All-In-One: WordPress Plugins & Modifications

lol I think you might have misunderstood the concept of Allen's thread and comment.

This is an *-in-one thread specifically posted to let people know about these types of threads and what they are for. This one in particular was posted so people can add any wordpress plugin they know about here in this one spot.

Here is the URL for WP Popular Posts: http://bloggingdiary.com/wordpress-popular-posts It's a sidebar widget.

StatPress Reload - Shows real time stats about your blog: http://blog.matrixagents.org/wp-plugins

WP Captcha-Free: http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpre...s/captcha-free

On a new Wordpress install and after upgrading to
the latest version of Wordpress you MUST check
your "Privacy" settings.

The latest version is set as no index/no follow by
default and that's not good!

John

Simple forum install for Wordpressfrom Simple Press:

Simpleress Forum

Hi Allen!

Since so many newbies come here to learn, I thought I would add this:

What Is a WordPress Plugin?

A WordPress plugin is a type of widget that allows your blog to do something more than the basics. For example, you can add a Twitter Widget plugin that displays your tweets on the sidebar of your blog.

You can find and download tons of free plugins for your WordPress blog, or even have someone write the code for something you yourself have an idea for!

Some of the most popular WordPress plugins are these:

1.) Sitemap plugins create a Google sitemap for your blog.

2.) Contact form plugins allow your readers to communicate with you.

3.) SEO plugins help optimize your blog for search engines

4.) Akismet plugins prevents spam comments from posting to your blog

5.) Share This plugins help your readers automatically bookmark, email, or share your blog post with others on the 'net

6.) AdSense plugins manage the AdSense blocks on your blog

7.) Poll plugins let you survey your readers about issues relevant to the blog's topic

8.) Translation plugins help readers in other countries digest your blog posts in their language

9.) Security plugins help keep your blog safe from vulnerabilities

10.) Blog Post Popularity plugins tell you which blog posts were popular and which were duds.

Warning: Not all WordPress plugins are what they appear. Some people create a code and launch it on a free site, allowing millions of people to download and use it. Then, after awhile, it adds a link back to their site on your blogroll. So you might have a link to an unsavory domain being promoted on your blog without your permission! Always review a plugin before using it to see if others are having any bad reaction to it.

Tiff

http://planetozh.com/blog/my-project...drop-down-css/ One of my favorite plugins.

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When the tinymce editor wont load/let you type...

I installed a blog and the editor wouldnt fully load and always displayed an error (in ie7) and it turns out that the error was because I set my blog URL in settings to not have a www (eg domain.com but I was visiting the site with the www. (eg www.domain.com).

Once I added the www in settings, it started working.

Garrie

Wordpress Used as CMS
When we use Wordpress CMS, we post most of the permanent content at PAGES
instead of POSTS.... but there is a problem... Wordpress by default does not create
RSS Feeds for the content on Pages...

Solution:
Install this plugin and you are done:
WordPress › RSS Includes Pages WordPress Plugins

Best Regards,
Mohsin Rasool

I like WP-Print by Lester Chan. It's great for giving pages and post a printer friendly option.

PHP Programming Portfolio | lesterchan.net (This link takes you to the WP-Print Plugin Page)

Lester also has some other neat plugins:

PHP Programming Portfolio | lesterchan.net (This link takes you to his main plugin page.)

Another plugin I just used today was the Exclude Pages by Simon Wheatley.

It's handy to be able to write a page and not have it automatically appear in the navigation menu.

WordPress › Exclude Pages WordPress Plugins

Another plugin that I really like for a simple and very easy-to-install contact form that configures nicely with other text and graphics is Clean-Contact, "a no hassle contact form plugin for Wordpress, with advanced Spam protection that doesn't require Captcha."

WordPress › Clean-Contact WordPress Plugins

I vote for a sticky! This is awesome, great idea admin

Here's my contribution:

How To Turn Wordpress Into The Ultimate ListBuilding Machine!

These plugins while awesome on their own, will turn your Wordpress blog into an incredible list building machine if used all together!

And some of my tests have shown that this method brings in more subscribers than a normal squeeze page!

These plugins work best when used in synergy, and you'll see why later...

Plugin #1) What Would Seth Godin Do?

This plugin asks the simple question - What would the man who created Squidoo.com do if he had a Wordpress blog?

This plugin allows you to show a block of text to new users, and returning visitors for a predetermined length of time. Make sure to have this one show before the post. More on this later...

