Most Popular WordPress Plugins by Categories
Admin
- Akismet | Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches.
- cformsII | Highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin
- Custom Post Templates | Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen.
- Exec-PHP | Enables execution of PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.
- Google Analyticator | Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog.
- Google XML Sitemaps | Generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
- Identify External Links | Searches the text for links outside of the domain of the blog. To these, it adds class=”extlink” (and optionally, target=”_blank”).
- Peter's Login Redirect | Defines a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users.
- Pretty Link | Redirects any links from within WordPress.
- Random Posts | Displays a list of randomly chosen posts. The output can be customised in many ways.
- SexyBookmarks | Useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.
- Simple Crumbs | Generates a breadcrumb trail for pages and blog entries and pages.
- Twitter Tools | Creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
- User Access Manager | Manages the access to your posts, pages and files.
- WP Click Tracker | Adds automated link tracking to your posts and pages
- WP Super Cache | Generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
- WP-DB-Backup | Allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database
- WP-PageNavi | A well designed navigational system for WordPress posts.
- WP-PostRatings | Gives users the ability to rate your posts.
- WP-PostViews | Keeps track of how many times individual posts or pages have been viewed.
Interactivity
- AddToAny | Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
- CommentLuv | Visits the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.
- DISQUS Comment System | Is a service and tool for web comments and discussions.
- Get Recent Comments | Shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar.
- IntenseDebate Comments | Enhances and encourages conversation on your blog or website.
- Page Peel | Banner ad in web corner.
- PollDaddy Polls & Ratings | Allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard.
- Show Top Commentators | Encourages more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
- Sociable | Adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
- Top Commentators Widget | Shows the top commentators in side bar.
- Topsy Retweet Button | Shows tweet counts and allows retweeting.
- Wibiya | Boosts blogs / websites with rich and interactive features. (check out the footer at the bottom of this page)
- WP-PostRatings | Gives users the ability to rate your posts.
- WP-PostViews | Keeps track of how many times individual posts or pages have been viewed.
Traffic
- AddToAny | Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.
- DISQUS Comment System | Is a service and tool for web comments and discussions.
- Google XML Sitemaps | Generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
- SexyBookmarks | Useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.
- Sociable | Adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed.
- Twitter Tools | Creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Ecommerce
- Advertising Manager | Manages and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog or site.
- WP e-Commerce | Elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.
