Here is the list of 11 popular WordPress plugins you must try. Enjoy!
PingPressFM
It allows you to spread your blog to 30+ social networks via ping.fm. Now it supports for scheduled posts and custom triggers.
First Impression: It’s a very useful plugin. I can imagine that you can gain more exposure for your blog with just simple click instead of going through each social network one by one.
DandyID Services
Displays all of your online identities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube and etc) as clickable links in your sidebar. Currently DandyID supports more than 180 services.
First Impression: It makes online identity manageable in WordPress. One of the existing way to display our online identities is copy and paste the code one by one into the ‘Text Widget’. It will be nice if can display online identity in our page.
Search Everything
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included:
- Search Every Page
- Search Every Tag
- Search Every Category
- Search Non-password Protected Page only
- Search Every Comment
- Search Approved Only Comment
- Search Every Draft
- Search Every Excerpt
- Search Every Attachment
- Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
- Exclude Posts from Search
- Exclude Categories from Search
First Impression: Obviously it’s a advanced search plugin compared to default WordPress search. It’s similar to the plugin I used in this blog, Search Unleashed. I’d give it a try in near future.
Postalicious
Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted are very customizable and are designed to meet your specific needs. Postalicious uses the psuedo-cron functionality introduced in WordPress 2.1 to schedule automatic hourly updates. If you do not have WordPress 2.1 or later installed, you will still be able to use Postalicious, but you will have to perform the updates manually.
First Impression: Too less social social bookmarks site supported, hope in the future it can support more social bookmarks.
Google Friend Connect Integration
Readers can join your site with a few clicks using their existing Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account. Using the Google Friend Connect Integration plugin, you can easily add more social interaction to your blog. With a few easy setup details taken care of, this plugin will allow you to completely customize Google Friend Connect on a WordPress Blog.
First Impression: As predicted by some websites/blogs, Google Friend Connect will become very popular in the near future, now we have chance to integrate it into our blogs very easily. I plan to review it in near future. Stay tuned!
Profile Pic
Allows authors to add a picture to their profile and automates the process of displaying profiles. Highly configurable via plugin and widget settings.
First Impression: Convenient plugin for those don’t know the HTML. One suggestion is it will be nice if it can display profile picture in the WordPress pages.
Plugin Info
This plugin provides a simple way of displaying up-to-date information about specific plugins hosted on the WordPress Plugin Directory in your blog posts and pages.
First Impression: It’s very useful for plugin authors to display details of their own plugins from WordPress Plugin Dictory on their blog. Besides, it’s convenient for bloggers to display up-to-date information of the plugins they reviewed.
Insights
Insights brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time quality of your posts. Insights allows you to do all this using dynamic AJAX interface which loads the relevant information to your post in just a few seconds.
Insights performs following functions in real-time:
- Interlink Your Posts
- Insert Flickr Images
- Insert Youtube Videos
- Search Wikipedia
- Search Google
- Search Google News
- Google Blog Search
- Insert a Google Map
First Impression: Be careful of overuse can disturb you from writing your blog post. It will easily make you researching more than blogging! Generally it’s a nice plugin.
qTranslate
qTranslate makes creation of multilingual content as easy as working with a single language. qTranslate supports infinite languages, which can be easily added/modified/deleted via the comfortable configuration page. All you need to do is activate the plugin and start writing the content!
First Impression: With this plugin, it will perfect the WordPress platform in term of Content Management System (CMS). But I’m concerned about the language support in the feed. How to do that?
RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics
Modifies RSS permalinks to include utm query parameters, used by Google Analytics to track non-adwords advertising campaigns.
First Impression: It makes our life easier to track the link in our RSS feed. Well done!
Limit Login Attempts
Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP.
First Impression: By using this simple security plugin, we can prevent human and machin hackers to destroy our blog
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