Back to Back Wordpress Posts?! My Favorite WP Plugins
MIHMORANDUM NO. 93 | May 23rd, 2008
Graywolf detailed a terrific collection of Wordpress plugins last week and got me off my kiester to finally post a list of Wordpress plugins that I use frequently, either on my own blog and on my clients’. It’s a lot shorter, but hopefully you’ll find some value from these as well.
1) Plugin to Order Your Wordpress Blog Posts: aStickyPostOrderER by AndreSC.
Offers you complete control over your post order, including separation by category. Critical if you are going to use WP as a CMS, in my opinion.
2) Get Wordpress Custom Field Values Plugin by Coffee2Code.
Another critical plugin for Wordpress-as-CMS. E-Commerce SKU numbers, prices, etc. can all be contained in custom fields. Let alone specialized date/time information for posts about particular events, multiple authors, etc.
3) SEO Title Tag Plugin for Wordpress: by Stephan Spencer and Netconcepts.
Stephan is one of my favorite speakers in the SEO industry. His company also puts out an amazing plugin for bloggers who want to get a little more visibility in Google, Yahoo, and the rest. Particularly good for long tail searches.
4) Plugin for Breadcrumb Navigation in Wordpress: Breadcrumb NavXT by John Havlik and Michael Woehrer. We all know breadcrumb navigation is great for usability. Now there’s a plugin that makes it DIRT simple to display it in Wordpress.
5) Lightbox Plugin for Wordpress: Lightbox 2.0.4 by Giuseppe Argento.
There are any number of uses for this plugin; I particularly like it to display larger images of products, a la Banana Republic / Gap’s “Quick Look.”
6) Latest Wordpress Comments Plugin: Brian’s Latest Comments by Brian Meidell.
Title says it all.
7) Plugin for Extra User Fields in Wordpress: CIMY User Extra Fields by Cimatti Consulting.
This is a neat plugin to make your users’ profile pages a little bit more robust. You can ask them pointed questions or give them a little freer rein as to what they’d like to say about themselves.
Feel free to list your own favorite plugins in the comments!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
I’ve been looking for a plugin just like #1 up there. Awesome!
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Great, Bryan, glad this post helped someone. #1 and #7 are definitely my favorite plugins of the bunch because I don’t know enough code to be able to hack anything remotely close to them. Most of the others I can come up with something similar, but these just save a ton of time.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
You may want to check up on your links (#4 is an old page that shouldn’t be linked to anymore). BTW. #4 was also renamed awhile back.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Thanks John. I adjusted the link destination and the name to reflect the changes. I must have pulled the old link from my del.icio.us account or something. Phenomenal plugin!