DTWL – Best WordPress Plugins

One among the many other coolest things about WordPress is the support of powerful Plugin API, that let the developers write finest add-ons (GPL Compatible) across the world, to extend the basic functions of our blogs. Most plugins can be used simply by drag ‘n’ drop into your plugins folder and activating them, some requires you to add function codes into your template files with detailed instructions.

As a WordPress user, I too use them here, apart from using, I do regularly write about best new plugins as and when avilable.

On D’ Technology Weblog, I’ve started DTWL - Best WordPress Plugins post to point out a few of favorites. I’ll keep updating this post, if you come across any plugin that’s not listed here, please do write me, I’ll be happy to add ASAP. Till then…..check the list presented here:

Plugin	Description
Addicted To Live Search	Adds live search with ajax to the default search box; Update to WP 2.1 through Christoph Lupprich By John Nunemaker, Christoph Lupprich.
Adsense-Deluxe	Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu. By Acme Technologies.
AJAX Comments	Post comments quickly without leaving or refreshing the page. By Mike Smullin.
Ajaxified Comment Preview	Allow your visitors to preview their comments before submitting. By C.H.Weng.
Akismet	Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put `<?php akismet_counter(); ?>` in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.
AuthImage	Verify the reasonable and stop the spamming comments by using codes in image(simple and no database support) By Sandy Lee.
Category Converter	Move Categories to Other Categories - Go To Plugin By Timothy Haroutunian.
Feedburner Feed Replacement	Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.
Giraffe AJAX Calendar	A ver sion of the WordPress calendar that uses AJAX to allow the user to step through the months without updating the page. Additionally, a click on the ‘expand’ link shows all the posts within that month, inside the calendar. Caching of content can be enabled to increase speed. By John Godley.
Google (XML) Sitemaps	This generator will create a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported By Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.
iG:CoComment	Integrates coComment into your blog, allowing its users to easily track their & others comments. [Plugin Home] [Plugin Feed (RSS2)]. By Amit Gupta.
iG:Syntax Hiliter	Syntax Highlighter for various programming languages, using the GeSHi engine. See the MANUAL for more instructions. [Plugin Home] [Plugin Feed (RSS2)]. By Amit Gupta.
Landing sites	When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines! Plugin is made with help from these scripts: wp-related-entries -snippets - lazaryn By The undersigned.
LMB^Box Comment Quicktags	Inserts a quicktag toolbar in the blog comment form. By Thomas Montague.
LMB^Box Smileys	A Clickable Smilies hack for WordPress. Add, edit, remove, and manage the display of your smileys! By Thomas Montague.
MyBlogLog Widget	Adds MyBlogLog widget to your blog. By MyBlogLog Team.
Pagebar	Adds an advanced page navigation to Wordpress. By Lutz SchrÃ¶er.
Pierre's Wordspew	A plugin that creates a live shoutbox, using AJAX as a backend. Users can chat freely from your blog without refreshing the page! It uses the Fade Anything Technique for extra glamour By Andrew Sutherland, Modified by Pierre.
Post Updated	Display notice/date/time of when a post was last updated. By Kaf Oseo.
Recent Posts	Displays a list of the most recent posts. Instructions and help online. By Rob Marsh, SJ.
Related Posts	Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne.
Share This	Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By Alex King.
Subscribe To Comments	Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on ver sion 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.
the_excerpt Reloaded	This mod of WordPress’ template function the_excerpt() knows there is no spoon. By Kaf Oseo.
Ubernyms	Wraps up the functionality of the Acronym Replacer, AutoLinker, and then some. Can replace anything with anything, and includes (optional) domTT powered tooltips. By Joel Bennett.
Ultimate Tag Warrior	Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis.
Update Manager	Displays update notifications for Wordpress plugins. By Martin Fitzpatrick.
WP-Cats	Ajax-y category controls added to the Manage Posts screen By Mike Purvis.
WP-ContactForm	WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. Script modified by Doug Karr to require a challenge question and response to fight spam. By Ryan Duff.
WP-DBManager	Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. By GaMerZ.
WP-Enhanced Plugin Management	Add some additional functionality to Plugins Manager (e.g. deactivate/activate, toggle, totals) using Javascript and AJA’X’ for server side By Martin Wiso.
WP-PostViews	Enables you to display how many times a post had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily. By GaMerZ.

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Ans says#9 | March 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am

Thanks for the compilation.
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Geeks says#8 | November 27th, 2007 at 9:50 am

Thanks, excellent compilation of Wordpress plugins. I've found many useful plugins from this post.
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DG says#7 | April 29th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Rick, I'm 100% aggreed with you. BB is a very nice Spam tool. And the combination of BB and Aksimet is unbeatble.

I was also using BB along with Akismet here, but BB was slowing down my site, so for the time being, I've disabled BB.

I'll add BB in the plugin list.
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Rick says#6 | April 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am

Bad Behavior is also an excellent spam tool. Nothing is 100%, so between that and Akismet, I rarely get any spam comments.
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DG says#5 | April 23rd, 2007 at 7:20 am

Hi Jonathan,

I'm glad that you liked the post. If you know some plugin, that's not listed there, please do let me know. I'll like to add, as I want to keep the post alive, rather than post and forget mode.
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Jonathan says#4 | April 23rd, 2007 at 4:28 am

Thanks a lot.
This has to be the most useful compilation of "the best WP plug-ins" I've come across. We seem to have similar "taste" in what constitutes a great plugin.
Cheers,
Jonathan