Here are two sites full of Wordpress resources.
And a few Essential Plugins Lists.
- List of the Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins
- 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins For New Wordpress Installation
- The 13 Most Essential Plugins for WordPress
- 11 Essential Wordpress Plug-ins
- 10 Essential WordPress Plugins
Here are most of the plugins from the above lists, with the ones that are listed by each at the top, along with how many times they are listed.
- 5 – Akismet
- 5 – Google XML Sitemaps
- 4 – WP Database Backup
- 3 – Contact Form 7
- 2 – Feedburner FeedSmith
- 2 – All in One SEO Pack
- 2 – Google Analytics for Wordpress
- 2 – Share This
- 2 – WP Related posts
- 2 – No Self Pings
- 2 – WP Super Cache
- 2 – Subscribe to Comments
- LoginLockDown
- cForms
- Sociable
- Simple Tags
- Broken Link Checker
- StatPress Reloaded
- Antivirus for Wordpress
- WP Popular Posts
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
- Add to Any
- Custom More Links
- Category Specific RSS Menu
- Wordpress eMember
- Executable PHP Widget
- WP Newsletter Subscription
- WP-Polls
- WP Smush.it
- Different Posts Per Page
- Redirection
- Search Unleashed
- WP-PageNavi
- WP Security Scan
- WP AJAX Edit Comments
- Full Text Feed
- Cleaner Gallery
- Search and Replace
- WP.com Stats
- Audio Player
I started out just trying to figure out the best Analytics plugin and am left trying to decide between one of these.
At the end of the day, there are still a lot of resources out there I couldn’t get to but would like to at some point.
| Akismet |
| Google XML Sitemap generator |
| WP Database Backup |
| Contact Form 7 |
| Feedburner FeedSmith |
| All in One SEO Pack |
| Google Analytics for Wordpress |
| Share This |
| WP Related posts |
| No Self Pings |
| WP Super Cache |
| Subscribe to Comments |
| LoginLockDown |
| cForms |
| WP Contact form |
| Sociable |
| Simple Tags |
| Broken Link Checker |
| StatPress Reloaded |
| Antivirus for Wordpress |
| WP Popular Posts |
| Yet Another Related Posts Plugin |
| Add to Any |
| Custom More Links |
| Category Specific RSS Menu |
| Wordpress eMember |
| Executable PHP Widget |
| WP Newsletter Subscription |
| WP-Polls |
| WP Smush.it |
| Different Posts Per Page |
| Redirection |
| Search Unleashed |
| WP-PageNavi |
| WP Security Scan |
| WP AJAX Edit Comments |
| Full Text Feed |
| Cleaner Gallery |
| Search and Replace |
| WP.com Stats |
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Great list, Jason! I’ve been meaning to check out what plugins I should install on my blog, but I didn’t feel like digging through all the options. : )
Nice list! For higher education related Wordpress goodness, you might also check out some of the discussion in the UWEBD Ning forum: http://cuwebd.ning.com/group/wordpress/forum
Definitely worth checking out and contributing to Jay Collier’s running Google Spreadsheet of WP plugins other folks have found useful at their school: http://bit.ly/euXTf
Definitely. Thanks Adam. Will do.
Thanks. Yeah… it’s dizzying. It’s so exciting to be able to use all of these with our blogs… and daunting. As I found out, it’s hard to keep it to a dozen plugins. Many ‘essential’ lists go to 30+. There are so many worthwhile extensions!
J! Hope you’re well. I like google analyticator for Analytics; lots of great features there, and it’s very up-to-date. Ultimately, I went with a manual install, as it gives me more ability to customize the code.