While I was doing the post on firefox plugins I started to think about wordpress and the plugins I use on a few different blogs. So I figured I would post about them here too.

1. Akismet

   1. The best spam control plugin for wordpress. I love akismet, they have saved me hours of work, and stopped thousands of spam messages from getting onto my sites.

2. Alinks

   1. This is the newest plugin I have added to my wordpress collection. It allows me to link to specific places for specific keywords. In other words, every time I type specific words it will link to the site of my choice. Also, you can choose certain key phrases to link to amazon using your amazon affiliate id, allowing you to make money if someone buys something when they click your link.

3. d13 Gallery

   1. This is a plugin that I was using on sentletters. When I updated Wordpress it stopped working, so I went looking for the original author. His site has changed hands, and he seems to no longer support the plugin. I have since taken over support of it, and will continue to do updates upon request.

4. Feed Statistics

   1. Ever want to know who is pulling information down via RSS feeds and RSS readers. This plugin will help you figure it out. It will start to record the information as soon as you install it.

5. FireStats

   1. This is the coolest site statistics plugin I have found yet. It keeps tracks of referrers, browsers, operating systems, and tons of other information. You can even manage multiple sites through the same firestats install if you want.

6. Google Sitemap Generator

   1. This plugin will automatically create a Google sitemap for your entire blog. You can also have it include pages from your domain that are not necessarily linked to from your blog. This is a really nice feature for helping google find all the pages on your site. If you do the work for google they will reward you in time.

7. intouch

   1. You can create a custom built contact form into your blog, to make it easier for your readers to contact you. This is an essential feature of a business based blog.

8. RC Custom Fields Gui

   1. This is another plugin that I started working on because it wasn’t up to snuff for a client, and the support for it was seriously lacking. The original version was nice, but it didnt match the wordpress interface, and didnt have a couple other features that I wanted. So I improved it and have posted a new Wordpress2.2 version of the plugin on this blog.

9. Smart Update Pinger

   1. This plugin will override the default Wordpress pinger functionality for telling other sites about your blog posts. It will make it so that wordpress will only ping those sites when the post is published, and not on every change. This is important, because some of the sites that you can ping will block you for pinging them too much, or too frequently. Note: This may not be necessary with wordpress 2.1 and newer. And the original author no longer supports it.

10. Social Bookmarks

    1. This is the plugin that creates all the social bookmarks links at the bottom of every post on this blog. It is amazing for quick linking people to their favorite social bookmarking site, and allowing them to post articles from a blog as well.

11. Sphere Related Content Widget

    1. This is the plugin that allows me to have the sphere link at the bottom of every post on this site. It will actually allow users to see other blogs that have similar content. This is especially helpful when someone is trying to do research on a specific topic. It will also help you get users to your blog when they are looking for a topic similar to what you are posting about.

12. WhoLinked

    1. This plugin will help you record who is linking to your site. Its nice to have this information on your site, or at least to be recording it.

13. Wordpress Database Backup

    1. This is an amazing little plugin that letsyou do a complete backup of your site’s database either to your computer or to an email address. This is a very important thing to have happen, especially if you have a lot of work in a blog and you don’t want it to disappear.

Also, I have heard that this is a good plugin, but I am not using it anywhere currently:

Wordpress Adsense 

It should help you add google adsense code to your blog with minimal effort.  I have not used it or even looked at it yet.

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