My favourite WordPress plugins
A look at my favourite plugins for WordPress.
One of my favourite things about WordPress is its extendibility. It’s very easy to add new functionality with the plugin system, and it makes for a really powerful application. Here are a few of my favourite WordPress plugins:
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Akismet – If it wasn’t for Akismet, I would have turned comments off a long time ago. I’ve been running it on this blog for about three weeks, and it’s caught nearly 400 spam comments. That’s a lot of spam for a small blog like this, and it was a major time consumer before I installed Akismet.
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WP-PageNavi – This manages the navigation between pages at the bottom of each page. I find it a lot easier to navigate sites that use this as opposed to the default WordPress “Next Page / Previous Page” setup.
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Related Posts – Shows the related posts at the bottom of each page. It’s almost essential for any blog that has more than a handful of posts, as it allows readers to find a lot of older posts that may have remained hidden to them.
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Smart Archives – Used in conjunction with “Exec-PHP”, it produces the archives I use on this blog. It’s another “must have” for anyone with more than a few posts.
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StatTraq – Shows me where people are visiting from, and what they’re reading. It’s not particularly heavy duty, but it gives a good overview of what’s happening.
You can find plenty more plugins at http://wp-plugins.net/.
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