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75 Best WordPress Plugins That Make Bloggers Lives Easier

PublishedDecember 26, 2009
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OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account.

openid-comments-wordpress-jquery-plugin

46. sCategory Permalink

Permalink option of WordPress %category% has one great limitation – when this option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for permalink generation. This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks limitation and allows you to select category for permalink generation.

scategory-permalinks-wordpress-jquery-plugin

47. Google AJAX Translation

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog.

google-ajax-translation-wordpress-jquery-plugin

48. Infinite scroll

Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page. This means they never need to click “Next Page”, which dramatically increases stickiness.

infinite-scroll-wordpress-jquery-plugin

49. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings.

gd-star-rating-wordpress-jquery-plugin

50. Image Drop Shadow

Image Drop Shadow wordpress plugin adds stylish drop shadow to images posted on your blog using jQuery. Just install it and all your posted images will automatically have a drop shadow.

image-drop-shadow-wordpress-jquery-plugin

51. J Post Slider

Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. This Plugin will present your HOT posts, in jQuery animation show.

j-post-slider-animation-wordpress-jquery-plugin

52. Live Blogroll

Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.

live-blogroll-wordpress-jquery-plugin

53. WP Wall

WP Wall is a “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 sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

wp-wall-wordpress-jquery-plugin

54. PixoPoint Menu Plugin

Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog.

pixo-point-menu-wordpress-jquery-plugin

55. Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.

form-validation-comments-wordpress-jquery-plugin

56. Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!

snazzy-archives-wordpress-jquery-plugin

57. Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

The Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a plugin that shows a warning message alerting the user why it is bad to use IE6, the security risk and the bad compatibility of Web Standards.

You can choose from 3 types of warning:

  • TOP, a discreet top bar
  • FULL, a fullscreen warning
  • CRASH, the mean option

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Elizabeth Lorelei Sramek

AI results optimization architect and SEO expert with 20+ years of experience. Crafting strategies that outrank, outperform, and outlast.

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  12. SHAY January 3, 2010

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  15. Sean January 4, 2010

    Great list of plugins.
    It always amazes me how much there is to chose from.

    The only question that I come up with is. Which of these plugins add the most functionality to a site & which are just bells & whistles?!

    I guess (as always) it all depends on what is required.

    Thanks for the post : )

    PS: Are you using any of these on your loreleiwebdesign site?

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    1. Lorelei January 6, 2010

      Hi Sean,

      Well, I guess functionality is a matter of preference. So many people are crazy about galleries and I find them pretty useless LOL.
      On Lorelei Web design I try to keep the plugins to the utmost minimum as we have a huge CPU usage and too many plugins makes the problem worse. I do use however:
      Akismet, FeedBurner FeedSmith, NoLIP: Nofollow Links in Posts (did I list it here?), TweetMeme Retweet Button, W3 Total Cache and WP-Spam free.

      Reply
  16. Denny January 4, 2010

    great list, i must say very good picks.

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  17. emily January 4, 2010

    Awesome, thanks for the list, make me want to switch to WordPress! LOL

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  18. Don Elliott January 5, 2010

    Nice compilation! There are several plugins here that I haven’t run across before and appear to be very useful. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

    -Don Elliott

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    1. Lorelei January 6, 2010

      Glad you found it useful, and thanks for the comment! 🙂

      Reply
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  22. Burton Snowboards January 6, 2010

    That is probably the biggest and most comprehensive list of wordpress plugins ever made, thanks for that 🙂

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    1. Lorelei January 6, 2010

      You’re welcome 🙂 feel free to tweet or digg 😛

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  24. rick January 10, 2010

    Incredible list of plug-ins! Looks like my afternoon will involve plenty of plug-in test drives…thanks!

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  25. daddy design January 11, 2010

    great list!! thank you!

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  26. Clint Maher January 13, 2010

    Awesome, that list must have taken ages to put together. I use many of them already although there is some others that I will now be trying out 🙂

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  27. Kaplang January 14, 2010

    wow these are cool, my blog is run on wordpress so I will be using a coupls of these 🙂 thanks

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  29. alufælge January 16, 2010

    Really a very useful blog. I never knew so many useful and interesting plugins existed out there. Thanks a lot.

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  30. Shamima Sultana January 17, 2010

    Great Tuts…thanks for sharing

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  39. Bing February 9, 2010

    I use CommentLuv plugin

    Thank for info

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  40. Bing February 9, 2010

    Awesome, thanks for the list, make me want to switch to WordPress

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  41. Manhattan February 12, 2010

    Aksimet basically comes built into WordPress now, so there’s really no reason to talk about it. It’s default.

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    pretty good list, a great help to new bloggers…

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  49. Heru Kurniawan March 9, 2010

    wew, I can choosing the best there are. thanks a lot

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  50. Khiyo March 10, 2010

    Thanks for posting this. Very helpful and I’m going to try some of them.

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  51. Lucian Apostol March 11, 2010

    Can SEO links get links from other blogs too ? Or you know any plugin that can work like SEO links but with external articles ?

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  53. Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny March 28, 2010

    Thank you for such a comprehensive list! Lots of work on your part to gather everything together. Now, much work for me to go and install some interesting new plug-ins!

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  60. Artisteer Template Guy June 14, 2010

    Wow lots of plugins with some very brief details. I am looking for th best video player plugin for my own videos. Any suggestions?

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  61. Pilar Torres June 21, 2010

    Really useful tools that I will be using on my blog.
    I already use some of them like twitter, askimet and so on.
    Will give the other ones a try.

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  62. Whitney Segura July 8, 2010

    And I thought that there were no master lists like this on the web, I was just sure of it. This list should be a secret, that’s how dangerous it really is!

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    A realy nice list of plugin. I’m not sure about clicky plugin utility, the code is easy to integrate in a theme, why need a plugin for it ?

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  65. Tom August 2, 2010

    I am blown away reading the list of very good plugins here. Wow! This is one of the most comprehensive list for enhanced blogging.

    You are really good!

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    Wow, this is really a amazing list of wordpress plugins. I definately approve of this, and will pass on amung my friends and blog networks. Thanks for the sweet list!

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