Wordpress is the most popular blogging software for domain based blogs. While Blogger and Blogspot still encompass the vast majority of blogs on the internet, both of the afformentioned free services are too cluttered with spammy blogs and blogs that have no direction or meaning. In fact, if you’d read my previous post about blocking Blogspot and Blogger url’s in your Wordpress installs comment blacklist you can rest assured that one of the most important facets of maintaining a truly professionaly blog is to spend the few dollars per month to have a domain hosted blog on the Wordpress platform.
POne of the greatest things about Wordpress is the availability of numerous Wordpress Plugins and hacks developed by third party programmers which makes Wordpress as essential to the intrinsic development of the internet as much as the Linux operating system has contributed to this wonderful world known as the internet. The best part about Wordpress is the widedspread availability of plugins to entend the basic softwares functionality and the fact that they’re all free and open source which means anybody with a basic level of PHP programming skills can alter, edit, modify and enhance not only the basic Wordpress software, but the plugins as well. Truly extensible software is a staple of the professional “open source” development community ever since the publication of legendary Eric S Raymond work, The Cathedral and the Bazzar.
Enough said on “open source” and the strength of Wordpress blogging platform, so without further ado, on to the title of this post…
Wordpress Plugins and Where to Find Them
#1 - The Wordpress Plugin Directory (http://dev.wp-plugins.org/) - This is the official Wordpress Plugin Repository and the goal is to provide a rich environment for developers to create and share their work on WordPress-related plugin development.
#2 - Alex King’s Wordpress Plugins (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress) - Some of the finest Wordpress Plugins you’ll ever find on the internet. I’ve been using several of Alex’s plugins since my first forray into Wordpress blogging.
#3 - Colloquium has a great blog post Thirteen “Lesser Known” Helpful WordPress Plugins that lists some very helpful plugins that are often overlooked.
#4 - This one is not for the faint of heart but Lincoln Adams has a huge list of Plugins Gone Wild!. It’s an incredible list of Wordpress plugins.
#5 - Rounding out the list is the quintessential blogger Andy Beard with his entry on Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins - Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks which culminates all the greatest dofollow and nofollow plugins available on the internet.
If that’s not enough plugins to satisfy your hunger for Wordpress extensiblity, here’s a few more links to plugins I’m using here on this blog.
- Ajax Comment Preview - A nice plugin that let’s commentors preview their comments.
- WordPress Plugin: Get Recent Comments - You can see this one in action at the bottom of this blog.
- TrackBack Validator Plugin - An absolutely essential trackback spam filtering plugin.
- MostWanted - a Popular Posts Plugin for WordPress - Another highly utilized Wordpress plugin.
- Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress - What can I say, this one is an absolute must for any serious blogger !!
As usual, have fun with these links !!!
Cheers,
Dave
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