When I first started toying with Wordpress plugins back in November of 2006, a list like this would have been gold to me! There were so many that didn’t work right or didn’t work well enough, or didn’t fit my blog. I learned these 41 through hard trial and error. In fact, a few (not in this list) even knocked my site out for hours on end while I scrambled to reload everything. Of course the lesson there is: backup, backup, backup.
In all these things I still remember: “Content is king.” Plugins are mostly just cosmetic. There are some however in this list that I feel are CRUCIAL to my blog. Whether they keep it more fun or more functional, it doesn’t really matter, crucial is crucial and every individual knows what they require. I just wanted to share these that I love so maybe you can get some of these great plugins you may not know about under your hood.
If you have any questions about any of the plugins, read their files first, then you may contact me no problem. I’ve used and abused all of them! I’m actually running more than I link here . . . but I figured I had to keep the blog engine at least a little mysterious right? To all my WORDPRESS self-hosted friends and visitors: enjoy!
- 7social plus
- Aizatto’s Related Posts
- Akismet
- Batch Categories
- Blogroll Autolinker
- Brian’s Threaded Comments
- Bunny’s Technorati Tags
- Dofollow
- Enforce www. Preference
- Exec-PHP
- Fancy Pullquotes
- Feedburner Feed Replacement
- Future Calendar
- Genki Announcement
- Google (XML) Sitemaps
- Google Analyticator
- In Series
- KG Archives
- No Life
- PJW Wordpress Version Check
- Popularity Contest
- PXS Mail Form
- Random Quotes
- Random Redirect
- Running Time
- ShiftThis | Order Pages
- Show Top Commentators
- Simple Trackback Validation
- Subscribe2
- Subscribe To Comments
- Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player Plugin
- Ultimate Tag Warrior
- Viper’s Video Quicktags
- What Would Seth Godin Do
- WordPress Database Backup
- WP-Polls
- WP-Polls Widget
- WP-Stats
- Zelig Dropdown Links
- ?
- ? (Gotta keep some mystery . . . )
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Those are fantastic, Damien! I was wanting the pullquotes (because I talk and talk and talk…). I’m also trying to figure out Google Analytics. Need to look into some of the other stuff you have. You know I admire your blog…
Thanks for these I was looking for a www. plugin
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our attention, click, and we are whisked off to their site! He offered to help if we have questions, provided we read the files first. Gee, could he have added that because I have already asked a million questions and don’t even have wordpress yet?Click for Damien’s list of 41 minus 2. I can’t wait to get started!
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