WordPress World: 50+ excellent WordPress Plugins, articles and resources

Scritto da Enrico Bertini | 11 Maggio 2009

PLUGINS

Administration

User Switching – This plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. You’ll be instantly logged out and logged in as your desired user.

Advertising

Advertising Manager – This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.

Authentication

OpenID – OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account.

RPX – Adds RPX authentication from https://rpxnow.com/ to your wordpress blog. Adds passwordless sign-in and commenting to your blog using OpenID, Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live ID.

Cache

WP Super Cache – This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WP Widget Cache – A high-performance caching plugin for WordPress, and a plus for WP-Cache or WP Super Cache.

CMS

Flutter – Flutter is a feature rich WordPress CMS plugin that focuses on easy templating for the developer and simplifies content management for the admin by creating custom write panels that can be fully customized.

Contacts

Contact Form 7 – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

SimpleModal Contact Form – SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal dialog contact form plugin for WordPress.

Debugging

AskApache Debug Viewer – This plugin is custom-made for WordPress Developers, Plugin Developers, or anyone wanting to see under the hood of their website and diagnose problems.

Debug Queries – List query-actions only for admins; for debug purposes. See all queries on the forntend of the blog and find the slowest part.

Lifestreaming

WP-Lifestream – Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog.

Feeds

FeedBurner FeedSmith – The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.

FeedWordPress – FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog; if you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation website.

RSS Includes Pages – Modifies RSS feeds so that they include pages and not just posts. Deactivating the plugin restores RSS feeds to their default state.

RSSupplement – Adds WP functions, copyright, and more to your RSS feed items.

Forums

Simple:Press Forum – Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilising the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page.

Miscellaneous

Google News Sitemap Generator – Automatically generates a Google News XML sitemap for submission online via Webmaster Tools.

OAuth

OAuth – This plugin enables users to authenticate against their local Wordpress account using OAuth to do things from remote APIs like write comments and posts.

Ping

PingPressFM – Allows you to spread your blog to 30+ social networks via ping.fm.

Posts/Pages

Featured Content Gallery – Featured Content Gallery is a WordPress plugin that creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme.

Mass Page Maker – Mass Page Maker is an admin panel that gives you the ability to create as many pages or posts as you like in a matter of seconds. It can create posts and pages that are immediately published, have draft status or will be published in the future.

PostRank – The ranking of your posts.

Query Posts – The Query Posts widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show posts in any way they’d like. It’s like having a cool WordPress developer as a friend ready to do your bidding. The widget has nearly 40 options to choose from. You can list posts by category, tag, author, date, time, name, or anything you can imagine. You can choose to show the full content, excerpts, or even a simple list.

Snazzy Archives – Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts.

Private blogs/Community/Membership

AccessQontrol – You can allow just a selected group on your site. AccessQontrol is the plugin to do it. Clean and simple. Using the simple options panel you can shield your blog from anyone or just allow a selected group of users.

Private Files – Private files acts as a proxy, making sure users are logged in before they can download any files.

Suma – Suma is a Wordpress membership plugin that manages user registration and recurring billing and restricts access to posts and pages to current subscribers.

WP-Membership – WP-Membership is used to control access to the membership site either in its entirety, forcing everyone who wants to access site content to enroll as a member, or on a page-by-page basis.

WP Sentry – This is a simple plugin to allow for access-restricted posting, allowing bloggers to discuss sensitive subjects without Google or the world finding the post.

Reviews

WP Review Site – WP Review Site turns WordPress into a powerful review site engine, allowing you to easily create niche review sites on virtually anything.

Security

AntiVirus for WordPress – Viruses, worms and malware exist for WordPress and could easily attack your WordPress installation. AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks. With multilingual support.

AskApache Password Protect – AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well.

Login LockDown – Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.

WordPress IPS – The WordPress IPS is probably one of the lightest plugins you will ever encounter but its power is immense and incomparable to anything else seen. The plugin is designed to simply block malicious requests before being processed by the WordPress engine and therefore secure against common and well known attack vectors.

WPSCAN – WordPress scanner is a free online resource that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their wordpress security level. It is BETA software and is continually being developed.

WP Security Scan – Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

SEO

All in One SEO Pack – Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines.

HeadSpace 2 – HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

Permalinks Moved Permanently – If you just migrated your Wordpress blog from one permalink structure to another, and you don’t want to lose Pagerank or traffic that accesses your blog through the old permalinks, this is for you.

Redirection – Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Robots Meta – There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.

Social

Google Friend Connect WordPress Plugin

WP-FBConnect – WP-FacebookConnect adds Facebook functionality to WordPress using the Facebook Connect APIs. It provides single sign-on, avatars, and News Feed publication of comments.

Spam/Splogs

Bad Behavior – A whole new way of keeping your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or content management system free of link spam. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it.

TrollGuard – TrollGuard is a free WordPress plugin that protects your blog from spam comments. It learns to filter out spam from your training. After a short while it has adapted to your personal blog and will accurately detect incoming spam.

Statistics/Metrics

Google Analytics – The Google Analytics plugin for WordPress lets you easily add Google’s web tracking script to your site.

RSS Link Tagger for Google Analytics – Modifies RSS permalinks to include utm query parameters, used by Google Analytics to track non-adwords advertising campaigns.

Twitter/FriendFeed

Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter – Keeps your blog always fresh by regularly adding your latest and greatest content from FriendFeed or Twitter.

TweetSuite – A Twitter-WordPress integration plugin.

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