Download: http://richardkmiller.com/wordpress-...-seth-godin-do

Plugin #2) Comment Approved Notifier

This plugin will send an email to your visitor once their comment has been approved by you, you can also edit the email copy to invite them back to the blog as well.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...oved-notifier/

Plugin #3) Comment Prompt

This plugin prompts the user to leave a comment on the blog with a text box displayed in the post. Make sure you display this one after the post. More on that later!

Download: http://www.timnash.co.uk/comment-prompt/

Plugin #4) Subscribe To Comments

This plugin allows your users to subscribe to the comments of a certain post. Your wordpress installation will automatically eMail them if someone comments on the post they are subscribed to.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...e-to-comments/

Plugin #5) Thank Me Later

This plugin will send an email thanking your users for leaving a comment on your blog.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thank-me-later/

Plugin #6) WpAweber

This plugin will automatically subscribe anyone who registers to your blog or anyone who leaves a comment to your Aweber list. This also works with AWeber whitelabel companies like ProFollow.com.

Download: http://www.superpowermarketers.com/wpaweber.zip

Plugin #7) Intense Debate

This plug-in will transform your comments section into a mini-forum complete with avatars. It encourages active commenting from your users.

Download: http://intensedebate.com/wordpress

Plugin #8) Ultimate Footer Ad - NOT FREE!

You don't need this one, but it can increase your opt-in rate a lot. It places an editable opt-in form at your footer

Download: http://www.ultimatefooterad.com/

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How And Why This Works
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When a new user visits your site they will see a block of text provided by your What Would Seth Godin plugin at the top of the post. It would welcome them to the website and ask them to subscribe to your newsletter, email list, etc.

Then they would read through your first post and then they would see a block of text provided by the Comment Prompt plugin at the bottom of the post, and it would ask them to comment. The beauty of this is that it will appear right above the comments hyperlink to your posts. If they then leave a comment on your post they will automatically be added to your list via the WPAweber plugin.

Then your blog would send them an email thanking them for the comment and telling them that it will be approved shortly due to the Thank Me Later plugin. I'd suggest delaying this email by about 5 hours from the comment so it looks like you sent it personally. This will keep your site fresh in their mind.

After their comment is approved, the Comment Approved Notifier plugin will send them an email inviting them back to view their comment.

If they click on that link from their email they will be taken to the comment area which is like a mini-forum because of Intense Debate plugin and they will be inclined to start participating in the conversation about your post, and the Subscribe To Comments plugin will look attractive to them because they'll want to stay on top of any new rebuttals or responses to their comments. Remember, people value their opinions really highly and you can use this to your advantage.

If they come to your blog and don't leave a comment or opt-in from your post, hopefully your Ultimate Footer Ad will catch them, and if not you can set your Seth Godin plugin to remind them to join subscribe to your list via a sidebar opt-in form or via your ultimate footer ad on subsequent visits.

I've installed this setup on several of my blogs and I've noticed a sharp increase in the number of opt-ins, and my list responsiveness has skyrocketed. On one of my sites, out of every 1,000 unique visitors I'm getting on average about 280 new opt-ins to my list which is a 28% conversion rate, and is higher converting to cold traffic than some of my purpose built squeeze pages, and this blog is VERY active with comments.

This system is a vicious cycle because the more comments you have on your posts the more people will be inclined to leave their own comments, and then they will leave their comments, and new people will be more inclined to leave their own comments, and so on and so forth. Your list will grow and grow and grow!

This suite of plugins keeps your prospects engaged with you and your blog, and we know that the more people know, like, and trust you, the more receptive they will be to your marketing messages.

This setup works best on blogs which you constantly update with fresh content, and it also helps if you respond to your users comments with your own comments, so they can see you as a person and not a faceless webmaster.

This suite of plugins will keep users coming back time and time and an increase their exposure length to your advertisements on your website which could equal a higher click through rate on some of your ads, and it will increase their trust in you as a person which can be quite good for you as a webmaster/internet marketer.

Finally your open rate on your email blasts will usually be sky high. I've seen open rates of up to 83% on one of my lists built using this method.

I hope this helps someone!

Another set of recommended WordPress plugins:

http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/20...press-plugins/

Lots of WordPress theme sites (both free and paid) at the bottom of this article:

http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/20...dpress-themes/

Cheers,

Martin.

For beginners on self hosted WordPress, a free tutorial. Absolutely free, no opt in required, but it does contain some affiliate links:

FREE WordPress Tutorial | How to Install, Setup and Configure WordPress

Cheers,

Martin.

