Favorite Wordpress Plugins - Revised
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Jan 30, 2008 by Judi
MommaMuse.com is happily wordpress powered.. And, I’ll admit, I’m a wordpress plugin addict. So.. it’s been almost 2 years since I totally updated my first favorite wordpress plugins list. Here you go. If I’ve left out one of your favorites, please feel free to comment it.
Akismet - I did not active akismet when I first started using wp… it took me quite some time to activate it actually.. but anyway, here’s what it says today “Akismet has caught 23,705 spam for you since you first installed it.” Woo hoo.. go akismet!
Breadcrumb Navigation XT - You can see this in action on each page - what can I say.. but I like it.
Commentluv - Just installed this recently - works great and I love the concept - basically when a visitor leaves a comment, commentluv looks for the last post they made on their blog, if there is one, it puts it under their comment, if not..no big deal.. have been seeing this on more and more sites… like it, like it.
Contact Form 7 - I like this form, but wish the form itself was a little easier to edit - size, etc.. works, and that’s good for me.. though at some point, I may look for something else.. maybe, maybe not.. whatever.
Dashboard Editor - This, for me, is just to clean up the dashboard. I don’t visit that tab very often, but when I do, I want to see exactly what I want and that’s it. This works just fine!
EmailShroud - Jumbles an email address on the site to make it harder for email harvesters.. works, but I probably don’t have email address on my site so I could probably do without.. but then.. maybe I do and I don’t want to take the chance.
Google Blog Search Preview - On the wp dashboard it shows backlinks in google.. it’s ok..
Google XML Sitemaps - I have this installed and on my google analytics site.. but I don’t pay much attention to it. If it helps alert the bots to what my new posts are great.. I don’t think it hurts anything and when it comes to SEO, I read a sitemap is good… hmmm.. now that I think about it, maybe this is why google visits me so much more than any other search engine? Anyone know?
In Series - I haven’t tried this one yet, though I see it, right down there in my write post tab… hmm.. since this is the second “favorite wordpress plugin” I’ve done, maybe I should give the in-series a try… (maybe I did.. ?)
MyAvatar - You’ll see this plugin in action on comments - see the avatar that links to the commenters mybloglog? There you go.. nifty, huh?
NoFollow Free - Hey.. your link is here, and I appreciate it! I will give all the link luv I can.. removing the nofollow sounds good to me!
Popularity Contest - Just for fun? You’ll see this at the bottom of each post. I like being able to view the stats in the dashboard.
Post Templates by Category - Each of my categories have their own page, post templates.. I use it so I can add category specific info.. like my soap pages all show soap pictures… my recipes show pictures of food, etc. Makes for a lot of files in my theme template, and sometimes I want to give it all up, lol.. but really, I like the post/category specifications.
Simple Tags - I’d been using one tag system - from Jerome.. then he quit updates and passed along to someone else… with the new wp upgrades, it became essential to find a new tag plugin…this one is aweome - I mean, really, I love this one.. improvement.. !!
SRG Clean Archives - I like my archive page.. a very quick and easy way to see what’s been posted and how many comments. This one also requires another template file.. but hey.. are the archives nice and clean? (at least something gets organized around here!)
StatPress - stat program.. sometimes I obsess on the stats..who’s been here.. how many.. etc, etc.. sometimes I ignore it..
Subscribe To Comments - Simple, works fine, as far as I know… 
WordPress.com Stats - another stat program.. again.. sometimes I pay attention, sometimes I don’t. Has good info though.
WordPress Database Backup - Quick way to back things up. Like it.. use it.. keeper.
WP-Bookwormr - I love bookwormr.. though I’m starting to suspect it’s development is at a standstill. Anyway, it shows what books I am currently reading.. like that.
WP-EMail - I like knowing that people can send a post to themselves or their friends.. I often look for this option when I find a good post/recipe/idea… I did take this off most of my pages and reserved it for the recipes and soap info pages.. just trying to declutter some… Oh and it also shows up in the dashboard to show when and who is emailing.. very nice.
WP-Flickr - Just installed this one.. give me some time to try it out. Although, I am able to post from my flickr site.. I just can’t add tags… so I have to come here to edit, so I hope it works! It installed easily enough, and I am able to click the wp-flickr tab in the write post and all my pics show up.. so it looks like it’s on the path to goodness.
WP-PostViews - Not a necessary plugin by any means, and really doesn’t tell much - because it accumulates, new posts will probably always have a smaller view count than some of my other older, popular posts.
WP-Print - This one is up there with the wp-email.. though I can’t see how many print pages.. it does clean up the print page and lists links at the bottom of the post. It’s nice. I also restricted this to recipes and soap info.. seems like those are the most likely pages to be printed.
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I wanted to install Comment Relish, and tried, and tried.. and … well… it just wouldn’t work. It broke my mail sending capabilities, which I guess isn’t uncommon, since I found posts about it when I googled it. However, I really, really wanted this one to work - what it does is sends a reply to first time commenters… you can tell them thanks for the comment and encourage them to subscribe to your feed… just really a great idea… so sad it didn’t work.
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