WP Plugin List

Often, I come across other blogs/websites built using WordPress. On a few occasions, I’ve seen a really cool or unique feature on their site which I want to have on mine. More often than not, the plugin is something freely and publicly available. Unfortunately, you really have to know where to look, as well as what to look for, in order to get the plugin. To me, that’s a hassle; there’s been a few cases in which I had no idea what the plugin was called, what I should search for, or even where to look.

In order to solve this dilemma, I propose that all WordPress users create a new page, like I have done, listing the plugins used on the site. Obviously, some plugins won’t ever be seen by the end user, but that’s no reason not to list them. Not only does listing the plugins you use help other WordPress users, it also is a way of thanking the authors of the plugins.

If you are also a WordPress user and wish to follow my example, please create a new page with the slug: wordpress-plugin-list. By standardizing the file name, it’ll make it easier to find other users plugin lists. I’ve found the easiest way to make the list is to open up two tabs (if you use Firefox or any other tabbed browser – two windows should work for IE or other tab-less browsers) – in one tab, I have this page. In the other tab, I have my plugin list. With the visual rich editor enabled, I can simply copy the plugin name and paste it into the page. The link comes with it.

If you decide to make your own plugin list, please trackback to me once you’ve done it. As of this writing, one issue that exists in WordPress is that “Pages” do not have a trackback ping field. However, I have created a plugin which will allow trackbacks on “Pages.” Please get Wordpress Trackback for Pages Plugin to enable this function.

I think I’ve done enough blabbering about my opinions on this matter for now, so I present to you the list of WordPress plugins I use:

Active Plugins

  Adsense-Deluxe
» Acme Technologies (url)
Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu.

  Advertising Manager
» Scott Switzer (url)
Control and arrange your Advertising and Referral blocks on your Wordpress blog. With Widget and inline post support, integration with all major ad networks.

  Amazon Reloaded for WordPress
» Nick Ohrn of Plugin-Developer.com (url)
Quickly and easily insert links to and images of products from Amazon.com using this plugin’s intuitive search capabilities.

  AutoMeta
» Rich Boakes (url)
Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post.

  Batch Categories
» Stephanie Booth (url)
Click on the plugin URI link to load the admin screen.

  Crossroads
» Duane Storey (url)
Integrates flickr functionality into wordpress content

  Deactivate Visual Editor
» J. Matt Fields (url)
Deactivates the visual editor for specific pages or posts.

  Digg This
» Aviran Mordo (url)
Adds Digg story link on detection on digg referer

  Downloads
» Rob Miller (url)
Provides an easy way to display download links in your posts.

  Embedded Tag Thing
» Christine From The Internet (url)
Tag Embedding for Wordpress, with [tag][/tag] and [tags][/tags] Syntax

  Exec-PHP
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

  FeedBurner FeedSmith
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

  Feed List
» Bill Rawlinson (url)
Displays any ATOM or RSS feed in your blog.

  Filosofo Enroll Comments
» Austin Matzko (url)
Filosofo Enroll Comments lets users sign up to receive emails when new comments appear.

  GetWeather
» Jeff Minard (url)
Shows current weather conditions by querying the weather.com website.

  Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  HS Tag Cloud
» Henrik Sachse (url)
This is a really simple WP plugin to display a tag cloud in your content. It uses the WP builtin function ‘wp_tag_cloud()’. All functionality of ‘wp_tag_cloud()’ is supported. Have a look at the plugin page for details.

  Hyper Cache
» Satollo (url)
Hyper Cache is a cache system for WordPress to improve it’s perfomances and save resources. Before update read the version changes. To manually upgrade remeber the sequence: deactivate, update, activate.

  ImageManager
» Per Soderlind (url)
PHP ImageManager + Editor for WordPress. It will not be enabled until you have configured it via the Options >> ImageManager menu. *** Requires Wordpress 2.0 *** Licensed under the MIT License.

  Inline Tag Thing
» Christine From The Internet (url)
A thing for editing tags inline, using AJAX magic.

  Lightbox 2
» Rupert Morris (url)
Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

  My Page Order
» Andrew Charlton (url)
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.

  No Ping Wait
» Robert Deaton (url)
Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php

  Now Reading
» Rob Miller (url)
Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon.

  OpenID
» DiSo Development Team (url)
Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs.

  Plugin Update Notification
» Dan Coulter (url)
Receive a daily email if you have any plugins that require updating.

  Register Plus
» Skullbit (url)
WordPress 2.5+ ONLY. Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more.

  Scrobbler
» Florian Kriener (url)
Displays AudioScrobbler / Last.fm webservice information (e.g. recently played tracks), on your blog using AJAXrefreshing(tm)

  Secure WordPress
» jremillard (url)
Little basics for secure your WordPress-installation.

  Simple Cache
» Jeff Minard (url)
Simple set of caching functions. Useful for plugin authors to build off of.

  Simple Tags
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!

  Spam Karma 2
» dr Dave (url)
Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress. Activate the plugin and go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure. See Spam Karma 2 >> About for details.

  Tidy Up
» John Godley (url)
Runs an HTML Tidy on all posts and comments. See Manage screen for usage.

  Twitter Tools
» Alex King (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

  Ultimate Google Analytics
» Wilfred van der Deijl (url)
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site. Check http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/#versions for version updates

  Vimeo Quicktags
» Denzel Chia (url)
insert vimeo quicktag with full embed options as provided by vimeo

  Viper's Plugins Used
» Viper007Bond (url)
Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output.

  WordPress Database Backup
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

  WordPress Reports
» Joe Tan (url)
Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data

  WP-Amazon
» Rich Manalang (url)
WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries.

  WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-PostViews
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.

  WP Dash Note
» Kirk Montgomery (url)
Write a note to yourself and view your drafts, all from within the dashboard.

  WP Image Tracker
» Zachary Armstrong (url)
Allow users to get an image for their websites, such as myspace and livejournal profiles. You can then track views and clicks of the buttons/banners.

  WP Trackback for Pages
» Zachary Armstrong (url)
Allow users to do Trackbacks on Pages

  XRDS-Simple
» DiSo Development Team (url)
Provides framework for other plugins to advertise services via XRDS.

  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

My current theme as of this writing is Pool by Borja Fernandez

I hope that this listing has helped and inspired some of you to try some of the plugins I’ve listed. Please leave any feedback about this article below.