WordPress Plugins I’m Currently Using

Everton | Mar 06, 2007 | Comments


It’s been a while since I posted the plugins that I use on this site. I’ve added a few more this week including the dofollow plugin and the top commentators plugin you can see in my sidebar. If you are using any plugins that you think I should give a try, or are good replacements for the ones I’m using, then please let me know in a comment.

Below are the great WordPress plugins that I currently use on this site – all 33 of them:

  1. Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter v1.0 by Angsuman Chakraborty: hopefully discourages content thieves
  2. Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer v1.2 by Angsuman Chakraborty: Great tool for reducing referral spam
  3. Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro v4.0.1 by Angsuman Chakraborty: starting to come into it’s own by sending non-english traffic
  4. Brian’s Latest Comments v1.5.8 by Brian Meidell
  5. Comment Quicktags v1.9 by Owen Winkler
  6. Dean’s Permalinks Migration v1.0 by Dean Lee: Allowed me to make my urls more user-friendly
  7. Digg This v1.0.2 by Aviran Mordo
  8. Dofollow v2.0 by Denis de Bernardy
  9. Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18 by Arnaud Froment: Used to generate my cool but functional archives page
  10. Feedburner Feed Replacement v2.2 by Steve Smith: Vital plugin for feedburner users
  11. Fold Category List v1.12 by Rob Schumann: I hate long and useless Category lists. I can’t understand why so many blogs do this
  12. Full Text Feed v1.03 by Ronald Heft, Jr.: Vital plugin
  13. Google (XML) Sitemaps v3.0b6 by Arne Brachhold: Now includes Yahoo support and I’m convinced this is why I’m now getting twice as much traffic from yahoo
  14. Less v1.1 by Bennett McElwee
  15. Lightbox 2.02 Plugin v0.6.4 beta by Kjell Bublitz
  16. Live Comment Preview v1.7 by Jeff Minard & Iacovos Constantinou: New addition
  17. MyAvatars v0.2 by Andrea Micheloni & Napolux
  18. Optimal Title v2.0 by Aaron Schaefer: Another vital plugin
  19. Paged Comments v2.5 (2007-01-11) by Keyvan Minoukadeh
  20. Post Templates by Category vR1.3 by Kaf Oseo: I use this to track posts by guest authors
  21. Redirect Old Slugs v0.3 by Mark Jaquith: Vital plugin
  22. Related Posts v2.02 by Alexander Malov & Mike Lu. Every blogger should use this
  23. ST Add Related Posts to Feed v.02 by Chris Kasten, aka HandySolo
  24. Share This v1.4 by Alex King
  25. Show Top Commentators v1.03 by Nate Sanden
  26. Simple Tagging v1.5 by Michael Woehrer : vast improvement over UTW
  27. Spam Karma 2 v2.2 r3 by dr Dave
  28. Subscribe To Comments v2.1 by Mark Jaquith: Should be part of WP build in my view
  29. Text Link Ads v2 v2.0.1 by Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin
  30. WP Hardened Trackback v1.0 by Marco van Hylckama Vlieg: Eliminated my trackback spam overnight
  31. WPvideo v1.10 by Antonio Perez: Powers YouTube videos on a Friday
  32. the_excerpt Reloaded vR1 by Kaf Oseo
  33. wp-cache v2.1 by Ricardo Galli Granada: I don’t really need as my server is (finally) setup correct, but it helps me sleep at night!

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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Very nice!, THank you

    This site is my inspiration ^^
  • Hi Everton,
    I am doing up my list of plugins. I sure had a question in my mind. Do you think so plugins would affect site performance?

    I am currently using similiar numbers....

    Cheers!
    Alpesh
  • The link to the Related Posts plugin didn't work, but if you just go to the website without the /archive/* bit you can find your way to the download. I'm installing that and maybe the Simple Tagging Plugin. Thanks; I was wondering what plugins people were using.
  • This site is my inspiration ^^

    Thx SoKoOLz -have you submitted your site to Pimp My Blog? We've had some good successes with this programme


    I am doing up my list of plugins. I sure had a question in my mind. Do you think so plugins would affect site performance?

    I am currently using similiar numbers….

    Yes, it can do. What you should do is monitor your page speed before and after using plugins to see which ones slow your site down. For instance, I dropped UTW and even my own Latest Comments with Avatars as it slowed my site down. I also go through regular reviews to remove the ones I don't really need
  • Great list Everton, I will definitely check some of the plugins that I have never used, thanks for sharing.
  • Thanks Everton.
    How is simple tagging?
    What if i have converted my categories to tags and now want to go back?
    Out of context of this post, I guess.
    Cheers!
    Alpesh
  • simple tagging is brilliant and much lighter than UTW. It can import exisitng tags so you should be ok e.g. it imported all my old UTW tags
  • SoKoOLz
    have you submitted your site to Pimp My Blog? We’ve had some good successes with this programme
    Yes I did, BTW the Comment+Quicktag link is down.
  • About Optimal Title, I'm not sure I see the benefit. In my current template I have the following code for the title:

    <?php if(is_single()){?><?php wp_title();?> |<?php bloginfo('name');?>

    This generates the post title and then the blog name preceded by the '|' symbol without any additional separator or plugin. That I'm aware of wp_title doesn't actually force a separator - that's why you can use it in your post header to display the post title in the loop.
  • BTW the Comment+Quicktag link is down

    My bad, that link has been down for years and I should have remembered. If anyone needs it let me know and I'll post it in the forum.

    About Optimal Title, I’m not sure I see the benefit. In my current template I have the following code for the title:

    <?php if(is_single()){??><?php wp_title();??> |<?php bloginfo(’name’);??>

    This generates the post title and then the blog name preceded by the ‘|’ symbol without any additional separator or plugin. That I’m aware of wp_title doesn’t actually force a separator - that’s why you can use it in your post header to display the post title in the loop.

    I used to be the same and I made a manual change myself with Ajay's help. But then I realised that the plugin was doing something clever to my trackbacks and pingbacks to make them friendlier, so I went back to the plugin route. It's definitely a luxury plugin though.
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