Yakezie.com - Topic: Top Wordpress Plugins

MoneyBeagle on Top Wordpress Plugins

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:13:04 +0000

debtroundup said:

I just want to comment on this regarding plugins. Make sure to be careful with outdated and old plugins. These make it much easier for people to hack your blog. Old plugins are using old wordpress security practices. When they are not updated, they can easily be exploited to gain entrance into your blog or inject bad code into your sql databases. I just figured I would let you know.

Good point. Wordpress will show you the version of your plugins, they should also show the last updated date so that you can easily see at a glance what plugins have not been updated in a while.

Eliza Cross on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:29:59 +0000

Thanks to everyone for sharing your lists, and to Jake for starting a great topic. Two more of my faves I'll add to the list:

Backup Buddy - for weekly backups

WP Biographia - adds your bio and social media buttons at the end of your posts. If configured correctly and connected to your Google+ page, your photo shows up on Google search.

debtroundup on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:18:04 +0000

I just want to comment on this regarding plugins. Make sure to be careful with outdated and old plugins. These make it much easier for people to hack your blog. Old plugins are using old wordpress security practices. When they are not updated, they can easily be exploited to gain entrance into your blog or inject bad code into your sql databases. I just figured I would let you know.

This That And The MBA on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:51:42 +0000

I had w3tc but it messed up my thesis theme part of the reason i am on genesis now. I use wp supercache and it is easy to configure and so far so good.

moolamind on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:27:11 +0000

Thanks for the responses. I too use broken link checker and didn't know that, and when you host with godaddy, you can't spare any extra load time ;)

Lot of plugins to go through here. Thanks for the full lists!

Frugal Confessions on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:18:01 +0000

Thank you for that tip Andrea! I use that plugin, but keep it running all of the time.

Also, does it have a search function or something? I had Jesse put in my signature code automatically on all of my new/old posts, then do a code to take out the manual code. Unfortunately, in internet explorer at least I see a boxed "x" where the code used to be and I'd like to clean that up.

MoneyBeagle on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:42:04 +0000

sooverthis said:

Just wanted to mention that Broken Link Checker (while awesome) should be deactivated when you aren't using it – it slows down page load times a LOT. I activate mine once a week or so, then wait 15 minutes and check for broken links. Once I'm done, I deactivate it again.

I actually keep meaning to do this and just added a task to do this today (the Broken Link Checker deactivation). I've played with the server load settings which does seem to help, but probably just running it once in a while would be good too.

Objective Wealth on Top Wordpress Plugins

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:52:46 +0000

I would never have known that about Broken Link Checker, what a good tip.
Some simple plugins I think are worthy of including are: Wordpress Editorial Calendar, Publish Confirmation and Ad Injection.

Edward Antrobus on Top Wordpress Plugins

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:33:45 +0000

Thanks for the tip about BLC, I do struggle with page load times for my food blog.

sooverthis on Top Wordpress Plugins

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:10:38 +0000

Just wanted to mention that Broken Link Checker (while awesome) should be deactivated when you aren't using it – it slows down page load times a LOT. I activate mine once a week or so, then wait 15 minutes and check for broken links. Once I'm done, I deactivate it again.

My other must haves:

WP Super Cache (W3TC has a lot of compatibility issues in my experience)
GASP
Gravity Forms
StatCounter
WP Optimize
Wordfence Security
WP Smush.it
Widget Logic
All in One SEO

Edward Antrobus on Top Wordpress Plugins

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:22:52 +0000

Well, I guess it all depends on what you want to do. I consider W3 Total Cache, WP-DB Manager, and Wordpress SEO must haves that I have installed on all of my sites. Aside for that, I use Zemanta to add links and images to my posts, Broken Link Checker to find links that have broken so I can fix or remove them, Tweetily to periodically tweet older posts, WP Popular Posts Tool to generate the list of popular posts in my sidebar,

Complete list:

Adsense Extreme
Akismet
Broken Link Checker
CommentLuv
Efficient Related Posts
Growmap Anti-Spambot Plugin (I hate the checkbox, but finally had to break down when my spam filter was starting to fill up with 100+ per day)
No Self Pings
Related Posts & Images By Zemanta
Revision Cleaner
Shareaholic
Social Media Widget
Tweetily
W3 Total Cache
Web Ninja Google Analytics
What Would Seth Godin Do
Wordpress Backup to Dropbox
Wordpress Editorial Calendar
Wordpress SEO
WP-DB Manager
WP-Popular Posts Tool
WP Missed Schedule

That list is a bit longer than it should be, but most of them are back-end plugins so they shouldn't affect my page loading time.

moolamind on Top Wordpress Plugins

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:13:53 +0000

I just learned about the social metrics plugin from another topic in the forum, and I thought I (and possibly others) might be missing out on more helpful plugins.

What other plugins are helpful for you guys?

Here's one we use. It's called "Mailchimp Comment Plugin" and it adds a little subscribe check box under the comment box so people can subscribe to your list as they comment.

Looking forward to your suggestions...