SuperGeekBlog - WP Plugins

Posted by: Jake  :  Category: SGB Tech

The number of plugins I use for this site has grown quite a bit.  If you have your own blog, take a look at the below list of plugins.  Perhaps you will find one useful.  I have the name of the plugin linked to where you can find it, along with a brief description and explanation of why I use it.

Advanced Tagline - Installed this one for fun and flexibility.

Akismet - A must have… blog spam is annoying and frequent.

All in One SEO Pack - Meta tags, etc… if you don’t know what this does - research it.  It will be worth your time.

Best Posts Summary - Awesome plugin.  Gives daily, weekly, or monthly post summaries.

CyStat - Awesome stats plugin for wordpress.  Tab right in the admin menu.

Digg This Reloaded - Adds the Digg button to the bottom of single posts.

FeedBurner FeedSmith - Some people don’t like to redirect feeds via feedburner.  It was worked well for me to this point, so still use the functionality.

Google XML Sitemaps - Great plugin, auto-generates a sitemap for google robots.

RSS Footer - Nice plugin that lets you tweak the footer of individual posts in your RSS feed.

Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - Great and easy to impliment contact form for wordpress.

SimpleTags - Adds technorati tags to the bottom of posts.

Social Homes widget - A widget for the sidebar that allows you to link to your various social networking websites.

Spam Karma 2 - This plugin worked well for a number of years.  It has been discontinued and Akismet has been doing the trick.  So will probably be pulling it soon.

Subscribe To Comments - As the title sounds, allow your readers to subscribe to idividual comment feeds.

Tweet This - Adds the twitter button to the bottom of blog posts.

TwitterCounter - Displays the number of followers you have on Twitter.  A fun little addition.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Awesome must have plugin.  As the name implies, automatically upgrades your wordpress installation every time a new version comes out.

WP-Amazon - Generates amazon links with your affiliate id to add into posts.

So that is actually quite a few plugins.  Hopefully that will give you some ideas on how to geek out your own wordpress install.

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3 Responses to “SuperGeekBlog - WP Plugins”

  1. Thatedeguy Says:

    I would suggest you give Amazon - Reloaded a try. I like it a ton more than the wp-amazon plugin. I might be able to arrange a test run this afternoon. ;) Also, if you do forms at all (like contact forms) the one I’ve been running on everything is called Cforms II. Pretty close to amazing.

  2. Jake Says:

    Good ideas… I will have to take a look at it. Thanks

  3. Jake Says:

    There we go - got that fixed! Thanks again