2009-09-06

Ultimate list of top WordPress plugins arranged by category and providing description, information, and links to the download page. These several WordPress plugins will help you in developing and optimizing your WordPress blog.

SEO PLUGINS

1.All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

2.Platinum SEO Pack

Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO plugin.

3.SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

4.HeadSpace2 SEO

Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!

5.SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/Xhtml

6.Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, or both.

7.Robots Meta

This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links.

 

ADS PLUGINS

8.AdSense Manager

AdSense Manager is now Advertising Manager: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager.

9.AdSense Now!

AdSense Now! gets you started with Google AdSense. No mess, no fuss.

10.All in One Adsense and YPN

Automatically insert Google Adsense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

11.Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete!

12.Ad Buttons

The Ad Buttons plugin displays a number of graphical ads in a sidebar widget.

13.Advertising Manager

Easily place Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. Simple to use, with powerful management and optimisation features.

 

TWITTER PLUGINS

14.Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

15.WP to Twitter

Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using the Cligs URL shortening service.

16.Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username, #hashtags, and URLs into links. Requires PHP5.

17.Twitter for WordPress

Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

18.TweetMeme Button

Adds the TweetMeme button into your posts and RSS feed.

19.Wickett Twitter Widget

Display tweets from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. As seen on WordPress.com.

20.Tweet This

Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page. Shortens URLs. Can automatically tweet new blog posts. Highly customizable.

 

SOCIAL PLUGINS

21.Tell A Friend: Share/Bookmark/Email/Social Bookmarking Button

Adds a tell a friend, Share/Bookmark/Email/Social Bookmarking button.

22.Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious and over 100 more.

23.Sociable

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

24.ShareThis

ShareThis plugin allows users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more.

25.Newsletter

Newsletter is a simple plug-in (still in development) to collect subscribers and send out newsletters.

26.AddThis

The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services.

27.Sidebar Widgets

Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu.

28.SexyBookmarks

Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.

 

VIDEO & IMAGES PLUGINS

29.PhotoSmash Galleries

PhotoSmash – user contributable photo galleries for WordPress pages and posts with options. Auto-add galleries or specify.

30.Simple Flickr Photos

Displays Flickr photos based on your settings.

31.Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

32.wordTube

wordTube is your Media Center plugin for WordPress.

33.NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

34.Wordpress Video Plugin

A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Veoh

35.Lightbox 2

Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. From settings you can choose background-color.

36.Featured Content Gallery

Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

37.Viper’s Video Quicktags

Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more.

 

ANALYTICS & STATS PLUGINS

38.WordPress.com Stats

You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.

39.Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links.

40.StatPress

StatPress is first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders.

41.Woopra Analytics Plugin

This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation.

42.WP-Stats

Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

43.Analytics360

MailChimp’s Analytics360 plugin allows you to pull Google Analytics and MailChimp data directly into your dashboard, so you can access robust analytics

44.Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics data display.

45.WassUp

Analyze your visitors traffic with real time statistics, chart, a lot of chronological information and a sidebar Widget.

46.Ultimate Google Analytics

Adds Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog. Can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your site and mail links.

47.StatPressCN

Visit statistical tools, providing special functions for blog.

 

WIDGETS FOR SIDEBAR

48.Simple Sidebar Navigation

Easy way to create custom navigation in sidebars or other pre-defined areas. Conditional tags are included to specify pages where widgets appear.

49.Random Pages Widget – For Visitors & SEO

Displays random posts and pages in sidebar. This increases the number of indexed pages and gives users an interesting way to browse your site.

50.Sidebar Login

Adds a sidebar widget to let users login.

 

SECURITY PLUGINS

51.SI CAPTCHA for WordPress

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, or both.

52.Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples..lolz

53.Disable WordPress Core Update

Disables the WordPress core update checking and notification system.

54.WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

Powerful anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes contact form.

55.Fast and Secure Contact Form

A Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress.

56.WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free is a lightweight plugin that blocks automated comment spam without using captcha (image verfication).

57.Invisible Defender

This plugin protects your registration, login and comment forms against spambots.

 

OTHER PLUGINS

58.WP e-Commerce

WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind.

59.WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.

60.Page Links To

Lets you make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress post or page.

61.Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

All admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate!

62.Global Translator

Automatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!

63.WP-Polls

Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

64.WP-Cumulus

WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere.

65.WP-DB-Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database.

66.Login LockDown

Limits the number of login attempts from a given IP range within a certain time period.

67.WP-PostRatings

Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

68.Theme My Login

Themes the WordPress login pages according to your theme.

69.TinyMCE Advanced

Enables most of the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.

70.Pretty Link

Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Create short links suitable for Twitter using your own domain name!

71.WP Contact Form

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.

72.Simple Tags

Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags.

73.IntenseDebate Comments

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

74.WP-PostViews

Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.

75.Kimili Flash Embed

Provides a WordPress interface for SWFObject, the best way to embed Flash content on any site.

76.My Page Order

My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface.

77.Scissors

Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.

78.PollDaddy Polls

Create and manage PollDaddy polls from within WordPress.

79.Plugin Central

Dashboard plugin update notification, update all plugins at once, move your plugins from one blog to another with plugin install.

80.Google Integration Toolkit

This plugin helps you to integrate Google services (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.) with Your Blog.

81.Search Everything

Increases WordPress’ default search functionality through an options panel. Options include search highlight, searching pages, excerpts, attachments

82.Broken Link Checker

This plugin will check your posts, custom fields and the blogroll for broken links and missing images and notify you if any are found.

