By far the biggest section in this plugin compilation is the one for administrative plugins. That’s probably because they range from backup solutions to statistics tools and WordPress admin fixes, as well as CMS-like functionality.
No Self-Pings (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/): If you’re tired of seeing your own pings ending up on your own posts just because you’re linking internally, then this is a must-have plugin. In fact, it should be in every WordPress install out there in my opinion. If you want to crosslink internally, other than by the actual link in your post or Page, use a related posts plugin.
WP No Category Base (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/): WP Category Base gets rid of the default “category” in permalinks. You can customize it to say other things in the permalinks settings, like ‘topics’ or ‘products’, but you can’t do away with it altogether. This plugin fixes that, making domain.com/category/my-category become domain.com/ my-category instead.
WP-DB-Backup (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/): You can never have too many backup solutions. This one uses the built-in WordPress pseudo-cron to e-mail you backups of the database or stores them on the server for you in case something goes wrong. No matter what other backup solutions you may be running already, I encourage you to add this one as well. Remember, it just backs up the database, and only the default tables and any ones you tell it to. Your uploaded files, plugins and themes will need a different backup solution. Hopefully this plugin will be shipped with WordPress in the future, as I’m sure it would help a lot of people.
Maintenance Mode (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/): A simple plugin that locks down your weblog, displaying a message saying that the site is undergoing maintenance to every visitor except logged-in administrators.
Shockingly Big IE6 Warning (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-bigie6- warning/): Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 is a scourge, and the only reason to run is if your operating system is forcing you to. That would be Windows 2000, among others, but the thing is there’s nothing that stops users on these systems from installing any of the other Web browsers out there, it is just the newer versions of Internet Explorer that don’t work. With this plugin you can educate your visitors to that fact, and make the Web a better place. Also, it will surely mean a better experience of your site for the user as well.
Branded Admin (kerrywebster.com/design/branded-admin-for-wordpress- 27-released): Branded Admin lets you customize the header and footer of the WordPress admin interface to better fit your brand. You may want to use the Branded Login plugin (kerrywebster.com/design/branded-login-screen-for-wordpress-27/) as well for even more customization.
Sidebar Login (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/): If you want a login form in the sidebar (or any other widgetized area) but don’t want to hack the theme, then Sidebar Login is for you, doing just that, with no particular settings or anything. Sometimes it is that simple.
Theme My Login (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/): The Theme My Login plugin replaces the traditional login page (wp-login.php) with a page in your theme instead. In other words, you get the login page integrated and therefore styleable, which can be a good idea if you want to give your users a login. You can also control where they’ll end up after login, and add a login form to any widgetized area. Pretty useful thing, that.
Contact Form 7 (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/): There are numerous contact form plugins out there. One of the better ones is Contact Form 7, which can manage multiple forms and offers customization options. The plugin is also fully localized, so you can get it in your own language, which is always nice. While there are spam protection measures built into this form, it may be good to know that it works perfectly well with the Really Simple
TDO Mini Forms (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/): This is a cool little plugin that lets you build your own forms for submission of content, which then end up in the WordPress database. You can use it to get user reviews or anything, really, and you can choose to trust some users to post directly, while others may have to be approved (which means that the posts they submit will be in draftstatus by default). The forms are highly customizable, and you can even have the users submit custom field values, or submit files. There’s also both simple questions and CAPTCHA as well as IP banning to help fight spammers flooding you with nonsense.
Google Analyticator (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/): Google Analyticator makes it easy to get Google Analytics (google.com/analytics/) running on your weblog without having to hack the theme’s template files. It even offers some stats in the admin interface, which is nice for those of you not addicted to checking the Analytics page ten times a day.
Google Analytics for WordPress (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticsfor- wordpress/): Another plugin for adding Google Analytics to your WordPress site without editing the theme files. Simple enough, with exclusions to make your statistics tracking more accurate.
WordPress.com Stats (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/): If you’re used to the statistics served within the WordPress admin interface on wordpress.com, you’ll love WordPress. com Stats. It’s the same, but for your stand-alone WordPress install. Nice and simple, but not offering as much information as Google Analytics or any of the other “real” Web statistics options out there. Needs a (free) wordpress.com API key to work.
Broken Link Checker (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/): This nifty little tool keeps track of your links. When installed, it will browse through your blogroll, Pages and posts, looking for links that are broken. Then it lets you do stuffwith them. Very handy, but I’m not sure I’d trust it to be running all the time. It does recheck every 72 hours by default, but you can have it check manually as well.
