Favorite WordPress Plugins

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WordPress is a free, open-source web publishing platform that specializes in blog creation and management. WordPress is also flexible enough to be used as the complete content management system for an entire website. The Bivings Group uses WordPress for a number of its clients. The Bivings Report website also utilizes WordPress. Below is a list of our favorite WordPress plugins. We tailor-integrate combinations of these in our WordPress sites based on the client's specific requirements.

• A Different Monthly Archive Script - Manages date-based archives.

• Akismet - Filters possible spam comments.

• Captcha From ProtectWebForm - Helps protect against computer-generated 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.

• Redirect Old Slugs - Permits changing of posts slugs without breaking the old ones.

• 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.

• WordPress Mobile Edition - Shows a mobile view of the post or page if the visitor is on a known mobile device.

• 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.