Our Favorite WordPress Plugins

Posted on July 18th, 2008
By Hosam El-Aker in Bivings, CMS, Internet, Wordpress

Many of our readers are well aware that we use WordPress as the CMS platform for a number of our clientele. We thus thought it would be fun to compile a list of our favorite WordPress plugins. The list is also available here. Feel free to sign-up and contribute to the rest of the wiki while you're at it.

  • Akismet - Filters possible spam comments.
  • Category Cloud - Displays a category cloud, using bigger font and different colors for important categories. Based on Weighted Categories.
  • cforms - Allows you to create custom forms on your Wordpress blog.
  • Chunk Urls - Shortens URLs in comments so that they won't break the site.
  • Comment Timeout - Automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user-configurable period of time. It has options which allow you to keep the discussion open for longer on older posts which have had recent comments accepted, or to place a fixed limit on the total number of comments in the discussion.
  • EditorMonkey - Turns the normal WordPress textarea into a WYSIWYG editor using TinyMCE or FCKeditor. Also integrates spell checking into the editor interface using the FCK Speller Pages plugin and ieSpell.
  • Google XML Sitemap - Automatically creates a search engine friendly sitemap for your blog.
  • podPress - Allows integration of Podcasts.
  • Popularity Contest - Enables ranking of posts by popularity; using the behavior of visitors to determine each post's popularity.
  • SEO Title Tag - Search engine optimizes blog posts by allowing the creation of a customized title tag for any post or page.
  • ShareThis - Lets visitors share a post or page with others.
  • Simple Trackback Validation - Eliminates spam trackbacks by checking the IP address of the sender and by checking the linked webpage for a link back to the blog.
  • TypePad AntiSpam - Checks comments against the TypePad AntiSpam web service to see if they look like spam or not.
  • wp-cache - Cache module that configures and manages the system.
  • wp-notable - Adds social bookmark links to each blog entry.
  • WP-Polls - Adds customizable polls to posts and pages.
  • WP-Polls Widget - Displays single or multiple polls from the WP-Polls plugin.

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  2. Import from China

    Great info - keep up the great work.

  3. bert

    I’ve been looking for that one for ever. Thanks

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