Category: Plugins

40 WordPress Plugins to Improve your Blog’s Performance

March 11, 2009
Plugins
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40 WordPress Plugins

Social

1. Digg Digg
A social plugin that use to add Digg , Reddit , Dzone and Yahoo Buzz button into wordpress content.

2. Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

3. Lifestream
Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites. View Demo

4. Social Bookmarks
The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.

5. Facebook Connect Community
Wordpress plugin that allows direct integration of Wordpress blogs with Facebook using Facebook Connect

6. Popu List
PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg.

7. Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Ad Managements

8. Ad Coder
Ad Coder is an easy way to spread adserver banner code or other html/js code over your blog or page content – e.g. type {IMU 486_60} and this tag will be replaced with the code you have prepared in the admin option panel for this.

9. Amazon Context Links Ads
Use this plugin to enabled amazon context ads in your blog start earn money from amazon affiliate

10. WP125
The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.

11. All in One Adsense and YPN
All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source Wordpress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

12. Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, for instance Adsense, depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates or within posts and pages.

Comments and antispam

13. Disqus Commenting System
Disqus is a powerful comment system that easily enhances the discussion on websites.In minutes, connect your community with those of thousands of other websites.

14. WP-SpamFree
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

15. Ajax Comments-Reply
When a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired.

16. Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

17. Add to Any Subscribe Button
Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers.

18. WP Ajax Edit Comments
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

19. Thank Me Later
Thank Me Later is a plug-in which will automatically send a thank you email to readers after they post a comment. It can be set to send the message a time after the comment was posted (an hour, day, week, month, etc).

20. IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Full comment and account data sync between IntenseDebate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments.

Video and Photos

21. WP YouTube
This plugin helps you to present your YouTube videos without the effort to paste the whole embed-code. You only need the YouTube ID, the rest is handled by WP YouTube.

22. Viper’s Video Quicktags
Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you.

23. FlickrRSS
This plugin for WordPress allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams, and is relatively easy to setup and configure via a settings panel.

24. SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set.

25. Scissors
This plugin adds cropping and resizing functionality to Wordpress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports watermarking of images.

26. Custom Upload Dir
WordPress allow you to use month- and year-based folders. With this plugin you can construct paths from additional variables like: day, post title and post author.

27. WordPress Download Monitor
Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.

Posts content

28. Popularity Contest
Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

29. WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

30. Exec-PHP
The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

31. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

32. Random Image Selector
This plugin will generate an tag for a random image selected from a specified folder.

33. Organize Series
The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series.

34. WP-Note
This plugin allows you to create nice «notes» in your Wordpress posts or pages.
You just should add note tags in your post.
There are all five tags: note,important,tip,warning and help.

Analize Traffic

35. Google Analytics
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads.

36. WP-Stats
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

37. WP-Click-Tracker
Scans posts and rewrites them to include a tracking element. Enables users to create stand alone trackable links that can be embedded in posts or offsite.

38. Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.