Comments on: Favourite Wordpress plugins?

Question: Favourite Wordpress plugins?

furtive — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:33:23 -0800

What are your favourite Wordpress plugins?

I'm overwhelmed by the selection of plugins available. Which ones would you unabashedly recommend?

By: S.C.

S.C. — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:05:25 -0800

Markdown.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:09:47 -0800

I'm a minimalist in all aspects, so I try to keep as few plugins on my site as possible. Some I use to get the site to work the way I want it, and some are just for fun. These are the ones I have:

exec-php — allows you to run php in posts and Pages, which I use for link lists on Pages instead of in the sidebar

sideblog — allows a second mini blog with posts from a certain category

random words — you create a list of random words, comments, whatever, and then insert the list wherever you want in your template. I use this for a random tagline

Custom query string — allows you to set how many posts appear on the front page for a variety of queries. For example, you can display 10 posts on the first page for one category and 1 post on the first page for another

search pages — extends the search function so it searched text in the Pages as well as posts

Akismet — spam catcher

I also have adhesive (which allows you to mark a post so it is always the first on the page) and wordpress database backup, both of which I leave deactivated until I actually need them

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:39:32 -0800

Spam Karma!

By: maxpower

maxpower — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:28:14 -0800

Mine:
WP-Addquicktag - Adds simple quicktag functionality for anything, I use it for custom CSS classes
WP-Cache - saves on server load by serving up static pages
Ultimate Tag Warrior - Great name, also does tags
WP-ContactForm - Add a simple contact form to your site
Sociable - Adds a series of icons to facilitate easy social bookmarking [shameless self link]

That should get you started. Favourite plugins vary depending on the nature of your site, traffic, and bandwidth.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:36:34 -0800

A rather minimal list for me...

speed: wp-cache
antispam: akismet (replaced SK2 for me)
db mangling: WP-DBManager
meta: My Tags
SEO: Google Sitemaps Generator
HTML: WP-Unformatted
other: Execution of All Things

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:49:01 -0800

I think with the latest release of WP (v 2.0.1) WP-cache and Akismet are included with the stock install. So is WP database backup

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:33:04 -0800

ChenPress is some good stuff.

By: blag

blag — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:10:20 -0800

Wordpress Flash Audio Player plugin

By: chuma

chuma — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:35:50 -0800

LiveCalendar.

And I second the vote for Markdown .

By: maxpower

maxpower — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:42:10 -0800

The latest version of wordpress only uses a bit of caching, WP-cache is still needed.

By: easternblot

easternblot — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:55:42 -0800

I have miniblog to make small entries in the sidebar that don't need their own big post. It was something I was actually looking for at the time, and this plugin did exactly what I wanted.

By: soplerfo

soplerfo — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:00:57 -0800

I highly recommend Enclosure Flex if you're interested in podcasting/video-podcasting

By: XiBe

XiBe — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:09:41 -0800

Spam Karma!

And for curiosity, wp-shortstat.