The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2012
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Updated for 2012: One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there is probably a WordPress plugin that will allow you to do it.
This list will provide you with 15 of the best WordPress plugins available today. Only the 15 best WordPress plugins have made it while anything less than amazing has been kicked to the street.
Each of these WordPress plugins are used at Site Sketch 101 and I personally recommend each of them to you. The following plugins are posted in the order that I recommend them.
The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2012
- W3 Total Cache – This is one of the best WordPress plugins for two reasons. First, it makes your pages load way faster. Second, since it stores static versions of your site, it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason.
- HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple- Move over All in one SEO. There’s a new guy in town. HeadSpace provides you with the features you need to drive your site to the top. People spend way to much time working on SEO and too little time writing great content. This plugin let’s you put your focus back where it belongs. It takes care of all the SEO work that your blog will need.
- Gravity Forms – This is without question the best WordPress plugin for forms. There is no competition. This form creates posts, allows image and media uploads, allows conditional logic, and so much more. It is the all-in-one form plugin for WordPress.
- MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja – This WordPress plugin is amazing as it massively cuts down on the amount of time it takes to promote affiliate products throughout your site. It converts keywords that you identify, tracks clicks, and much more. You won’t have to keep chasing down your affiliate links when they’re all stored in your WordPress dashboard and doing the work for you.
- WP-DBManager – This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.
- Thank Me Later – This plugin is great. It sends an email to all first-time visitors. You can write up the email to remind them about your RSS feed or just to invite them to connect with you personally. I do both.
- WP-PageNavi – Those ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links are boring. With WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever page they want. Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.
- SEO Smart Links – Do you inter-link your articles? You should. Linking within an article to other articles is a great way to build Page Rank throughout your site and it’s a great way to get readers to find your other articles on similar subjects. This plugin will interlink keywords to your other articles for you.
- Digg Digg Social Sharing – This simply WordPress plugin is what powers the floating social icons to the left of each post here at Site Sketch 101. With an easy to access Twitter icon, your friends and readers will be able to easily share and promote your content.
- Feedburner Circulation – The era of the feedburner chicklets are over. Install the Feedburner Circulation WordPress plugin and you’ll be able to display your subscriber count just as you see in the top right corner of this page.
- Revision Control – With the revisions feature of WordPress, it doesn’t take long for your database to get bloated and begin slowing down your site. With the Revision Control WordPress Plugin you can limit the number of post revisions that remain in storage. I have mine set to 2.
- Tweet Old Post – If you’ve been engaging and building a community of friends on Twitter, then this WordPress plugin is the perfect way to sprinkle your posts into your tweets. It has options to add hashtags, leading text and more.
- Widget Context – With the Widget Context WordPress plugin, you’ll be able to pick and choose which pages you want sidebar widgets to appear on. You can literally create different sidebars for different pages and sections of your site with this.
- WordPress Editorial Calendar – This plugin provides a crisp, clean editorial calendar of your posts both past and present. You can drag and drop articles from one date to another, edit them and much more. This is an amazing organizational tool.
- Pop Up Domination – Popup Domination is the absolute best WordPress plugin in existence today for capturing leads. It’s loaded with different themes and theme option to match the look and feel of your site and I’m telling you that there are absolutely no popup software available that compares to the style and effectiveness of Popup Domination.
Special Note: I don’t like popups, but I can’t argue with how incredibly effective this one is for rapidly building a massive list. If you’re going to use one then popup domination is the best WordPress plugin in the industry.
Group Discussion
WordPress plugins are amazing little creations. In a matter of just seconds you can bring new realms of possibilities to your website.
Which do you consider to be the best WordPress plugins that you use on your site and how many plugins do you use at your site? Do you use any of these plugins? Do you have any other WordPress plugins that you would highly recommend to the group here?
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Brankica said:
I use some of these and after this post, I will probably use more of them.
I can’t seem to get the cache plugin to work. At least this is how it looks to me. I says it is working but I can’t see any improvements with my blog’s speed.
Hope you will do some tutorials for these plugins for us non-techie types.
I noticed that after the last Digg Digg update I lost the Stumble Upon button, what happened there?
Thanks for the list, I will put it to good use.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’ll be glad to put together some tutorials. I’m not sure what to say about that Digg Digg issue as I just updated mine this morning and my StumbleUpon button is still intact.
An alternative to W3 Total Cache is WP Super Cache. It’s actually much easier to use and as such you’ll see the improvements much easier. However, W3 Total Cache, the plugin that I recommended above, provides lots of additional cache options that WP Super Cache doesn’t touch.
My favorite feature of this one is it’s ability to interface with Amazon S3 and move your large files onto the Amazon CloudFront network which drastically speeds up a site for people trying to access it from the other side of the world.
Shayne said:
W3 Total Cache works fantastic with a CDN.
Viruthagiri said:
Nice collection of wordpress plugins. I like digg plugin very much.
alain said:
informative. thank you!
Dodge Neon SRT4 said:
Digg Digg is not working. The plugin have some problems in my blog. Anyone having the plugin working?
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Madeline said:
I had this issue too! I ended up loading them one by one using code I found by googling each one then putting it in as text on my side bar. I’m sure if Digg Digg working it would be much easier and prettier.
Taylor Theis said:
I had issues with Digg Digg just now too. I had only the floating bar and it worked fine, but produced a bunch of arbitrary text in front of my posts, not cool. If anyone knows how to fix this issue I’d greatly appreciate it!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s crazy. I’ve not heard of the arbitrary text issue. I use the Digg Digg floating bar here and I don’t seem to have that issue.
Dennis Marshall said:
I also had an issue with it cooperating with a facebook comments plugin.
I decided to go with Sexy bookmarks; although I do miss the floating, i can live without
Putu Yoga said:
Ever try WP Super Cache ? Give it a shot
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Nicholas Cardot said:
As I mentioned in my comment above, I’ve used it, it’s simpler to use, but W3 Total Cache has a lot more functionality.
natedevore said:
Have you tried using tools.pingdom.com to test load speed? I spent a few hours tweaking w3tc and finally went from 8 second load times to around 4.
Great post, lots of good plugins here!
BJ said:
#7 is not true, just because most ‘free templates’ have delete this basic ‘forward + backward’ navi. will not tell me it’s boring..
Is designing your theme all gone?
I hate having 500 plugins in my WP site doing just a very small feature to my site, and every time i log-in to my admin i have to update at least one plugin.
I think we need to learn to keep things simple or less on plugins, WP is a great tool to build your website-/blog but we should not drive to much on it.. Before you know you can’t see what your doing around your site because all the plugins.
Keep it clean, only use plugins if you can’t code it yourself or if it’s a real must have feature..
a navigation (custom like) plugin is not a must have.. (you do this by chancing your source code)
I wish #7 was a very very very underrated plugin on WP, called: Art Direction Plugin!
Thats a must have, How many blogs turn out real-boring because all pages or blogposts have the same feeling (layout) Most of the time it’s just a WALL of TEXT you have to read without any or just one graphic. We need this plugin to please your readers eyes.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I think you make an excellent case here, but I passionately disagree with you. I think that WP-PageNavi is an awesome plugin and I don’t think that it helps your case to argue with exaggerative gestures like, “I hate having 500 plugins in my WP site doing just a very small feature…”
The truth is that if you have a good caching program like W3 Total Cache, you could run 5,000 plugins and would put very little strain on any decent server.
Plus, a WordPress plugin like WP-PageNavi offers a greatly increased user interface making it way easier for your users to navigate throughout the site.
I see very fer well-designed websites that have links at the bottom that say nothing more than “next page” or “last page.”
Pagination should be a core feature of WordPress, but since it isn’t, this becomes an essential piece of the puzzle.
And as far as usability and consistency goes, you would actually want to avoid creating posts that are laid out different from one another unless you are doing it for specific reason such as showcasing certain types of products but that certainly isn’t the need for the majority of bloggers.
Seth W said:
Agreed.
Plugins are an essential part of adding key features to WP core.
The WP development team realizes there are thousands of features they could add that would help bloggers but it would bloat the overall wordpress core. Besides bloating the core many features are only used by some bloggers. Thus plugins were born.
Getting a great Cache system in place, ie. W3 Total Cache and most of your multiple plugin problems are solved. The only major challenge plugins cause are incompatible code between plugins and themes.
WP’s the best because of plugins like WP-Navi. The easier my readers can find my content the better. The end.
Robin Sampson said:
Thanks, I was under the impression I shouldn’t load up on plug ins. Now I feel better.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Some people say that you shouldn’t, because WordPress is a heavy CMS as far as how much CPU it can take to load it, but if you heavily cache your pages with one of the caching plugins I mentioned above, you shouldn’t have too much to worry about.
Brian said:
Plug-in extensibility is a great feature of WP but I have to agree that, like any other good thing, it can be carried too far and, like Firefox extensions, it relies on the somewhat shaky assumption that a critical plug-in will be supported for all future versions of the underlying platform.
There are plug-ins that let you run a membership site on WP, for instance, but if that were a critical aspect of my website, I certainly wouldn’t do it that way. I’d use a separate app that is specifically designed for that purpose.
Massimiliano Arione said:
what about wptouch? I’m reading this article from android and it’s not friendly displayed at all
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Excellent recommendation. I think I’ll spend a little bit of time this evening beautifying this site up for my mobile friends like you. Thanks for that important reminder.
Seth W said:
Mobile’s pretty important. Wp-Touch does a great job with making mobile easy for blog readers.
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Ana | Traffic Generation Cafe said:
Wow, Nicholas – you managed to surprise me!
You are right, there are a few gem in their that I haven’t heard before; look forward to testing them out.
Ana
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Ana. I’m glad to hear that you were able to find a few new ones.
Ana | Traffic Generation Cafe said:
I actually submitted the post to SERPd, Nicholas, and look it made the “most popular” list for the week.
Check it out at: http://blog.serpd.com/weekly-roundup-1-7-11.html
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Steve Roy said:
Thanks for the list, Nick. There are a ton of these posts online, but knowing the quality of your work, this is one that I know I can trust.
By the way, given your creative mind, when are you going to release a new plugin??
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Nicholas Cardot said:
What new plugin would you like me to make? I’ve only ever made one other plugin and I got a lot of help on that one. I think I could put one together now, but if you have an idea, just let me know.
Steve Roy said:
Let me think about it. I will let you know what I come up with.
Also, what about Headspace is superior to All In One SEO?
Is it worth the switch or will I have to redo all my keywords?
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Nicholas Cardot said:
All in one SEO is also an excellent plugin and if it’s already doing the trick then I wouldn’t recommend switching over toe HeadSpace. I use Headspace because it makes it really easy to add my webmaster verification and other codes that I want included on my pages.
Garen said:
Platium SEO is pretty good too. I had an error on my site a while ago and had to can All in one, but use it on all my other sites.
Rohit said:
Hmmmm i also found some error with All-in-one-seo..
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AJWMedia said:
Do you know of a plugin where I can show only 1-2 paragraphs as a tease but hid the rest if you are not a member? I have one now wp-member but there’s a bug in it when image excepts are added, it shows up code, so I have to block the full content unless you login. Help I would love a blog in for that. Love this site, new laptop new sites I’m finding. Cheers, Newbie where.
Jeb said:
Hey AJDub…
You could try User Access Manager. It allows you to specify either a ‘Sorry, you must be a member to view this page’ kind of message, or designate that all the content before a tag is to be viewable, but beyond that they must be logged in..
Hope it works for you. Cheers…
AJWMedia said:
thanks, seems the plugin’s out of date, (only for 3.5) I’m going to just buy this one for 40 bucks. it’s called ‘WP eMember’
wickedmike said:
Loving that list because i don’t know some of them and so looking forward to give them a bash. Super thanks!
PS: Hopefully only happening to me but your blog has squeezed the body into the middle at about 250pixels. First time it has happened.
Nicholas Cardot said:
When you left this comments, I was working on making the site mobile friendly. That particular plugin didn’t work but I just switched over to WPTouch and now I’ve got a good mobile site. I’ll be spending some time continuing to mod the mobile version, but at least it won’t have to shut down the rest of the site to make it happen any more.
Kevin said:
This is yet another great list of plugins. I’m a big fan of Digg Digg! I took out the rest of the social networking plugins and stuck with just one to make it easier for everyone to share. I like reply me but I use another Comment Reply Notification. I’m sure they work the same way. Great Post!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
What does your comment reply notification do? Does it notify of all comments or just the comments that are responses directly to that particular comment?
Kevin said:
It works for all replies mine or the readers on any of my blog post.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I would be upset if I received every other email that showed up on the post. I only want to receive notices of the ones that are direct responses to mine.
I have the option on this site to opt-in to receive all comments, but it’s only if people choose that option. If you push that onto people when they’re not looking then many will be weary of returning to leave another comment lest they be faced with another onslaught of emails.
Or did you mean that your plugin does something else?
Kevin said:
Yeah I started following this blog but he has this plugin where it automatically subscribe the commenter to the comment. I was so annoyed because I would get emails left to write with each new comments and it’s not even a reply to my comment. My plugin is just for the replies that’s all.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Okay. That’s makes sense. I don’t mind receiving a notification that someone has responded to me directly. It’s makes the interaction more fun in my opinion but all emails…not for me.
Thanks for sharing your plugin with us.
Derek Jensen said:
I use Gravity Forms and have found them to really help the submissions to be better organized and I love the ability to customize them to your needs.
I will have to try out “Widget Context” as that sounds interesting to have different widget on certain pages.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I love gravity forms. I use it both for guest post submissions (since it actually creates the post for me) and I use it for work requests as it allows me to present different fields based on the type of work that someone says that they want done.
Although I have widget context installed, I think I have the same sidebar currently on all my pages. If you want to mix it up though, it’s a terrific plugin to make it happen.
Derek Jensen said:
That guest post submission is a neat idea and I will just have to play around with the different widgets on different pages.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Have fun storming the castle.
Tom Huntington said:
Thank you, Nicholas.
I just finished reading your list. I want to again “sing your praises”. I don’t know if it’s me who made a shift to being more open to learning the “tech stuff”, but I’ve read other “best plug-ins” posts before and my eyes glaze over quickly. I read yours all the way through without any “eye glazing” and I’m excited to try to install at least a few of these plug-ins MYSELF!!!
Thank you, Nicholas, for your clear and caring writing-sharing-guidance.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m glad to hear that the post didn’t make your eyes bleed, err…I mean glaze over.
I’m glad that you found it useful.
Nico Brooks said:
Great list, I will definitely try some of these out.
One small, geeky point on #8: interlinking between articles/posts on a site won’t build PageRank, PageRank can only come from the outside. But it will help distribute PageRank, and keywords in anchor tags will help the destination page rank for those keywords.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Great point. You’re absolutely right about that, however, if you have multiple sites, it’s a great way to build a web of links between them. Perhaps that would have been a more appropriate concept for me to have pointed toward.
mark said:
Hi Nick,
I like this list. Though, I would say that since I am using most of them already…
Gravity Forms and MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja are both new to me. I will have a look at them later.
One that is not on your list that I just got and am really loving is called “Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin”.
It is made by the same guy who did commentLuv & it is great. And, it is so, so simple. All that it does is to add a checkbox that commentators much click prior to submitting.
It (currently) seems to be killing most of my spam.
Anyway, have a nice day!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
The two that you mentioned above are actually the only two in the list that are premium plugins. The Gravity forms plugin is around $35 and the Ninja Affiliate Plugin is around $100. I have both and am incredibly happy with them.