Don't forget to look for and round up any article directories, Web 2.0, and news RSS widgets that you can add to your blog.

This is auto content.

Matt

Automated WordPress Link Building Plugins

These plugins will help turn WordPress into an SEO powerhouse by growing backlinks to your site on auto-pilot...

RSS Footer: This plugin will automatically insert a link to your site under every article in your RSS feed. Adding your link to your RSS feed can build links automatically from all the RSS aggregators and scraper sites republishing your feed on their sites. Just let all the aggregator bots on the web do their job and give you easy backlinks for doing nothing.

This is why full-text RSS feeds can be beneficial for link building because your feed will get syndicated and republished more often. The more your content gets republished with your keyword relevant URL or anchor text the more backlinks you'll get.

WP Onlywire Multisubmit Plugin: This plugin automatically submits your posts to popular social bookmarking sites each time you create a post. The cool thing is it lets you stay anonymous on the web so you don't leave any footprints that Google can trace.

The plugin supports multiple OnlyWire accounts and allows you to cycle through different user accounts so it doesn't look like you're spamming from one account. You'll need to create multiple OnlyWire accounts to use this plugin anonymously.

Internal Link Building Plugin: Here's an extremely powerful plugin to get automatic backlinks by interlinking internal pages. Interlinking internal pages is one of the reasons why Wikipedia ranks so high. This plugin will give you the same effect and there are a whole slew of options and ways to configure internal and external links. You can also use this plugin to leverage and distribute link authority to your other related sites.

WP_BlogNetworking: This is a great plugin for interlinking related sites to help boost their ranking power. I use this plugin dominate competitive keywords in my niches. You can build your own network work of sites and have this plugin setup to automatically build deep links to your pages between your related sites.

LinkingPress: This plugin acts like an automatic link building service for WordPress blogs. I haven't personally tried this plugin yet but it might be worth checking out.



Enjoy...

Aaron Moser

THANKS to *everybody* who posted in this thread! I will definitely use the above suggestions for my *future* WordPress sites/blogs!

A great plugin that hasn't been mentioned is the global translator plugin.

It translates all of your WP pages and posts into 41 languages. This increases your amount of content by 41 times. Every site I install it on gets an instant boost of traffic.

WordPress › Global Translator WordPress Plugins

Here is our own wordpress membership plugin for nanacast:

Member Lock Plugin Documentation

It allows you to create membership sites, secure blog post content, drip in content from nanacast based on when a subscriber joins, and even send private posts to individual subscribers.

It also allows to add and remove your membership blog subscribers to and from email lists at list management services such as iContact, Aweber, Mail Chimp, Getresponse, Analytic Approach, Send Pepper, or Constant Contact through the Nanacast api.

Best of all it ads all it hooks your blog up to all the front and back end ecommerce and affiliate management features of Nanacast.

I love feedwordpress which I hadn't seen anyone list yet.

Ryan

I'm not going to add a plugin just a tip because others have already done a fantastic job.

So, first of all when adding plugins only add what you need. Don't add plugins when it is quite easy to do what you want without a plugin for example changing the page order. When you do add a plugin and activate it check all is working before moving on to the next plugin install.

Second, forums are generally full of WordPress questions but usually a lot of these questions have already been answered at the WordPress forum and a search will find the answer you are looking for pretty quickly in my experience.

WP plugins Home page: The list is on left side menubar.

WordPress › WordPress Plugins

Tips before downloading/using these plug-ins:

* DON'T use more that you need. So it will be easy to upgrade them and keep the code up-to-date.

* Upgrade the plugins regularly.

* Only download the plugins with recent updates.

* Save the plugins page (on WP site or authors website) in your Favs folder for checking future updates. (WP also has a feature to let you know about plugin updates.)

* Delete old plugins or the ones you don't use.

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I really like this plugin called Psychic Search. It emails you a report every day with what search terms people are using to get to your site and what people are typing in on your search bar.

WordPress › Psychic Search WordPress Plugins

My business partner Daniel Pereira has LOTS of great info on Wordpress and blogging.
Anyone here can grab an awesome ebook called "Reverse the Google Slap for Free Google Traffic" Just Google it and grab it for free.

And here's a cool blog post from him to help:
Free Traffic For Your Blog: Exactly Why Social Bookmarking And How To Get All Those Buttons On Your Blog!

