Below is a list of WordPress plugins that I use or have used in the past that I would like to remember. I originally had this running list on my computer, but I figured that maybe some other people could benefit from it as well. Some of these plugins I use over and over, others I have only used once and don’t want to forget about in the future.
Akismet – This plugin comes preinstalled with an installation of WordPress and is very good at keeping out spam. It will save you tons of time and headaches because it will keep your inbox from getting clogged up with spam comments. Depending on the nature of your website, you may have to pay for a license, but it is absolutely worth it.
Block IE6 – Another self-explanatory plugin, Block IE6 does its job by blocking IE6 browsers from accessing the website.
Contact Form 7 – Contact Form 7 is a contact form that you can easily add to any page on your site. It makes it easy to customize and, if you are familiar with CSS, easy to style.
Downloads Manager – A plugin that helps keep stats on downloadable content on your website.
Events Manager Extended – A great plugin for managing events. It allows the administrator to create events, which can be displayed in a calendar or in a list. The events can include registration forms, the option for embedding Google Maps, and the ability to include a different contact person depending on the event.
Subscribe to Comments – The name of this plugin says it all. It allows commenters on your blog to receive emails when comments on an article they are interested in are added.
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved – A plugin used for displaying raw code in a blog post. Very useful for developers/coders that need to display code without WordPress rendering it.
TinyMCE Advanced – This plugin adds additional features to the WordPress editor to give it more functionality.
Widget Logic - A plugin used for displaying different widgets on different pages within the same sidebar.
WordPress Thread Comment - This is a simple plugin that allows nested comments so that users have the ability to comment on other comments.
WP-Page-Navi – This plugin is essential to any WordPress blog in my opinion. It creates a more user friendly way for users to cycle through posts on your website.
As I said above, this is a running list which I will be adding to constantly for my benefit and hopefully yours!
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How funny; there’s only 3 plugins on your list I use, Akismet, WP Threaded Comments & Subscribe to Comments.
First, why block IE6? Second, I tried TinyMCE once and my blog freaked, though it was still on PHP 4 at the time so that might have had something to do with it.
Can I add a couple? One would be No Self Pings, which sometimes happens when you link back to a post you wrote. The other is CommentLuv, which will show other bloggers posts from their blog, and thus encourages people to comment on your blog.
Can’t wait to see what else you come up with.
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Mitch,
I’ll have to keep No Self Pings in mind for the future. I do like CommentLuv on your blog. It’ll have to go on the list for future improvements to my blog.
Yeah, TinyMCE can be kinda clunky at times, but for the occasions that you need to add features to the editor it can be pretty useful.
Haha, as far as IE6, that’s a whole separate blog post right there…
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There are some plugins here that I’m not familiar like TinyMCE and Block IE6. Perhaps I should check if they would be of benefit on my blog.
By the way, newer version of WordPress has already a built-in threaded comment, I think there’s no need to install one.
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Hi Walter,
Thanks for the heads up on the threaded comments, I guess I never noticed it when they upgraded WP. I bet that as WordPress grows they will start including more and more commonly used plugins!
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Hi Keith,
Lists of great plugins, especially for Akismet, you should try to combine it with growmap plugin, they do work wonder to have 0 spams
I used threaded comment as well, but then i removed the plugin and change the comment template myself.
I would not use syntax highlighter though, it just slows down our sites, i prefer stylizing the code css style.
Thanks for sharing your plugin lists, i haven’t known about blocking ie6 LOL
Cheers.
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Hi Kimi,
I’ll have to give growmap a whirl. Akismet is great for filtering out 90% of spam, but it does miss some once in awhile.
It seems like I have tried all of the syntax highlighter plugins, and “Syntax Highlighter Evolved” (while still kind of buggy) was the one that gave me the least amount of problems. Maybe stylizing the code by hand is the way to go. It would be cleaner and easier to work with, however I do like how it changes color based on syntax.