WordPress is an easy to use Web framework. Free websites or blogs can be setup at WordPress.org and all information on how to do so, is found there. WordPress can also be highly customised with a little technical knowledge, some html or php experience, and these plugins assist greatly.
To install a plugin you generally just need to upload the plugin file into your /wp-content/plugins directory. If something goes wrong with a plugin and you can’t use WordPress, delete or rename that file in the /wp-content/plugins directory and it will be automatically deactivated. Before you install any of these plugins, it is a must to backup your wordpress database, and in some cases files too. See Backup articles.
WordPress Plugins that have been tested good and recommended by G Network (comment added) – Best of all, FREE and will work on latest version of WordPress 2.6.2. Enjoy!
Thanks to the following code heroes:
Plugin | Description |
|---|---|
| Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button | Helps readers share, save, and bookmark your posts and pages using any service. By Add to Any. |
| Add to Any: Subscribe Button | Lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader. ByAdd to Any. |
| All in One SEO Pack | Out-of-the-box
SEO for your WordPress blog. By Michael
Torbert.
Comment by G Network: Great plugin for maximising SEO, to get your site up on the search engines. |
| Broken Link Checker | Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. By Janis Elsts. |
| Categorical Links Page | Output links seperated by categories onto a static page (Based on Links Page (http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks) by Owen Winkler.) Thanks to Kafkaesqui from wordpress.org for the changes to make this compatible with WP2.3! By Jeremy Albrecht. |
| Category LiveBookmarks Plus | CLB
seamlessly generates a customizable set of contextually relevant
“autodiscovery” category feed links. Automatically creates a
user-specified set of category feed links in the document head, as well
as an optional set of category feed links that may be called from
anywhere within the document body. By Perishable
@ Monzilla Media [monzilla.biz].
Comment by G Network: Brilliant for navigation and providing category feed links. |
| Clean Archives Reloaded | A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+. By Viper007Bond. |
| Clean Options | finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table ByMittineague. |
| CyStat | Statistik-Plugin By Michael Weingärtner. |
| Dagon Design Form Mailer | The WordPress plugin version of my secure php form mailer script By Dagon Design. |
| Dagon Design Sitemap Generator | Generates a fully customizable sitemap By Dagon Design. |
| Daiko's Text Widget | Works
basically like the Text widget, but it will also take PHP code and
includes conditional tags to specify where to show. An extension of the
Execphp widget by Otto at http://ottodestruct.com. By Rune
Fjellheim.
Comment by G Network: My most used widget, allows for php or html code to be inserted, so you can run scripts. Accepts conditional tags to display exactly where you want. |
| Evermore | Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. This makes all posts behave as if there is a “<!–more–>” at an appropriate spot inside the content. By Bennett McElwee. |
| Flexi Pages Widget | A highly configurable WordPress sidebar widget to list pages and sub-pages. User friendly widget control comes with various options. By Srini G. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. By Arne Brachhold. |
| Less | Change the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”. ByBennett McElwee. |
| Lighter Menus | Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the WordPress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible. By corpodibacco. |
| Other Posts From Cat | At the bottom of every post, links are shown for the last X posts from the current category. ByDagon Design. |
| Redirection | A redirection manager By John Godley. |
| Ryans Suckerfish WordPress Dropdown Menu | A WordPress plugin which adds a Suckerfish dropdown menu to your WordPress blog. Visit the Suckerfish WordPress Plugin page for instructions on how to add a dropdown menu to your theme or for help with this plugin. By Ryan Hellyer. |
| Safe Include | A
plugin that makes it easy to include static files into your
posts By Jack
Born.
Comment by G Network: The most useful plugin ever created! Allows the inclusion of code, html, php, etc into any page, post or template. Effectively a universal plugin! In a page, use {{file_name}} In a template code is <?php quickSafeInclude('file_name.php'); ?> |
| Samsarin PHP Widget | A text widget with support for including PHP. By Chris Pettitt. |
| Search Everything | Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content. By Dan Cameron. |
| Simple Tags | Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags ! By Amaury BALMER. |
| Top Level Categories | Removes
the prefix from the URL for a category. For instance, if your old
category link was/category/catname it
will now be /catname By Filipe
Fortes. |
| WP-PageNavi | Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan. |
| WP-RSSImport | List
a RSS-Feed in your WP-Blog, only headlines or with
description. By Frank
Bueltge.
Comment by G Network: Wow! An RSS plugin that actually works. This tool will import RSS feeds and display them anywhere on your site. |
| WP Super Cache | Very fast caching module for WordPress. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada. By Donncha O Caoimh. |
Just wanted to let you know that I’ve moved the Categorical Links Page plugin to a new home at http://c0dedbad.com. Thanks! (BTW, you can check the old home, http://alucinari.net/wordpress for verification!)
Good piece.
Excellent selection. Current and today! Especially WP Super Cache and pagenavi mandatory for a blog or site on WordPress.