Plugins
Useful WordPress Plugins
Plugins are addon tools that extend the functionality of WordPress. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their blog or website to their specific needs.
For instructions and information on downloading, installing, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing your WordPress Plugins click here.
Here is a partial list of WordPress plugins we recommend and use regularly in most of our blogs and websites:
Akismet: A collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging.
All-In-One SEO Pack: Optimizes your Wordpress blog for search engines.
Audio Player: Highly configurable single track mp3 player.
Feedburner Feedsmith: This plug-in will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Google XML Sitemap Generator: This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your blog.
Google Analyticator: This plugin adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on your WordPress blog. Requires Google Analytics account.
Maintenance Mode: This plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance.
Reveal Admin ID’s: Reveal most removed entry IDs on admin pages for pages, posts, and categories.
Search Everything: Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content.
Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form: This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind.
Sitemap Generator: This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. Setup to work in conjunction with the Google sitemap generator.
WP Database Manager: Allows you to optimize, repair, backup, restore, delete, and backup database. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WordPress Video Plug-In: A filter for WordPress that allows easy video embedding of supported sites.
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