I’ve seen this type of post before where the author of the blog posts about the plugins he/she is using on their blogs.This blog being WordPress related means that i have come across many many plugins and i’m in awe of plugin(s) developers that actually spend the time to create a plugin that will benefit the WordPress community, to every WordPress plugin developers out there, i salute you and thank you for making WordPress an even better publishing platform by contributing your plugins.
But out of the many plugins out there this blog is using “only” 10 plugins, that number might increase in the future but as of now there’s 10 plugins that keeps this blog rolling.
The Obvious
I guess the top two obvious plugin for a majority of bloggers are the Askimet plugin and the contact form plugin.
Of course i’m using Askimet and there’s a variety of contact form plugins out there but i’m using the Contact Form ][ by Chip Cuccio.
The Other 5 Plugins
Ok two down 8 more plugins to go but first here’s my personal top 5 plugins (besides the obvious of course)
The Category Tagging and Ultimate Category Cloud plugin are both sweet plugin and i love the simplicity of it, it does what i wanted it to do and you can see in function now on my sidebar (or the image below).The sweet thing about the Ultimate Category Cloud is that you can choose it to be either “weighted” whereby top categories become bigger while the lesser known category becomes smaller or you can just leave it so that all category fonts remains the same size, on this blog the category “WordPress” is the biggest of them all.You can also set the colours of the bigger & smaller fonts.
Next on the list is the Popularity Contest plugin that will help you see which of your posts are most popular. Views, comments, etc. are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity.
From the same author of the Popularity Contest plugin comes the Share This plugin that allows the readers of this blog to share this blog’s content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.
Than there’s the Snap Preview plugin that adds Snap Preview Anywhere(TM) to my blog’s outgoing links.
The Last 3 Plugins..
These 3 plugins are rarely use by a typical blogger because they don’t really need to use it and not because it sucks or anything like that.
The Stick Post plugin is essential if you want to “sticky” your post to the top of your blog’s homepage, as you can see right now at the time of this post i am indeed using this plugin for my WPTP2 post, if you go to my homepage now you will noticed that the WPTP2 post was posted on the 14th of March but it’s on top of all the other post because i’m using the Stick Post plugin, much like what you see in forums this plugin ensures that the post you assigned stays on top.
Next is the Download Counter plugin that makes it easy for me to track my stats of of the number of download my themes have received, if your a plugin developer or theme designer that is offering plugins/themes for download than this plugin will come in handy.
And last but not least is the plugin that I have rarely seen people using, it’s the RSS Auto Submit plugin that will submit your blog’s rss feed to 16 RSS Directories once a month.
So there you have it, the 10 plugins that i’m using right now, i’m tempted to make it 11 by using the MyAvatars plugin but I had some problems trying to get it to work, maybe i’ll give it another try soon.
What plugins does your blog use?
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