I’m very much not a fun of complicating the comment form for the users. I’ve found the Akismet works absolute wonders at catching all the spam.
My first introduction to that plugin was actually a few weeks ago. I went to leave a comment on an article and when I submitted the comment, a popup appeared telling me to prove I’m not a bot. I had to close the popup and check the box.
We’re programmed to enter a name, an email, an optional website and then pour out our hearts. The more we try to step outside the norm on this particular item, the more I find that we confuse those who want to join the conversation.
I was confused at first and had to slow down and read what my error was. I don’t want my readers to feel that way. I’d rather have extra spam in the spam filter that I have to glance through then to fend off one friend who might now want to deal with the extra hassle.
Having said that, the slogan on this site is ‘an artist approach to online business’ which means quite simply that you can have your reasons for using it and be 100% in the right and I can have my reasons for not using at and also be 100% in the right.
Find what works for you and go with it.
mark said:
Well, that is a good point, and one that I had not considered. And, you are right. That pop up is potentially confusing.
Having said that, there has not been a single real comment that akismet labeled as spam (which is the problem I went looking for something) since I got the checkbox.
Well, I am going to need to think about this one.
Thanks for your point of view Nick.
Have a nice day
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Nicholas Cardot said:
And please only take it as a point of view. I know I probably came across as bullying my opinion like I’m right and you’re wrong, but that’s not the way I intended.
I appreciate the feedback and wish you all the best as you work out what the best way to move forward is for you.
mark said:
Ha – a bully? No, I appreciate the honesty and your point of view. If I thought that I knew everything about blogging, I probably would not have been as interested as I was to read this post.
Its still enabled right now, but we’ll see – I am working on changing quite a few other things now, so my attention is hard to get. Even for me.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Good. I’m glad to hear that. I’m constantly trying to learn as much as I can.
Kars said:
Hey Mark, I have recently seen this used on a blog. As I wanted to comment I saw the option to click the checkbox as an anti-spam measure. I also found it a bit weird and confusing. I think Nicholas has a good point here. For usability reasons it’s probably better to not ask for more than the expected when trying to fill in a comment form.
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Mike Childs said:
Found your list looking for a good WordPress backup plugin. Great list – thanks.
Nicholas Cardot said:
If you use that DB Manager plugin that I mentioned above, it will automatically email you your databse backup which includes all of your posts and comments as often as you prescribe it to. I have mine set every day.
However, having said that, it’s still a great idea to login to your CPanel and manually back up all the files and folders about once or twice a month. Without those, you can easily get all your articles back online, but you’ll have to re-upload any images and theme adjustments that have been made.
Mark Heinrichs said:
Backup creator is a great plugin to backup and clone websites.
ah hong said:
Thanks for the sharing Nick. Going to try out the Headspace SEO plugin now. Is it really better than All In One SEO?
Amitash.com said:
SEO Ultimate plugin is better than both. Just my 2 cents.
Nicholas Cardot said:
It’s a bit more complicated and it requires a little bit of learning, but it has so many more features that I love it. It actually reduces the number of plugins that you need like allowing you to place your analytics code, your webmaster tools code and a whole slough of other options.
Jon Thomas said:
Thanks so much. Instead of going to bed, I’m downloading them all. Hehe…
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I think it was poor Richard who opined, “There will be sleep enough in the grave.”
Tony said:
Headspace??? How about WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/
I recently switched all of my blogs over to this plugin(previously using AIOSEO) after testing it out on my local server. It’s carries a load of functionality that I could only find by installing multiple plugins instead. Highly recommended.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m not familiar with that plugin but the way you describe it is the same way that I feel about HeadSpace. I use it to perform a whole bunch of functions at the site.
Therese Reuterswärd said:
Can you please tell me the name of the plugin that displays “My Latest Blog Post” at the bottom of a comment? Will that work in conjunction with Disqus (which I am currently running on my blog)
Thanks/Therese
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Amitash.com said:
It is called ComLuv (http://comluv.com). I’m afraid it won’t work with disqus
Nicholas Cardot said:
Yeah, it’s called ComLuv and as Amitash pointed out, it’s not compatible with Disqus.
Therese Reuterswärd said:
@Nicholas OK, thank you both!
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome, Therese. Thanks for coming by.
Amitash said:
Yeah! Thanks from me too
Amitash said:
Disqus has a new addon that supports comluv!
Rebecca Hollis said:
Hi Nick,
Can you please recommend a good lead capture (email) plug in please? Thanks for the list. I found some real gems in that!
@Beckysoial
Nicholas Cardot said:
The best in business for lead capture is probably Popup Domination.
It’s timed. It looks good. And it’s easy to configure.
Amitash said:
You can also use slidenote (if you don’t wanna pay for popup domination). You can check my website for demo.
Richard Lord said:
Hi Nick
I first found your site when looking for a plugin to do a specific task – I found what I wanted in your list of plugins for 2010.
This updated list has reminded me that things change, and it’s probably time to review my plugins, update some of them and remove those that I don’t use any more.
I’m going to try out W3 Total Cache instead of WP Super Cache.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
W3 is more complicated, but I love it because it supports so much more. I use it to interface with my CloudFront server that I have with Amazon and it really helps. I love W3. It’s excellent.
Gabriele Maidecchi said:
I use many of the plugins you mention Nicholas, I agree, the main strength of WP is the plugins available for the platform, totally awesome.
I had some problem with W3 cache as it was messing with another great plugin I am using: SexyBookmarks, very nice social sharing plugin.
I have already opened the links to 3 of the plugins in your list, thanks for sharing.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’ve had a few issues with W3 also, but that’s just because I didn’t know how to use it probably. I couldn’t get it to work with WPTouch but that was because it kept sending my files to the cloudfront and the URL’s in the theme weren’t relative to the cloud. I figured that one out a few days ago.
I’m not sure how it might have been conflicting with that plugin, but there’s probably a configuration that can be adjusted.
Kevin said:
Love it. Installed some of them immediately. Great stuff man!
Nicholas Cardot said:
Excellent! I’m glad that it was a help to you.
Rebecca Gill said:
I have to agree with you on WP-DBManager. It is by far my favorite WordPress plugin and one I add to every client website I build.
It is an absolute life savor for those of use that are freaked out by SQL!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I love it having that assurance that this site is backed up every day and that I can redeploy it if it ever gets held captive again.
Rhys said:
Hi Nicolas,
Great links but I can see SEO Smart Links being dropped off that list, largely due to it being integrated within the WordPress Core in the latest version of WordPress.
Other than that good list – love Digg Digg!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m going to look into that and if I find you’re right, which I’m confident you are as I certainly don’t doubt you, then I’ll switch it out for something like WP Touch or something else.
Thanks for giving me the heads up on that.
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing said:
I wanted headspace after another recommendation last year.
I installed it, looked at the settings page and uninstalled it. lol
If someone were to take my hand through all the settings, I’d love to try again.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
It can be pretty intense. There are three tutorials for it here at Site Sketch 101. If you type in HeadSpace into the search box they’ll come up.
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing said:
I’ll definitely keep that in mind, thanks.
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LouAnn said:
I’ll have to check those out. I also installed it after your recommendation, looked at the settings page and deactivated it.
I’m so new to all of this – I could spend hours just trying to learn about plugins. Ah, need more time!
Nicholas Cardot said:
Actually, when I update this list for 2012, I think I’m going to be recommending Yoast SEO plugin. It’s pretty amazing. Maybe give that a try and see if it helps you out a bit.
LouAnn said:
Excellent – thanks. I will try that one. And I’ll be watching for your next list!
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Lucy said:
Thanks for the best 2011 plugins review!
Lucy
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome, Lucy. I’m glad that I could help.
Janet Barclay said:
Wow, what a great list! I am always drawn to plug-in lists, but I don’t usually learn about so many I haven’t tried in one short list. This is a keeper!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m really happy to hear that, Janet. I’ve been digging through WordPress for a long time and I’m happy to share what I’ve discovered. Welcome to Site Sketch 101!
Janet Barclay said:
Thanks again! I’ve now installed the Tweet Old Posts on one of my blogs, but I’m using it opposite to the way you do – I’m retweeting older posts that my newer readers may have missed.
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Marcelo said:
Great list with some plugins I did not heard of before.
I hear from one comment above that you have made one plugin. I’m interested in translating Worpress plugins into Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), and maybe I could just start by translating yours. If you are interested, please, let me know.
Nicholas Cardot said:
My plugin is incredibly simple and not really worth being translated. It’s a plugin that powers the social media icons that you see at the bottom of the posts here. It’s called sketch bookmarks.
Zoot said:
Fan-Tastic resource! Thank you so much for sharing it. I followed your RSS and shared out your entry on my Google Reader b/c I couldn’t find a “Buzz” or “Share” icon for Google on your post itself. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one in the world who uses Google Reader as a social tool as well.
THanks again. I’ve been searching for a list like this for a few days now. This is perfect.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Yeah, I really don’t know of a lot of people who aggressively use Google Reader as a social tool although I am familiar with the features that you’re talking about there.
I’m glad that you enjoyed the list and that it was a help for you.
Andy Rockwell said:
I like the tweet old post one. Really useful! I’m gonna bookmark this post to a few sb sites. Thanks!
Nicholas Cardot said:
I appreciate that! Thanks for sharing it. I enjoy that Tweet Old Post. I almost never tweet my own posts anymore because it does it all for me. It saves time and lets me focus on connecting with people.
DrewAPicture said:
Most of these are pretty standard issue, but thanks for the tip on WordPress Editorial Calendar. I’ve been looking for a nice solution for clients of mine to juggle post orders around–especially on newsy kind of websites. Thanks for the roundup!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I love being able to drag and drop my posts around. It’s really fun to be able to do that and makes the planning process much easier. I hope it’s a big help for you.
Ingrid Abboud said:
Hey Nicholas,
Hope 2011 is treating you well so far
.
These are fantastic resources. I’ve bookmarked this page so I can refer to it later as well.
I use about 4 of these plugins and downloaded “Tweet Old Posts” a while back but still haven’t used it. I know it’s a great idea but was just a bit concerned of having it tweet “news style” posts – such as the coming of the iPad or the latest iPhone app – basically “old news” that are no longer worthy.
Any idea if we can play around with it to simply pick or check off posts you want to be retweeted or those that you don’t?
I’m also curious about HeadSpace – I hadn’t heard of it till now – but will definitely read more about it and possibly consider it since you think so highly of it.
I like the look of the Digg Digg floating icons and have seen it used on numerous sites. I currently use GetSocial (also floating) and am happy with it so far. Are you familiar with it?
I have a ridiculous amount of plugins installed and am looking to slowly disable those that don’t really benefit me or my readers in any way – plus – it may help speed my loading time a bit.
Thanks again for sharing this very helpful roundup. Will go through the rest that I don’t already know or use.
Have a great evening and all the best to you in 2011.
Cheers
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Nicholas Cardot said:
For the Tweet Old Post plugin, you can specify a date range to tweet from. I have mine set to tweet posts that are between 1 day and 14 days old so that it won’t ever share something more than two weeks old. I really only like sharing my material that is somewhat newer. I find it’s most successful.
If you’re using GetSocial, I would just recommend staying with it. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
As far as the number of plugins go, I find that as long as you have a good caching program, you can get away with quite a bit because all of those plugins only have to run once in a while.
I hope that helps a little bit.
LBN said:
Hi, I like you ‘Share this’ plugin that says ‘Get my RSS feed, subscribe by email, follow me on twitter’. Where did you get your one and what is that called so I can search for others e.g. RSS subscribe plugin. Thanks, I’m very new to blogging!
Reid Green said:
Thanks for the share. These are great sets of WP plug-ins. May I asked if which is better the All In One SEO or Headspace? I am currently using the other one.
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Bob said:
These are great I see a few I’m looking forward to trying out.
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Ryan - PauseTheMoment.com said:
Thanks a lot for this great list Nick. I’ve been following your site for a while now and I have to say that your content is top-notch.
As for the plugs, I’m definitely interested in trying out ReplyMe and the RevisionControl plugin which sounds like it’s going to help my site out quite a bit. I always wondered if there was a plugin for cleaning up the revisions. Thanks again for the great post!
Kim said:
Thanks for great list. My biggest find this year is “Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu” which redesign entire wp-admin dashboard so you can easily navigate each section within your Admin. Believe me, it can save alot of your time. “Thank Me Later” sounds a promising one, will definitely try it.
Thanks for the great list. Happy new year.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I used to use Ohz untile I discovered Fluency Admin. Give it a try. It will blow your mind.
Dino Dogan said:
Only you can write a list post on wordpress plugins and actually make it useful and unique. I find myself being both thankful and annoyed at the same time lol
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Dave from The Longest Way Home said:
Just came across you site when searching for ways to better navigate a blog.
Very impressive resource you have. Signed up to RSS, bookmarked et al.
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Ed said:
Love all the plugins above…Nothing better than gravity forms! Just starting using WordPress SEO by Yoast. Great work!
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Edward said:
Always looking forward to all your posts Nic! Keep up the great work and I will check out some of the plugins I’m not already using.
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Zalando said:
i use one of them, but i write my own plug-in for myself. Thanks so much for the list.
greets
Tomas J. said:
I´m using all this wordpress plugins, except “MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja”, is better than adsense?
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Don Gilbert said:
Great list Nick. Reminds me of a post about a year ago.
Oh ya, you should add my latest Facebook Fan Box Cache plugin to the list since it’s so needed.
http://www.electriceasel.com/plugins/wordpress/plugin-facebook-fan-box-cache
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smart said:
Great list Nicholas. I will use it all of them. Thanks
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Mark said:
Good list Nick. I use almost all of these plugins. They make life a lot easier.
hindi moviw said:
Really Your post is most important for new WP blogger such as me !
Thanks A lot for ur helping
Bryan said:
Great information, I think I’ll definately start using a lot of these plugins!
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Seth W said:
I love WordPress Editorial Calendar. I can easily write lots of quality content all at once and then make a few simple adjustments to when they are posted.
It’s been so useful I’ve got weeks worth of posts ready to go.
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AJWMedia said:
testing this one out now… seems very cool…
ken said:
i been looking for some new
really good plug ins for wordpress
thank you for the info
ps cool site i like the lay out
Chuck said:
Hey, thanks a lot. Btw you are on top of google for “best wordpress plugins”
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Jake Coventry said:
Nice article. Really interesting list of plugins for WordPress.
שיפוצים said:
the best post! i really loved it alot thank u!
Claire Bright said:
Nice list! I am currently holding 5 plug-ins on my site already. I am worried that this is causing my site to load much slower. I think I will try W3 Total Cache plug-in. See if it works for me. Many Thanks!
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Jean said:
Ohhh what a gold mine of plug in’s you’ve listed here! I’ve been wanting to interlink my posts and perform some other tasks but the sheer number of plug in’s available is overwhelming, makes choosing difficult. Thanks for putting this great list together!
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donna said:
I have just flipped my site to a self hosted wordpress.org and am excited to see a plugin to customize sidebar widgets on a per page basis.
I was wondering if there is a good widget for snapshots of links.. the one I found that was most recommended requires me joining their site which i’m not wanting to do.. I just want a simple plugin for it.
Also.. is there a way to migrate my two years worth of stats from the wordpress.com to wordpress.org? I’ve googled for two days with no luck. Thanks!
