WordPress Plugins I Use

This is the list of all plugins I use, automatically generated so it’s up-to-date at any moment.

Most of these plugins complement very well with my Amazing Grace theme. Others I use to enhance administration capabilities of WordPress.

I want to thank all these plugin authors for contributing great plugins to WordPress community.

Active Plugins

  Add Meta Tags
» George Notaras (url)
Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives. This operation is automatic, but the generated META tags can be fully customized. Also, the inclusion of other META tags, which do not need any computation, is possible. Please read the tips and all other info provided at the configuration panel.

  Advanced Excerpt
» Bas van Doren (url)
Several improvements over WP’s default excerpt. The size of the excerpt can be limited using character or word count, and HTML markup is not removed.

  Akismet
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  AskApache Google 404
» AskApache (url)
Adds Intelligent SEO Ajax-powered Google Search to 404 pages. Options configuration panel

  Contact Coldform
» Perishable @ Monzilla Media (url)
Contact Coldform is a remixed plug-n-play contact form for WordPress 2+.

  Download Counter
» Andy Staines (url)
Keeps track of the number of times a download link is clicked

  Enforce www. Preference
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.

  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.

  Google Analyticator
» Ronald Heft, Jr. (url)
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

  Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

  Hrw Recent Comments widget
» Marcin 'Hrw' Juszkiewicz (url)
Other version of Recent Commands widget - without blog pingbacks.

  Insights
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insights allows you to quickly access and insert information (links, images, videos, maps..) into your blog posts.

  InstantUpgrade
» Alex Günsche (url)
Upgrade your WordPress installation with one simple click via the InstantUpgrade panel. Attention: This is a BETA release; if you don’t know what that means, you shouldn’t be using this software.

  Most Commented Posts Widget
» Azmeen Afandi (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display your most commented posts. Licensed under GPL v3.

  NextGEN Gallery
» NextGEN DEV-Team (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery

  Plugin Central
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Wordpress 2.5+ only. Automatically installs and updates WordPress plugins.

  Post-Plugin Library
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.

  Random Redirect
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL `random_post_type` or `random_cat_id`.

  Redirection
» John Godley (url)
A redirection manager

  SEO Friendly Images
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

  Show Me Options
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Allows you to quckly access plugin options upon activation.

  Similar Posts
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. Don’t be disturbed if it takes a few moments to complete the installation — the plugin is indexing your posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

  Simple:Press Forum
» Andy Staines & Steve Klasen (url)
Fully featured but simple page-based forum

  Smart Update Pinger
» Christian Davén (url)
Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new posts, not when editing.

  Smart Youtube
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Easily insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds.

  Snazzy Archives
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Express yourself and your blog through a unique representation of your posts.

  Subscribe To Comments
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

  TailHitter
» miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG (url)
Adds the HitTail Code to every WordPress Post/Page

  Theme Test Drive
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

  Thumbnail Viewer
» Tyler Longren (url)
Thumbnail Viewer is a simple plugin for showing larger images of your thumbnails. It’s very similar to Lightbox, only much smaller. Add the rel=”thumbnail” attribute to any link tag to activate the thumbnail viewer. It’s based the wp-lightbox plugin and on the Image Thumbnail Viewer from Dynamic Drive.

  WordPress Exploit Scanner
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Scans your WordPress site for possible exploits

  WP-DBManager
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

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

  WP-Polls
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

  WP-Polls Widget
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a Poll Widget to display single or multiple polls from WP-Polls Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Polls first.

  WP-SpamFree
» Scott Allen, aka WebGeek (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

  WP Digg This
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Selectively adds Digg button to your posts. Use ‘digg’ = ‘1′ custom field in the post to promote.

  WP Figlet
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
WP Figlet allows you to draw ASCII art in your posts and page source.

  WP Paged Comments
» 偶爱偶家 (url)
Breaks down comments into a number of pages

  WP Page Numbers
» Jens Törnell (url)
Show pages numbers instead of “Next page” and “Previous Page”.

  WP Super Cache
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once activated, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada.

  WP Wall
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page)