Blogger’s Headache : Wordpress Plugins… So Many!
I noticed that many beginner wordpress blog owners do not have any idea on what are the plugins to use on their new blog. I decided to compile a list of basic plugins that you ought to install on your wordpress blog. This is by no means the comprehensive list as there are really tons of useful wordpress plugins that you can use.
Wordpress Plugins
| Plugin | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Akismet | 1.2.1 | Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); in your template. By MattMullenweg. |
| Another Wordpress Meta Plugin |
1.2 | Plugin for inserting the META tags ‘keywords’ and ‘description’ into your posts, pages and index page. By some guy. |
| Adsense-Deluxe | 0.8 | 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 |
| Get Recent Comments |
1.3.1 | Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin. By Krischan Jodies. |
| No Duplicate Comments |
0.9.2 | Prevent visitors from leaving duplicate comments/pingbacks/trackbacks to a post. By Scott Reilly. |
| No Ping Wait |
1.0 | Adds pinging as a shutdown hook, so you don’t have to wait forever while WordPress publishes By Robert Deaton. |
| Optimal Title |
1.0 | Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before. By Aaron Schaefer. |
| Sociable | 1.2 | Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. By Peter Harkins. |
| Subscribe To Comments |
2.0.8 | Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith. |
| Google Sitemaps |
3.0b4 | This generator will create a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold. |
| SH-Autolink | 0.94b | In posts and comments, it transforms predefined words automatically into hyperlinks. By Stevie. |
| Subscribe me |
2.14 | Terms of use • Doc/FAQ • Support forum — Displays a tile with subscribe buttons. To use, call the_subscribe_links(); |
| Ultimate Tag Warrior |
3.141592 | Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis. |
| WordPress Database Backup |
1.7 | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. |
| WPvideo | 1.00 | Allows you to insert online videos in your post by providing the video url between the <video> tags. Also allows download the video (using Videodownloader) with a link below the video. By Antonio Perez. |
How do you install plugins?
Step 1 Visit the above links to the creator’s website and download the zipped
file. If possible locate the readme file to understand if there are other
special requirements that you need to do for the plugin to work. Read up on
the plugin at the creator’s website also to understand how it works.
Step 2. Unzipped the file. Follow the instructions if any in the readme file.
The likely sequence is to upload a file in the unzipped folder with the extension
of “.php” to your server. the directory it has to go to is the one
where your blog is. Go to the directory of your blog. Locate a directory called
wp-content. Go in and locate the directory called wp-plugins. Then copy the
file into this folder.
Step 3. After you copied over the file, login to your blog at www.yourblog.com/wp-admin
Go to Plugins in the menu. Here you will see a list of plugins that you have.
You should be able to see the plugin which file you have just uploaded. From
there, just click on the Activate link to make the plugin working.
Tada!
