Wordpress Plugins I Use And Why

I have decided to share with the readers of moneyhomebiz.com what wordpress plugins I currently use and what they do. Here is my current list as of today. Ad Rotator 1.0 Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file By Angsuman Chakraborty. Adsense-Deluxe 0.8 Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. Akismet 2.1.6 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.13 Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Audio player 2.0b5 Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. You can customize the player’s colour scheme to match your blog theme, have it automatically show track information from the encoded ID3 tags and more. AutoMeta 0.8 Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. Brian's Latest Comments 1.5.8 This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. Original idea and code fixes contributed by Michael Heilemann.If you have Dunstan’s Time Since installed, this plugin uses it for the title=”" attributes on the comments and posts. Broken Link Checker 0.4.4 Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. Buy Me a Beer 1.3 Allow your blog visitors to buy you a beer by sending you money through PayPal. Commentluv 1.92 Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Comment Relish 1.0 Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog. Cross-linker 1.3.0 A plug-in which allows you to set-up words which are automatically hyperlinked to desired URLs. Dashboard: Technorati Reactions Extended 1.1 Displays technorati reactions on your WordPress 2.5+ dashboard. del.icio.us widget 1.2 Adds a sidebar widget to display del.icio.us links. Digg This 1.0.2 Adds Digg story link on detection on digg referer. EasyRedirect 0.2 Plugin to easliy redirect to another page with javascript Easy Tube 1.5 Plugin to easliy place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content. EntreDroppers 1.1.2 Outputs Entrecard Droppers. Uses Wordpress functionality to retrieve and to cache. FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1 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. By FeedBurner. Get Recent Comments 2.0.2 Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin. By Krischan Jodies. Gravatar (and userpics) 1.2 This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. See the documentation for syntax and usage. It also shows LiveJournal userpics in comments. HeadMeta 1.3 This plugin allows you to add and tags to the of your posts or pages based on post custom fields. Use keys named “head_meta” and “head_link”. Also, if you have a custom field named “keyword” or “keywords”, it will automatically generate a standard tag, which some search engines will use for indexing. By Dougal Campbell. In Series 3.0.12 Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series. By Travis Snoozy. Kontera ContentLink 1.0 This plugin will add your Kontera JavaScript code to your blog By Kontera. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer 2.2.2 Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin By MaxBlogPress. MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad 1.7.2 A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. By MaxBlogPress. More From Google 0.0.2 Adds related Google search results to your posts By Windy Road. MyAvatars 0.2a This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments. By Andrea Micheloni & Napolux. MyBlogLog Widget 2.0 Adds MyBlogLog widget to your blog. By MyBlogLog Team. NoFollow Free 1.5.6 Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc… Supports multilingual and a Top Commenters sidebar Widget. By Michele Marcucci. Nofollow reciprocity 1.5 Searches for links to large sites using ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on links to those sites (Wikipedia.org, StumbleUpon.com, and similar) By Lazar Kovacevic(based on 2 plugins quoted below). Podcasting 1.64 Adds full podcasting support. By Ronald Heft, Jr.. Popularity Contest 1.3b3 This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. By Alex King. Random Featured Post 1.1.3 Displays featured posts by randomly selecting a post from a designated category. Rate Comments 0.1 A plugin that allows users to rate comments for a given post. By Theron Parlin. Related Posts 2.04 Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne. Search & Replace 2.4.1 A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string. Use in Manage -> Search/Replace. By Mark Cunningham and Frank Bueltge. ShareThis 2.2 Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Show Top Commentators 1.05 Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). By Nate Sanden. SimpleTags 2.0 Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor. By Broobles. Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2 Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith. Text Link Ads 3.1.0 Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use By Text Link Ads. Twitter Tools 1.1b1 A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. UBD Block Ad Plugin 1.01 Let the blog owner add affiliate code to their sidebar. Set your affiliate code here. By Unique Blog Designs. User Photo 0.8.1 Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page; a thumbnail image is also generated. New template tags introduced are: userphoto_the_author_photo, userphoto_the_author_thumbnail, userphoto_comment_author_photo, and userphoto_comment_author_thumbnail. Uploaded images may be moderated by administrators. By Weston Ruter. What Would Seth Godin Do 1.3 Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors. By Richard K Miller. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.1 Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. By Keith Dsouza. WordPress Database Backup 1.7 On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure 1.0 Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages. By Badi Jones. wp-cache 2.1.2 Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada. WP-ContactForm 3.1.8 Originally developed by Ryan Duff, modified and enhanced by Doug Karr. By Douglas Karr. WP-PostRatings 1.31 Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan. WP-Sticky 1.31 Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog. Modified from Adhesive by Owen Winkler. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan. I did not include all the links to these wordpress plugins in this post but if you go to wordpress.org and do a search for the plugin you are interested in you will get the download link. On the other hand just do a Google search. Some links can be found on my older post for best wordpress plugins.