Comments on: My Quest for WordPress Plugins

By: TNLNYC

TNLNYC — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:58 +0000

Of course, Akismet, and backup, but also: Instant Upgrade (Must have 1-touch upgrade of your WP install): http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-... Close Comment Tags: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/close-comment... Friendfeed Comments: http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/frien... Pingpress.fm (ping multiple services in one shot) : http://www.soldoutactivist.com/project-pingpressf... Subscribe to comments: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comme...

By: iankennedy

iankennedy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Hi Brad, As long as you're running MyBlogLog, you should check out MyBlogLog's Just for You plug-in which serves up content from your blog that matches the tags on your visitor's MBL profile. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mybloglog-jus... I call it the poor man's behavioral targeting solution. You can read about it here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/personal_con...

By: Austin Mills

Austin Mills — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Google Analyticator makes it easy to get Google Analytics for your blog. KB Advanced RSS Widget is useful if you want to show an RSS feed from somewhere, and Twitter Tools is great if you use Twitter.

I also agree with the aforementioned WordPress Database Backup — getting db backups emailed to my gmail account periodically is a perfect low-impact solution.

By: dgcohen

dgcohen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

woopra, akismet, google xml sitemaps, and twitter tools (if you want to auto tweet your new blog posts)

By: chase_barf55451

chase_barf55451 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

Brad – I have found these to be useful – adsense manager, all-in-one-seo pack, backupwordpress, my (link, category, page) order, ubd-block-ad, addthis-social widget

By: daniel_tunk9028

daniel_tunk9028 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

I'm happily using Akismet, Popular Posts, Similar Posts (the last two require the Post-Plug-in Library), ShareThis, and Twitter Updater, and WP Super Cache over at The Noisy Channel (http://thenoisychannel.com/). I also found WP Easy Uploader to be a convenient way to install them.

By: Kameir

Kameir — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

Every WP blog should use the MiniMeta Widget.

By: Nick_Fellers

Nick_Fellers — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

WP-PageNavi is a strong bid and not yet mentioned – I first picked it up after reading smashingmagazine.com . Allows clean/beautiful page navigation. Agree with all other plugins listed.

By: micah105

micah105 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

all-in-one seo and xml sitemaps is all you need for SEO. the rest depend on what you are trying to do. I will come down and talk to Ross when he is ready…

By: andrew_hyde651

andrew_hyde651 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000

I use the wordpress app now… pretty much the same thing.