WordPress is getting more and more popular, which means the top bloggers need to stay ahead of the game by using the correct plugins to control their content. Yesterday, SmashingApps.com released a fantastic list of plugins, which every blogger should be using, but probably isn’t. I’ve finally got the chance to list the plugins myself, so without waiting any further, here’s the list:
Flash Photo Carousel – This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard.
Plugin Manager – Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Manageable – A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.
DivvaFlip -With DivvaFlip WordPress Plugins, you can now use your nextgen ready galleries or the new embedded media management on WordPress.
Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
WP Easy Uploader – WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.
AddFreeStats – AddfreeStats.com provides to Webmasters, free website statistics on their web site visitors.
Insert easily AddFreeStats tracker on your blog with this plugin.
Featplug – Featplug is a WordPress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. It can also run as a standalone script or even integerate into any other Blog/CMS/Forum software.
WP Super Cache – WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
Notifixious – This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
20 Top Blog Summission Directories – A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.
Interactive Video – Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
I Love Social Bookmarking – There are other social media plugins that do a similar job. ILSB is trying to keep things as simple as possible for both you and your readers, to run with minimal system resources, and to look good whilst she’s at it.
[via: SmashingApps]
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I think Manageable looks interesting; would be even better if you could use it on the front-end (browsing your blog) too. I’ll see if I can implement that.
Sure thing Richard, it was my pleasure. Manageable is a great plugin, one which I’ve been using for quite some time already!
Whoa awesome list; thank you. Some I was aware of but the IM notification plugin and the ajax updater are great finds.
It’s my pleasure. That Ajax Editor thing is wicked, I installed it before this article came out, so I can vouch for it!
Chris, i have been wanting to migrate to WordPress, but dont know where to start? it seems so complicated? any tips
Migrating from BlogSpot, from what I understand is not the easiest transission. Have you got experience with MySQL?
WordPress has a native Blogger import function. Just go Manage -> Import, select Blogger from the list, and follow the prompts.
Apprently not that simple Wogan. A friend of mine tested it out a few times and upon importing into WordPress, it was duplicating posts in a big way..
No i dont have exp. with MySQL and I surely dont wanna lose out on all my blogposts when going over to WordPress.
Do I also have to pay for hosting with wordpress?
WordPress.com will allow you to run a WordPress blog and they will handle the hosting for you. I’m not too sure about the porting of posts from your current blog to a WordPress.com hosted blog though..
mm, I wonder if its worth it. Is it easy to start a wordpress blog, im asking cause they said I have to download wordpress, which i did, and it just looked like alot of folders of code to me, i dont know if im missing a big easy 1,2,3 step here.
If you’re not hosting it yourself, then you’ll have to use the WordPress.com system and not the downloaded version from WordPress.org
WordPress isn’t too tricky, but it will take you some time to get used to, in my opinion, but once you’ve grapsed it, you’ll love it.
WordPress.com and take a read :)
Shot alot