Wordpress Plugins that I use

Everton said that I should post a list of plugins that I would use at Ghacks from time to time and this is what I decided to do right now. He actually told me so in an email asking what comment plugin I was using that allowed users to edit their comments for 15 minutes after making the comment.

I hope this article mentions some plugins that are not that known and might be interesting for some webmasters who use Wordpress as their blogging plattform of choice.

I’m also interested in plugins that you might be using and that I did not mention in this article. It is always nice to read about new plugins and try out a few that sound interesting.

• Adsense Paster - This plugin gives me a great flexibility and works with all kinds of advertising codes - not only those from Adsense. I use it for two purposes. First, it has a function to rotate ads which is great if you want to try out new ads but don’t want to remove all old ads in the meantime. I usually start new ads in a ratio of 1:8 and increase their ratio if they perform well. The second benefit is that I can include all kinds of codes without having to fiddle around with the php code of the various Wordpress php files.
• Code Auto Escape - escapes code automatically which is nice if you post code snippets from time to time.
• Comment Link Target Blanker (CLTB) - adds target=”_blank” to all urls in the comments which has the result that those links are opened in new windows.
• CSS Compress - this one compresses the CSS file before it is send to the user reducing the size of the website effectively.
• FeedBurner FeedSmith - detects all RSS feed readers and redirects the feeds to Feedburner to receive better more reliable stats.
• Feed Count - displays the Feed Reader Count of Feedburner without having to use the Feedburner chicklet. Is highly customizable using CSS.
• Full Text Feed - Wordpress has the habit to deliver partial feeds even if Full Feeds are selected if the blog uses the Read More function.
• Google XML Sitemaps - create and send Sitemaps to various Search Engines.
• Head META Description - adds Head Meta descriptions to your posts.
• LinkLove - rewards regular commenters by removing the don’t follow link from their website url.
• Link Truncator - truncates long links making sure they don’t break the design.
• MyAvatars - source of all those nice avatar pictures that you see in the comments.
• Optimal Title - uses the title of the article as the page title which is very important for SEO.
• Popularity Contest - keeps track of the most popular posts on your blog. Can display them in the sidebar.
• Simple Tags - great tagger with an immense functionality. Adds tags as meta keywords for instance as well.
• Spam Karma 2 - the best spam plugin for Wordpress in my opinion.
• Subscribe To Comments - offer users a way to be notified when a new comment gets posted on an interesting article.
• WLWManifest Disabler - Remove the WLWManifest link declaration in WordPress header
• WordPress Mobile Edition - creates a mobile version of a Wordpress blog and automatically redirects mobile users to that version.
• WP-ContactForm - a simple contact form.
• wp firefox referral - add Firefox Referrals from Adsense to your blog.
• WP PageNavi - instead of displaying previous and next page Wordpress displays page numbers at the bottom which are easier to navigate.
• WP AJAX Edit Comments - gives users the possibility to edit comments that they have made for a period defined in the admin panel. Mine is set to 15 minutes.
• WPvideo - I use this mainly for some old posts of mine that are using this plugin. I tend to embed videos directly.