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Gigi said:
hi, great list of plugins. i’m trying to get the digg digg plugin to work. i see it in my blog finally, but it’s not scrolling at all like i’ve seen in your blog and on other sites. i’m using the safari web inspector can my div is only saying:
i’ve adjusted the positioning so many times just to be able to see the buttons. however, for some reason it will not scroll. any suggestions? btw, currently my site is in maintenance mood. i’m changing the wp theme.
thanks :O)
Gigi said:
sorry, this part didn’t show in my last post.
the div only says:
div id=”dd_ajax_float” style=”display: block;”
the other style attributes: position & top are not listed in the div
Robert Stewart said:
I want to use SEO Smart Links but I think my content is not enough for the cross linking. But at least now I know what to use when the time of my site comes. I use W3 Total Cache though.
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Donaire Montiel said:
I don’t know, I believe you should start with the complete plug-ins as you start at least you begin right. My favorite on the list is the caching system and replyme. I want to try affiliate marketing and thanks that I found MaxBlogPress here.
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x-tra said:
Some of those plugins was new to me. Think I better check them out.
Thanks for sharing.
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Leonardo Chaves said:
I’ll test some of these on my blog. Seeing the descriptions, I imagine that this can be very useful. Some interested me now and I’ll see how they work and what they can bring benefit to my web page. Thanks for sharing.
Reza Winandar said:
Does these plugins is suitable for MFA?
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Destri said:
I just stumbled across this post, and it led me to your SEO tips and I have to say that post is by far the most user friendly information on SEO I have ever read. Thank you.
And I have already installed 4 of the above plugins, thanks for the recommendations!
anthony wills said:
Wow. I’ve been looking for a lot of these plungins. I’m new to WordPress, and needed a post like this to point me in the right direction. Thank you
Joe Whelchel said:
Nicholas, I am in a learning curve transition right now from the Drupal world to WP3. The Drupal world is, by reputation, a more developer-savvy environment, so I carry that bias with me. So it gives me positive vibes to run into someone who can so professionally and articulately discuss this platform. Also, your respectful, non-confrontation communication style will continue to serve you well. Thanks,
Submarine said:
Hi !
May be you forgot this little bad boy
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-icons-lite/
It’s a no-brainer version !
Gerald Williamson said:
Thanks for this, I’ve been looking for some new plug-ins to use on my site for a while now. This is a great resource and I’ll be sure to install a couple of these to use on my site.
Lukman Nulhakiem said:
I will use ReplyMe in this year. But Nicholas, is there any paid wp plugins out there that you recommend which will have good effect to SEO?
Becky said:
highly informative post, i will surely implement most of the plugins stated here on my site.
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Daniel said:
Hey Nicholas,
May I know which plugin is able to display the posts I wanted on the sidebar? Something like the femininetattoos.biz. Thanks.
Dan
eric said:
Do you use a plugin for your comments or did you edit the source?
eric said:
Hey again, So i NEVER leave comments and i have actually disabled comments on all of my blogs because people kept leaving comments trying to do sql injection, i think thats what they call it..
when they put random stuff like @(*&@(*dfsdf in to the comment. it some how gets in to the database and screws everything up.
What do you use to stop that if anything? or do you just back up your database nightly?
I think i am going to turn comments on again and use the plugins that where mentioned on this post related to comments to build up some interaction and keep people coming back.
do you use WP Post Footer Library to put the same thing @ the bottom of each post or did you hard code it?
and again about your comment section, love it! does CommentLuv take care of the avatar as well? if not how do you allow users to change it? or did they just register for your blog and upload the avatar that way?
eric said:
Hey again, So i NEVER leave comments and i have actually disabled comments on all of my blogs because people kept leaving comments trying to do sql injection, i think thats what they call it..
it some how gets in to the database and screws everything up.
What do you use to stop that if anything? or do you just back up your database nightly?
I think i am going to turn comments on again and use the plugins that where mentioned on this post related to comments to build up some interaction and keep people coming back.
do you use WP Post Footer Library to put the same thing @ the bottom of each post or did you hard code it?
and again about your comment section, love it! does CommentLuv take care of the avatar as well? if not how do you allow users to change it? or did they just register for your blog and upload the avatar that way?
Kris said:
Fanastic post, thanks for sharing. Have installed some already.
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Techinsert said:
great list of some good plugins.
John said:
Digg is dead. Try Reddit.
Amanda said:
I beg to differ. Digg is an excellent way to boost traffic and many top SEO firms hire their staff based on whether or not they can get a digg to the front page! They put that much importance to it!
Great post by the way. I love the affiliate ninja link plugin!
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Albin Stoop said:
Really awesome list. I’ve installed five of them on my professional blog.
By the way; I love the sharing-icons you’ve got at the bottom of the post. Really cute.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Albin. I appreciate it and I’m glad you’re finding these useful.
Champico said:
Thanks for that great list, I’ll use most of them for my company blog
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Grant Hammond said:
What is the best plugin to use for comments? I have been using Disqus for a long time, but the number of comments has dropped off over the past 6 months. Is there a better way to encourage comments and keep them coming back?
Nicholas Cardot said:
Honestly, friend, I don’t use a plugin for the comments section. I’m in love with WordPress default comment section when styled nicely.
Eric Murray said:
WOW, I assumed you used a plug in for your comments….
I have a date with comments.php this weekend.
Grant Hammond said:
How do you manage the spam without something like Captcha or some other protection? What I am really looking for is a way to email the folks who have commented with more information related to what they commented about. A way to get them back to my site periodically. Ideas?
Agoraphobia Panic Disorder said:
Excellent useful post, i’m addicted to plugins!
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Adam Dukes said:
Excellent list!
I never knew about the Widget Context one and have wanted to customize each page with different sidebars. I did not have the W3 Total Cache one either
Thank you!
William said:
Thanks for the tips on plugins
Tomas said:
Very useful for those of us new on WordPress. Installed about 3 of them straight away. Thanks!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Tomas. I’m glad to hear that. Which 3 caught your eye?
Tomas said:
Thank me later, ReplyMe and Revision Control. I alredy had most of the other installed.
I’ve also noticed the CommentLuv here in the discussion, which seems like a very clever plug-in
sports24x said:
great plugins ..thanks for your assistance..
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Jaime said:
Hello, Nicholas. Great article, there’s some good tips here, most on comments. I will definitely try some of these on a little blog that I installing to some friends. I just realize that your link to “W3 Total Cache” points to “WP Super Cache”
Thanks for this great list.
Iva said:
Great post.
I am using some of these plugins and the top is WP-DBManager.
Thank you
Sakya said:
Thanks for the list of WP plugins. I have started using SEO related plugins and that does makes difference. Super cache is a cool one from your list. Can you make a list of plugins for integrating WP with Tumblr or Posterous.
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Serge said:
Thnx for great advice about Gravity forms! I just needed something like that!
Piyush Jain said:
Tbis is really nice,, i have installed replyme plugin,,
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Steve said:
Your W3 Total Cache link is a link to WP Super Cache, I already use Super Cache and got no reason change really!
Quite a few in your list that I use or have tried in the past, got a couple that I want to try out though,
Cheers
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Algae said:
Thanks so much for the impressive list! Building my first WordPress site as we speak, and this couldn’t have come at a better time. BUT, one question…are your RSS, email & Twitter buttons powered by a plugin or just code? If it’s not already obvious, I love them…
JD said:
Thank you very much for posting this list. Took me a couple of days to try them out and sort through the ones I wanted but this page has really helped me out.
Thanks again.
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Ken Howard said:
At first I wasn’t too sure of the SEO plugin, I now realize that I can use custom titles for posts and pages as well as custom page descriptions, which is awesome!
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Will said:
Thank me later is an awesome plug in, I’ve had such a positive response since installing it.
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Haris Hussain said:
great information.. but u missed the best of em all, All in One SEO Pack.
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Heating Cover Steve said:
I think you’ll find he didn’t mate – “Move over All in one SEO. There’s a new guy in town.” from no. 2
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Jami said:
In my blog, I’d like to have my comment section function like this, currently it shows avatars but doesn’t link back to their blog.
Is this a plug in feature? Thank you!
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eric said:
He might have coded it in to the theme files but the plugin for that is comment love. http://comluv.com/
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Clive Rudd said:
Great List!!!
Thor said:
I’m practically new to WordPress and this exactly the information I need. I had a hard time fixing up my new website. I will try to use these plugins. Thanks
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Brij said:
I would like to add one more plugin TweetsByPost to show post wise tweets.
See http://techbrij.com/category/portfolio/tweets-by-post
Christopher Cronk said:
I don’t think it helps to use twitter for seo, as most links are nofollow. I prefere to use forum posts and other linkbuilding technics.
Lee said:
Great List! Ill be using afew of these.
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David said:
I’m looking for a Plugins for SEo for links…
tool that help to find a Similar Blogs, Are there recommendations?
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Paul said:
Its really a great post for seo people to get the information. More helpful for me to use different plugin for different environments.Thanks for sharing.
Janet Barclay said:
Nicholas, I wasn’t familiar with Tweet Old Posts until I read this last month. Rather than using it to retweet my most recent posts, I have it set to retweet all of my posts, except for those I’ve put on the exception list because they were time-sensitive. Nearly every one of those tweets is generating retweets and blog comments, so I want to THANK YOU for bringing it to my attention and allowing me to easily present my older work to my newer readers.
BrainCandy said:
Tweet Old Posts is new for me as well. I will add it to the list of plugins I have to review…
Will Fowler said:
Great resource both years!
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Blogging Park said:
Great plugin dear.I am loading three of this.Smart link,w3 cache and wp navigation link.thanks for sahring this.
Thomas Kyriakoulis said:
I would also like to read a tutorial from you with a detailed point of you for the W3 Total Cache plugin.
My web site http://www.bestofpoker.gr/ seems to me to have the same speed with the plugin installed as before.
Thank for the list.
Keep up the good work…
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eric said:
http://www.strictlyonlinebiz.com/blog/speed-up-wordpress-with-w3-total-cache/1231/ is a step by step
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Thomas Kyriakoulis said:
Thank you Eric…
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eric said:
No problem! Make sure to set up the self hosted CDN, it does wonders!
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eric said:
Make sure to set up the self hosted CDN, it does wonders!
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Thomas Kyriakoulis said:
Also i am very interested to know the the crawl times about your page that appears in google webmaster tools.
If you want you can share..
Thankz…
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ClaraN said:
Thanks for such a great post and explaining what each plugin does. I’ve been around the web looking for answers to how I can improve SEO on my blog and this is the first post that I feel confident about implementing its suggestions.
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Hii Nicholas Cardot such a great resource provided by u few of them will really work better in coming months and year right now i will use
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lentak said:
Very good help, I found what I was looking for
Maybe it is good to have also some plugin that show some banner like that Digg Digg buttons.
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Aleena Tahir said:
Hi, I am new in blogging. I found a lot of information about important plugins for my blog through this post. Thanx alot
Kriffin said:
Thank you very mutch
Nice ur website
From France.
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Michael Rossato-Bennett said:
Cool Ideas,
Do you know if there is a plug in that will let people sign up and be pushed my article once a week, but not the latest!! I want to push them in order like a story!! Is that poss?
I love your site.
Thanks
Mike
MK Safi said:
Hi Mike,
If by “pushed” you mean email, you can use an autoresponder service, like AWeber, GetResponse, or MailChimp. Put a sign-up form on your site and setup an email series that sends a weekly article in the order that you specify.
Alternatively, you can create a WordPress membership site where subscribers get access to a new article every week. They will have to come to your site and login to see the new article. The membership plugin must support gradual content delivery if you want to do this.
The added benefit of using a membership plugin over a simple opt-in form is that most membership plugins also integrate with autoresponder services. I mean, they automatically add new subscribers to your mailing list so that you can notify your subscribers of the availability of new articles on your site by email. This all can be setup to work automatically.
Good luck,
MK
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Angel Lee said:
After looking through your list (fantastic list by the way), I just want to add one more to the list – EzAffiliateCash Ads Plugin for WordPress. I believe it used to be a paid plugin but the owner has made it free recently; it’s an all-in-one advertisement plugin that allows you to test different popular advertising methods on wordpress powered websites. I personally have tested it on my blogs (WP 3.x) and it works great. If you want to find out more about it you can visit http://www.adsplugin.com
I don’t think you can find it on the official wordpress.org/extend/plugins list but it’s indeed a gem!
Just my 2 cents!
Angel
Sunil Sheoran said:
Nicely compiled list, I have also been using W3 Total Cache plugin and I find it realy good
mazdodot said:
I will try W3 Total Cache for my blog, cz wp-superchace had any problem with my thesis theme (feeds can’t update automatically )…thank you.
Adam said:
Nice Article. I’m currently using a few of those plugins right now. I just finished creating a similar post about my own top 15 top wordpress plugins. Great Read man
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Gadul said:
Wow, really helpful for a new born wp user like me.
kavita @ Bollywood Lyrics said:
very useful plugins i have already known to some of them and some are new for me. Thanks for share.
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Gene Kupfer said:
Thanks for putting this list together. Every single one of these is top notch. I’m only using a few now, but have the others installed in case I need them later.
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Zahnarzt said:
headspace looks like a really nice plugin… but it looks like still all in one seo remains the leader for SEO for wordpress:)
Ben said:
This was a good list. There are a few I need to check out, in particular the Widget Context and the Headspace plugins. Thanks for the list.
Max said:
Very hard to configure it… Many parameters must be activated on the server !
But nice one, for its compressions etc.
Max said:
W3 Total Cache – Very hard to configure it… Many parameters must be activated on the server !
But nice one, for its compressions etc.
Contus said:
Gravity Forms and Thank Me Later are the best two out here, they are my favorites wp plugins………. Tweet Old Post is really useful to tweet on twitter:)
Hpnotik Qrew said:
Thank you, Nicholas.
Great list, I will definitely try some of these out!
deux lai said:
May i know what social media plugin are you using?
Ahmed said:
Nice list thanks for sharing
Lorina Daiana said:
1) Add New Default Avatar
By Kailey Lampert
~ it lets you choose your own avatar for people who don’t have a avatar account
2) Calendar Archives
http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2009/08/21/wordpress-plugin-calendar-archives/
~ I find this one very nice since I put alot of photos on my site
3) Easy Facebook Like Button
By jonefox
~ people can ‘like’ your posts
4) Etsy Widget
http://sv-timemachine.net/2010/01/wordpress-etsy-widget/
~ this is great for etsy sellers
5) Sliding Side Tabs
By Trung Van
~ perfect tucked away widgets on your site {see mine}
6) GRAND Flash Album Gallery
By Sergey Pasyuk
~ the best flash slideshow I have found
Enjoy :]
p.s.
for great free flash photo themes look here:
http://www.slrlounge.com/
hd marc said:
Thanks for the share. These are great sets of WP plug-ins. May I asked if which is better the All In One SEO or Headspace? I am currently using the other one.
Marcin said:
A great list and a fantastic website which I’ve just discovered. I’m going to try “Thank me later” right now.
When it comes to SEO plugins, from my experience, WordPress SEO by Yoast may be currently the best option.
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Joe said:
I’m new to wp, so thanks for the great suggestions.
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I’m trying to install plug-ins with my account. I just cant do it. A lot of errors. I hope I can make it this time.!
Rae said:
Thanks for sharing this great idea. This plug ins are indeed very useful.
Angelica Cabornay said:
I agreed in the post, all we know most of the online marketer really use wordpress for lots of plug-i can be added on it. Thanks for sharing and i do appreciate the ideas.