Will this trick work for all blogs? Nope. Unfortunately, there are a large number of blogging software programs out there, so this is definitely not going to work for all blogs. Also, if your blog is hosted on a different website like WordPress.com, or Blogger.com, then it is going to be a lot harder to put these social bookmarking buttons at the end of your posts. Also, depending on which website you are using, there may not be a way for you to automate the process. If you want these buttons automatically placed at the end of each of your posts, then the easiest way to do this will be to install a WordPress.org blog on your own website. There are tons of benefits to doing this, and if you are serious about blogging for free traffic, then you should take the time to learn how to incorporate the WordPress.org software on your own website.
So, if you want to add these social bookmarking buttons for a blog that you are promoting on blogging website, then the best advice I have for you will be to search for "Digg button" or "Social Network Button" on that websites FAQ. Generally, if you can add these buttons to your posts, then the answer will be revealed in the FAQ.
If you want automation, and you have already installed the latest version of the WordPress.org blogging software, then you'll be pleased to know that there are a number of different WordPress plugins that you can incorporate on your blog for almost all social networking buttons. Many of them work well, and at the time that I am writing this, one of the plugins that many people use that gives you a lot of options is the "Share This" plugin. This plugin can be found at the following link: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
The funny thing about WordPress plugins is that some of them will work great for a while, but then after WordPress has made too many updates, the plugin may stop working all together. I share this with you in case one day you find that the "Share This" plugin no longer works. Then you will know to look for a different plugin that does the same thing. Also, you may want to install the "Share This" plugin along with other plugins that function similarly in order to see which plugin you like most for your blog.

Daniel Pereira

Hello everyone,

Great thread - I love Wordpress. Here are some of my favourite plugins that haven't been mentioned. As mentioned above, only activate the ones you want and check your site is working. If you are editing the code then make sure you either have the original theme code at hand or you have a backup of the file.

404 SEO Plugin

This is a great one that puts a list of related pages on your 404 page. If you add some adsense / other adverts as well, it's a great way to use a page that isn't overly used.

Emo Vote

This is just a simple voting tool, which is good on more "social" sites. It allows people to vote by how they feel and you can edit the feelings to make it say anything you want. Very good to make the voting system fit in with the theme of the site.

Extended Category Widget

This widget adds more functionality to the category widget to make it a more useful menu. It helps to make the navigation much easier to use and more useful to your visitor.

WP-Sticky

This is a great one, it makes a post sticky so that you can have it appear at the front of your blog all the time. Means you can still have multiple posts on a page and have the page you want showing on the front.

Many of the others I use are mentioned above. There are some great plugins available.

All the best

Jason

I wrote quite a long blog post about this a while back - 12 WordPress Plugins I Can't Live Without!

I also keep a nice list of active plugins on my site, in case anyone wants to know what I'm using - Active Plugins

GetResponse and AWeber plugin for adding opt-in forms to your blog...

Wordpress Autoresponder Optin for GetResponse & Aweber

(Newsletter sign up is required to download...)

Update: Ok, I added this resource before I tried it because it looked good on paper. After trying it, meh. Not that great. I'm just going to dump the GetResponse form code into my templates where I need it. However, give this plugin a try if you're looking for something like it. It may work out for you.

Oh...yeah...awesome lists...please keep them coming.

One more here:

http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/13-great-wordpress-speed-tips-tricks-for-max-performance.html

(Disclosure: I have no commercial interest through this link)

regards,
James Pateman

A simple trick to improve SEO - change your permalink structure to:

/%category%/%postname%/

If you get your domain with your favorite keywords and add categories that also have keywords, you've doubled your SEO power with the custom permalink structure.

Fantastic, Allen

I have been hoping that you would see that Wordpress is a huge topic and that it would benefit forum users to find questions and answers in one spot.

I have had many of my questions answered with this thread, about plugins and I have downloaded many I didn't have.

I have only one that I don't think anyone has listed and is important as far as Google is concerned and that is the Privacy Policy statement each website must show. It is one of my, must have, to load on every site I own:

Easy Privacy Policy

Thanks to all those who have contributed

Cheers
Viv

Sniplets for little bits of text or code that you don't want to type in over and over.

ozh-admin-drop-down-menu for a much cleaner and more compact menu structure. It's always the first plugin I activate.

Zazzle for suggestion of context sensitive additional content you may want to add or link to.

Jeff Johnson's "Traffic Getting SEO" plugin

Jeff Johnson Underground Training Lab

Signup required

Great list people.

Here's my list:

Exclude Pages from Navigation
Exec-PHP
FollowMe
Insights
IntenseDebate
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Hey ,this is a great thread .I have learned so much in here .
Can i get someones opinion on what the best amazon plugin is?

