My Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

Aug 21, 2010   //   by Les Proctor    Wordpress  //  8 Comments

Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins for Direct Marketing 2.0

Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

It's a work in process

 

 The greatest thing about WordPress is that it’s open source, and there’s a huge community built around designing and developing WordPress Websites.        

Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites on the Internet, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.  It has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install–at last count there are 10,872 different plugins!       

In fact, there’s a plugin for almost every kind of functionality I’ve ever wanted or imagined to add to any of my blogs.  Undoubtedly you have seen blog posts claiming to be the Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins, but here is my very own Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins that I have used or tested, and use regularly in many of my websites.     

My Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

Les Proctor’s Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

  • After The Deadline  ~ Adds a contextual spell, style, and grammar checker to WordPress. Write better and spend less time editing. 
  • Akismet ~ Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.  
  • All in One SEO Pack ~ Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.      
  • BulletProof Security  ~ Protects your website from ALL XSS & SQL Injection hacking attempts. Protects wp-config.php with .htaccess protection. One-click .htaccess security file activation. One-click website under maintenance activation (HTTP 503). WordPress META Generator tag removed – WordPress version hidden, verify and ensure WordPress DB errors are turned off, check WordPress file and folder permissions, complete system info (PHP, MySQL, OS, Memory Usage, IP, Max file sizes, etc.). 
  • Code Markup  ~ A filter that displays <code> blocks nicely while still allowing formatting.
  • CommentLuv ~ Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.
  • Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress ~ A plugin that asks the commenter to complete a simple CAPTCHA if a spam detection plugin thinks their comment is spam. Currently supports Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam.
  • Donate Plus ~ Donation form. Recognition wall. Donation total tracker. PayPal integration.
  • Exclude Pages from Navigation ~ Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. 
  • External Nofollow ~ Add rel=”nofollow” to all external links in post content
  • Events Manager ~ Manage events specifying precise spatial data (Location, Town, Province, etc).
  • FeedBurner FeedSmith ~ Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
  • Google Analyticator ~ Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. 
  • Google XML Sitemaps ~ This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing to better index the pages in your blog or website.
  • Gravatar Signup Encouragement ~ Displays message to users without gravatar that they don’t have one with link to Gravatar’s sign-up page (e-mail included).
  • Hana Code Insert ~ Easily insert any complicated HTML and JAVASCRIPT code or even custom PHP output in your WordPress article. Useful for adding AdSense and Paypal donation code in the middle of the WP article.
  • HubSpot for WordPress ~ This plugin makes it simple to add HubSpot Tracking Code to your WordPress CMS.
  • JW Cloud Sites WordPress Scanner ~ Scan your WordPress installation for hidden files, backdoors in wp_options, spam links in your posts, modified core files, and remove world and group permissions from all files. Designed for Rackspace Cloud Sites. 
  • Members ~ A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS; this is a user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access.  
  • New Tag Cloud ~ The plugin provides an widget wich shows a tag cloud with the tags used by the new WordPress own tagging feature.
  • OptinPop ~ OptinPop is designed to help you build your blog subscriber list by showing your visitors a pop-up window containing the optin form of any webpage you create. You can tune the appearance of your pop-up window and other parameters on the OptinPop Settings page within the Plugins menu. 
  • Page Lists Plus ~ Adds customisation options to the wp_list_pages function which is used to create Page menus. Change the link text and title attributes, redirect, nofollow or unlink links, and remove links from page lists altogether, all through the WordPress dashboard.
  • People Lists ~ Plugin providing a rich text editor on the profile page for easy modifications of specific user profile. This is great for creating a small online directory!
  • PHP Shortcode ~ Based on kukukuan’s Inline PHP plugin, this plugin allows you to embed and run PHP code in posts, pages or widgets with a WordPress shortcode.
  • SEOPressor ~ SEOPressor automatically optimizes your On-page SEO by bolding, italizing and underlining your main keyword. It also optimize title and image tags. You can use the Suggestion Feature to tweak your content for high search engine ranking. 
  • SexyBookmarks ~ SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.
  • SEOPressor ~ Great plugin for On-Page Optimization
  • Simple Facebook Share Button ~Painlessly add a Facebook Share button to your posts and/or pages. Supports all five button types, including custom button text, and placement above or below content. Includes compatibility modes to ensure seamless theme integration. Button can also be added using a shortcode or by inserting a function in your template.
  • Shopp ~ Bolt-on ecommerce solution for WordPress
  • SlideShare ~ A plugin for WordPress to easily display slideshare.net presentations      
  •  Smart 404 ~ Rescue your viewers from site errors! When content cannot be found, Smart 404 will use the current URL to attempt to find matching content, and redirect to it automatically. Smart 404 also supplies template tags which provide a list of suggestions, for use on a 404.php template page if matching content can’t be immediately discovered.
  • Smart Archives Reloaded ~ An elegant and easy way to present your posts, grouped by year and month.
  • Subscribe To Comments ~ Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. 
  • SurveyGizmo ~ The SurveyGizmo WordPress plugin lets you access and monitor your SurveyGizmo.com surveys remotely.
  • TweetMeme ~ Retweet Button Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
  • Widget Context  ~ Display widgets in context.
  • Widget Logic ~ Control widgets with WP’s conditional tags is_home, etc.
  • WordPress.com Stats ~ Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
  • WordPress Database Backup ~ On-demand backup of your WordPress MySQL database. 
  • WordPress Related Posts ~ Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress.
  • YouTube Embed ~ Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress
  • YQL Auto Tagger ~ This is perhaps the coolest plugin on my ultimate list of WordPress Plugins. It suggests tags for your posts based on semantic analysis of your post content with the Open Calais API.      

So while I realize many have claimed to have the Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins, I hope you like my Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins… and you are able to make good use of them! Happy Blogging.   

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As my needs evolve I am sure I will find other useful plugins and I will be sure to add them here. If you have any others you would like to suggest for my Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins please let me know by adding a comment below or contacting me today.

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About Les Proctor

I'm a marketing consultant and I work with executives and and managers at small to medium-sized companies–real people who have a *big need* to do a lot with limited resources. I help them accomplish their goals and make more money with ideas and actions that produce results.

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  • Social Media September 4, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Excellent list of plugins and thank you for sharing! I’m always searching for new, functional, helpful plugins for client sites as well as my own WordPress blog.

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  • Aery January 22, 2011 at 5:22 am

    The list is great but these are too much for performance.

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    • Les Proctor January 25, 2011 at 6:45 am

      Good point. I woudn’t install all of these for every website… just the ones that fit.

      Reply
  • John Bolyard January 24, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    Les – great list – thanks for taking the time to put it together. The YQL Auto Tagger is a new one for me – good to add it to my arsenal.

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    • Les Proctor January 25, 2011 at 6:44 am

      Thanks John! Let me know if I missed anything.

      Reply
  • Antonio Beattie September 21, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    I always been a fan of WordPress they have so many great features and this site did an excellent job with that I am current designing a blog for my site for educational reasons on Direct Marketing . ***** Stars for this site

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