Archive for the ‘Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins’ Category

Twitter Tools Plugin

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. You can do a lot of cool things like create a blog post from each of your tweets, create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweet, create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post or even post a tweet from your sidebar.

‘Autoblogged’

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Autoblogged plugin is a great plugin which helps you automatically add posts to your blog by adding posts from any RSS or Atom feed. The word autoblog has spamming connotations, but the plugin can be effectively used to create focused RSS feeds. You can also add your own comments to the feeds to spice it up with some originality.

Visit Autoblogged site

Wordpress database backup plugin

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Database Backup Plugin is a very useful plugin and with the unlimited memory of gmail these days you can send yourself daily backups of your blog to yourself automatically. An easy way to make sure you sleep well at night.

The database backup plugin is easy to install and use.

Google analytics for Wordpress

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The google analytics plugin is a must if you want to track your stats – plus it’s free! It’s easy to install and you simply have to add the relevant analytics account ID in the admin panel after you activate it.

Broken link checker plugin

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The broken link checker plugin for Wordpress is a godsend. One of the things that can really drag you down in your google rankings is having a lot of old posts with broken links. This plugin automatically finds broken links and enables you to either discard the link or to delete the post entirely from the admin panel.

Definitely a time saver and very useful.

Next Gen Gallery

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Next gen gallery is the best free photo gallery software for Wordpress that I know of. You can bulk edit, bulk upload and the pic lens photo gallery is really cool. Highly recommended.

A sticky post orderer

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

A Sticky Post Orderer is a plugin I use on a daily basis to help order my posts. For example, if you want to write a blurb at the top of a list of different posts, you can simply list that post at the top using this plugin and ensure that it appears first. Without this plugin I would be lost.

It basically allows you to control the order of your posts in categories. This is a must plug-in for me and helped me get around the problem of ordering my posts which was nagging me for some time. You can download the plugin from here

Ninja Affiliate

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Ninja Affiliate

Price: $97
Value for money: 5 out of 5

Description: Affiliate link cloaker/affiliate link manager

I recently purchased the best value for money and most useful plugin I’ve ever come across. I don’t like to hype products up, but this one did something rare – it did what it says it can do and it is easy to use.

Before I purchased this, I had a product called Wordpress Affiliate Pro which did something similar, but not as well. Although this wasn’t a bad product, Ninja Affiliate was much easier to use, more flexible and the support is better.

Ninja Affiliate is a WordPress plugin which hides your affiliate links. But, it also does a lot more.

  • Cloaking: The best part of the plugin and very easy to use.  You can easily choose how you want to make your affiliate links look.
  • Grouping Affiliate links: you can put your affiliate links in groups, name them and view click through data in the management screen.
  • Link Redirects: The plugin comes with a redirection system to help protect your links.
  • Link customization: You can easily customize the text that appears on the status bar of the browser when people hover on the link.
  • Keyword management: You can select what keywords you want to transform into affiliate links, and it also allows you to limit the number of keywords per post.

Ninja Affiliate’s web site.

Popularity Contest Plugin

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Popularity Contest is one of my favourite Wordpress plugins because it is so useful. It automatically calculates the number of hits you get on posts, categories etc. and allows you to display them on your front page. Just using this plugin as a tool to better understand how users are using your site is useful, but having the top 10 posts always displayed on your site is good for SEO and allows users to easily get a grasp of what is popular on your site.

Download the plugin

All in one SEO Pack

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The All in one SEO Pack is made to improve your SEO for Wordpress. You insert tags and a description of your post and this plugin helps to get the word out there.