Administration Plugins
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu
Consolidate space in the back end of WordPress by displaying all of
your administration links in a smaller and more organized horizontal
navigation bar across the top of your screen. This takes up much less
space the default vertical menu and makes managing your blog much
easier. You can even customize the colors of this admin menu to match
your theme.
WP-DBManager
Easily access your database from within WordPress with this
all-in-one plugin. You can optimize, repair, backup, or restore your
database as well as delete backups, drop/empty tables and run selected
queries. You can also schedule automatic backups and optimization of
your database.
WP-DB-Backup
Another solution for backing up your database in a much more simple
(and less feature packed) version of the above WP-DBManager plugin. This
plugin allows you to easily backup your core database tables with the
click of your mouse.
WordPress Backup
In addition to regular database backups, you should also backup the
important server files for WordPress. This plugin allows you to easily
backup theme files, uploaded files/images, as well as your plugins
directory all within the WordPress backend. You also have the ability to
send the backed up zip file to your email.
Role Scoper
For multi user blogs that require advanced permissions for specific
user groups and/or content sections, the Role Scoper plugin is a must.
Most notably, this plugin allows you to easily customize access to
specific pages, posts, or categories as well as giving the ability to
set very specific permissions to your different user groups. In addition
to these two basic functions, this plugin is loaded with a wide variety
of additional capabilities.
Broken Link Checker
This is a great plugin that simply checks your posts for any broken
links (both internal and outbound) and notifies you on your WordPress
dashboard if you have a broken link. From there, you can easily edit or
remove the link.
Security Plugins
Bad Behavior
An easy solution for blocking link spam and bad robots before they
are even able to reach your site. Prevent unnecessary link spam, keep
your site’s load down and your site log clean with the Bad Behavior
plugin.
Login LockDown
This WordPress security plugin will record the IP address and
timestamp for every failed login attempt and then temporary lock out an
IP address if it has too many failed login attempts within a certain
amount of time. This will prevent attackers from any brute force
password discovery attempts.
WP Security Scan
Very simply, this plugin will scan your WordPress instillation for
any potential security flaws or vulnerabilities and then suggest
corrective actions. This includes passwords, file permissions, database
security, version hiding, admin protection/security, and much more.
Spam Plugins
Akismet
Probably the best comment spam plugin out there which blocks most
spam comments and files them under "Spam" in your WordPress comment
admin screen.
SpamShiv Spam Protection
We all know that putting email addresses on
your website is usually a bad idea these days because automated bots can
now detect them and spam your inbox relentlessly. With SpamShiv, you no
longer have to worry about publicly displaying your email address on
your WordPress site. This plugin will detect any email addresses listed
on your site and then mask them from email harvesting bots.
Really Simple CAPTCHA
A simple CAPTCHA plugin that works in conjunction with the widely
used Contact Form 7 plugin. While this isn’t the most secure CAPTCHA out
there, it does prevent most unwanted/spam submissions and integrates
quite easily into your WordPress site.
Social Plugins
DISQUS Comment System
Provide added functionality for your comment section with the DISQUS
comment system. This plugin integrates seamlessly with WordPress and
actually syncs with the default comment system. For one, this plugin
allows users to login with their Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo (and more)
accounts to post comments. Additionally, you can pull in
reactions/comments from various social sites including Digg/Reddit
comments, Retweets, and more.
Gigya Socialize
The Gigya Socialize plugin uses social APIs to authenticate users
from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and AOL. Allow
users to register and login into your site with their own social
account.
Sociable
The sociable plugin displays various social sharing and bookmarking
logos below your posts allowing readers to easily share posts on their
favorite social sites. You can choose from 99 different social
bookmarking logos to display.
Add To Any
As an alternative or addition to the above sociable plugin, the Add
to Any plugin provides an easy and compact way for users to share your
posts. Save space on your website and give readers a tool to easily
share or bookmark your post on over 100 different social sites.
TweetMeme Button
Adds the popular Retweet button to every post. The plugin also
provides easy customization and integrates seamlessly with WordPress.
Facebook Share Button
Similar to the above TweetMeMe plugin, the Facebook Share plugin adds the popular Facebook share button to your posts.
Wibiya Plugin
The Wibiya plugin gives you the ability to easily add the Wibiya
Toolbar to your WordPress site. This toolbar displays across the bottom
of your site and gives users the ability to search, translate, share,
and much more. Additionally, you can customize the look and color of the
toolbar to match your site as well as track the toolbar usage through
your Wibiya account.
Usability Plugins
Dunstan-style Error Page
Easily create an effective and useful 404 error page on your WordPress site with the click of a button.
Smart 404
The smart 404 plugin helps reduce 404 errors by automatically
redirecting users to the correct post or page when they mistype a URL.
Lightbox Plus
The Lightbox plugin provides a much cleaner, more user friendly and stylish way to display images on your site.
Outbound Links
Keep users on your site by forcing all outbound links to open in a new window.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Increase your page views and time on site by displaying related posts on your site.
WordPress Popular Posts
Easily display your most popular posts on the sidebar of your site with the WordPress popular posts plugin.
Feedburner Feedsmith
An often overlooked plugin, Feedburner Feedsmith will detect all
alternate feed ULRs for your WordPress site and redirect users to your
Feedburner feed.
Search Everything
The Search Everything plugin gives you additional control over the
default WordPress site search as well as gives users additional search
capabilities to help them find the content they are looking for.
SEO Plugins
Please view our previous post on WordPress SEO plugins for a complete list of great search engine optimization plugins.
Advertising Plugins
Ad-minister
Rotate ads on your site, display certain ads only during specific
time periods, track impressions and more with the Ad-minister plugin.
Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
Control who sees certain advertisements and under what conditions with Ozh’ Who Sees Ads.
WP125
Easily display and manage 125×125 sidebars ads with the WP125 plugin.
Amazon Reloaded for WordPress
Looking to make some extra cash on your site? Use the Amazon Reloaded
plugin to easily find and add Amazon affiliate links to your posts.
GoCodes
While not the primary use of GoCodes (intended to create custom and
branded shortened URLs), this plugin allows you to easily mask affiliate
link URLs by displaying a much cleaner and more friendly version to
users.
Other Plugins
WPtouch iPhone Theme
In one of the most impressive plugins out there (in my opinion), the
WPtouch iPhone Theme transforms your blog into a great looking mobile
site. Keep mobile users on your site with this simple and stylish mobile
plugin.
Contact Form 7
One of the most widely used and simple (yet customizable) contact
form plugins available. In conjunction with the Really Simple CAPTCHA
plugin listed above, this is a great solution for most WordPress sites.
PollDaddy Polls & Ratings
Easily create and manage PollDaddy polls from right within your WordPress dashboard.
2 comments:
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Thank you Meena. Hope the post helped you.
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