I just discovered this neat wordpress opt-in plugin: MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder.

What I like about this plugin is that you don't need to know how to code in order to add an optin form to wordpress blogs. Nicely done!

MaxBlogPress Optin Form Adder

hey everyone quick question,what is the best plugin for putting videos on word press

Lots of good stuff in here. I actually use the nofollow free plugin and allow followed links in comment - Akismet catches most of the spam!

Please how many plugins can one intall in one blog that will not cause problems?

Most autoresponders offer the option to make you optin form as a popup.
Use that on your blog and you are good to go. No need for any plugin.

SEO SLUGS is an amazing plugin which removes words like a, the, and, etc. which are not considered by the search engines as keywords. It will work only for new posts and your old posts will retain the existing URL structure.

Example:

www.blog.com/this-is-a-great-post/ will become

www.blog.com/great-post/

Only the two words: great, post are considered by the SEs. So you can have shorter and cleaner URLs for your posts.

Anybody recommend a good store for Wordpress.

WP-Table Reloaded
WP-iPhone Theme
FancyBox
One-click Close Comment
TS Custom Widget
Sexy Bookmarks
Split Testing Plugin - I couldn't help it.

Yep, looks good thanks.

Make your WP blog compatible with smart phones:
MOBIFY - Make Your Website Mobile
WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress BraveNewCode Inc.

Anybody aware of a good banner plugin?

MaxBanner Ads is quite nice but it forces you to use the same set of banners across every catagory of your blog - which in our case is next to useless.

I need something very similar to Max Banner Ads but with the ability to configure a different set of banners per blog catagory.

Slightly off topic but could someone tell me if I can download wordpress to my computer and "play" with it and test it before I upload it a hosting company. I tried once for instance to install a different theme and gave up in frustration.
Thanks
-Lyn

Fantastic idea! WF has so much information, it is often hard to find what you are specifically looking for. I love this place....

Fancy an animated favicon on your browser? Or even a static one. Try -

Shockingly Simple Favicon (WP Plugin) | incerteza

Very easy to use. Shockingly simple in fact. You do know what a favicon is? The little avatar on the left-hand side of your browser showing the URL you're on. Google "animated favicons" and you'll find free ones and wizards to make your own.

If you want to see what an animated favicon looks like, click on "Miserable Productions" down below

Anybody tested the various comments captuaa plugins?

Come up with a winner?

The BlogMechanics KeywordLink plugin will allow you to turn any keyword throughout your entire blog into a link.

This can be used to turn keywords throughout your entire blog into affiliate links.

You can combine this with the Pretty Link plugin to cloak your affiliate links.

Great job everyone!! The list is amazing. I will be adding some of these for sure. Thanks again.

XML Sitemap Generator is a must use! It helps in Indexing. Here's a video on how to install it!

YouTube - Lesson 10 - How To Create Sitemaps For Your Blog

I want to get a parent category page ranked, but it's not getting indexed because of duplicate content, I think. I'm using auto e store plugin on my site, help please?!

Allow me to add one of my favourites to the collection:

Simple Tags: WordPress › Simple Tags WordPress Plugins

It will automatically add tags to new posts (including those pulled in from RSS feeds) based on a list of keywords/tags you input, or already in your tags database.

When a new tag is added to the list, you can then run an update and it will automatically add those tags to existing posts.

This should be one of the essesntials in your plugin list (IMHO).

Enjoy.

For those looking for images for their blogs and websites, PicApp - the best content for the best publishers has some pretty interesting stuff. Just be sure to read the Terms Of Service before using the images.

Here's a link to the Wordpress Plugin:

WordPress › PicApp - premium celeb, news, sports images WordPress Plugins

Hi,

I am looking for beta testers for a brand new wordpress plugin. Full details here for anyone who is interested:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...rs-wanted.html

Thanks Allen

Ok this information on plug-ins blows me away,WoW. I have a question though because I am fine with html but way behind on WP. How do you go about modifying the theme itself is that in the PHP code and if so what is the easiest way to go about doing it. Example I bought Jimmy D. Brown WP theme but can not figure out how to properly customize the area's of the template. Thought they would be in the widgets but I guess they are the PHP. Any thought's I am sure someone in here is familiar with the multiple streams theme.

Themes folder, you have index.php which is the main index page, front page of your blog, you also have page.php which is the main template for the pages on your blog. Post.php which is your posts layout and sidebar.php for your sidebar

But if you go into widgets >> there is a widget called text/html you can add custom stuff there such as an optin form or banner ads etc using simple html

Hope it helps
Mikey

There are some very nice plugins in this thread, bookmarked. Thanks for the share everyone.

