My Favourite Plug-ins

Content Management

 

 

Name Author URL Description
CMS Page Tree View Par Thernstrom http://eskapism.se/code-playground/cms-tree-page-view/ Adds a CMS-like tree view of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS. Use the tree you to edit, view, add pages and search pages (very useful if you have many pages). And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages. Page management won’t get any easier than this!
Exclude Pages From Navigation Simon Wheatley http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress/ Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.
Google XML Sitemaps Arne Brachold http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ 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.
Identify External Links Mark Jaquith http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/identify-external-links/ Searches the text for links outside of the domain of the blog. To these, it adds class=”extlink” (and optionally, target=”_blank”).
Link Library Yannick Lefebvre http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-library/ Display links on pages with a variety of options
My Link Order Andrew Charlton http://www.geekyweekly.com/mylinkorder My Link Order allows you to set the order in which links and link categories will appear in the sidebar. Uses a drag and drop interface for ordering. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes.
Quick Cache PriMoThemes.com http://www.primothemes.com/post/quick-cache-plugin-for-wordpress/ Dramatically improves the performance & speed of your site! Also compatible with WordPress® Multisite/Networking.
Quick Page/Post Redirect Don Fischer http://fischercreativemedia.com/wordpress-plugins/quick-pagepost-redirct-plugin/ Redirect Pages or Posts to another page or post or external location quickly. Adds a redirect box to the page or post edit page where you can specify the redirect Location and type which can be to another WordPress page/post or an external URL. Additional 301 Redirects can also be added for non-existant posts or pages – helpful for sites converted to WordPress. Allows for redirects to open in a new window as well as giving you the ability to add the rel=nofollow to redirected links.
SEO Ultimate SEO Design Solutions http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/ This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.
WordPress.com Stats Andy Skelton http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

Security

 

 

Name Author URL Description
Block Bad Queries Perishable Press http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/12/22/protect-wordpress-against-malicious-url-requests/ Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests
Secure WordPress jremillard http://www.sitesecuritymonitor.com/secure-wordpress-plugin Basic security checks for securing your WordPress installation
Simple Mail Address Encoder Bannerweb GmbH http://www.bannerweb.ch/unsere-leistungen/wordpress-dev/simple-mail-address-encoder/ Automatically encodes every e-mail address on posts, pages and sidebar widgets to prevent spam. Simply decodes any previously encoded e-mail address by just clicking the mail link.
WP-MalWatch OrangeCast http://how-to-blog.tv/security/wp-malwatch/ Scan your WordPress system nightly and on demand with this quick and easy WordPress malware detector.

Content Enhancement

 

 

Name Author URL Description
Disqus Comment System Disqus http://disqus.com/ The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System.
FD Feedburner Plugin John Watson http://flagrantdisregard.com/feedburner/ Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
Footnotes for WordPress Charles Johnson http://projects.radgeek.com/wp-footnotes/ easy-to-use fancy footnotes for WordPress posts
Simple Tags Amaury Balmer http://redmine.beapi.fr/projects/show/simple-tags Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.1 : Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Auto-tags, Autocompletion, Related Posts etc. NOW Compatible custom post type and custom taxonomy !
WPtouch BraveNewCode Inc. http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.
Zemanta Zemanta Ltd. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zemanta/ Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient.

Media

 

 

Name Author URL Description
NextGEN Gallery Alex Rabe http://alexrabe.de/?page_id=80 A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.
WPaudio Todd Iceton http://wpaudio.com/ Play mp3s and podcasts in your posts by converting links and tags into a simple, customizable audio player.

Widgets

 

 

Name Author URL Description
Enhanced Meta Widget NeuroDawg http://neurodawg.wordpress.com/enhanced-meta-widget/ Replaces the meta sidebar included with WordPress, and displays various links based upon user roles.
WenderHost Subpages widget Michael Wender http://www.wenderhost.com/tools/wordpress-plugins/wenderhost-subpages-widget/ Adds a subpages menu to your sidebar if subpages are present.