Favorite Wordpress Plugins

• May 7,2006 by Judi

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Here are my Favorite Wordpress Plugins:

Add Your Own Headers - added 7/11/07 - This Plugin allows you to easily add your own headers to each individual entry.

Ad Rotator - I was a little hesitant to activate this one. There isn’t a text file included in the download with install or configuration information.. rather you need to visit the plugins creator’s website to learn the specifics. I wanted an ad rotator that would display the direct link to a site, rather than a redirect link from an “ad program”. Once set up, this works like a charm! Really, it was a piece of cake.

Akismet - An anti-spam program. Comes pre-installed in the Wordpress 2 + plugins. Easy to use and very helpful.

aLinks - added 7/11/07 - A WordPress Plugin which allows you to link words throughout your blog posts.

Custom Contact - Creates a custom email form, with easy to create and edit fields.

Dashboard Editor - added 7/11/07 - Customize the Dashboard… nice.

DoFollow - With the Wordpress 2, there is an automatic “nofollow” following all outbound links in the comments. I prefer links to be followed. This plugin changes it to allow it.

Jerome’s Keywords - I just love this plugin, however Jerome seems to have stopped upgrading it. Instead, check out the Simple Tagging Plugin. Easy theme integration, easy tag cloud. As the name says, it’s simple.

Subscribe2 - A plugin which sends emails to subscribers whenever this is a new post. Doesn’t send the post, but just a link to the recent post. Easy to unsubscribe. Also allows the option to registered readers to subscribe to specific categories. Very nice feature. (note: I still have this activated, but I am not actively using the sign-up form. It may be just me, but I can’t figure out an easy way for people to unsubscribe once they’ve registered with the site. No big deal though. I’m currently using http://ymlp.com for my newsletter - doesn’t give automatic updates, but that’s ok too.)

SRG Clean Archives - I didn’t want my archives in my sidebar, but I wanted them easily viewable. This did exactly what I wanted. I now have an “Archive” link (that I added) to my sidebar directing to my Archives page.

EmailShroud - Simple plugin. Codes any displayed email addresses so email harvesters can’t grab them up.

Google Sitemaps Generator Plugin - Automatically creates a sitemap to submit to google sitemaps. When you make a new post, it automatically pings google.

WP-Footnotes - added 7/11/07 - Easily add footnotes to posts ((Like this!))

Fuzzy Recent Comments ((Fuzzy Comments is still an active plugin in my admin, however I am not currently using it))- This plugin (they call it a widget and works also in conjunction with semiologic - a plugin that allows Wordpress to work more like a content manager.) allows for recent comments to be added to your sidebar. Lots of other good stuff here - this is just the only one I currently use. You’ll find ‘recent posts’, ‘recent updates’ and more.

I love plugins. With Wordpress, there hasn’t been anything I wanted to do, that I was unable to accomplish. So many great people work on Wordpress and wordpress plugins. “kudos!”

Looking for lists of plugins? Check here:

WordPress Plugin List

WP-Plugins.net

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