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Best WordPress Blog Plugins – Plug It In, Plug It in
Filed Under (Wordpress and Blogging) by admin on 23-02-2010
Tagged Under : Best Wordpress Blog Plugins, blog plugins, wordpress, wordpress blog plugins
Today I wanted to talk about my favorite WordPress plugins. Lets face it plugins make our life easier, and there a number of them that I simply can not live without. For instance any kind of blog that you are running there is one plugin that is essential to your WordPress blog. It is a spam plugin.
People love to spam; it seems everyone out there is trying to promote something or gain exposure to their products. Do you know what I mean? Maybe you are tired of getting the fifty million “Buy Viagra” comments on your blog. Maybe you used to do it to in hopes of getting some good traffic from it. Chances are it didn’t work and you wasted a lot of you hard earned time. I will be honest with you, when I first started learning affiliate marketing I spammed a lot. Not really knowing what I was doing. I just went to various blogs and wrote I agree or something like that. Wow, did I learn that I wasted my time and A LOT of it. It’s all right though we all make mistakes. Here are the best WordPress blog plugins that I use.
SpamKarma 2
This plugin is awesome, it catches spam comments automatically. Really, I love it. I actually have it installed on this blog. It will show a little script in your footer and actually show how many comments have been caught in the spam filter. It actually states that your blog is protected to…neat! I do wish they would add a little shield or some kind of graphic, but thats just me.
SexyBookmarks
Again, another one that is used on this site. Funny because a lot of the ones I am going to talk about are on this site…lol. This is a pretty cool plugin that makes it easier for people to share your blog post on social bookmarker sites. However, you can list a million of them like I have seen some like sociable, but honestly I think that looks tacky as hell. I try to just stick with the main ones. Again, other people probably argue with me on that.
Digg Digg
This is another one that is similar to SexyBookmarks, however it looks a bit different and actually has the little buttons that view how many people have clicked. Kind of cool for you, because you can actually see what people are clicking on with your blog. I have always been interested in stats because it allows me to track what my viewers are doing….but that is just me.
FD Feedburner Plugin
Well, what can I say about feeds that hasn’t already been said before. Feedburner in my opinion is the cream of the crop. This will basically redirect your feeds to Feedburner where you can than track all kinds of crazy stuff. Also, what I really like about this is you can display how many subscribers you got. Then again, probably not too important to some but for me I love it.
Subscribe To “Double-Opt-In Comments”
Opt-in Button
Yeah I know that is long name for a plug-in. It is a fancy name for a little checkmark at the end of your comment box that allows people to subscribe to your comments by email. I don’t know how many times I have checked that box on other blogs just so I could see how the conversation went. In fact, I didn’t even really know the name of it until recently. I just called it little checky box.
There are millions upon millions of plugins and I am sure I left out or that people commonly use. Like All in one SEO, Better RSS, Google XML Sitemaps, Meta SEO Pack, Quick Adsense, TagALLY, TweetMeme Retweet Button, Twitme.
What other plugins do you find that you are constantly using on a daily basics?
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I was impressed by ‘SexyBookmarks’. I thought the graphic was impressive enough and now I am kind of wishing that I have been using WordPress, instead of bloggers to enjoy all these plugins. I think those who come up with these plugins are genius. Moreover, they attract enough attention to make people read the article. Bravo.
i love wordpress, and i feel that its better than blogger
cause of their services and themes
i have also some wordpress websites
and i want include some wordpress blog plugins
thank you so much for info
sexy bookmarks plugin looks quite awesome. i will use it on my blog.
the remaining plug-ins are also very nice. mainly the spamkarma 2 plugin really sounds good. i think its necessary to have one like that. quite awesome. thanks lol
I am a great fan of wordpress because it is seo and user friendly. For social bookmarking i am already using the ” digg digg ” plugin. Will it be also possible to use it with google buzz? i had not yet tried the “SexyBookmarks” plugin but based on your description it is not better than the ” digg digg ” plugin.
I’m using blogger from quite a long time. But after reading this post I’m so impressed with wordpress. Sexy bookmarks plugin looks quite awesome. They attract enough attention to make people read the article. Thanks for sharing all this information wth us.
HEY i m using blogger from about a year and many blogger advised me that blogger is better than wordpress but seeing these kind of widgets and applications for wordpress , i m looking forward to go for the wordpress
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HEY i m using blogger from about a year and many blogger advised me that blogger is better than wordpress but seeing these kind of widgets and applications for wordpress , i m looking forward to go for the wordpress and hope that the owner of this site keep updating about the new widgets and applications of wordpress.
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I am a great fan of wordpress because it is seo and user friendly. For social bookmarking i am already using the ” digg digg ” plugin. Will it be also possible to use it with google buzz? i had not yet tried the “SexyBookmarks” plugin but based on your description it is not better than the ” digg digg ” plugin.
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I like very much wordpress blog, and i feel that its most better than blogger. Cause of their services and themes, i have also some wordpress websites
and i want include some wordpress blog plugins. Thank’s you.
thanks for the list man ..i love sexy bookmarks and digg digg plugin…:)
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Blogger is alright, but I really do prefer WordPress to it. However, there are some other blogging platforms I have been meaning to play with.
Thanks for your kind words.
One of the must have plugin are those one about making backup of our database, when we are using free hosting for our blogs.
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I really love the Sexy bookmarks plugin! I also recommend it to everyone..
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I truly apreciate your blog !
the artic:es are always great !
But it is little harder to find free plug-ins that are not in the WordPress Plug-ins Directory. If you search on a Google for “free WordPress plug-ins” and the result would be top 50 matches point directly to the WordPress Plug-ins Directory, or to developers already in the Plug-ins Directory. So where else to find the desirable plug-ins? The answer you can find n my blog…