Phil Meyer said:
Hi Nicholas,
Referring to your endorsement of Popup Domination: I agree that it’s a pretty good popup plugin, but here’s an up-and-coming plugin that’s soon going to whip PD’s bee-hind
It’s called PlatinumPopup and you can find it here: http://platinumplugins.com/products/wordpress/platinumpopup-for-wordpress/
Phil
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Petto said:
i like the Tweet Old Post and the WP Super Cache plugins
Suzanna said:
Thanks for all those plug-ins. I’ve read all the old ones, new ones and found many of them that I don’t have in my wordpress and will add them on. Sometimes when I search for new plugin, it’s hard to know what’s out there, but you did a great summary. Thanks for the lovely posts.
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Sylvia said:
WOW! It´s so great what people create and share with others! It makes everything much easier and faster…
Thanks a lot!!
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lentak said:
And what about the security. Are all the mentioned plugins safe? One of my customer just find that thanks to one of the plugin he can access the folders in my server and download unlinked files, or full databases…
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Shea Noble said:
Good Day,
Thank you for the great content! I put a couple to use, like the W3 Cache and the Smart Link.
thanks for your help.
Shea Noble said:
I will recommend these to others as well, thank again for the help.
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Angel Navedo said:
I’m a big fan of ContactMe’s Contact button. I feel like the contact page with a form is antiquated internet. We’re all about pretty, user-friendly buttons nowadays. At least I am.
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shelleweb said:
Thanks for putting this together!
It is a great collection and reference of useful plugins for WordPress the are popular right now, very handy:)
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing said:
If you’re going to buy ridiculous domains and spam comments with them, at least get the English correct.
THOSE – popthatszits doesn’t even make sense.
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Meaghan Bakewell said:
GREAT LIST! I would like to add nRelate’s Related Content plug-in to the list. I’ve been using them for a few months and I am blown away by how accurate their related posts are! I used to use LinkWithin but they sucked at relevancy. nRelate’s plug-in was great and super easy to customize. http://www.nrelate.com
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing said:
Is it a plugin you’re using to do the “19 Inbound Links
These awesome sites are linking here!” with the neat link list under it?
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hendri said:
true, I strongly agree with this post. all plugins are plugins that are very good. very nice post, thanks for sharing.
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Stella |Strategic Internet Marketing said:
I use most of the plugins you listed but I’ve seen a few I’d want to add to improve my blog.
Thanks for the amount of details you put into this post.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome and I hope you find them helpful.
Phil (Satellite Direct) Guy said:
I like the W3 Total Cache plugin however after installing it a couple of days ago, my database crashes and I can’t repair it from the plugin. Each time I have to go to phpMyAdmin in my hosting account to repair it.
I’ve experienced the benefits of using this plugin, one being my blog runs faster, but for some reason it doesn’t seem to work with WP 3.1 or perhaps it’s just my blog.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m using it here to great avail. However, it may be a setting or perhaps a conflict with another plugin. It really could be any of a number of issues at play.
Tilen Krivec said:
How about the after-post area on your blog, the “related posts & stay up to date” area. is that any particular plugin or did you create that yourself?
Thanks
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Maciek said:
ok, I thought I knew my way aaround wordpress, but I have never heard of any of those plugins, here’s me think all I needed was the all-in-one-seo plugin, oh how rong was I, I think some of the mobile plugins wouldn’t look out of place on this list. Mobile sites are now more and more popular and people are really starting to see that and catering for it
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lentak said:
I just find out that very important plugin is SI Captcha as well. I just installed it and now I don’t have any automatic SPAM comment. I had approx. 200 a day before!
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David said:
what are the advantages of Headspace over all in one SEO just conveneince or something technical
Andre said:
There are many advantages with all in one seo. It shows cannonical data to the robots, and you will get good seo to your website.
Using all in on seo is much better, than using static html seo.
Mark said:
Great that you are sharing. Cause its carring! Lovely
Jason said:
I heard W3 Total Cache takes some setting up. Is it something none-coders can handle?
Mark said:
Nice list. But can I ask how how many of these you implemented in this blog?
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Andre said:
I really love these plugins. Do you think, these are the best plugins?
w3 total cache is the greatest plugin, i am just transferring my website to wordpress because to use w3 total cache, and save bandwidth.
Swagatam said:
I like the Tweet Blender plugin and the Add Widgets to Pages plugin. The Tweet blender works great for aggregating tweets from specific users/hashtags while the other one makes adding widget positions in pages really simple!
Alex said:
What is your “Share” banner with the hand sketches of all the sites? Is that a widget, or plugin? If so, what is it called? That’s awesome! Thanks for the list!
Angela Allen said:
Thanks for the tips, I already use a couple of these (and I hate pop-ups too, so that’s a no-go), but I’ll definitely check out HeadSpace. It sounds like JUST what I need!
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Derek S Murphy said:
Awesome – I added them all to my new site; I also love this blog’s design and positive energy! I’m subscribing.
Tricia said:
Would love for you to check out WP-Simple Survey Extended Version. We’ll give you a free copy for your review! We’ve had over 10,000 downloads of the free version and just released the extended paid version.
Multiple quiz/survey administration, results based on calculations, stored results, auto-respond, and more!
Let us know what you think!
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ngangan said:
I like’d this our just.
James Artre said:
Excellent choices!
Appreciate the time you took in compiling this list of WordPress plugins. I believe I had all of them but one already installed.
Again, appreciate the post.
James
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Amarpreet said:
Hello,
Well Most of them are also listed at IncomeDiary… But no worries.
John said:
Wao!! now i know which plugins to select for my websites. Thanks brother. Great post
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Thanks so much for posting all of the good content! I am looking forward to reading more.
agus said:
This has to be one of the most interesting articles i’ve ever read on a blog! (then again, this is one of the most interesting blogs i’ve ever come across)
Frank said:
Why is Akismet plugin not on the list? I get a ton of spam and this plugin does a great job in stopping that.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I didn’t include it because it comes built in to WordPress already.
Sara said:
Nice write-up. I’m going to install these plugins on my site.
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John Gilliat said:
Hey Nicholas, thank you so much for your post! I implemented 9 of you 15 plug in recommendations and it looks to be making a really big difference in my blog traffic!
There is so much info floating around the internet and it’s so refreshing to come across your post with real quality tips.
Thank you, thank you, thank you
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Brian said:
Very good article! I’m trying to add more up to date features on my new free press blog. Definately a great read! Thank you!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome, Brian. I’m glad that you found some of these helpful for your site. How did they work for you?
zuhri said:
who does your link W3 Total Cache redirect to Wp-super-cache page?
jasmine said:
is it possible to add facebook side wide plugin on my wordpress blog.
Tanya Marie said:
Sorry, I’m very new to this but is their a plug in where I can have blog readers comment but they have to upload a photo in order to comment on the page? I’m gonna be starting a blog soon & wanted to know if this were possible.
Please let me know?
Nicholas Cardot said:
No. WordPress uses gravatar.com to find these images. Just register there with an image and whenever you comment on a WordPress powered blog, your image will show. The same goes for folks commenting on your blog.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Just grab the widget code from facebook and place it in your sidebar.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Oops. Good catch. Thanks for pointing that out.
anitha said:
I have used some plugins only will insert above mentioned ones in my blog
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Excellent. I’m glad that you found some that will be helpful for you.
Jonathan Vellner said:
Hey Nick,
I noticed you didn’t include any plug-ins for comments in your list (and that this site doesn’t seem to be using one). I’m just wondering what your thoughts are on that kind of thing.
I just started a blog myself, and I’d like to connect with my readers through the comment board, and encourage discussion. But, I’m kinda new at all this.
The comment system that comes with wordpress looks ok – it allows threaded comments and all that, but it seems kind of anonymous, too. Sure, you can put your name, but it could be different every time, and you don’t build any kind of profile (user rating or post count, stuff like that), and you always have to re-enter your information every time you post, which I figured might be annoying to people who post very regularly. (Or maybe, some of this is just my assumptions. again I’m not too familiar with WP).
So, I decided to install intensedebate, because I could give people the option to connect through one of their social-network profiles like facebook or twitter. I thought the ability to be known for your posts would encourage people to comment more. What I’m wondering now is… is this kind of board really better?
Or will the added step of logging just turn people Off from commenting.
There’s also the question of controlling spam, or of having to moderate comments all the time… or whether to just let them be posted unchecked…
(if using the default comment board)
If was sure that intense debate was the way to go, but seeing popular blogs like yours Not using them is a bit confusing.
The real problem is that I’m not just new to the world of blogging, I’m also very new to even commenting on these boards – so I’m feeling pretty caveman here.
I’ll go out on a limb and assume that you feel the basic comment board is better than a disqus or intensedebate powered board, since that’s what I’m seeing on this site. My question is, why?
Sorry for a long drawn out question, which is probably dumb to begin with, but I figure the sooner I ask all my dumb questions, the sooner I’ll have the right answers.
(PS. I addressed this to Nick, but I’m sure there are lots of knowledgeable people on the board who could help me on this one. What are your thoughts? Simple comments vs. Intense debate or Disqus. and Why?)
Jonathan Vellner said:
Dang. I forgot to check the followup box so I won’t even know if someone answers. So could you please answer to THIS post and not the previous one, now that I’ve checked it.
Also, now that I’m on my second post, I noticed that I did NOT have to re-enter my information like I’d expected. Shows how much I know…
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I definitely don’t use any plugins to power the actual comments section because I think that it alienates folks who don’t want to have to sign up. Every obstacle is another reason for them not to comment. I use Akismet to control spam and it catches 99% of it.
I prefer my basic board because users don’t have to login. They can just hit the button and drop their comment, however it’s not set in stone. Chris Brogan uses Disqus. Others use LiveFyre, IntenseDebate and more. This is an art. I can give you my opinions, but ultimately follow your gut.
Jonathan Vellner said:
Thanks Nick,
I’ll stick with my IntenseDebate board for a bit, and see how it goes. My blogs still so new, and I’m so new at it all, that a little experimenting is in order anyways. Since the comments can be transferred over, I’ll probably end up trying them all.
PS thanks for all the great content. This site has been a great resource for me already, and I’ve hardly scratched the surface. Keep it coming!
Robb Corbett said:
Great post! I am definitely going to use a lot of these plug ins!
Quick question, with the “pop up domination”… I have resisted using these types of software for fear google will slap me for it… what are your thoughts on it?
Thanks
Robb
Nicholas Cardot said:
No. There’s no SEO penalty that I’m aware of for using it and I use it myself here at the site and I see amazing results with it. I’m sure you’ve probably seen it here.
Tony said:
There is competition for Gravity forms. Stiff competition. A free plugin: Cforms
Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks for mentioning that. I’d never heard of it before, but I do know that I use and love gravity forms myself.
mjali said:
great plugins. can u choice for me plugin to share every post?
Argyle said:
Thanks so much, these plugins are the best around. Thanks so much.
Can i link here with you?
Nicholas Cardot said:
Sure.
Ruturaj-rpstreet.tk said:
Absolutely fantastic,but the one and only problem is that some of this plugins are not free. But really saying for boosting sites rank and revenue , this plugins are enough for any blog.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
That is correct that some of these are not free, but the ones that are premium are well worth the money and I own every plugin on this list so I can whole-heartedly say that they are terrific and well worth every cent.
Phil said:
awesome post mate, look forward in reading more from you.
Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Phil. I hope it doesn’t disappoint.
Ferb said:
I am sorry but some of the plugins are terrible here. email first time visitors about rss? I hate sites that send me email for no apparent reason.
Popup? they are an abomination of the web standards. They, more often than not, annoy users and they will start avoiding the site.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m sorry that you feel that way, and even though I also dislike popups, I get so many sign ups and make so much money from it, that I simply can’t not use. Unless you want to pay my mortgage for me this month, I have to leave it up.
Pitso said:
Nice plugins, Thanks for sharing!
Kuwait-david john said:
This is a very nice list . all these plugin are must have and should always be in your word press based site. Great information.
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Stratejik Pazarlama said:
Nicholas, thanks a lot for sharing. By the way, All in one seo pack is pretty good. Thanks
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m familiar with All in One SEO and it certainly is a great plugin. Personally though, I prefer HeadSpace.
Shane McHan said:
I think after reading the post my blog is going to take off shortly. Thank you for the many ideas. I’m new to the whole process so articles like this are really helpful to me. With so many plug-ins to choose from an article like this really helps narrow down the search.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m glad that you feel that way, and I’m excited with you for the future of your blog. I hope to see you doing great things on it.
Gary Riding said:
Thank you for this post Nicholas, it is very helpful. I am just getting started with blogging and am trying to find plugins which assist in getting more traffic. It was good to have a plugin list that is up-to-date, rather than a lot of what I have come across today.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m glad that you found it helpful. If you peruse the site here a little bit, you’ll see that I’ve written a few posts about ways to build traffic to your blog as well.
Gary Riding said:
Thanks, I will read through your other posts: getting quality traffic is the bane of my life
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Well stick with it and check out the site and I’m sure you’ll find some advice that will help you out.
Gia ca phe said:
Great list
WP-DBManager is very useful.
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Marcus said:
Nice list! I’m also a huge fan of Piwik website analytics so I think WP-Piwik should be added
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Christine said:
I love Digg Digg. As for W3…found Quick Cache works a lot better for me.
And every blogger needs the editorial calendar plugin. Very cool list.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Very cool. I like that editorial calendar plugin, but I’m really starting to like having an editorial calendar in Excel even better. Having a big spreadsheet for ideas and mind-mapping is really helpful.
Trudy Pellicaan said:
I’m definitely going to give Thank Me Later a go!
Thanks
Nicholas Cardot said:
Good. I think you’ll be glad that you did.
Ali Aamir said:
Thanks for nice article, all th e plugins have great effects for word press bloggers, looking more plugins.
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Ed said:
Hey good list you got here. Might try Widget Context plugin and see how it goes.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
I hope you like it. I use that one and I’ve found a few interesting uses for it.
Walter said:
Nice post! Thanks to you, my site has a few cool new features.
Thanks again!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. I’m glad that you found them useful.
Eray Alakese said:
If you have a CDN (for example Rackspace Cloud) W3 Total Cache great !
Nicholas Cardot said:
I completely agree. There is no better companion for your cloud configuration than W3 total cache.
Gary Riding said:
It is very interesting watching this discussion develop. I am really starting to play with plugins, but avoiding the temptation to install a whole slew of them is difficult. i love a gadget!
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Install as many as you want, just make sure that you have an awesome caching plugin running to keep it running fast and smooth. I have nearly 40 running here at Site Sketch 101.
Saudi Moahamad said:
This is very nice article written on wp plugins. now you cannot thinkg ant wp based site witohout these plugins. This list realy a time saving efforts.Please keep updated this.
bhavesh said:
Did you custom-made this website or it’s a wordpress theme??? Looks gorgeous.
Nicholas Cardot said:
It’s the Papercut Theme from WooThemes.
bhavesh said:
If its a theme then link it.
Cheers,
Bhavesh
IITGUY said:
Nice collection of plug-ins. W3 total cache is great plug-in. Thanks
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Nicholas Cardot said:
It sure is. I’ve been using that one for a while and I don’t know where I’d be without it.
Don said:
Hi Nicholas.
First thing is…how do you get anything else done, what with keeping up with all the responses you give commenters? My head spins just thinking about it.
Second, I’m very new to WordPress, having just hired someone on oDesk to re-write my existing page. Your site came up when I was doing a search for a Twitter plugin for WordPress. And even though I’m at the very earliest of stages in revamping my website, I look forward to forwarding to my developer your comments here; thanks for your time and efforts.