Thanks Allen for a great over all idea and a terrific thread.

Here's some of my fav's ... Much of it's pretty techie but I think there is at least one "must bookmark" for anyone really wanting to be a WP Power User!

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress/23-extremely-helpful-wordpress-help-sheets-and-resources/

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2009/04/xxx-massive-wordpress-tutorial-collection.html

http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/10-wordpress-plugins-guaranteed-to-save-you-time/

http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/10-wordpress-plugins-guaranteed-to-save-you-time/ ... TECHY & some are outdated.

http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/15-useful-tools-for-wordpress-bloggers/ ... some are outdated.

Themes: http://sixrevisions.com/resources/50-beautiful-free-wordpress-themes/ ... 2008 post so not sure if all themes are compatible with 2.9.2

The plugins I prefer are already mentioned so I wont duplicate.

Hope this is helpful info!

5 More Awesome WordPress Plugins For SEO
3 Wordpress Plugins To Boost Your Adsense Revenue

These are mine.

Karan

To make sure Google doesn't think that my WP blog is selling links I've found the no-follow link plug-in to be very useful. This will make all the links you add to your blog roll a no-follow.

I didn't see anyone mention These:
SeoPower
SimpleTags
Post to Page

For shopping cart, I didn't hear anyone mention eshop. It has some great advantages... But if you don't have a copy of the old version you better be running wordpress 3.

Here's some premium wordpress training videos for anyone who needs a hand getting started:
http://secretenergyformula.com/wp/WP101-Videos01-08.zip

Amazon S3/FTP/Email Backup Solution for Wordpress

WordPress › BackWPup WordPress Plugins

• Schedule backups anytime
• Database Backup
• Wordpress XML Export
• Optimize Database
• Check\Repair Database
• File Backup (Backs up folders and files outside of Wordpress)
• Backups in zip,tar,tar.gz,tar.bz2 format
• Store backup to Folder
• Store backup to FTP Server
• Store backup to Amazon S3
• Send Log/Backup by eMail

Just installed and tested this plugin...it works perfectly. It backed up all my Wordpress default files/folders (plus specified folders outside of Wordpress) to a folder on my site...then silently uploaded it to S3.

Thanks for that backup - was looking for something like that.

One thing everyone needs to remember, since WP 3 is so recently out, is to check plugins for version compatibility. Also - you might want to install and use that backup plugin above before adding every plugin in this thread. (I'm tempted by at least half of them.)

Also, generally the plugins on the WP site are safe from hacks, but be careful with offsite plugins unless you know they are done by someone you (and the WP community) trusts. There have been cases of plugins (and themes, for that matter) with malware in them.

I wasted 'bout 20 minutes trying to figure this one out...

How to prevent Wordpress from stripping line breaks and new paragraphs in the WYSIWYG editor.

Wordpress Verson 3.0 does this, and it's very annoying when you're trying to create clean space between the lines of text and your images.

Here's the solution..

TinyMCE Advanced LaptopTips

TinyMCE Advanced is a plugin that will tell Wordpress 3.0 to stop stripping your line breaks & new paragraphs.

After you install, click on 'settings' in your admin area, and choose 'TinyMCE Advanced'. Then check the option that says:

"Stop removing the <p> and <br /> tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor "

Save and you're good to go.

Grant

PS. Sorry! This plugin was already mentioned but didn't come up in the thread search.

Just spent the past hour going through this thread and installing a couple new plug-ins onto my site. Thanks to everyone contributing to the thread making it great.

And for the member asking about posting up videos on your WP site my personal favorite is TubePress. It's compatible with Vimeo and Youtube so that pretty much has you covered and ready to go. Takes about 3 minutes to set up end to end if you already have your videos up on a Youtube channel.

WP Simplicity - Free, effective and extremely powerful wordpress plugin that configure and transform blank wordpress site into content blog in seconds with push of a button. It installs over 40 other plugins, create 10 editable posts, Create pages: about page, contact page and privacy policy page, set sidebar widget, configure pretty SEO permalinks




All the best!
Aabayommy

Any ideas about admin plugins? Things like how to change the write panel, multi-author blog related plugins etc?

I am working on a multi author blog and a plugin which can add features to what WP can already offer would be a big plus.

I use the following methods and plugins for WP auto blogging:

* Automatic content - WPRobot: a paid plugin worth every penny!