WP e-Commerce (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/): If you want to turn your WordPress site into a Web shop, or perhaps just enhance it to sell some merchandise, then WP e-Commerce will most likely be your first stop. The learning curve is a bit steep, but with some tweaking, both design-wise and settings-wise, you can get it to work the way you like. There is a lot of advanced functionality here, such as cross promotions, categorized products, and more. And if you want more you can always pay for the extensions, although the plugin will stand well enough on its own.
WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart (tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpresssimple- paypal-shopping-cart-plugin-768): A less advanced solution to sell stuff using a WordPress site is to implement the WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart. Naturally, it connects to PayPal (only), and features a shopping cart for easy managing of products for buyers. You can add Add to Cart (or whatever text or image you want) anywhere you want by describing the product details in a shortcode fashion. That means that everything around the product, such as descriptions and images, will need to be managed manually.
The actual shopping cart can be added in a text widget, or anywhere you like really, which makes this plugin really flexible and easy to get working with just about any WordPress-powered site. Too bad it is PayPal only, but if you’re fine with that you really should check this one out.
Redirection (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/): Redirection lets you set up redirects from your weblog, so that domain.com/smashing-company/ does a “301 moved” redirect to smashing-company.com instead, or whatever it is you need to do. Pretty Link (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/): If you want to shorten your URLs for use on Twitter, or just hide your affiliate links (that’s naughty!), then Pretty Link is something to look into. Especially if you intend to roll things on Twitter and have a short domain name, because it even has the option to attach a “Pretty Bar”, in a manner similar to what Digg and others are doing. Pretty Link is your own URL shortener with options, basically.
Pods (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pods/): Pods is a plugin aiming to make WordPress even more of a CMS. The developers call it a CMS framework, and that’s not too far from the truth. You can create content types, data structures, set up relationships and so on. Building a site relying on Pods is sure to give you a lot of freedom. The only problem is it may be a bit daunting to get started with, especially if you’re used to the straightforwardness of WordPress itself. Worth a look if you need WordPress to be more CMS-like, though.
WPlite (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wplite/): To some, even WordPress may feel big and scary, especially if the only thing they need to do is publish a news post every month or so. That’s when WPlite comes in handy, because it lets you hide parts of the admin interface from different kinds of users, hence making WordPress look less of a beast. This can come in handy when doing static sites for companies in particular, so keep it in mind if you’re working with that sort of thing.
WordPress Download Monitor (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/): If you’re interested in how many times a certain file has been downloaded, say a WordPress theme you’ve released or an e-book you’re giving away, then you can monitor it with the WordPress Download Monitor plugin. It offers upload of files (but you don’t need to use that, you can just input the file URL), localization, categories, and easy addition of the downloads to posts and Pages. And statistics of course; that was the important part, after all.
WP-Custom (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-custom/): Custom fields may be great, but they are not the most user-friendly elements one can imagine having to educate clients to use. Or your fellow group bloggers for that matter, which is why WP-Custom is so great. It is basically a custom fields creator, but it outputs boxes that makes sense, no keys or values or anything, just a label and an input field.
Advertising Manager (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/): Advertising Manager helps you with managing your ads, not to mention including them in your posts. The system recognizes and supports several ad networks, including the limitations they bring (the maximum three Adsense ad units per page comes to mind). There are also widgets so that you can place your ads in any widgetized area, which should be enough to get a lot of users to try this one out. It is a bit clunky at first, but honestly, compared to the fully-fledged ad managers out there this one’s a breeze to use!
FeedWordPress (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/): FeedWordPress lets you syndicate feeds into your WordPress database and publish them as posts. At first glance that sounds like the RSS scraper’s dream, which it is of course, but it can also fulfill other purposes. Among other things it can power a “planet” Web site, which exists to pull together relevant content and then expose it to the visitors. The plugin can be used for a lot of things; theoretically you can transform your WordPress install into a lifestreaming monster by sorting posts into appropriate categories and such. Just so you’re clear, scraping other people’s content is bad mojo. Don’t do it; write your own or obtain permission.
Members Only (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members-only/): Members Only restricts viewing to registered users only; everyone else will be asked to login. When logged in you can redirect the user anywhere you like, so this works perfectly well with the P2 theme (wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2) if you need internal collaboration running on WordPress. There is even a setting for private RSS feeds.
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