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WordPress has lots of plugins. Some are useful, others well, just plain SUCK! Here’s our list of plugins we use and some we don’t

Premium WordPress Plugins

- Advertising -

  • OIO Publisher - Complete plugin that removes all hassle for bloggers who manage advertising. Automates banners, text links, paid reviews, and collects the money for you.

- Affiliates -

  • WP Affiliate Pro - Allows you to manage your affiliate links from within your WordPress dashboard. Also allows you to mask links and a number of other features.

- SEO -

  • WP SEO Sniper - Extreme SEO plugin designed to give people conscious of SEO full control over their blogs from the WordPress dashboard. Significant upgrade to the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin.

Free WordPress Plugins

- Admin Tools -

  • Author Exposed - Adds a full featured display of the authors profile. Great for multi-author blogs.
  • Fluency Admin - Improves the look of your WordPress Dashboard (WordPress 2.5+ Only)
  • Gamer’s Pack - Makes your blog viewable using the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, and PSP gaming systems.
  • GoCodes - Easily create redirects from your WordPress Dashboard that point anywhere. Great for hiding affiliate links.
  • Google Sitemap - Creates a fully-compliant sitemap for search engines.
  • In Series - Allows you to easily group a series of posts into a series.
  • No Self Ping - Prevents your blog from sending Pingbacks internally to your other posts.
  • WP-o-Matic - Allows users to collect feeds and auto-generate posts on your blog.
  • WP Sticky - Allows users to feature a post at the top of their homepage for a day or permanently.
  • WP-Super Cache - Creates a cache of your posts to avoid server load. Great for surviving a Digg.

- Advertising -

  • Got Banners - Plugin allows you to randomize your advertising banners. Ideal for 125×125 banners.
  • Max Banner Ads - Plugin that lets you control your advertising from the WordPress dashboard. Also allows you to rotate multiple advertisements in a single spot.
  • Show125 - Plugin that specializes in managing your 125×125 block advertisements.
  • Shylock AdSense - Allows you to easily insert Google AdSense code into your WordPress blog.

- Comments -

  • MyAvatars - Automatically inserts the commentators MyBlogLog avatar next to their comment using the e-mail address provided. If unavailable, it will attempt to pull the bloggers Gravatar.
  • Show Top Commentators - Allows you to display your top commentators automatically in a place of your choosing. Great for encouraging comments.
  • Smilies Themer - Plugin that offers a variety of smilies styles to place in the comments section of your blog.
  • Subscribe to Comments - Allows readers to receive e-mail notifications when a follow up comment is left.

- Domaining -

  • Domain Name Portfolio - This plugin automatically creates a page in WordPress that domainers can use to display their domain portfolio. Everything is controlled from the dashboard.

- Downloads -

  • Download Manager - Plugin that allows you to manage your downloads from the WordPress dashboard.

- Feeds -

  • Add Related Posts To Your Feed - Will automatically add related posts to your blog’s feed.
  • FeedCount - Allows you to display a numerical version of your Feedburner feed count without using the Feedburner chicklet.
  • Feed Footer - Allows you to use HTML to add a custom footer to your blog’s feed. Plugin also supports randomizing up to 10 different footers.
  • RSS Footer - Basic plugin that allows you to easily add copyright notice, etc.

- Forums -

  • RS Discuss - Plugin that allows you to easily integrate a forum into your existing WordPress blog.

- Maintenance -

- Miscellaneous -

  • BlogRush Click Maximizer - Assists you in creating a customized BlogRush feed to display the post of your choice.
  • BreadCrumb Navigation XT - Allows you to provide your readers with additional blog navigation.
  • Get Firefox Banner - Shows a banner to IE6 and IE7 web browser users recommending they switch to Firefox. Great for blogs whose theme is optimized for Firefox.
  • Popularity Contest - Monitors your website traffic and gives you reports on your popular posts. Plugin is fully customizable allowing you to set the values used to calculate your posts popularity.
  • WP-eCommerce - Plugin that allows you to create an online shop on your WordPress blog
  • WP-Submission - Creates a submission page then places all submissions into a post draft. Ideal for group writing projects.

- Related Posts -

  • Related Posts - Uses keywords in your post URL’s to display a designated number of related posts.

- SEO -

  • All-in-One SEO Pack - The Ultimate SEO WordPress plugin. Allows you to set your homepage meta information and automatically generate custom meta information for your individual posts.
  • Permalink Redirect - Creates a 301 Redirect to avoid duplicate content penalties with search engines. Also includes a Feedburner redirect.

- Tags -

  • Betting Tags Manager - Allows you to better manage your tags, as well as convert your categories to tags.
  • Recommended Tags - Looks at your post’s content and recommends tags. Includes additional features.

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