25 WordPress Plugins that make your life easier
06. Oct, 2009 
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We all know what a great platform WordPress is. I mean everything is straightforward and you don`t need to read hundreds of pages on how to use it. You just have to install it and then is ready to run, but if you want to make your blog faster, safer and more efficient you have to make a few adjustmens. Here`s a list with all the plugins that you should really know about.
Comments Plugins
Description: This plugin enables blog admins and editors to manage the notification of incomming comments. As WordPress only has the option to notify on every comment, the email account of the admin may recieve many email each day. Notification is also limited to the admin only, so only the admin user will recieve an email for incomming comments.
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Description: Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or regiser, users will have to type in the phrase shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WPMU and BuddyPress compatible.
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Description: This plugin adds the ability to mark a comment as irrelevant.
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Description: WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.
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Description: This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.
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Description: This plugin will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.
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Description: This plugin adds a small form to every comment on your blog. The form is only added for admins and allows you to move comments to a different page and to fix comment threading.
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Contact Plugins
Description: WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.
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Description: Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
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Description: WP Contact Form III is a simple contactform based on Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form and Doug Karr’s challenge (antispam) mod for Ryan’s original form.
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Description: SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form.
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Description: Easy contact form, embed it in a post or page by writing the shortcode [wpcf].
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Description: Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] in the post. Emails will be sent to the post’s author.
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Stats Plugins
Description: Logs hits with referrer, ip, host, client and url information. RSS tracker feature lets you tracker your visitors in near realtime using an RSS reader software.
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Description: Feed Stats for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to view your FeedBurner feed stats from inside of the WordPress admin interface. Stats for your feed can be viewed from the “Feed Stats” page in the “Dashboard” section of WordPress.
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Description: This plugin makes available a number of shortcodes which you can use in your posts, including pagerank and alexa.
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Description: iRedlof Google Analytics(GA) Stats is a wordpess admin panel plugin, I developed it cos i like to manage everything from one place. This plugin is like wordpress .com stats plugin but the difference between the two is that wordpress.com stats works with wordpress analytics stats system and iRedlof GA Stats works with google analytics stats system. Using this plugin, you get your GA stats straight from your account on google to your wordpress admin panel. Right now this plugin is in development phase and only have limited features i.e. visits/day, pageviews/day, etc to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface, but the full version will be loaded will all the features of google analytics which will provide you with an incredible depth of information. To use this plugin you need google analytics account.
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Description: The Google Analytics Stats plugin shows a graph of 3 metrics from google analytics on the dashboard. The metrics are Page Views, Visits, and New Visits. It’s very easy to setup, comes with its own admin section. Future planned releases will include more metrics and more configurable options.
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Description: Adsense Stats is a widget for WordPress to display detailed statistics about your Google Adsense earnings without requiring login into your Google account.
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Twitter Plugins
Description: Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
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Description: Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
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Description: A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). Requires PHP5.
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Description: Twitter Post is a plugin where enable the users for send automatic messages for twitter account, allways when the user publish one post.
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Description: This is a plugin that adds a twitter link to comments if the comment author uses an email connected to a twitter account.
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Description: Twitter ReTweet provides a function that displays a ReTweet link which gives visitors the ability to ReTweet the current post; supports custom URLs (perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking).
Author Info
SEO for Firefox can be turned on or off globally. In addition, each particular piece of information also has three settings-
Auto – automatically pulls in the data whenever you search Google or Yahoo!
On-Demand – link to pull in data will be present in search results, but the data will not be automatically pulled in until you click on the associated link
Hidden – if you do not find a particular data point useful you can remove that data point from the tool output.
My comment is that Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer. Wickett Twitter Widget
displays tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com.
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Nice list. I like using contact form 7 for the captcha feature. Unfortunately it is very necessary these days.
This post will save me a great deal of time and allow the use of plug ins beyond my technical skill. Thank you.
I used various Ad-Sense plugins for my WP site and I can tell you that some of them worked extremly well but some of them somehow managed to display ads that actually did not belonged to me!
The trick is, install the plug-in and check the ad regulary, if it seems ok thorugh a day or two it should be fine:) the buggy ones activates themselves within hours to be honest, so you can easily spot them and delete them instantly!