I was getting some emails lately asking about the plugins that I have installed here at ghacks. I know that many webmasters read my blog and I thought it would be nice to write about the plugins. I also thought to write a little series of articles about setting up a blog with your own domain, please let me know if that sounds interesting enough. I have been using Wordpress since the beginning and find it really easy to administrate.
A large plugin repository exists on the net and I have downloaded most of my plugins from the wp-plugins.net website. I have added and removed many plugins since then and found a number of plugins I can’t live without anymore. I have decided to use an alphabetic list for ease of accessing the information.
This plugin makes it possible to share Adsense revenue among the siteowner and the author of the article. Only useful if you have more than one author for a site. It fully complies with the Adsense Tos.
The normal behavior for links in comments is that the destination opens in the same tab / window as the comment. This is pretty uncomfortable for the user and the webmaster and I decided to change this by using the plugin.
Makes it easy to add links to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. I have only added some using this plugin but you could theoretically add dozens.
Add a individual meta description to every post you make. Not that important anymore but google uses this information in the search results.
Basically the same as the meta description plugin, only for keywords.
This tool creates a sitemap of your blog and pings google to let them know that you created one. Good for indexing purposes.
Long links in the comments can break the design and I had to use this plugin to make this impossible. This plugin cuts the name of the link after a certain amount of chars. The link itself remains intact of course.#
Very important for SEO. Optimal Title changes the way Wordpress displays the title of the website / post.
Creates a popularity index of all posts. Uses amount of comments, trackbacks, pingbacks and more to create the ranking. You may add a top ten to the sidebar or below every post for instance to give visitors a reason to stay on the site and read more articles.
A very useful plugin that displays a certain number of related posts at the end of an article. Adds more information to a subject. Only useful if you have at least 50+ posts.
Fights Trackback Spam by scanning the website that sends a trackback for a link to the post. If none exists, which is normally the case when someone is spamming trackbacks, the trackback goes right into the spam folder.
I never liked using Akismet because you had to apply for a key. Spam Karma does a very good job at eliminating most spam. The only thing that I have to do is to take a rough look at the spam that was caught and delete it if it is indeed spam. The number of false positives is really low as well.
You will receive a notification if a new comment as been added to a certain article.
Tags are important. May be used to add tags to your post which are scanned by Technorati and then included in their search engine. Can also replace the Meta Keyword plugin.
Currently not activated but pretty useful if your sites makes it to the frontpage of sites like slashdot or digg who send hundreds of users per minute to your blog. Caching eases the load on the database and the site acts much faster.
Well, a contact plugin. If you click contact you see what it does.
The counter that is displayed at the end of the right sidebar.
Adds auto-translate links to your blog to offer visitors that do not speak English that well a way to understand what the article is about.
Displays page numbers instead of next page, previous page messages at the end of a page.
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