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Fantastic Plugins for A Successful Blog

For the benefit of my dear friends who are just starting out in their blogging venture (and also to all my dear readers), I have put together a table of the plugins that I am currently using which I find useful.

I hope it gives a good reference to what you can employ as well. Do give due recognition to those who have created this plugins as well. For without them. we won’t have such wonderful features.

Let me know if you think that there are great plugins that I have missed or comment on the features of some of these plugins here.

Plugin

Version

Description

Akismet

2.1.8

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

Atomic Blogging Autosubmitter

1.1

Autosubmits Your Blog Post To Onlywire When published By Alvin Phang.

Flickr Photo Album

1.0.2

This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure… By Joe Tan.

Future Calendar

1.0

A simple plugin that utalizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Temperature Functionality and some tweaks by Flavio Jarabeck (www.InternetDrops.com.br) By Aaron Harun.

Global Translator

1.0.6

Automatically translates a blog in fourteen different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian) by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt). After uploading this plugin click ‘Activate’ (to the right) and then afterwards you must visit the options page and enter your blog language to enable the translator. By Davide Pozza.

Google XML Sitemaps

3.1.0.1

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.

HeadSpace2

3.5.5

Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many other goodies. By John Godley.

Lijit Search

1.01

Search Powered Web Applications for Publishers. Click here to configure the Lijit Plugin. By Crowd Favorite for Lijit Networks Inc..

MyAvatars

0.2b

This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments. By Andrea Micheloni & Napolux.

Official StatCounter Plugin

1.0

Adds the StatCounter tracking code to your blog. After uploading this plugin click ‘Activate’ (to the right) and then afterwards you must visit the options page and enter your StatCounter Project Info to enable logging. By Aodhan Cullen.

Post Layout

1.3.1

Adds HTML o javascript code before, after or in the middle of the content of pages or posts without modify the theme. For any problem or question write me: satollo@gmail.com. By Satollo.

Related Posts

2.02

Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.

ShareThis

2.3

Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Configuration options are here. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com).

Subscribe To Comments

2.1.2

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.

Twitter Tools

1.5b3

A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Configure your settings here. By Alex King.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

1.2.2

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. By Keith Dsouza.

WordPress Database Backup

2.2.1

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage ? Backup to get started. By Austin Matzko.

WP-Footnotes

3.3

Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. By Simon Elvery.


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