Third, can you and/or some of your more-knowledgeable followers point me to WordPress-related content that a “newbie” such as myself should be reading and learning?
Thanks so much and have a great day!
Don
joe said:
i used Widget context on my website, for seo reason. like this plugin!.
hi Nicholas do you have the best category plugin for wordpress articles? i need this.
Thanks
Joe
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Nanci Murdock said:
Awesome list! I would like to add, “broken link checker”, to the list. I would be lost w//out this plugin. Alerts you (in WP dashboard and/or via e-mail) when there are broken links on your site and (my favorite!), allows you to change them directly in a window on your WordPress dashboard.
ps: Love your site design!
Rahul said:
Hi Nicholas Cardot , I am using all of these plugins and I feel “All in one SEO” should also be mentioned in this list, since it is best wordpress seo optimization plugin available out there. Anyway, thanks for sharing this useful list of plugins.
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Jonathan Weatherhead said:
Great post! I’m new to working with WordPress and a list of worthwhile plugins is most useful.
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Taniel Dan said:
You haven’t mentioned any of the excellent plugins from bloggerhigh. There’s a whole suite of free wordpress plugins that enable you to SEO your page like SEOpressor, add backlinks automatically, post unique content and automatic comments and that sort of thing.
kane Roberts said:
what is the best “Subscribe” plugin? I need something that is easy to Subscribe to and notifies me about new subscribers.
kane Roberts said:
by the way nicolas, thank u so much for this great information. these plugins are invaluable!
thanks for providing this
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kane Roberts said:
by the way nicolas, thank u so much for this great information. these plugins are invaluable!
thanks for providing this
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Edgard said:
I personally like “Reply Me” plugin and Gravity forms are just amazing, the best tools to make forms ever, so universal and easy to use
Chris Slinger said:
thanks for a great informative post, I will be trying out these plugins as soon as I et the chance.
Many thanks
Chris
Bahla Kesh said:
I am very pleased to have found your post, #1 on Google search so your obviously must be doing it right. Also like the way you write. I have three questions for you and your readers.
1. I am a big Contact Form 7 fan. I use it on every site. I have noticed that it appears to be losing popularity and has not been on many “best of” lists, and I want to know why? I have not tried Gravity forms, but I will and may be able to answer this myself.
2. Flickr or Picasa and Why?
3. Subscribe to Comments vs. Reply me and why?
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Kevin Weilbacher said:
I have used Contact Form 7 for several years, but some recent issues with Captcha has caused me to look elsewhere.
I’ve been trying out ‘Fast Secure Contact Form’ as a replacement. I too recently came across Gravity Forms and it appears to be a great solution, especially if you have need to embed conditional expressions/statements.
Sam Moore said:
Thanks for the list, most of the plugins are unknown to me, I got to give them a try.W3 Total Cache really improves the wordpress load.
Widget Context, as widget logic, doesn’t seem so logic for me, i prefer custom sidebars to organize my widgets.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/
Cheers!!
Jenny said:
Kickass post, i am using allinone SEO. I didnt read all the comments, so excuse me if I’m being ignorant but..
What are the advantages of headspace over allinone seo?
Thanks,
- Jenny.
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Clenn said:
I have used most of these plugins but It’s my first encounter with W3 Total Cache plugin. Thanks for sharing Nicholas.
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Ed said:
That’s a very informative post. Thank you for sharing Nicolas!
Maude Fernandez said:
Right now, I’m using SEO smart links and wp-manager with my site. I’m looking at ReplyMe plugin, which sounds interesting. Thanks.
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The Easier Softer Way said:
I have installed some of these and they are working great! Thanks for the info I truly do appreciate IT!
julie said:
Thanks for the information on these plug in’s I have some “tweekinig” to do on my site!!!
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Lauryn said:
Working on a new blog, googled a phrase and landed on this site. As always I love this site… it’s always there when I need it, especially when it comes to WP plugins. Great post!
Adam said:
Glad to see W3 Total Cache make your list, alot of people recommend WP Supercache, but it seems W3 Total Cache out performs it.
Nemesh said:
Here is the another must have plugin. Google+1 plugin for wordpress which works well with Tweetmeme and Facebook share button. Install from here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-plus-one-google1/
Darren Sproat said:
Finally, a plugin that limits revisions to posts… I also found a plugin that deletes old revisions called “Better Delete Revision” that assisted in deleting over 2000 post/page revisions from my blog.
Thank you…
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Jim Rowe said:
W3 Total Cache sounds like just what i have been looking for. Tweet old post should really help my blog too. Thanks for this article. Very well written.
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funwidmasti said:
Thnx for the list..!!
Now i am using most of the plugins listed above..!!
Atoztronic said:
your site is really helpful, thank you very much, I also use some plugins that you recomend,,,
Brendan Ruh said:
Users can read reviews in the widget ?- Once a user clicks “Learn more”, we get affiliate credit and send YOU a check for 75% of the revenue generated.
The wordpress plugin is available here:
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TheFilthyFrog said:
Great post thanks for the help
Terri said:
These are some great plugins, I’m going to use some, thanks so much.
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Terry Tiessen said:
Great list, covers a lot, if not most
of the great aspects and rewards of being a WordPress user. My list varies, with so many plug-ins to experiment with and mix and match. Got a couple great tips, thanks.
To your success,
Terry Tiessen
Kevin Weilbacher said:
Your #1 plugin is listed as WP Total Cache, but the link goes to WP Super Cache.
So which Cache plugin is it that you actually use????
Freddi Lee said:
Great information. I had quite a few questions when I first started using WordPress. I would have to say that more than half of these questions were answered in just this one article. Thanks!
The Nerdy Nurse said:
These are some great tools!
Had no idea bout the post revision one or the seo smart links.
Do you recommend headspace of Yoast Seo tool?
You should totally add WP Smush.it to the list, really helps you optimize your images and cut down on load time.
Thanks!
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Alan Chatfield said:
Great Post Nick – thanks for sharing. I’m very new to WP so will definitely take a look at some of these. I am terrified of exploding my site each time I install plug-ins though so have attempted to create a test version which I will try them on first… great fun…
thanks again,
Alan
SMSGlobal said:
Another great plugin is the SMSGlobal SMS Plugin to send new post alerts via SMS to your WordPress users. You may also use the Send SMS tab to send SMS to anyone through SMSGlobal , who offer highly competitive pricing for bulk SMS.
Sunny [email protected] said:
I use WordPress SEO by Yoast For SEO plugin.
Its Gr8.
Axel said:
Very good ideas for optimizing wordpress sites!
Alan said:
I immediately added commentluv to my website as I thought it seems like a great idea and good for both the site using commentluv and the person posting the comment (assuming it’s genuine).
You obviously use it too but for some reason my previous comment didn’t show my latest post after. I’m sure I entered my web site address correctly (www.lifestoogood.net) but the plugin didn’t pick up my last post – did I misunderstand how this thing works?
It’s probably going to work this time and make me look silly – but in case it doesn’t I wouldn’t mind if you have any advice to why it might not work…
thanks & thanks again for a great post,
Alan
Devcon said:
Hi,
I’ve made a good WordPress plugin too.
It’s usefull for your blog popularity.
You can download it here: http://devcon.pcriot.com/wordpress/plugins/hashlink-generator/
Thanks
Greetings
James Makker Neurosurgeon said:
Thanks for creating a nice & popular blog site.
Dr. Makker trained for seven years in the specialty of Neurological Surgery at Brown University’s School of Medicine.
Don@Moneyreasons said:
Wow, very impressive list of wordpress plugins!
I wish I had seen this page at the beginning of 2011 instead of now.
I’m curious about the SEO Smart Links in particular, sounds like a winner!
I use WP-DBManager, but I didn’t know you could email yourself a daily backup, that’s truly awesome!
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Rachel said:
I have a coupon site and would like to add a printable shopping list, where they can check off the item they want to copy it onto the list and print. Do you have any plugin recommendations for this?
Ryan said:
Good list thanks, W3 cache has been great at optimising my sites. Recommend installing the chrome page load speed plugin too to check the speed Google records
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Karthik Ramadoss said:
This is a fantastic list. I just updated my 40+ Best WordPress Plugins article with current WordPress plugins we use in a host of WordPress sites we manage as blogs and as CMS platforms.
Cole J. Adrian said:
I’m glad someone decided to put out the best plugins out there. Headspace looks like a very good plugin, downloading it now.
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Me said:
“I don’t use popups, and I don’t like popups.”
Funny, I got a popup when entering your site. Do as I say, not as I do, I guess.
Brad said:
Haha I was thinking the same thing, I got a popup when I first came to this page which was powered by popup domination. Funny that
Linda Lee said:
Great list, thank you. You had at least 4 plugins I have never heard of that I am going to try out now.
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Anne said:
nice stuff you guys have here.. Thank you for the collection remove drm
Matt said:
I have to say you have compiled a great list of plugins. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
Regards Matt
Chris Sajnog said:
Great article! I’m going to install these plug ins tonight. Thanks for the tips.
Mark said:
Great article – thanks.
I was wondering what plugin you use for comments – which is the best comments plugin to use?
Thanks
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Ryan Macalandag said:
Thanks for the list. Very helpful indeed! I’m currently installing digg digg, super cache, revisions and page-navi.
I just found out I can’t use page-navi though coz my server still uses php4!
Mike Rogers said:
we have been using wp social toolbar on a few of our sites and we love it:
http://www.daddydesign.com/wordpress/social-toolbar-wordpress-plugin/
Steve said:
Good stuff. I’m using this article to help pick some plug-ins for my latest blog. Thanks.
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Tony Porto said:
Awesome list, just what I was looking for. Wanted to say thank you & well chosen #1. Specially now that page load speed is a ranking factor.
Heather Wood said:
I’m on the same road as you. A Road to motivate and encourage the crumbling souls that become lost through the cracks of the non-forgiving internet highway.
Keep on Keepin on My brotha!
kaxil @ Song Lyrics said:
Thanks mainly for headspace………… it elped a gret deal
Tiara said:
Thanks for suggesting HeadSpace. I’ve been trying it and liked it so far
DJ ARIF said:
Except two or three plugins I use the others… Here’s a great list of plugins that we need to use in 2011…
dark vador 008 said:
hi
I created a little post in french for the top 10 plugins for wordpress
http://www.informateque.net/le-top-10-des-applications-wordpress/
à bientôt
Tamal said:
Really your list of plug ins are great. It has helped me a lot to find out the best plugins in wordpress. Thanks a lot..Tamal
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maxpanna said:
its really nice post. thanks for the list
But you forgot All in one SEO plugin.
Tim Hudson said:
Great article! Thanks for the plugin suggestions. I’m particularly interested in the first one.
Abel Pardo said:
Congs for the post, I’ll add some of them to my websites. It would be great a recommendations about a plugin that will make WordPress sites faster. Congs again.
Fred said:
Hello!
Thank’s a lots Nicholas for this great value list of Plugin.
I personnaly already use Thank me later that, It is really fun!
I will install and test some others one on my Blog.
Fred
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Holly Powell said:
Nicholas, you mention above that you don’t use pop-ups–however, while on your site–i do see that you are using popup domination…maybe changed after you wrote this post.
As folks are saying today, “Just saying…”
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Nicholas Cardot said:
At the time of the writing of that article, I wasn’t using them, and as you’ll notice in the article, I don’t enjoy them. However, having said that, my subscription rate has gone through the roof since adding that plugin and as a result I’m able to make significant’y higher contacts than by not having it.
Shane said:
How did you put your related posts and “Stay up to date” plugins right next to each other? I have related posts but If i try anything else it will put it under that plugin. Also what plugin are you using for the Stay up to date part? Thanks
Nicholas Cardot said:
I built the stay up to date section myself and I styled that section use the CSS float attribute to get them next to each other.
The Tzo said:
Nice! i will give a try to one two that i didn’t knew
ivan said:
great post, I want to check out your thank me later plugin, so I am leaving a comment.
Fahid Augustin Pervaiz said:
Keep It Up and Get More Success and Blessings in the name of LORD
really like your Stuff
Jiten said:
Nice one.. I came across many new plugins and now i will use it.
But i dont think Head2Sapce SEO is better than All in one SEO. Till now my All in one SEO is working fine. So what would you suggest more ?
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Junction Marketing said:
I would highly recommend using Ultimate SEO rather than Headspace. It has additions like the removal of the /category/ permalink structure and has a comparative function to SEO smartlinks (actually better) built into it as well.
Also, it’s much much easier to add analytics and webmaster tools than Headspace.
movies said:
Platium SEO is pretty good too.
Great list. Thanks !
Miley.
Britanny weight said:
Great post.. but nicholas.. I want to ask.. do you have simple w3 total cache setting..? I’m still not understand …
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Amit said:
Awesome……..visit my site n give comments n suggestions…….http://supremesouls.com/
Diaa said:
Hey thanks a lot for your help I’m installing a couple of these plugins right now actually on Cairo in Pictures.com and hope it will make my website better
Please tell me what you think of my website also if you have the time.
Shibby said:
Thanks, there are some plugins here i didn’t know about.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m glad to hear that. I hope you found these helpful.
Nigel Nix said:
I love your website design…it has a lovely pastel design which is relaxing for the eyes. The cat in the opt-in box is a particularly nice touch…..:o)
Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks, Nigel. I appreciate that. Maybe I should name that cat and it can become the site pet or mascot. What do you think?
anisur rahman said:
1 How is the page menu floating?
2 Did not mention about newsletter, contact plugin.
3 What about all in one seo plugin?
Nicholas Cardot said:
I used CSS to style the page menu to make it float. I don’t use plugins for the newsletter…I custom coded that. I listed HeadSpace 2 as I prefer it to All In One. It’s more complex, but covers more options.
Alice Marsden said:
Glad someone shares my fondness for wp
). meanwhile, there’s a new plugin out called Sticky Comments. It basically allows you, the admin, to set comments as “sticky” from the comment edit page. You can download the plugin from here
Gary Riding said:
I am setting up a new blog and came back here once again for inspiration; thank you.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s great to hear. Thanks for coming back.
Gary Riding said:
You are welcome. There is a similar thread to this on the Warrior Forum, which I have been following and a combination of these two posts has given me a great foundation.
I have put you on my blogroll, so I hope you don’t mind.
Ravi said:
I am surprised to see many essential plugins missing.
Here is my list of useful plugins:
http://ravidreams.com/2009/07/useful-wordpress-plugins/
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Klonopin said:
Nice blog, keep up the good work guys
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Mario Reinwarth said:
I have to comment this post, because it’s a great compilation. I think the idea of smartlink is great and this plugin is what i’m looking for.
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Gary Riding said:
I am trying to find a way to make my blogroll links active as hyperlinks. At they moment, visitors can not click through and there is no ‘hover over’ description.
I am using the Atahualpa theme and the better blogroll plugin.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Chris Quinn said:
Great article, I love SEO Smart Links, it saves me a lot of time!
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John said:
Awesome site here! Thank you for the information~
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vishvast zaroo said:
Thnx for all the pluginss and it is the way u describe them thnx
Shane said:
Great article – I think I’ll use the pop up one to remind people I have a rewards program as no one seems to notice it in the side bar
perhaps punchtab should be in your list? I was wondering a few things. I am new to blogging and have only wrote one post (apart from my songs) How do I get ping/ track backs to my site and display them? Also as would anyone here critisize my site as I have a large bounce rate and would like some tips on how to get people to click through more of the site. Thank you in advance
Shane said:
Also how do I display my last blog post in my comment like other people (not that I want to spam but if it didnt prompt me on this site then I will never get the luxery of doing it?)
