10 Best WordPress Plugins - March 2009

ThickBox

If you'd like to embed ThickBox into your blog just install this plugin, insert ThickBox compliant markup whereever you want and you're all set.

Wordpress Popular Posts

Wordpress Popular Posts is a sidebar widget to show the most popular posts in your blog. Many options has been included in it so you can customize it to your liking.

Simple Sidebar Navigation

This plugin adds a widget into the Widgets dashboard that allows in a simple way, without writing any PHP code on your part, to create custom navigation in any sidebar pre-defined by your WP theme.

AskApache Debug Viewer

This plugin is custom-made for WordPress Developers, Plugin Developers, or anyone wanting to see under the hood of their website and diagnose problems

Lexi

Sometimes an RSS feed has a low bandwidth and during the page creation Wordpress has to wait after those RSS feeds has been downloaded. This plugin allow the site to read the RSS after the page was created, not during the process.

xili-tidy-tags

This plugin offer to xili-language plugin a smart way to create sub-set of tags according language of the displayed post (or category). The tag cloud content is depending of the front current language in the multilingual website.

Submit to Any

This plugin is for bookmarking your posts into StumbleUpon, Slahdot, Technorati, Digg and Del.icio.us. You have to do nothing but just activate the plugin. It automatically add the bookmarking options just below to your posts. It also has a stylish button for subscribing to your RSS feed.

StatPress Reloaded

This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

Admin Links Widget

This plugin provides a widget which can contain links to pages in the administration panel in one of your sidebars. These links are only visible to those already logged in as an administrator.

WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks comment spam by using a combination of time-based hash (a.k.a. Time Based Tokens, TBT) and JavaScript (AJAX). When a comment is posted the plugin validates a hash based on time (and some other parameters). Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

Comments

Statpress is good but whassup is even better, it lets you record visitors in real time and track the pages they are looking at, thanks for the great post :-)

Thanks for this clear, useful and good compilation,and thanks again for sharing
your knowledge with us.

Good post. Wordpress is a great applications - well designed and written. Keep up the good work with the lists.

Just a complementary info about xili-tidy-tags, this plugin can also run on a mono lingual site without xili-language to create semantic groups of tags (by instance depending of two root parts of a site. Some use it to group trademark in a specific tag clouds..

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Nice list. I find the startpress reloaded plugin particularly interesting.

My top 10 would include the linkbuilding plugin from IBL Builder, its getting me quite a few decent one way backlinks for my blog. Its on their homepage at http://www.iblbuilder.com

Nice collection. The most useful plugin for me is the IBL Builder linkbuilding plugin. I have gained over a dozen decent one way backlinks to my site in a week. It's in their homepage at http://www.iblbuilder.com

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This is a great post, and I hate to "piggy-back", but I just published a piece that shares the plugins that we've been using as professional bloggers for three years. A few of the 7 we discuss include FeedburnerFeedsmith, Wordpress.com Stats, and Google XML Sitemaps.

You can find the post here: http://alwayswordpress.com/blogging/7-best-wordpress-plugins-that-are-a-...

Thanks!

This is very usefull! Great post! I'm newbie with wordpress...starting write for my wordpress right now. Wish me luck guys! Cheers! ;)

Thanks for the hard work. This is a very complete list.

Very nice post. Thanks for these useful wordpress plugins you have included here.

This is a great list of Plugins, thank you. I will have to include these for our WordPress User Group!

Does submit to any include Twitter? Tweetmeme keeps giving me and error.

We use most of these plug ins when we design custom made blogs for our clients. Nicey collated list! Thanks!

I have used few of plugins from here but it seems to be there are more available within wordpress plugins which could be termed as best plugins but for a starter the information is very good.

Hi, [url=http://www.springcare.cn]baby[/url], good post with lots of useful info, but do you have any SEO plugin to recommend?

I suggest to use free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition with special WordPress plug-in.

Thanks for the information.

Which RSS plugin is the best for automatically generating a post for each RSS feed?

great collection of wordpress pluging,nice

Statpress has always been my choice of stats program for our blog networks but they slacked off for about a year but it seems the little Italian girl is back on track.

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You can use simple HTML-formatting tags(like <b>, <ul>, <code> and others)

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