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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

WordPress Automatic Upgrade – Allows you to easily upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest version.

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 – Uses keywords in your post URL’s to display a designated number of related posts.

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.

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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