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Treptowjens said:
Thanks for the tip with WP Super Cache – i will install this plugin soon. I am a little bit new in WordPress – can anybody give me the best settings for this plugin ? Thanks
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Praveen Gowda I V said:
Why haven’t you included Fluency Admin in this list
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David Fialk said:
Hi! I enjoyed the article and also read and enjoyed many of the related posts.
vipul said:
i also enjoy to read .. i m managing it on my website
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Matt said:
A massive, huge +1 to Gravity Forms. I use it across all my wordpress sites and it’s saved hours and hours (and hours) of work
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Paul Marion said:
Hi Nicholas, great write up and list of plugins. I use some of these on my Thesis blog. Regards the W3 Total cache plugin – this is one my favorite plugins out there for WordPress and it really helps speed your website loading time.
However, if you’re using the Thesis theme and the W3 Total cache plugin, you might run into some issues with your blog.
Some users such as myself had my blog site design options all reseted by this plugin and it was a nightmare to get things back to norm.
Readers here might find this work around helpful if they run into having their Thesis theme site options reseted http://bingohq.co.uk/thesis-design-option-setting-issue-solution/
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Mark said:
Nicholas, thank you for sharing this information on wordpress plugins. I will check back regularly.
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Daniel Meyer said:
I really liked your list of plugins. I hadn’t seen a few of them. I’ve installed W3 Total Cache but it’s quite intricate. Can you point me in the right direction for properly setting up all the features. My Google Speed Test only came back at 67/100. No good..
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Tushar said:
very nice content . informative. thank you!
dogging said:
plugins are what makes wordpress so customisable.
Wandher said:
Love it! Thanks!
The Nerdy Nurse said:
Great tools. Thanks for the list. Always interested in hearing personal insight on WP plugins and tools.
shane said:
love them! I don’t like the feedburner thingy as I don’t have many subscribers, do want the tweet one though.
Thanks for a great list.
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honey said:
i am using some of these plugins, but i never tried SEO Smart Links. Thanks for the top list. You rocks!!
Ben said:
Yes you do use pop-ups. I’d prefer you didn’t mind. Thanks for the list!
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Tibi said:
Well done
99mag said:
very nice information on latest plug-ins. Though late I would definitely use these plugins for better performance of my website.
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danny said:
i will install some of these for my site now
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Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt said:
Nice list! Thank you. I am going ahead with PopUpDomination since
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Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt said:
Nice list! Thank you. I am going ahead with PopUpDominance.
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Adrian said:
That’s a great list!
Rachel Lynn said:
Do you have a recommendation for a plugin if you want to be able to see the subscriber number and info, but maybe not show it on the actual site?
Steve / The Designer said:
Thanks for the post and it saves us lots of time to search. It also jump starts my new blog site.
Rice Maker said:
Some really helpful advice, thanks very much. I will def download some of these plugins.
Darren said:
Firstly awesome site
Secondly thanks for the list of plugins i am working on my first wp site today and these will really help.
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Terry Pearson said:
I want to say that I really appreciate Thank Me Later. It is a great plugin.
For some reason, I never considered adding a link to my RSS feed in the email before. Just did it now.
Thanks for the tips!
Max Attract said:
I would use “Tweet Old Post”, that plug in is powerful enough to gain more visitors to your site. Although, I’m very much interested in trying the other plug ins to see the effects that they may have on my site.
Max Attract
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Anjum Hashir said:
Seo Friendly Images is also a very useful wordpress plugin.
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Noel Addison said:
There are thousands of available plugins for WordPress and I am glad that you have listed the best plugins here!
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Dominick said:
What is the name of the plugin for your comments section or did you build that your self? I love it
LuckyFM said:
That’s a gd collection of WP plugins to be liked
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Selected multimedia said:
Nice list, it was very helpful building my multimedia site.
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Kunal said:
sir u have good site which helped me lot thanks
Andy Williams said:
This post I promise has helped we build my blog from scratch, well improve it greatly anyway, the only issue I have is w3 total cache I don’t seem to be able to get to work. But anyway this blog has some very very valuable information. My blogs only two days old ad this has helped me.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
If you can’t get W3 to work, try WP-Super Cache. It’s does almost as much as W3 but is much easier to work with.
Edward O'Daniel said:
As a new wordpress user, this plugin information is really helpfull for me. I will try to use all of this plugins.
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Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks great to hear. I wish you all the best on your blogging endeavors. Don’t be a stranger!
Chuck said:
Hey guys!
I’ve found this website with a great wordpress plugin called Creative Unified forms:
http://www.prospekt-solutions.com/creative-unified-forms/
You can create contact forms with maps, videos, quizzes, tests and more!
Check it out!
Mike said:
Thank u for this find!
I’ve tried CUF and I can tell u that it’s among the most user friendly plugins I came across.
Definitely recommend everybody to try it out.
Kompressionsstrumpf said:
I really recommend the seo Smartlink Plugin for WP. Not only for good Pagerank but also to find similar posts easily!
zes said:
I might try 3 new plugins from this list. Hope they do better for my site. Thanks!
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hasan said:
thx for this guyz i will definitely use them
Rajesh Namase said:
I like W3 Total Cache and SEO plugin by yoast (Headspace is replaced by this one) Thanks for this plugin list.
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Angelos said:
An excellent post. I particularly like the Revision Control widget. Gravity forms is not a free plug-ins, which led me to go for Contact Form 7. This was fine as it did what I wanted.
Paul said:
I was hoping that you would have both the new plugin you use for your site, which phases in content when navigating and also a plugin to manage mysql databases, I hear myphpadmin plugin has been hack. Anybody suggest an alternative? great list i look forward to using them
Nicholas Cardot said:
The fade effect isn’t a plugin. It’s a something I custom coded. Perhaps I’ll make a plugin so others can use it as well.
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Barry J Hall said:
Nicholas, thanks for the plugin list, I use four of them already but will now use more thanks to your recommendations. It seems there are new plugins that are essential coming out daily. Cheers again.
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ASPECTRO said:
very useful info. I will try to use your references to improve my SEO blog. and I also saw a very beautiful blog, can guide me to my blog look pretty like your blog? hehehe.. thx
johnathan niles said:
A VERY valuable list of plugins. Wish I started here ; )
Nicholas Cardot said:
Thanks. I’m thrilled to hear that these were helpful for you. Let me know if you have any questions.
Joe said:
W3 Total Cache is the absolute best. I’m thinking about switching to HeadSpace and trying out Digg Digg. Thanks for the accurate list.
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Justin Germino said:
I use W3 Total Cache but combined it with MaxCDN for better performance (though not free).
Herman said:
I also like very much the DBToolkit plugin, although being developed a very good database tool. Maintaining tables with forms and display in forms and lists. Very handy for my over 40 travels and trips. Just add a trip in the database and all travelpages are database driven.
See http://www.lamboo.com and ‘reizen’ in the menu.
Dwayne said:
I keep forgetting to install W3 Total Cache on new WordPress sites…thanks for reminding me how great this plugin is.
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. Caching programs really can be a life saver.
Praveen Gowda I V said:
Thank me later is really a good plugin that I use it in my own blog
Nicholas Cardot said:
Me too. In fact, you should be getting the email from my Thank Me Later plugin shortly. Let me know what you think of it.
Praveen Gowda I V said:
But Strangely I didn’t get one
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Vernette Carbon said:
Thanks for the great list. I downloaded two from the list. I hate popups as you mentioned. I think people are getting tired of them and ignoring them. Some people actually exit the page if a popup shows up. Not good for bounce rate.
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Dawn said:
hi nicolas, thanks for the post. i went to wpbeginner to find a plugin that would hide certain plugins from certain pages and his recommendation was a FLOP! so i thot i remembered you reviewing one…came on here found it plugged it in…BAM works like a charm! thanks!
Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s excellent. I’m glad to hear that. I actually removed the plugin from here at Site Sketch 101, but only because I no longer user traditional page loads (at least if you have a traditional browser) and I needed something that would animate the disappearance of the widgets as the page transitioned. So I ended up coding up some stuff myself, but that plugin still rocks and I’m glad it was useful for you.
nifty option tips said:
You show me a tease, but only one to two paragraphs are not a member you can hide if you plug the rest Did you know? Now WP – with one member, but the image is added to excepts there’s a bug, it shows the code, so you do not log the entire contents should be blocked. The blog would love to be helpful. I’m looking for a new laptop new site, I love this site. Cheers, you’re here, where.
Akash Kumar said:
A great resource of WP plugins, thank you it would of great use for me in the upcoming months.
I also like the plugin CommentLuv, that displays the recent post the commentator had made on his blog. Its getting very popular.
Also, did you find any plugin so that we can add related posts at the end of each post?
Januar Sam said:
I am a blogger who familiar with using Joomla in blogging. But when My first blog created at the beginning of this month, I feel more confortable in using wordpress in making a blog, because it is easier in optimizing the blog performance in seo with there are many wordpress best plugins for seo. I thing this article have explained me about several nice plugin for my blog. Thanks…!
ipawnz said:
Thanks, I will try to check headspace SEO and see if its really better than AIO SEO.
ella said:
I am new to this whole SEO thing, but I know without it my website will die unknown. I was only using SEO Smart Links until now, but it’s nice to have a start-up point. Any news on the tutorials you promised Brankica? Thank you for opening my eyes!
Tony said:
Thanks I already had like 50% of them, about to download the rest now!
thanks!
Daniel said:
Hi Nicholas,
how you create the “Stay Up-to-date” box?
Is that a feature of your theme?
I was checking the Papercut theme but it doesn’t have that in the demo…
thanks!
D
LeilaLopez said:
Such a great post. I agree that m the most of the plugins you listed are really the must-have for bloggers. But I thinks All-In-One-SEO is still best. Way to go!
Scott Jobs said:
I really appreciate all these plugins! I’m still fairly new to wordpress and I’m loving it so much already!!
Rex said:
I like your list because plugin research is so time consuming. A list of quality recommendations (not lists of commercial plugins with affiliate links) is really helpful.
A useful tool is the plugin search engine at http://searchwordpressplugins.com
I like it because it lets me filter by rating, numbers of ratings, broken and date so that the results are more useful.
Addison Wesely said:
I tried some of the given plugin and I find them very helpful for me being a new user. I will surely check out all other plugin because you write the best for us.
Matthew Fritz said:
As a beginner WordPress user finding this post has been a real lifesaver. I’m certainly going to be looking into each of these plugins, especially the cache and digg digg (which I have been looking for for days – thank you!)
Anuj@WordPress SEO Plugins said:
WordPress is one of the best CMS to build websites, and is practically optimized for search engines, and some plugin we can position ourselves very quickly in the first place. A very good plugin for SEO is All in One SEO Pack, this plugin for me is one of the most important gap is much more like the ones listed here but if we want to position quickly I think one of the best is All in One Seo Pack with SEOMetrico which is very good.
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jamila said:
#5 and #8 — thanks for the heads up. Is clearing the cache really that much of a performance booster? I’m also tweeting to my business readers because I think many of them don’t know about all these add ons for WP.
aditya Subawa said:
thanks for sharing this topics.. good content
William said:
Just curious, on the Pop up Domination plugin, you state you dont use it. It sure did come up on this page when I just visited it.
Jason said:
Great list of plugins. Your effort is much appreciated!
Andy Crickett said:
I am quite confused. You have stated that you don’t like popups and you’re not using them. Explain the Popup Domination on my screen though\/
Saff said:
Hi, very informative post, i already use a few of these, but will try and test the rest of them today.
Do you have any reccomendation on a subscriber button, and list manager?
Thanks
Dennis Marshall said:
I didn’t know about the tweet old posts plugin but immediately upon seeing it, I know how useful that can be..
Thanks for the great post.. It’s well worth the 500+ comments and the numerous link-backs
Mag said:
Nice…Please visit to me for WordPress plugin Quick Notice Bar…Thanks.
Paul said:
The inbound links sections you have do you use digi auto links for that??
Thanks,
Paul
Kenny said:
Just try out some of these plugins and it’s work great especially W3, going to try for another. Thanks for this GREAT list!
David Bentley said:
Great article. We work with small businesses to leverage affordable, and often free, web technology to help them grow. WordPress, and the extensive offerings of plugins makes it easy to integrate just about everything a small business owner might need on their website to streamline operations, capture data, and build their online presence.
Thanks again.
David
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bursa psikolog said:
great list, i heard some but all them are awsome
Rose McGrory said:
oh no! it’s taken me months to figure out FV all in one SEO plugin, and now i find this article suggesting Headspace….*off to find a comparison article*
Seriously, great roundup. I’m also mad about TS Custom Widgets, which lets you vary the content of sidebars by page..
Rose McGrory said:
I also love TS Custom widgets, for letting me vary the content of sidebars on different pages. Couldn’t manage without it.
Lynn said:
Wow, what a find! I’m just starting out w/ WP and was wondering what kind of plug-in’s were worth putting on my website. I am especially besotted with that editorial calendar (that’ll save me a few steps). Great list. Thank you.
Renee said:
How about just a simple widget or plug-in for people to subscribe to your blog? I’ve tried Feedburner but it’s not sending out an email with a new post (unless it takes hours for this to happen), I can’t get subscribe2 to work – thoughts? this should be so easy, yet it’s not…
S B said:
I second this
thomas bodetti said:
nice post, do you find that the number of inbound links shown in the page, might be too many or does it matter it would seem to be better to limit it at least some.
Shelicious said:
i like your website, very imformative thank you.
How do you manage to have people own picture on they comments instead of the monster gravatar?? im confuse
E blogra said:
Nice List Bro thanx for sharing it.
Awais said:
Hi, I am using some of these plugins and these are all really helpful and superb. I am starting a new blog and i was just working on trying few more plugins on that. Finally i got your post. Good collection. Keep it up, good luck
Aghil Raj said:
thanks for the post,
but i need a best plugin for adsense, which is the best adsense plugin for wordpress in you openion
ranna azam said:
awesome showcase of wordpress plugins.nice collection in the same tutorial. very informative blog..thanks for posting it!!
Coco said:
Dear Nick,
Thanks so much for your list. I’m new to wordpress, and I was asked to manage my company blog which is powered by wordpress. Your list helps greatly! I’m using a couple of the plugins you recommended, and found them working extremely well.
What are the plugins that you’re currently using on your site? Is it possible to share your list of plugins as our reference? I’d like to follow your steps and try all them out. Thanks! ;D
Michael said:
i like plugins that help my workflow. I use a CRM called ZOHO for some businesses and Big Contacts for other businesses. I integrate both of them with wordpress sites using these great plugins:
http://www.zohoforms.com
http://www.bcforms.com
I encourage peeps to check it out. Works great.
Bobby said:
thanks mate. Great suggestions. I use wp-cache and have found problems with alot of them. I will check out your article linker. I was using link within but have some issues with it.
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Rob ~ Migration Angels said:
I have had difficulties with W3 Total Cache. Quick Cache is very simple but it works without much effort.
Cricic Dude said:
I need a good plugin to rotate affiliate banners. I have tried some but they seem not to work properly.
Thanks for the write. I am using popup Domination right away.
Internet Marketers Blog said:
Thanks “sitesketch101″ for this awesome plugins and its details. I like that W3 Total Cache for cleaning and speedup works in my blog, i will back again for reading some good posts
Chitra@SocialVani said:
Thanks for sharing this wonderful list. Even though I operate a WP site, I do not use all of the above plugins….maybe I will try them now.
