WordPress Best 10
1.WP Post Ratings
wordpress rating
This adds a rating system add the bottom of each post, allowing each user to have there say on how good your post is. It is powered by Ajax, making it very unobtrusive, and to be honest, configured correctly, can be very elegant. You also have (my favourite option) the option to style the ratings star images with you own. You can also show the rating results in the sidebar, this is also done in an elegant way.
WP-PostRatings 1.40 For WordPress 2.7.x
2.All in One SEO Pack
As they say, this plugin is streamlined for best SEO practices for WordPress. Actually very easy to install, and the user interface is easy to fill out. Recommended for the serious blogger.
3.Lightbox 2
Lightbox is the best effect you can find for an image gallery. Not just for galleries but even for a single thumbnail image. Like all good plugins you can style the CSS until your hearts content. If you haven’t, you should.
Only support WordPress 2.1 and above. Last updated on 14th Aug 2007
4. WordPress Database Backup
WP BACKUP
WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database. Better safe than sorry.
Version 2.2.2 adds news features to work nicely with WordPress version 2.7
5.Wordpress Global Translator Plugin
Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to dynamically translate your blog in the following thirteen different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use
Global Translator has been tested on WordPress 2.3.*, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.
6. Easy Tube
Need YouTube or Google Videos on your WordPress blog without all the hastle of playing with HTML code? Then the EasyTube plugin is for you! The EasyTube plugin allows you to take control of your video content by using one simple tag!
The Tag
1. Go to YouTube or Google Videos and find the video you want to put on your site.
2. Copy the URL of the page, e.g.
Code:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRfxikK9aQ
3. In your WordPress add the tag: [youtube:URL] or [googlevideo:URL] replacing URL with the bit from part two
4. Hit save and bask in the wonder of your new media rich site!
7. CForms 2
cforms
Cforms 2 is the first plugin I activate in any WordPress Installation. It is not just a contact from, if you need it to be it can be configured into any type of form you can think of.
Don’t be put off by the functions list, these are understood by the pro,and taken for granted by everyone else, upon using the plugin you will see how easy this plugin is.
Functions: , Ajax supported form submission, Full localization support (see section below), Tell-A-Friend functionality, see Help documentation, File attachments / Upload, fully configurable per form, Multiple upload fields allowed, Backup & Restore, Role Manager support, Database based tracking of submitted data, Cloning / duplication of forms, Drag and drop form management, Fully integrated with TinyMCE and default WP editor (via button), Submission limits (e.g. registrations), Widget support and more
cforms
As with all the best plugins, you get an option to style the form to integrate seamlessly into your theme.
8. FireStats
firestats
I get different visitor stats from my Web Hosts control panel, Google Analytics and Alexa. So tracking visitors accurately is not an exact science, as it should be. FireStats is the closed thing to accuracy that I can find, its accuracy is on a par with Google Analytics, which will do me.
The configuration can be a little bit tricky for the novice, but they do have great help on their site. Have a look at the FAQ section before you install it, it will give you an insight into the functions that you can use as well understsand the installation procedure.
9. WP-Cache 2.0
wp cache
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
10. Social Bookmark Creator
socail
For every Social Bookmark site there seems to be 10 plugins. This is the simplest that I have found, it is the plugin I use for speckyboy.com. It can display image links, or as I like it, as text links. It can even do it as a dropdown list. It blends with your sites CSS style very well, and its options menu is very easy use and configure. The links can then be placed anywhere you want it show up.
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