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My favorite WordPress Plug-ins & Resources

Posted on 2007-09-302012-12-18 by sebthom

Now that I gained some experiences with WordPress, here comes a list of my favorite WordPress Plug-ins:

Plug-ins:

  • Addicted To Live Search – Adds live search with ajax to the default search box.
  • Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button – Lets readers share, save, and bookmark your posts using any service and browser.
  • AdSense Manager – Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your WordPress blog.
  • Admin Drop Down Menu – Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads!
  • Advanced Tag Entry – Adds more advanced tag management to the post edit screen.
  • Audio Player – Highly configurable single track mp3 player.
  • Category Livemarks – Shows Live Bookmarks in Firefox per blog category.
  • Clutter-Free – Allows authors to hide portions of the WordPress interface that you seldom use.
  • Dragon Design Sitemap Generator – Auto-Generates a sitemap.
  • Dashboard Editor – Allows you to customize the dashboard.
  • Diagnosis – Adds a system configuration information page to the Dashboard.
  • Exclude Pages from Navigation – Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.
  • File Icons – Automatically displays icons before links within the content of your WordPress web site via CSS.
  • Guestbook Generator – Generates a guest book for WordPress blogs.
  • Language Switcher – Lets you set up a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, where you write all blog content, categories, etc. in multiple languages, and your readers choose which language to view
  • o42-clean-umlauts – Das Plug-in konvertiert die deutschen Umlaute in den Beitragstiteln, Kommentaren und Feeds zu ASCII. – Aus ä,ü,ö,ß wird ein ae, ue, oe und ss.
  • Ozh’ Better Feed – Allows you to enhance your feeds with several highly customizable features.
  • Optimize DB – Lets you optimize your WordPress database tables with one click.
  • Paged Comments – Breaks down comments into a number of pages.
  • PJW WP Cache Inspect – Enables you to inspect how the built-in cache is working.
  • Robots Meta – This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
  • Simple Spoiler Enhanced – Add show/hide text enclosed within or [spoiler][/spoiler] with a link.
  • Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
  • WordPress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
  • WP-DownloadManager – Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.
  • WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
  • WP-Stats – Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plug-ins statistics and top 10 statistics.

SEO:

  • All in One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
  • Google XML Sitemaps – This plug-in will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
  • Permalinks Migration – With this plug-in, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your web site,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.
  • Search Meter – Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for.
  • SEO Slugs – Removes common words from post slugs to improve SEO.
  • Ultimate Google Analytics – Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.

Security:

  • Admin SSL – Secures Login and Admin pages using Private or Shared SSL
  • Anonymous WordPress Plugin Updates – Anonymizes the data transmitted during plug-in update checking and notification system.
  • AskApache Password Protect – Adds Password Protection to your wp-admin directory.
  • Math Comment Spam Protection – Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot

How-Tos/Tutorials:

  • WordPress als CMS
  • WordPress als CMS nutzen
  • Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One

Security:

  • .htaccess for subdirectories
  • 6 simple steps to hardening WordPress
  • Hardening WordPress with .htaccess
  • Hardening WordPress with mod_rewrite and .htaccess
  • htaccess password protection for wp-admin

Multilingual:

  • Localizing a WordPress Plugin Using poEdit
  • Localizing WordPress Themes
  • Multilingual WordPress
  • WordPress als CMS und Multilingual
  • WordPress as a real multilingual CMS with Gengo
  • WordPress mehrsprachig
  • WordPress Multilingual – Tutorial für einen mehrsprachigen Blog

3 thoughts on “My favorite WordPress Plug-ins & Resources”

  1. AskApache says:
    4 November 2007 at 9:27 PM

    Great List Sebastian… Always fun to look over whats good. Surprisingly, the only 2 plugins I use on this list are the askapache password protection, and the Google Sitemaps

  2. aouni says:
    29 April 2008 at 11:47 PM

    Good choices. I mainly use most of these plugins, which are really great.

  3. TerraMoam says:
    6 January 2010 at 11:47 AM

    Really Nice work! some of them I didn’t know

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