Wordpress Plugins 
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| I have found widget logic to be invaluable. If you have a lot of widgets, but don't want each one to show on every page, WL lets you pick which pages a widget shows on. I use it to show blog related widgets only on the blog page, and not on other pages. Tip Credibility: 37 (Best Tip!) |
| Wordpress.com Stats - another plugin which requires the wordpress.com API key. This provides a good alternate view of important stats for your blog, with facility to include ALL your WP blogs under the one stats dashboard. Well worth installing! Tip Credibility: 23 |
| Akismet comes standard with all new WP instals... so make sure you get your wordpress.com API key and activate this essential plugin! You will save yourself from administering a nightmare of spam posts if Akismet is running! Tip Credibility: 21 |
| If you set up your WP site with default permalink structure, then later realise the error of your ways & change to custom %postname% structure, you'll LOSE existing links if you do NOT have Permalinks Moved Permanently plugin installed Tip Credibility: 21 |
| Smart Links is great for automatically creating internal links or linking out to other sites. Saves a bundle of time! Tip Credibility: 11 |
| Ever tried testing every link on your blog, one by one? Tedious, no? Enter the WP plugin, Broken Link Checker: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/. It scans your site for broken links, and lists them, for you to replace or delete. Tip Credibility: 9 |
| The All in One SEO Pack optimizes your Wordpress blog for search engine. A very useful plugin to have. Tip Credibility: 9 |
| Wp Plugin Insights - With Insights you can very quickly (in couple of seconds) do the following,Insert Flickr Images,Insert Youtube videos,Search and link to Wikipedia,Search Google,Search News,Insert a Google Map Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. http://eca.sh/wptestimonials Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Contextual Partnership - This free plugin will help your blog get the ever important backlinks. Search for contextual partnership in Google and you will find it. It takes a while to start seeing links but it works great once it is seasoned a bit. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Redirection will automatically create a redirect when you change the URL of any page or post on your site so you won't lose traffic or search engine placement. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Wordpress Pages Plugins page-link-to is a great wordpress plugin to create links to external page(or other specific links within) in the pages menu bar. Pagemash is a plugin that allows you to reorder or hide pages on wordress blogs Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Wpads (thesandbox.wordpress.com/wpads/) is a wordpress plugin to enable rotating ads (or other code). To enable it to work in sidebars, it'll be necessary to also use the exec-php wordpress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/) Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Here is a nice new Addition to the JWR Media Wordpress Plugin section.An easy to install and use plugin that allows you to easily manage links in your WordPress site. jwr-media.com/www/plugins/link-manager.html Tip Credibility: 4 |
| WP-Textarea is a very simple plugin used to set the default textarea height to your liking when writing posts or pages in your Wordpress blog.WP-Textarea has been tested is stable on Wordpress versions 1.5-2.7.
jwr-media.com/www/plugins/wp-textarea.html Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Ever change or want to change the favicon image (image in browser bar) of WP themes you're using? This one worked on a theme I'm using (may not work on every theme)
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/favicon-generator/ Tip Credibility: 4 |
| The default username on wp blogs is admin. Changing it manually is a laborious process. The
change-admin-username wordpress plugin does it for you. Worked on every blog I've tried it on!
w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/24/change-admin-username-in-wordpress/ Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Have you ever scoured the internet to find relevant images for your blogs (that you are allowed to use)? It is quite a challenge. Enter the Zemanta WP plugin! It makes it fast & easy: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zemanta/ Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Tag clouds are ugly and messy. Enter Wp-cumulus. It turns tag clouds into a visually-pleasing click-inspiring 3Danimated cloud: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/ Tip Credibility: 4 |
| I love wp=cumulus - it moves and rolls and focuses so well. It really gives your blog a modern look. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| VodPod Lets you post videos from any site that supports EMBEDs to the sidebar of your blog. Also allows you to put a horizontal video widget on your page, as well as a full video gallery. Tip Credibility: 4 |
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