Roberto Jorge said:
Thanks for sharing these plugin collection. Will use some of them for sure.
Regards
RJ
w3t said:
HI,
Your List is Very useful for those of us new on WordPress.
W3t Cache, Page Nevigation and Linkwithin are good plugins
jdelfire said:
Hi What is your recommended WordPress editor
Adrienne @ Whole New Mom said:
Love these tips! I am going to install some today hopefully. One question – how do you feel about adding all these plugins? I don’t want to bog my site down w/ too many. Also – wondering what you think about putting a floating subscribe bar in wordpress. I am trying to decide which is better – floating media share or floating subscribe.
Thanks in advance!
Joy Parks said:
Awesome list of plugins! I am excited to try the W3 Total Cache for a faster page loading. Thanks!
Arthur said:
Just installed wp super cache on my new project. Will see how all things will go faster
Doctor Andy said:
I am using gravity forms and love it. What is your favorite seo plugin and do you have an opinion on an excel/csv to post plugin?
Thank you for your valuable info to the wp community
micky said:
Thanks for really outstanding collection of these plugins. I am shocked that after being a WordPress blogger form past 4 years, I still did not know many of these, which are so interesting.I am definitely going to use then in my several news & niche blogs.Thank you for a good post.
Sahil Kotak said:
We’re almost in 2012 now, do you recommend any other plugins now considering the changes made in Search Engines like Google and others?
Thanks,
Sahil
Tushar said:
those plugins are not only for SEO purpose they are adding mixed functionality to your blog.
johne celina said:
thanks for the list of plugin ….how to check the cost of it
Ryan Steinolfson said:
What happened to xml site map plugins? Don’t you think those are important?
I like the list you created though. Thanks,
Order Taking Service said:
These are very useful plugin for the word press. These are all the reasons why more than 80% developer are using world press paid themes and plugin’s , Free ones are very risky and can be easily hacked
Chris Murphy said:
Thank you so much for sharing this. How ironic that I’m just now seeing it a year after it was posted. Nonetheless, I will check these plugins out. I’ve already downloaded the Editorial Calendar. What a great idea! Thanks for sharing Nicholas. I’ve also subscribed to your RSS Feed….
Sheshnath said:
Really loved this post thanks for providing such a nice information to me, as I am new to blogging I really wanted to know the best plugin for my site http://www.teechworld.com, which I have created 2 months back..
Thanks a lot willing to read more such post here…
Mydul said:
Some very good plugins are there. Thanks for sharing.
I would recommend you to check out Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
JibberJabber said:
Thanks for these I’m using some already, but you’ve given me a whole lot more to try, and seeing as you rank #1 in google I’m going to take your advice!
Divyanshu said:
Great post! I’m new to working with WordPress and a list of worthwhile plugins is most useful.
have a look at my blog too if you would like.
By Divyanshu
And have a great day mate.
TreTans.com said:
Great Plugin..
Thank’s for Sharing..
richardryan said:
Life should be easier now with all these resources. WordPress is my best blog platform with nice plugin and a good comment system that help bloggers on SEO related issues.
richardryan said:
WordPress is my best blog platform with nice plugin and a good comment system. Thank you for your post.
richardryan said:
Thank you for your post. WordPress is my best blog platform with nice plugin and a good comment system that help developers.
David said:
sitesketch101 thanks for providing this smokin list of plugins and details. Ad squares widget is my favorite for displaying 125×125 ad squares, very easy to use.
the wicked noodle said:
I normally don’t comment on sites like yours that I find by searching for something specific through Google. But I’m so impressed with the plugins you’ve listed on this post (there are about half that I’m going to implement, which for me is huge since I’ve been around awhile) that I’m going to sign up for your RSS feed. Happy to have found you!
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’m happy also and I’m the same way that I don’t often comment from Google searches, but I’m glad that you did. Welcome aboard!
Dan said:
Great list, I have used a few of these on my web design blog but like Tweet old post which I find useful. I also like contextual related posts makes internal linking easy and keeps people on the site longer and commentLuv as well as subscribe to comments. I haven’t used those thankyou plugins but I think they are a nice idea.
Emil Fredriks said:
Great List. Helped me a lot building my website. Thanks!
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. That’s what they’re there for.
Thomas bodetti said:
The best wordpress plugins are the ones that save me time, money, energy, and my hair…
Nicholas Cardot said:
I agree. I don’t know about you, but I like having hair.
Salman said:
Wonderful collection. I have installed most of them on my new website straightaway. Also evaluate Xhanch My Quote, Flash Flickr Slideshow, Earth Hour, Green Living Tips n Post Ratings I have been using satisfactorily.
Thanks for sharing!
Ms Veronicas said:
I guess since writing this article you’ve decided for pop-ups? Okay, sarcasm over. Was wondering if you had a subscribe widget recommendation – or if anyone does? The jetpack one doesn’t allow you to moderate it and subscribe2 – one of my subscribers had problems unsubscribing? Not sure what else to use now…
tasuku3528 said:
There’s many different ways of increasing your website ranking or Page Rank – a Google term for website popularity. However Page Rank is determined on the quality of the back link (among other factors) and so getting a back link from a high Pag eRank blog is hugely beneficial to the Page Rank of your website.
I’m not high profile blogger and just blogging for more than one year, but my experience has been helped me to complete a survey for the journey of gaining page rank for all my blogs although I’m not very sure about how google page rank algorithm works.
Yes, no body can exactly know how Google page rank algorithm works because Google has never make known to public officially. But, we can predict how to gain page rank although it is not 100% percent the correct way!
thanks
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now facebook plugin is also available
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Just a Guy said:
There is a pop up on your page even though your article says you don’t use them.
Nicholas Cardot said:
True. At the time I wrote this article, I wasn’t using them. I’ve edited the article to reflect that I now use them as they are just far too profitable not to.
Ryan said:
Great article. Very interesting plugins.
David Lowe said:
Absolutely priceless information that will really help my blog. Thank you for your useful insight and WordPress expertise.
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. I really do love the flexibility of WordPress when it comes to the vast number of useful plugins available.
What plugins would you recommend from your experience that aren’t listed here?
Misty said:
I have a small blog and not much programming skill.
When I look through the plugins available it’s a bit overwhelming – so thanks for the nice list I can experiment with!
I was actually first looking for a good backup plug-in, and saw someone mention that there is a difference between backing up the “database” and backing up the rest of the wordpress blog. Does the one you mentioned – WP-DB Manager back everything up, or will there be portions lost when trying to restore my blog.
Thanks in advance for you help!
Misty
Dan said:
Great list! I wrote all the plugins I think will help a number of my sites! Keep them coming!
Stephen said:
Just love your blog site!!!
Has a very sociable, casual look and feel.
Very nice plugin recommendations.
Keep up the good work
Logofox said:
Can highly recommend both WP Total Cache and Smart links. Both work great and no effort involved whats so ever.
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BobR said:
Talking about Digg Digg toolbar: it’s absolutely blank here at work. I cannot see anything and I know it’s because the server is blocking traffic from Facebook, Twitter and so on…
It’s the first time I come across your website and it does look AWESOME. One of the most visual pleasant website built on WordPress I came across.
Jenni said:
MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja is a paid plugin, so I would like to use SEO smart link. It’s free and very suitable for blogger like me.
udit said:
Never used a plugin other than all in one seo… will try Seo smart link too.
Kingsley said:
The w3 cache doesnt really improve the speed as much.. but you did a nice job here.
Abel Pardo said:
Some of them are really interesting plugins. I thin Digg Digg could be a bit improved. Good post.
Martin Horvath said:
If you need a very good popup plugin check out LePopup WordPress. It can be used also for advertisement and interactive display of information.
Look at demo here: http://goo.gl/y6Vgs
More info here: http://goo.gl/7NnPu
Technopsis said:
Wow, very interesting list of plugins! I was already using some of them, but this will make a nice addition to my plugins list. Im just fighting a bit with the ‘possible unhidden’ database backup by WP-DBmanger. Oh well, ill figure it out
Thanks!
Daniel said:
I’d like to share a very nice and original plugin I’ve just discovered: WP App Maker.
It automatically handles the creation and distribution on a native Android App (no HTML) for any WordPress Blog and it offers some interesting features like colors customization and offline cache.
Johnny F said:
Very nice and useful list. Congrats. When it comes to forms, I’ve tested most of forms and quizes plugins on different websites depending on the needs but in the end gravi?ty forms worked best. Is so easy to adapt it and you’ll end up using it for more than simple forms.
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ZtoD said:
Nice collection of wordpress plugins.thank you!
XzGuite said:
Great Plugins indeed. I used some of them too and some i’ll be trying out right away.. Ans nice really really nice layout you got here.
dhuu said:
nice shere
thanks
John said:
Many a times the plugins you can use get restricted by the choice of theme you made while setting up the website. E.g. i cannot use the sidebar plugins because my template does not allow that in the layout.
. So i switched to w3 super cache.
w3 total cache is amazing but it gives too many options that confuse the average joe or john like me
The post has a very practical collection of plugins that covers nearly all aspects of webmaster arsenal. Thank you.
Kiefer said:
i was looking for a widget a beautiful widget for email subscription but haven’t found one yet
Sharon said:
I’m definitely going to use Headspace:Wordpress SEO Made Simple. I’ve just got my blog up and going again. I left it alone for about two years. I’m looking for all the help I can get when it comes to explaining plugins and which is better to use. Thanks.
Jase said:
W3C Total Cache is an outstanding plugin and certainly deserves the number one spot on your list. I’ve been using it for quite a while and what a difference it makes!! If you take the time to set up browser caching properly it really does go a long way. On my site, after a visitor loads the page for the first time, each page load after that is practically instant. The CDN integration is pretty useful too.
Nice list btw!
J
Paul said:
That is really interesting list and although SEO plugins are terrifying I’m tempted to give headspace a look.
Melissa said:
Thanks Nicholas for bringing all of the needed plugins into attention. I almost forgot adding some of the plugins to my site. Very helpful even for regular WordPress blogger.
Anan said:
Seriously awesome plugins.. Thanks for sharing
ShweRoom said:
Great Collection…
I download all..
Jennifer said:
Hey Nicholas Thanks, I was under the impression I shouldn’t load up on plug ins. Now I feel better. Thanks alot!
Fahad said:
Why do you think you should not load plugins?
sammy said:
Woahh you have mentioned some of my fav plugins thank you bro!
Connie said:
Have you or will you be doing an updated list soon?
Himu said:
wow.. I found some great plugins here. some of them are new to me. can’t wait to use them in my new site. thanks.
Alana said:
I need something with visual interest that isn’t a picture per se and/or a small survey.. I did activate Thank Me Later and Tweet Old Posts. Can’t wait to see how they work.
Lord Template said:
Thank Me Later great to increase traffic.. thank’s..
zavera said:
Thanks for great information i mostly use these plugins thanks for valuable information
Jim Clary said:
I didn’t an auto tagger in your list. I think it saves me a bunch of time with each post.
I also use commentluv. My readers appreciate it.
Nicholas Cardot said:
I like that plugin a lot also and I used to use it on here. I’m not sure what happened to it. I must have deactivated somewhere along the line. I’m going to have to look into it and figure out what I did.
Alex Thompson said:
I have been WordPress users since one year but i have never used some of these plugins. Thanks for the informative article.
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. I hope it helps you on your blogging journey. Which ones look the most useful for you?
Rahul Roy said:
Tweet Old Post and ReplyMe looks awesome, thanks for sharing this list.
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re welcome. Give those ones a go and I think you’ll really enjoy ‘em.
Ron Leyba said:
Thanks for sharing your list Nick! How about plugins that can support schema/microdata for rich snippets? Any recommendation?
Nicholas Cardot said:
That’s actually a terrific question. I did some research into that about 6 months ago and wasn’t able to find anything that was incredibly useful on that front. If anyone else has any suggestions, I’d love to hear about it and possibly add it to the list.
Alan | Life's Too Good said:
Wow, this is a useful reminder that I probably can;t call myself a beginner anymore. Why? I think I saw a 2011 version of this list a year ago. Or did you do it later in 2011?
Never mind. I remember it helping me then (whatever previous version I saw). This time round I have the plug-ins that I’d be most interested in from your list but it still serves as a useful validation to check vs those you’d recommend.
Not so sure about Smartlinks – I thought I’d seen someone somewhere write that unless used carefully this can actually ‘hurt’ your rankings. I’m no expert but that may be worth checking out.
I really like the simplicity of ReplyMe – probably my favourite.
do you use pagenavi?
Nicholas Cardot said:
You’re actually right. If overused, smart links can appear very spammy to search engines like Google. However, I only use it for somewhat long-tail, highly relevant internal links. So I’ll put a keyword in and it will usually only get linked once or twice across the entire site which works well for me. If you spam it with a bunch of one-word keywords, you’re definitely going to lose out though. Excellent word of warning.
Also, the pagenavi powers the page numbers at the bottom of the blog page and the bottom of the each of the category pages (which can be accesses by clicking the tassle at the top of the page).
Reply Me is definitely a cool plugin especially if you have the time to interact with folks who respond to your email. Make is sound very personal, and when possible interact as much as you can with your readers and it becomes an incredibly valuable tool.
Nicholas Cardot said:
P.S. Life really is too good, isn’t it. I love that little phrase after your name up there.
phil faren said:
I have never used too much plugins in my site since I read in other forums that it could slow down page loading time and affect rankings. but your list feels good. I’ll try if the SEO and Total Cache would do better for mine. Thanks for this.
Nicholas Cardot said:
If you use that Total Cache plugin, you can get away with adding a few extra plugins because it really does an amazing job of caching your site and delivering it lightning fast to your visitors.
TechyLabs said:
Thanks for the list of best plugins to use in 2012. I already use most of them, but I am not sure about the ‘MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja’. I have read somewhere that plugins from MaxBlog Press contain malicious code. Do you still recommend it?
Edward B. Branch said:
I must say, I finally got what I was looking for. Initially, I tried various plugins for the purpose. But Digg Digg, works well for my Blog. Thanks
Linda Brown said:
I must say, @Nicholas that these are great lists of WordPress plugins that I really want to add on my site.
Adrian said:
thanks Nicholas for this list of Plug ins for WP! Any newbie aspiring to start his/her blog/website on WP must follow this list of plugins! I have a question, I am managing a video hosting site on WordPress Platform, so is there any way by which i can get to know about the clicks and the time span for which the visitors watched the videos on my website! I am using iwplayer in my site!
Walter said:
Nicolás.
Es fantástico tu sitio. La verdad es que me sirvió mucho para la construcción del mio. Este sitio es muy recomendado. Felicitaciones. Te dejo un Abrazo y seguí trabajando así.
Walter Miguel Varela
Webmaster – Argentina
Apoorv Dwivedia said:
just tried some of them and i would say that i found this blog post amazing…
Halogendesigns said:
Thank you for sharing this huge list and according to my experience “SEO Smart Links & All in One SEO” are the best for WordPress Theme.
Andrew said:
60% of the plugins I use for now, some new to me, but I’ll try to use them
Stephen said:
Thanks for the advice. I find I get too structured when I write like doing an essay or something. Just gotta loosen up some I think. Thanks for the offer to leave a link. There is an article I wrote on blogging that would benefit from adding a link to your site if that’s OK. There are a couple of articles I would like to link to from your site . . where would you like me to add them?
If you are into art, here is a blog post that I recently wrote, check out the video near the bottom. It’s artwork from a buddy that I taught in college many moons ago who has been an artist in Mexico since then.
