Essential Wordpress Plugins

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Permalink Reply by Dave Takaki on March 31, 2009 at 2:24pm

Is there a JPEG 2000 plug-in for WordPress?

Permalink Reply by Ryan Hohnbaum on March 31, 2009 at 2:43pm

I'm not sure. I did a quick search and it looks like JPG2000 requires a browser plug-in to support it in the first place. What are you looking to do, convert all your images to JPG2000 and display them?

Permalink Reply by Paul Graydon on April 2, 2009 at 5:54pm

My essentials:

Akismet - superb at clearing up spam.
FeedBurner FeedSmith - Makes sure everything uses my feedburner feed rather than direct on the site.
PingPressFM - Any time I post a blog it updates my Facebook status and Twitter feed with title and start of first line. Great for getting additional readers.

wp-cache - from benchmarks I've seen it's by far the best caching module. Very little reason not to have caching installed and enabled on a site. Your hosts will thank you for having it should you get slashdotted or similar!

Permalink Reply by Rob Bertholf on January 29, 2010 at 8:06am

Ryan,
Thanks for the tip on the Admin Xtended!! What a great plugin!!!

I definately agree about:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Contact Form 7
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Google XML Sitemaps

I also recommend:
- Permalink Redirect (for SEO assistance)
- Widget Logic & Yank Widget (for multiple content areas on a single page)
- WordPress.com Stats (nice dashboard stats pulling from the WordPress API)
- WP-SWFObject (Uses the SWFObject for embedding Flash objects, very easy to install)
- WP e-Commerce (Have been testing this one out, seems pretty good so far)
- WP Testimonials (very easy to use testimonial rotation)

Permalink Reply by Matt Joswick on October 18, 2010 at 7:35am

Wordpress code frameworks like :

Chris Pearson's Thesis: http://bit.ly/thesis-wp1
Studio Press' Genesis: http://bit.ly/spress11

... are great for developing foundations for great sites.

I prefer cufon plugin for font replacement. It does not use flash, hence better for SEO: http://bit.ly/cufon2

Any bigger site must check out W3 Total Cache from Fredrick Towns: http://bit.ly/w3totcache

Forms is like Gravity Forms (although paid, worth it) http://bit.ly/gravity-forms1

Aloha

Permalink Reply by Loren Swendsen on January 25, 2011 at 8:05pm

Ever since WordPress 3 came out I've been using these three plugins. They're all related to each other, as you might guess. Very nice for turning WordPress into a fully fledged CMS.

• More Types
• More Fields
• More Taxonomies

Permalink Reply by Marcus Sortijas on March 20, 2011 at 9:49pm

Great idea for a thread.  Here are a few we used for the TEDx Honolulu site:

 

WPtouch - The future is in mobile, but designing a website for smartphones can be a nightmare.  Really fragmented market with different operating systems and screen sizes.  This plugin took care of most of the work.  There's a free and paid version.  Main reason to get the paid version is if you want your site to launch like a mobile app.

 

Social Web Links - Easy way to add social media icons to link to Facebook, Twitter, and other profiles you have.  Our theme didn't include these icons by default, so we had to install them with this plugin.

 

MailChimp List Subscribe Form - E-mail is still alive and kicking.  This plugin allows you to link your WordPress site with your MailChimp account.  It gives you a sidebar widget to add an opt-in box for e-mail subscribers.

 

I was wondering, what plugins would you guys recommend for security, backups, and things like that?

Permalink Reply by Paul Graydon on March 21, 2011 at 11:56am

I've grown a little partial to W3 Total Cache, which is quite a flexible caching plug in that can allow you to control what you cache, how (including memcached which is advised for multi-server blog architecture) and even allow you to automatically take advantage of any CDNs or cloud storage, such as Amazon's S3 or Rackspace's Cloud Files.