83.Popularity Contest

This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity.

84.Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images from the current page and display simple slide shows, all in an overlay.

85.Lifestream

Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.

86.Podcasting – Blubrry PowerPress Podcast plugin

Add podcasting support to your blog.

87.WP-Print

Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

88.WP-DBManager

Manages your WordPress database.

89.Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

90.podPress

A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress.

91.WP Security Scan

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.

92.Simple Post Thumbnails

Adds a widget to the posting screen that makes creating post thumbnails a cinch.

93.Wordpress Automatic upgrade

WordPress automatic upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one.

94.NVoice

Your post’s in audio – The easiest way to create speech recordings.

95.FeedWordPress

FeedWordPress syndicates content from feeds you choose into your WordPress weblog.

96.Subscribe2

Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog

97.Events Calendar

Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events.

98.WP-EMail

Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.

99.BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress MU social networking plugins and themes.

100.Lightbox 2

Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Mad props to Tanin for his crucial regular expression code! You rock!!

101.WPaudio MP3 Player

Play mp3s and podcasts in your posts with the simplest, cleanest mp3 player. Supports other players’ tags and separate download URLs.

102.My Category Order

My Category Order allows you to set the order in which categories will appear in the sidebar.

103.FD Feedburner Plugin

Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed seamlessly and transparently to Feedburner.com.

104.Search Unleashed

Advanced WordPress search with wildcards, highlighting, log, and ability to search all post data. Now with Lucene!

105.WP-UserOnline

Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics.

106.WordPress.com Popular Posts

This plugin can show the most popular articles in your sidebar, using data collected by WordPress.com Stats plugin.

107.Clean Options

finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table

108.Get Recent Comments

Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.

109.Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.

110.flickrRSS

Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.

111.Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

112.eShop

An accessible Shopping Cart plugin.

113.Hyper Cache

Hyper Cache is flexyble and easy cache system for WordPress.

114.pagebar

Pagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments.

115.Exec-PHP

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

116.WordPress Mobile Edition

WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile

117.Multi-level Navigation Plugin

Description: Adds a CSS based dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your WordPress blog.

118.Email Users

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other.

119.Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance.

120.Exclude Pages

This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, uncheck this to exclude pages from the page navigation that users see on your site.

121.Postie

The Postie plugin allows you to blog via e-mail, including many advanced features not found in wordpress’s default post by e-mail feature.

122.Event Calendar 3

Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

123.Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments allows commenters on an entry to subscribe to e-mail notifications for subsequent comments.

124.qTranslate

Adds userfriendly multilingual content management and translation support into WordPress.

125.Theme Test Drive

Safely test drive any theme as an administrator, while visitors use the default one.

126.Post-Plugin Library

The shared code library for Similar posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments.

127.JSXGraph – Graphics with JavaScript

Using the JSXGraph filter makes it a lot easier to embed JSXGraph constructions into wordpress pages/posts.

128.XML Google Maps

This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. Supports KML, KMZ, GPX, geoRSS filelinks.

129.Calendar

A simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world

130.wp-Typography

Improve your web typography with: hyphenation, space control, intelligent character replacement, and CSS hooks.

131.Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is an online media vieiwing application similar to Lightbox and Thickbox but with more functionality. Supports all types of media.

132.Add Local Avatar

This plugin adds the ability to have local avatars in WordPress 2.5+

133.PayPal Donations

Easy and simple setup and insertion of PayPal donate buttons with a shortcode or through a sidebar Widget. Donation purpose can be set for each button

134.Quotes Collection

Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes on your WordPress blog.

135.Google AJAX Translation

Add Google AJAX Translation to your blog. This plugin allows your readers to translate your blog posts, pages, or comments into up to 43 languages

136.WP Wall

“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the side

137.Snazzy Archives

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

138.ComicPress Manager

ComicPress Manager ties in with the ComicPress theme to make managing your WordPress-hosted Webcomic easy and fast.

139.WP-o-Matic

WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.

140.Disable WordPress Plugin Updates

Disables the plugin update checking and notification system.

141.MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

Save your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin.

142.Yet Another Photoblog

Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

143.WP-Sticky

Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog.

144.WP Page Numbers

A simple paging navigation plugin for users and search engines. Instead of next and previous page it shows numbers and arrows. Settings available.

145.WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.

146.Wordpress Download Monitor

Plugin with interface for uploading and managing download files, inserting download links in posts, and monitoring download hits.

147.My Link Order

My Link Order allows you to set the order in which links and link categories will appear in the sidebar.

148.TDO Mini Forms

This plugin can add themed custom posting and editing forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to contribute.

149.Extended Comment Options

Extended Comment Options allows you to close or open comments on batches of posts. You can schedule this automatically, too.

150.WP Ajax Edit Comments

Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

151.Quick Search

Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site

152.Register Plus

Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimers, CAPTCHA Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation

153.One Click Plugin Updater

Provides single-click plugin upgrades in WP 2.3 and up, visually marks plugins that have update notifications enabled, allows to easily install new plugins

154.PHP Code Widget

Like the Text widget, but also allows working PHP code to be inserted.

155.WP-Table Reloaded

WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed.

156.pageMash > Page Management

Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows for quick sorting, hiding and organising

157.SlidePress

WordPress integration plugin for SlideShowPro.

158.Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

159.Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

160.WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed on an iPhone.

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