25 Useful WordPress Plugins For Your Site

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1 September 2010 1,933 views No Comment

Here is a selection of 25 useful plugins for your WordPress that covers different areas, from performance of the website to SEO and social media:

Enhancing content

Scribe SEO – instructs web writers how to tweak their content to get more search engine traffic, all while maintaining quality reader-focused copy
iflickr – allows to easily download Flickr photos that are licensed under Creative Commons to the local server for attaching to posts
Photo Dropper – lets you add Creative Commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr
WordPress Video Plugin – allows easy video embedding from many sites: Google Video, Yahoo! Video, LiveLeak, Metacafe, dailymotion, Vimeo, Collegehumor, etc
Insights – mashup of content and images, allows to quickly access and insert information (links, images, videos, maps..) into posts
Zemanta – recommends content while you write your post

Forms

Meta, Robots, Sitemap

Page Meta – overrides the page meta title and add in meta descriptions and keywords for pages
Robots Meta – prevents indexing of your search result pages, login, register and admin pages, etc by adding noindex robots meta tags
Google XML Sitemaps – generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog

Tracking

Header-Footer – lets you to add html code (eg. Analytics code) to the header and to the footer
Google Analytics plugin – the most complete Google Analytics plugin for WordPress: asynchronous tracking, custom variables, Google Analytics API integration, e-commerce integration, event tracking
Wassup – real time statistics

Performance

W3 Total Cache – dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site

Spam

Bad Behavior – complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place

Scraping

RSS Footer – makes it easy to add a line of content to the beginning or the end of all the articles in your feeds, for instance to display a link back to your blog

SEO

HeadSpace2 SEO – all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site
All in One SEO Pack – automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines
SEO Smart Links – automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog
Paginated Comments – breaks down comments into a number of search engine optimized pages

Social media

AddThis – allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services
Wordbook – allows you to cross-post your posts to your Facebook Wall
Twitme – automatically post your new posts on Twitter

Multiple domains & sites

ManageWP – manage multiple blogs from one dashboard
WordPress MU Domain Mapping – allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain