Best WordPress Plugins That I've Used

Some of My Favorite WordPress Plugins

I’ve used a lot of WordPress plugin over the past few years. Here I have compiled a list of some of my favorite WordPress plugins that I’ve used.

All in One Webmaster – If you are a webmaster you probably heard of Google Webmaster Tool. Both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With them you can check how your site is indexed (Webmaster Tool), get detailed statistics (Analytics Tool), earn money (Google AdSense) and more. This plugin allows you to easily integrate them with your blog. It has option to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo's Webmaster and Analytics code (meat tags). Single click sitemap submission to Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask. In addition to that it has option to add tracking code for Clicky, Quantcast, Compete.com, SiteMeter.com analytics!!  By Arpit Shah.

Digg Digg - It makes all social shared count / vote buttons integration easy. Support – Digg, Reddit, dDone, Twitter, TweetMeme, Topsy, Yahoo Buzz,facebook share, facebook like, Polladium, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Post comments, Google Buzz, Designbump, Designfloat, WebBlend and BlogEngage. By Yong Mook Kim.

Facebook Comments for WordPress – This plugin integrates the Facebook commenting system right into your website. If a reader is logged into Facebook while viewing any comment-enabled page or post, they’ll be able to leave a comment using their Facebook profile. Non-Facebook users can post with a valid email address. Features: Styles can all be customized to fit your site’s theme. Number of comments displayed can be adjusted. By Graham Swan.

Facebook Share (New) Button - The Facebook Share (new) button easily allows your blog to be shared. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been shared throughout Facebook. Facebook has just released this new share button and you might have seen this on http://Mashable.com as they were one of the lucky Beta testers of Facebook share. By Appointy.com.

Facebook Share Statistics – Show informations on your posts shared on Facebook, with statistics and charts about the number of “like”, comments and clicks received. For each post, are shown stats about share count, like count, comment count, total count and click count. That are, respectively: The number of times users have shared a post on Facebook The number of times Facebook users have “Liked” the post. By Carmine Olivo.

Facebook Social Stats – If you have both the facebook Like social plugin and the facebook Share button installed, you might have noticed that the counters show a combined count of Shares and Likes. Chances are you would like to know exactly how many people have shared OR liked your article not just the combinded count. Without having to check the API for every single URL or looking at your articles one at a time. By ninanet site solutions.

GD Press Tools – GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance, backup and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information. Plugin can also track posts and pages views for various popularity lists. By Milan Petrovic.

Google Analytics for WordPress – The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin allows you to track your blog easily and with lots of metadata. Simple installation through integration with Google Analytics API: authenticate, select the site you want to track and you’re done.
This plugin uses the asynchronous tracking code, the fastest and most reliable tracking code Google Analytics offers. By Joost de Valk.

Lightview Plus – A wordpress plugin which implements lightview of Nick Stakenburg. Lightview does the same as lightbox, but in a much nicer way and since Version 2.0 much more. Now lightview-plus plays videos from YouTube, blip.tv and Vimeo. This plugin automatically enhance image links to use lightview. It has the same functionality as the wordpress plugin topup plus This plugin uses prototype. By Puzich.

Like – Let your readers quickly share your content on Facebook with a simple click. It uses the new Facebook Like button released on Apr. 21st 2010. You can customize it in the Settings section: Access directly your Facebook Pages to manage them (see screenshot 2) Send updates to your Fans. IFRAME or XFBML versions of the button. By Bottomless.

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages. And plenty more space on your screen.
For documentation, examples, screenshot and a live demo, please refer to the official plugin page for Admin Drop Down Menu. By Ozh.

Pretty Link – Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. You can now shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. By Caseproof.

Simple RSS Feeds Widget – This widget displays titles and links to the latest posts of a custom list of third party RSS feeds. It is useful for people who want to follow third party feeds updates on their own blog. It is also useful for blog networks where each blog can promote the latest posts of other blogs of the network. By bourse, petitnuage.

TopUp Plus - TopUp is a jQuery based wordpress plugin which implements TopU. TopUp does the same as all the other “box”-scripts, light lightview, thickbox, floatbox, fancybox or lightview. Further, it plays videos in the overlay. It has the same functionality as the wordpress plugin lightview plus. Because both have the same code base, the first version of TopUp Plus is 2.5, as the actual version of lightview plus. By Puzich.

TweetMeme Retweet Button - The TweetMeme Retweet button is the defacto standard in retweeting – used by some of the biggest websites in the world including Techcrunch.com, PerezHilton.com, Break.com, CNET.com, Wired, Time Magazine and hundreds of other massive brands, in total it is installed on over 100,000 websites around the globe. By TweetMeme.

SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well. ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. By Vladimir Prelovac.

ServerBuddy – ServerBuddy by PluginBuddy.com tests server configuration to look for problems with hosting configuration and determine compatibility with various WordPress themes and plugins. Additionally it provides easy to understand explanations of various server settings and generates reports and samples of what to ask your hosting provider if a problem is found with any server configuration that needs fixed. By Dustin Bolton.

SexyBookmarks – Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. Our sole aim was to stray away from the “in the box” thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers, rather than deterring them with microscopic icons that get lost in pages heavy laden with content. By Shareaholic.

WordPress Mobile Pack - The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about. By James Pearce & friends.

WordPress Related Posts – WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed. By Denis.

WordPress Related Posts Plugin - The wp plugin will add related links for posts & pages with your own anchor text By Thamizhchelvan.

Wp-Insert - WP-INSERT by Smart Logix : The ultimate wordpress plugin. Wp-Insert is the most powerful yet easiest to use wordpress ad management plugin which does a lot more than ad management. Wp-Insert can manage your feeds, google analytics, blog editing and even make editing your themes easier for you.

WP-lightpop – All from within a well contained and easy to use interface. By Namith Jawahar.

Youtube with style – The youtube with style plugin allows WordPress users to easily embed a youtube video without the default youtube player, instead with a stylish player. You can add a video via the post media manager, and search using the You Tube API, and preview videos and automatically insert them into your post without leaving your site. By fris.

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