Our Favourite Plugins

by Simon on January 6, 2012

Image Gallery

NextGen – Extend the allows you to create multiple slideshows on your site.

Photo Space – adds any image attached to a post or a page to the gallery.

AnythingSlider – combines features found in several jQuery sliders into a single package.

NivoSlider

Video Playlist and Image Gallery – Post video players, slideshow albums, photo galleries and music / podcast playlist.

Multiple Galleries – Create multiple galleries on a single page.

Video

CaptionBox – Allows you to add a scrolling transcript below your video.

TubePress – Versatile and customizable video gallery.

Viper’s Video Quicktags – Embed videos from multiple sources.

Vimeo Shortcode – Embeds videos from Vimeo.

Database and Site Management

BackupBuddy – entire site backup, malware scanner, and repair tool.

Site Auto Backup – cPanel backup of entire site.

WP Cleaner – to tidy up your database.

Revision Control – to keep post revisions from building up again.

WP Optimize – like WP Cleaner.

Broken Link Checker – crawls site and reports broken links via email.

Theme Authentication Checker (TAC) – Checks for malicious code in theme.

Login Lockdown – Protects against brute force attacks on login page.

Formatting and Layout

TinyMCE Advanced – Advanced rich text editor that is fully customizable.

Ultimate TinyMCE – Advanced rich text editor, but not as customizable.

Pricing Table – Create multiple pricing tables.

Price Table – Create multiple pricing tables.

Contact Forms

Fast and Secure Contact Form – up to four contact forms. Easy to set up and use.

Contact Form 7 – multiple contact forms that can be fully customized.

Gravity Forms – extremely versatile and configurable contact form with PayPal integration.

Social Sharing

SexyBookmarks – add multiple share menu including Twitter, Facebook, Google, Plus One, and a host of other share sites like StumbleUpon and Digg.

Twitter, Facebook, Google, Plus One Share – add multiple share buttons with one plugin.

Social Toolbar – adds toolbar with multiple icons to top of site. Choose colors and icons.

Comments

Akismet – controls comment spam.

Growmap Anti Spambot (GASP) – controls comment spam.

Highlight Comments – differentiates the blog author’s comments in the stream.

CommentLuv – Places a link to your commenters last blog post at the end of their comment and threads comments by reply.

SEO

WordPress SEO – by Yoast – complete SEO for entire site, including XML site map.

All in One SEO Pack – complete SEO for entire site.

Analytics

Google Analyticator – installs correct code for Google Analytics on your site and includes analytics snapshot module in the WordPress Dashboard.

Google Analytics – by Yoast – installs correct code for Google Analytics on your site and includes tracking for ecommerce.

XML Sitemap

Google XML Sitemap – auto-generates an XML map of your site.

Google XML Sitemap for Videos – generates an XML map for all videos on your site.

File Manager

WP Download Manager – allows you to upload files and the pro version allows you to sell them too.

WordPress Downloads Monitor – upload and manage downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying link.

Redirects

Redirection – 301 redirects.

Under Construction

Under Construction – displays special page to non-logged in viewers while site is being worked on.

Custom Coming Soon Page – displays special page to non-logged in viewers while site is being worked on.

Events

EventBrite – extensive tools to manage, promote, and sell your event.

Events Manager – event registration management. Will be integrating PayPal soon.

Ajax Event Calendar – localized community calendar that allows authorized users to manage events in custom categories.

All in One Event Calendar – event calendar system with month, week, agenda views, upcoming events widget, color-coded categories, recurrence, and import/export of .ics feeds.

Google Calendar Events – Parses Google Calendar feeds and displays the events as a calendar grid or list on a page, post or widget.

Stout Google Calendar – Customizable calendar that allows you to embed Google Calendar events on your site.

StudioPress

StudioPress Plugins – Plugins that are made specifically to run on the Genesis framework.

Misc

WP Touch – Creates a mobile-friendly version of your blog. Also has Pro version.

Post Type Column Editor – Control the type of columns in post or page list.

Microkid’s Related Posts – searchable related posts that are reciprocal.

Yet Another Related Post Plugin – Display a list of related entries on your site and feeds based on a unique algorithm.

WP E-commerce – Customizable shopping cart plugin to sell items and digital media from your site.

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