* WordSpinner - I use it to spin the top of each post to make it unique

* GoCodes - a good link cloaking plugin with hits count

* Auto back links submission - Onlywire

Example of an auto blog built with these plugins

Natural Dog Food - Products, reviews, recipes

Thanks to all who post all those useful plugin information so that some of very newbies can learn a few thing without it costing an arm.

After reading about all these PLUGINS and their benefits, this is great information. Anyone can come to this thread and get a clear picture of what plugins they need and don't need.
I can see the benefits of having a Blog and a few plugins to go along with it, to simplify things.
I like Trafficguy Claude's post "How To Turn Wordpress Into The Ultimate ListBuilding Machine!" and his explanation as to how and why it works

Thanks again to all contributors ........

Hi! I would like to contribute these two plugins:

My Category Order - wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-category-order
My Page Order - wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-page-order/

These 2 plugins help to re-order the category and page according to your needs!

Helpful when you want to organize and arrange your category menu and page menu.

Excellent Info! I've learned alot!

I also found the answers to questions about plugins I hadn't discovered yet.

I've used Ad Buttons to put 125 banners quickly/easily in the sidebar.
One site worked perfectly, one didn't - I couldn't figure out why.

Is there a plugin which will take all the posts in a category & place them on a page?

for ex: my eBizHelp.info site has different IM topics such as Video marketing, Article marketing, Affiliate marketing, etc. It would be great if they could automatically also appear on a page specific to that topic so I could optimize that page for better SEO.

Thanks for all who shared their experience!

I've also been looking for how to remove the date from posts. Is there a plugin for this?

Does anyone know how to do blog posts without a visible date?

Anyone know about pingbackoptimizer?

Is it worth the investment?

Thanks

I find it useful on one of my blogs to have 'Page Links To' for linking a page to another page outside of your blog

Thanks! Good suggestions! my Wordpress blogs seem to be working better than all of my other sites combined.

A great plugin for more exposure is the Wordpress Mobile Pack. Good for Blackberries. Search "mobile pack" at wordpress.org/extend/plugins

Awesome!

Priceless information.
I'm new in WF. Just ask myself: "Why didn't join Warriors 2 years ago when discovered IM?" LOL

Thanks to all warriors

Vadim

Not sure if I missed it, but did anyone mention SEOPressor? This was created by Daniel Tan and very useful. It is a paid plugin but well worth it to assist non SEOers with basic SEO mock up.

Gewdo

This one will probably work really well for those people who do affiliate marketing or adsense type of things.

WordPress › Heatmap Plugin « WordPress Plugins

It's a heatmap plugin so you can see exactly where people are clicking on your webpage.

So it'll help you determine where to put your banners or google adsense or anything else that you really want to use it for.

I thought it was pretty cool.

thanks to everybody who posted in this thread.........

Great tactic man, i will try it with my forum, dealing with threads is a tough thing

This is my list (sorry for any possible repetitions):

1. Faster Image Insert - eliminates this ****y popup when adding the pictures
2. Sj Object Cache - the best cache ever!
3. Domain Mapping - tyes multiple domains on one wp install
4. TAC - themes checker for malicious code, hidden links etc.
5. Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer - doesn't let ping when you update post
6. Wordpress SEO by Yoast - newest SEO plugin
7. GoCodes - link cloacker
8. Internal Link Building - invaluable for intarnal keywords linking
9. Missed Schedule from 5ubliminal - fixes the bug with scheduled posts
10. No Self Pings - name speaks for itself
11. Nofollow Free - makes url's in comments dofollow
12. TypePad AntiSpam - not any worse than Akismet but totally free
13. Php Code Widget - allows you to insert anithing you want in widegts
14. Nginx Compability - WP on Nginx is just the bomb!
15. WP db Backup - backup scheduler
16. jQuery Image Lazy Loading - loads images on the pages one by time

Not directly related to IM, but a personal favorite of mine is "Future Calendar". It puts up a visual calendar in the right sidebar when adding a post and color codes the days in the future that you already have posts scheduled for. It's great for getting a quick visual of what days/weeks are in need of posts in the future. Makes staying ahead of the posting game a little bit easier.

Dang!

Missed a plugin to keep a tab floating in same spot even when people scroll down the pages.

Any ideas?

Well,

Didn't find the plugin to float ^^, but nevermind.

Today I just want to share 2 PAID plugins: NO affiliate links. Just a satisfied client.