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Daniël Tulp said:
Haven’t read all the comments, so I don’t know if these plugins have been mentioned.
Just going about it on alphabetical order.
404 Redirected
When a page is not found, it can suggest best matching alternatives to your users, autoredict to a very good match,lets you add manual redirects. But I find it also very usefull to sniff out hack attacks and later block those IP’s with the IP Filter plugin for WP.
All-in-One Calendar by Then.ly
Best Calendar plugin for WP ever!
BackWPup
Very extensive with cron job functionality backup plugin. Not only can it backup your database, it can also backup your files, to your sites or another FTP server, or a cloud service like Dropbox!
CloudFlare
Don’t spend to much time with W3C total cache or super cache. It is time consuming and the best features break more then one plugin. Just use http://www.cloudflare.com and its WP plugin.
Comment Form Quicktags
Just some simple quicktags for your commenters to use. Works like a charm and fully customisable.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
Photonic Gallery for Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug and 500px
A great way to integrate said image/photo services, although I do not like all the JS code on all my pages, including the ones where I do not use the plugin.
Simple:Press
Fully featured and the best out there, forum plugin for WP.
Theme My Login
Alters the login routine extensively, gives people profile pages and give very useful tools for administrators.
User Messages
Lets your users communicate with each other and lets you send out e-mails or messages to all your users at once.
WP-Ajaxify-Comments
Hooks into your current theme and adds AJAX functionality to the comment form. No more page loading after adding a comment!
WP-Polls
Very feature rich polling plugin.
WP-touch
Already mentioned, but certainly a top level plugin for WP.
Ronnie said:
I like the JetPack plugin, of course I’m a newbie to WordPress and plugins.
Ronnie
Nicholas Cardot said:
JetPack certainly has some very neat features. How long have you been blogging? And how long ago did you discover WordPress? What do you think of it?
Ronnie said:
I started a blog back in 2007 when I was deployed to Afghanistan and started blogging actively July 1st of this year. I used Google blogpost originally since it was free. I loved the reviews for WordPress I saw and wanted to host my own name.
Right now I feel like I don’t even know how much I don’t know.
Still working on almost everything.
ronnie
http://www.ronnietabor.com
Nicholas Cardot said:
I can’t believe that my spam filter marked your comment as spam. I’m sorry about that.
I feel that same way also. I’m actually taking design courses at DeVry right now on my G.I. Bill and it continually opens my eyes to how very much I still don’t know.
Thanks for your service, brother. We’re going to have to connect on gchat or facebook sometime. I’m on the battle roster to head that way myself in march of 2013.
Ronnie said:
Thanks Nicholas! Love to connect.
I loaded a Guest Post but not get a confirmation so if you don’t see anything let me know and I will reload.
Ronnie
Nicholas Cardot said:
I shot you an email back on that guest post about 45 minutes after you sent it. Be sure to check your spam filter. Maybe it got stuck in there. Anyways, I scheduled it for Friday morning. Does that work for you?
Daniël Tulp said:
There are 4 levels of knowledge (don’t know who came up with this):
1 – Unaware and unknowing: you just don’t know all the knowledge you don’t yet posses
2 – Aware and unknowing: you’ve realised how big the field of study is and you gasp at the enormity of the task ahead of you (or not, dependent of your skill in learning and the field of study)
3 – Aware and knowing: you know everything there is to know in your field of study and you can apply it in daily life, although you have to remember what to do.
4 – Unaware knowing: you know everything there is to know and you subconsciously apply it in daily life, much like riding a car (you know how to do it, you do not have to think about how to press the gas pedal)
In most cases we master all 4 (the things we learn in our childhood), but in research and daily work, most of us get stuck halfway level 2.
Hope this helps you in a (perhaps strange) way.
Cheers!
P.S.: What do you think of my list of plugins (couple of posts above this one)
Scott Dudley said:
Hi Nicholas,
I like you are addicted to WP plugins and get excited checking out new ones that people recommend.
The biggest thing that stands out on your list for me is having W3 Total Cache at number 1. I found this to be an awful plugin, and after I removed it my blog speed was a lot quicker than when I installed it. But if it works for you then thats great.
I recognise most of the plugins and agree with all of them. There are one or two which I have not heard of, and I will definitely give these a go.
Thanks for sharing
Nicholas Cardot said:
I’ve heard that from a few others as well actually. I use it here in conjunction with Cloudflare and I find it really helpful. Do you use another Caching plugin in its place?
Daniël Tulp said:
I agree. W3C total cache out the window, just use Cloudflare, nothing more.
Safes you tones of headaches and minutes in loading time.
Rajiv Kashyap Biography said:
Article is good and very well written. I am using WordPress from last 15 months and still its going great. I don’t use plugins, but I think I should try it once.
Ryan S said:
Nice collection. I would also add “Social Toolbar”
ayesha said:
WoW!! such an informative post. Em also a big fan of wordpress. Internet gives us many helping material about wordpress and this post gives us plugin that’s very helping.
Jasmin said:
nicholas thanks for sharing list of plugins of wordpress . it is very nice list but according to me some of best plugins which i likes are not there which are:
-wp-logic
-all in one seo
-contact form 7
-smush.it
I know these plugins are not made in 2012 but still they are the best ever.
Pearly J. said:
I already use some of the plugins listed here but hadn’t heard about others. So now I’m off to check them out and see what I can use, thanks for sharing this list!
Dody said:
Nice share… Thanks
Santosh Mishra said:
WordrePres Plugins work as the super charger for a blog. With the help of some plugins your website flies. In fact choosing best WordPress plugins gives you an edge over others.
Tayfun Gol said:
Hello, thanks for great info. I found Smart Seo Links useful and using at retroreklam.com.
Brad Madiuk said:
Awesome article. Popupdomination looks great, planning on buying!
nitesh said:
I’m a big fan of the Yoast SEO plug-in and have used it successfully for a while. The one thing I’d add is don’t worry about being perfect on every measure. Hit the majority of them till you get an overall “green”, and you’ll see still see positive results.
JamesW said:
Great list, I personally use tweet old post and recommend it. It is just amazing plugin for tweeting your old and new tweets.
Set it and forget it, and traffic will keep coming every day just from your tweets
thanks for sharing
Santosh Mishra said:
These plugins are really nice and useful. I use some of these plugins for my blog. Thanks for the information.
saber said:
Yes this plugins are best but not essential specially digg digg
Jordan said:
You’re forgetting Yoast SEO which adds Open Graph meta tags and a whole host of other goodies, and also Disqus commenting system!
Frank Steiner said:
Revision Control is really great plugin. I have been using it for a while and it significantly improved page load times.
manoj said:
have used almost all plugins,,,cant live without W3 cache and you should have also included login lock
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I have a weblog and I want to know web-sites where I can locate loads
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Brandon said:
Fantastic post, I actually use a lot of these on my own site.
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JaneAir said:
The best wordpress plugin i have ever seen is HyperComments for http://www.hypercomments.com – amazing comment system!
Review it, please! It’s cool!
avi said:
HeadSpace: WordPress SEO awesome. can i use more than one seo plugin .
Rohith VR said:
I have used Digg Digg, ShareBar and Sexy Bookmarks but did not satisfied with their performance. Each one loads their javascript increasing load time. I prefer to use own codes.
GRVN said:
i’m using Feedburner + Digg plugin. LOVE IT !!!!
Thanks your list
Muminul Haque said:
That will help me a lot. I was looking for this seo plugin.
Vishal Shah said:
I really appreciate you for sharing us such a nice information.
Thanks Nicholas Cardot
Brian said:
Awesome thanks for this. Been looking for a plugin selection. There are so many to choose from and this really helped me a lot. Thanks again
Thomas said:
Thank you for this wonderful list of WordPress plugins. The cache plugin has saved my life in speeding up my tiny virtual private server running Linux with 256MB of memory.
My latest post: http://www.optix.net
Greg Purnell said:
I was looking for a group of the best WP plugins, that’s how I found your site. And I found just what I wanted here. Thanks!
Realpcgeeks said:
WOW, thanks for the cool wordpress plugins. I think my favorite is Seo Smart Links
MY LATEST WEBSITE POST —>
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sara said:
Thank you very much for useful information. Do you have any suggestion for a good plugin for adding “Comments” to a weblog?
Thank you
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Marcus said:
Hi, thanks for posting this great list! I was wondering if you could recommend a plugin for filtering? I need to be able to filter different products Im showcasing on a website im creating. there wont be a buy function, so no need for a ecommerce plugin I guess.. just a plugin that lets me filter lets say shoes > size or shoes > men. Thanks in advance!
DiscountQueens said:
We’ve use a few of these plugins, but didn’t have the best success with W3 Total Cache. We ended up moving our site to wpengine for our hosting & have been satisfied ever since.
We’ve also use popup domination for a long time, but have had continual problems with their updates.
Angela@ineedsyou said:
I think the knowledge you have provide in this article about wordpress plugins is out standing and it would surely help most of the business people who will read this. thanks for the info.
Thomas said:
Nice list, you can also check out http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-threat-activity-level-widget/ this widget shows global virus infection level.
Michael Spatt said:
Hey,
First of all, nice post! It was very informative. I recommend that you make another similar post that talks about maybe the top 15 SEO plugins or something like that, then do the same for other things like auto-posting etc, this will allow people to narrow down what they want!
Thanks, just my $0.02
edahani said:
i like the font you used on your page. may i know what font is this?
ajeet mishra said:
Really cool theme. Simple and sweet. Well I too use some of the plugins which are described above. Can you please tell me like which plugins I can use which can make my blog look nice and can give a feel like a website ?
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cricket said:
Wow, there is so much other there for the WordPress. It’s sometime very difficult for me to decide on which plugin to be installed.
Was reading about InboundWriter, do you have any feedback on this?
Love to hear from you on this, or any other suggestion with reference to above plugin that i am still not able to search?
hasan said:
great article..very useful
Kundan said:
This is the best list about plugins for wordpress.I am currently using W3 Total Cache on my site & i can easily say it is a much better plugin to reduce page loading time in comaprison to others.
Larry said:
I like a powerful plugin with flexibility. With that in mind, one of my current favorites is WP SlideBoss (http://wpslideboss.com/wp-slideboss/ )
Let’s me serve ads, forms, etc wherever I want them to show on the pages of my blogs.
Angela said:
All plugins are very good. But this list is too big, if all installed , the website may not afford the heavy load. you are not supposed to install ALL of them. Many offer duplicate functionality anyway. The point is to use this list to find the best plugins suitable to your site.
Cazareiasi said:
Great plugins. I didnt’t heard about WordPress SEO Made Simple and Gravity Forms until now.
Dwane Ingram said:
One of the best sites I have ever seen for WP Plugins.
Linda Leyble said:
Hi – wow. I am going to subscribe to your blog. I am still so new using WordPress – but I can see where many of these PlugIns will help a lot. I just get nervous putting plugins on (was nervous when I added CommentLuv) – but it turned out well. I added JetPack too – but I have no idea of what it is supposed to do!
Reading some of these comments – is there anything I should watch out for when I am adding plugins? I don’t think I will overload my site with them – but I can see their benefits.
Thanks for your insight.
Linda
Supreme said:
I really like this plugin set sir.
I want to know should i go with HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple or All in one seo plugin for WP ?
Rishona said:
I’ve added WP Total Cache to my site, and it seems to have sped up loading times. My only concern though is that it hasn’t been tested with the latest version of WordPress. In fact, it hasn’t been updated in 400+ days (according to the WP plugin repository). May or may not be an issue; the only way to find out is to wait & see!
g said:
Nice post, I’ve updated my blog’s plugin arsenal.
The only one I could not get to work is WP-DBManager. And here is why http://c.onfi.gs/wp-dbmanager-not-working/
Thanks alot for this great content. Keep it up!
AVChat Software said:
These definitely are very useful plugins, but why aren’t any reviews out there about video chat plugins for WordPress? These days a proper communication and entertainment are essential to a community. Why not try to bring more people on your site with a video chat plugin for WordPress like AVChat . Of course , even if the chat is very good, it can’t do miracles if it’s not used at it’s proper value. If the owners would make shows every once a week, put some interesting videos in the chat, engage their users to use more and more the chat, then after a while they will come to their website just for this interactivity and experience that only their site can offer. And they will bring other friends too.
So why haven’t I seen a review to say that these things are useful? Because our customers are very happy with the decision of having a video chat for their users.
Can you take a look at it and give us some feedback on why don’t video chat plugins in general get promoted? You can check it at http://avchat.net/integrations/wordpress
Vakas said:
yeah useful article
loving it
Transferexpart said:
Such a nice article,i am new in blogging and searched for some grate plugin.you have really convinced me to choose some… Thanks.
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Lotus said:
Great advices here ! thanks so much
Itender Rawat said:
First 3 are much important. I am using them from some months and satisfied alot. Thanks for sharing other useful plugins.
Angel said:
I prefer WP Super Cache plugin instead of Total Cache, but the Tweet Old Post is exactly what i needed. Thank you.
Tigr said:
Hi all . The plugins are awesome . let me add one more plugin to this WordPress plugins Gallery – http://web-dorado.com/products/wordpress-form.html.
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فناوری های پیشرفته said:
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BHARAT SINGH said:
THERE HAVE A REAL GOOD TOP WORD PRESS PLUGINS WHICH HAVE IMPORTANT LIKE WP-DB MANAGER, SEO SMART LINKS, , DIGG DIGG PLUGIN,W3 TOTAL CACHE
Shane Clark said:
I created a WordPress portfolio plugin that my client have found pretty useful. It is available for download at the WordPress.Org site here
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shane-web-guy-portfolio/stats/
John said:
Hi let me add one more plugin to your WordPress plugins collection .
This plugin is for adding form in your pages or posts .
WordPress Form Maker allows you To add contact form with Google map and File upload (with other functionality of standard contact forms).
It’s very helpful and easy tool specially for beginners.
Here is the website where you can download the plugin – http://web-dorado.com/products/wordpress-form.html.
Sitebee said:
Great list, I have just installed the W3 Total Cache plugin and could`nt believe just how much faster the pages loaded. Going to also have a play around with the POP-UP Domination plugin too.
harroop said:
really awesome article. it helps alot to build the site.Thank’s nice website. keep it upbuddy
Flavio Martins said:
I would recommend Tweetily to have your WordPress posts shared automatically.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetily-tweet-wordpress-posts-automatically/
This is like the Tweet Old Post plugin but with bug fixes and some added features not found in the original Tweet Old Post. Highly rated.
Edille Rosario said:
Really helpful post
I don’t know about the Revision Control and I am really not aware revisions can make site performance poor.
Gonna try this one and Feedburner Circulation.
Thanks Again
Edille
Lola said:
When I originally left a comment I seem to have clicked on the -Notify me when new comments
are added- checkbox and now every time a comment is added I receive four emails with the exact same comment.
Is there an easy method you are able to remove me from that service?
Cheers!
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Marco said:
W3 Total Cache <3
Gordon Burgett said:
A great list, Nicholas. I’m about to install three of them. I’m looking for the best plugin that will let me make a list of all my past posts (280+) so I can pull that apart and extract like or linked topics into ebooks. Does such a beast exist? Will it put the post dates with the title?
Thanks for your help.
Mak said:
Good list of Plugins. I would add Fancier Author Box too. It is necessary if you allow guest blogging on your blog.
Jaipurwebs said:
Really these are nice wordpress plugins which should have in all wordpress. Thank for share.