? If someone want to read more there will be a “read more” link…
On my blog right now is displayed all of article content and I don’t want this…
I’m talking about the latest 10 articles displayed on the first page of my blog.
I’m using Wordpress.
Can anyone help?

Sarpras Navas | 26/06/08  #

Good collection of plugin. I download 15 plugins of the list.

Mr. Javo | 30/06/08  #

Great plugins!! I specially like the Permalinks Migration Plugin. I was planning how to change my permalink structure but this plugin will help me a lot, thanks for sharing!

oyun hileleri | 3/07/08  #

thanks a lot…

izmir evden eve | 18/07/08  #

thank you……..

izmir evden eve | 19/07/08  #

thank you..

DJHassoo | 19/07/08  #

its really great thanks for sharing

Nik | 23/07/08  #

Great list.

I’d like to add retaggr. The wordpress plugin adds context to your blog posts and comments by providing an easy way to understand your community. It does this by providing you with a retaggr card - which is an interesting way of showing who you are, guaging credibility etc. Proper explanation and details at retaggr.com.

Faraz | 25/07/08  #

hi very nice collection need plugin for for masking posts. The content which is hidden can only be seen by registered user.Please help me out thaks

bursa reklam | 31/07/08  #

thank you.

Guide-Online-Surveys | 4/08/08  #

This list has been most helpful. Thank you.

Alex | 7/08/08  #

Hello,

A comprehensive and detailed plugin collection. Some of them I will into the limelight and most of them are known to me or I use these plug-ins already.

Ad Rotator look I need. Thanks for the tips.

Alex greetings …

ilaçlama | 9/08/08  #

Thank you for sharing…

fid | 16/08/08  #

very very nice sharing..thanks for this admin

Michael Hampton | 18/08/08  #

The URL for Bad Behavior is wrong.

Lisa Bennett | 19/08/08  #

We just released a new plugin that allows you to add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. 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://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video

Examples and pictures are on the plugin forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4

Lisa Bennett | 28/08/08  #

We just released a new plugin that allows you to add interactive video capabilities to your blog! Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. 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?campaign=wp-comments
Examples and pictures are on the plugin forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4

Cher | 29/08/08  #

Good Tutorial! But is there any plugin to add the tags for the blog post?

blogsarticle | 9/09/08  #

The URL for Bad Behavior is wrong.

james | 14/09/08  #

wow… nice wordpress resource..
i particularly liked the Admin Management Plugins.
thanks for posting.

hip hop | 15/09/08  #

Great List!!

rudytarigan | 17/09/08  #

they are works

sangeet | 17/09/08  #

Excellent list of plugins. I have given a stumble to your blog.

Aloevera | 19/09/08  #

This is amazing, I was looking for a list of best plugin for wordpress and here it is.

Thanks for sharing the resource

Ben | 1/10/08  #

Very, very nice article. This is the best I found ; not too many, exactly the plugins a WP website should run.

Great job =)

john braman | 1/10/08  #

i came here just for a couple of plugins, and instead i picked up some good usage for other plugins that im going to start using on all my blogs. ive only recently just started blogging and still learning as i go.

thanks for helpful post..:)
John Braman

Michael | 1/10/08  #

This is an awesome post. Thanks for writing it. I just recently added a whole bunch of these plugins to my wordpress blog.

Investment | 2/10/08  #

Wow, awesome list. Many thanks.

Rahul | 4/10/08  #

Great list of powerful plugins which i hadn’t noticed earlier. I’ve download few of them and bookmarked this page.

Thanks for sharing this. Cheers.

Reza | 5/10/08  #

thanks

awii9667 | 11/10/08  #

Excellent posts , you can take a look and get what you want