WPML - The WordPress Multilingual Plugin
Gravity Forms for WordPress - Contact Form Builder And Lead Data Management Plugin For WordPress

Bought them last week and after some runs in live sites I can say they work really well (Latest WP Install/Custom Coded Themes) and everything runs smooth. Both of them save me hours coding stuff.

Have a look.

Fernando

OK,i did a search and can not find my answer.
I would like to know how to add a link to my policy pages.

I either want to put them in the footer,or the sidebar.
I tried by putting in the text widget in the footer,but the all of the text showed up and not just the link.

I just want the high lighted word showing as a link.
So on all my pages,it shows a link.

This is exactly why I joined WF!

I like:

Platinum SEO

Works great!

It is times like these I love the Warrior forum.

I was just looking for this stuff about 2 days ago. LOL.

Go Warriors Forum, go!

I need a little update. Can anyone suggest a flexible, user-friendly, good and up-to-date "related posts" plugin? (Other than YARPP)
Would appreciate

Just to add to this thread, I recently read and tried a combination of the Hyper Cache and
DB Cache Reloaded Fix plugins. My blog's speed or page load has significantly improved ever
since, considerably (and maybe strangely) faster than using standalone cache plugins like
Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

Here are some plugins which I often use：


SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam


Google XML Sitemaps


WP No Category Base

All in One SEO Pack

WP-DB-Backup

Hope these can help you.

WordPress SEO Plugin

• Support for Custom Post Types
• Advanced Canonical URLs
• Fine tune Page Navigational Links
• Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
• ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
• Nonce Security
• Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you don't even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.

I always wonder why there are so many "all in one" seo plugins. The on page factors are pretty common, I'd say.. To me flooding the marketplace with the same thing is a big problem with Wordpress in general.

WP Mass Delete - you may find it useful to mass-delete WP posts and pages according to your own conditions.

BTW if you are a WarriorForum member and need a custom plugin, post your request here and I will write it and make it available to everyone here for free!

Course if the task won't be too complex (time consuming)

I'm diging a plugin called simple reach. It offers a related post popup to visitors.

You can find it by searching the wordpress plugins for SimpleReach slide.

It requires regisrtation, but is free. You can view CTR of the popups on their site which is also cool.

There's one new plugin out there called Viral Connector. Looks awesome.

Stop using "admin" as your default username...

Make sure any themes and plugins you use that have timthumb.php are up to date. There was a HUGE security issue a few weeks back with it all over the WP network. In the sites I have which use it all I needed to do was copy over the existing one and I've had no issues. But please do this at your own risk, ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS!!
timthumb - image crop zoom resize management - Google Project Hosting

Always make backups of your account!

Keep your software, plugins, and even themes, as up to date as possible.

I'll post more later as it comes to me.

Can I learn something here? I like this thread.

wpSEO
AntiSpam Bee
WPRobot
Secure WordPress
cbnet Ping Optimizer
SEO Friendly Images
AntiVirus
Auto Trackback Sender
XML Sitemap Generator
YARPP
WP-DB-Backup

That's the basics

Social Networking Plugins: Meet Your Commenters - Takes the information your commenters leave and shows you their social networking profiles in your dashboard so you can add them and get to know them more.

Anyone use Platinum SEO plugin? I was recently contacted by a Hostgator representative that my Platinum SEO plugin was taking much resources that I need to replace it with other similar plugin? It's kinda amazed me that one plugin can do that while others are using things like WP Robot without any problems.

PS. I only have around 15 sites in my hosting account and all of them are using Platinum SEO


Thanks,
Nubitol

DiggDigg is a great plugin for adding social networking
sites buttons to your WP site.

Wow! this is just marvelous, lots of great information and suggestions. Thanks to everyone here.

I created this social media plugin and submitted in WordPress here:
WordPress › Social Networks « WordPress Plugins

Included Facebook, twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and also the rss feed.

* Automatically Add your RSS Feed link
* Add your Facebook link
* Add your Twitter link
* Add your YouTube link
* Add your LinkedIn link
* Add your MySpace link

I am sure you will like it if you give it a try like others do.

There are many variations of the SAME WP plugin. Before you purchase a plugin, check the WordPress plugins site. There are thousands of "free" plugins and many do a great job.

Steve

I only add plugins that I need. I don't add plugin when it is quite easy to do what I want without a plugin.

It allows you to create membership sites, secure blog post content, drip in content from nanacast based on when a subscriber joins, and even send private posts to individual subscribers.

it does not work for me

wordpress seo by yoast is the best wp plugin for seo,i use in my site

I think a Wordpress site should have only total 10 plugins or less, the more plugins we use, the slower our sites get