20 New, Useful And Promising WordPress Plugins
Dainis Graveris
I feel like now everybody knows and uses all those popular plugins, which everybody mention on their blogs and repeat many times without big sense. That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to feature not so well known, totally new or just useful plugins you’ve probably never seen before. All plugins are very carefully picked, this is absolutely not some random list.
I also added WordPress site monthly download statistics to let you know how popular these plugins are, but don’t underestimate new plugins. Just scroll through the list and maybe you’ll get several new features on your blog to make life easier. Hope you like this!
1. WP Greet-Box
This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.
For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction
Downloads 39,232
2. My Page Order
Gives you manual control over the order of your WordPress pages by letting you easily set an explicit order. Works with subpages too. Now with built-in Widget support.
Downloads 93,157
3. Stray Random Quotes
Stray Random Quotes helps you collect and display random quotes everywhere on your blog with many features. The plugin is so flexible that it can be used to display random words of all sorts: taglines, “leave a response” messages, footer or header sections etc.
Downloads 21,667
4. No Self Pings
Prevents WordPress from sending pings to your own site, for example there are times when you want to link directly related articles like Part 1, Part 2, by default site will get pinged by itself.
Really self explaining so this time I didn’t add any screenshot to this one.
Downloads 12,539
5. GD Star Rating
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings.
Downloads 87,474
6. SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
Downloads 59,285
7. Broken Link Checker
This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Pretty useful in long run especially if you have lots of content on your blog.
Downloads 63,951
8. Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging.
Downloads 347,793
9. Post Ideas
Manage and keep track of your blog article or post ideas. I usueally save my links on notepad, but this is a great way how to start writing article or just collect your ideas doing a little research. Set priority, sort ideas, everything is up to you.
Downloads 1,769
10. HeadSpace2 SEO
HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site, click through the link to see many features. Pretty popular plugin already, but I think in most cases underestimated, since there are All in One SEO Pack.
Downloads 190,535
11. Eventr – Event Registration Plugin for WordPress
Use this plugin if you want to use your blog an an event management tool. This will let people signup for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can just deactivate the event – and no more signup will be allowed.
Downloads 2,776
12. FV Community News
Many blogs out there can only produce a couple articles a week while their visitors ask for loads more. It’s sometimes a good idea to add related articles from other blogs to your sidebar. Adding them manually takes lots of time we don’t have. With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.
Downloads 4,679
13. Sphere Related Content
The Sphere Related Content plug-in displays an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere finds blog posts and media articles related to your content. See it in action on over 1 billion article pages on popular media sites and blogs like the WSJ, New York Times, TechCrunch and Real Clear Politics. See it live on intowit website.
Downloads 29,274
14. Welcome Visitor
Welcome-visitor is a wordpress plugin, which will welcome visitors ( who come from others sites, e.g. google search, yahoo! serach or your friends’ links), and ask them to bookmark your site or to subscribe your rss feed. It will help you to get more readers and more attention!
Downloads 2,565
15. Role Scoper
Role Scoper is a comprehensive enrichment for access control in WordPress, giving you CMS-like control of permissions. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis.
Downloads 7,184
16. Live Countdown Timer
Widget that will enable you to show a beautifull live countdown timer for an event, where y ou can choose from different designs. Requires JavaScript Enabled (for the countdown to work) or it will not work.
Downloads 882
17. Sliding Panel
The Sliding Panel plugin adds a panel that opens and closes to the top of your WordPress-powered blog. If you’re in need of an area to house more content yet not get in the way, this is the ideal plugin.
The plugin is built off the wonderful jQuery library and is fully widgetized, so you can add any content you want. If you want a login form. Add it. If you want welcome text. No problem. Category list? You’re covered.
This plugin is for WordPress 2.8+ only.
Downloads 723
18. Adsense Stats
Adsense Stats is a widget for WordPress to display detailed statistics about your Google Adsense earnings without requiring login into your Google account.
Downloads 280
19. WP Wall
WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.
All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.
WP Wall is fully customizable with a CSS file and included graphics.
Downloads 58,722
20. Different Posts Per Page
“Different Posts Per Page” plugin will allow you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page. You can even set the order of posts by ascending or descending order.
There’s more settings if you prefer more control over your blog. You can set custom number of posts for other pages as well like: Author, Paged, Feed, Date, Month etc.
Downloads 24,408
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21. Page Link Manager
Page Link Manager is a WordPress plugin that adds an administration panel that allows you to pick which page links are included in your site’s navigation. Adding it to your WordPress installation is as easy as ever
Downloads 26,609
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Luis Lopez
Posted 1055 days ago 25ALready download some of those plugins, I’ll use it in my personal blog since now.
Thanks for this great article.
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Rusli Zainal
Posted 1057 days ago 24Your previous WP plugins review was great post now its another list of wp plugin, this also great plugin list, thanks
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 1058 days ago 23@ Heiko Schmieder nice one, I think I’ll add it too :)
@Can Elmas I am sure there are a lot more good plugins I didn’t include, but if you enjoy such articles so much, I could do part 2 maybe too :)
@Joyoge thanks, good luck :)
joyoge designers' bookmark
Posted 1058 days ago 22very nice new plugin list usefull.. thanks for share @Dainis
I’ll try on my personal blog
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Rusli Zainal
Posted 1059 days ago 21That Order my page plugin is really cool, I used to make ordered my page manually, dont know there is such plugin, thanks..
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Can Elmas
Posted 1059 days ago 20Thank you very much, I was searching for wordpress plugins, this is great; I found them in one place. I will be trying them soon…
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Heiko Schmieder
Posted 1059 days ago 19Great list – I just would add Page Link Manager plugin – to edit the visible site navigation in the frontend
Dainis Graveris
Posted 1059 days ago 18@Area1 thanks for kind words !
@Derek Kimball actually I got it from my friend on Spyrestudios, was excited to see it implemented on his blog :)
@reboltutorial Sorry, I tested it locally on my old wordpress version, so I don’t know yet about newer versions..
@ Edwin James Lynch I don’t know really about blogger, but i think on WordPress plugin page, you should be able to find something.. WordPress plugins
@ Stephen Cronin agreed I understand you, now many blogs actually sometimes also mine too repeats the same stuff, it’s hard to create really unique posts. But this was interesting research for me, and glad to hear You enjoy it too!
@ Zorlone ah, thanks – I’ll try to justify your trust and work even harder, hope you’ll find more good stuff here :)
@ David I must say it was really interesting research and Greetbox plugin gave me idea to this post, if you do some videos, just link here, I could add your links to article for better cause.
@ BeyondRandom great, thanks man! :)
@ Raymond Selda those two plugins are very good yes :) Everybody has random needs, search on maybe you’ll find something more useful too! :)
Raymond Selda
Posted 1059 days ago 17This is an amazing list! I thought this is going to be just another plugin list. I’m using Broken Link Checker and HeadSpace2 SEO. Thanks so much for this.
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BeyondRandom
Posted 1059 days ago 16Great plug-ins! I already use a few of theme but it will be cool to try a few others. thanks for sharing.
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David
Posted 1059 days ago 15Thanks Dainis – you’ve found some fantastic WordPress Plugins there!
For example -
WP-Greetbox great idea – if it works as it says it’s a smart way of making your visitors feel a bit more special when they arrive (I think!)
Post Ideas – Very simple idea but it does kind of make sense to keep your ideas in the right place – where you write about them!
There are too many good ones to comment on – but I’ll be checking at least 10 of them out to see what they are like.
I might even make a few screen capture videos to explain them to my readers.
Many thanks again for a top quality blog post.
Dave
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Mahallo Media
Posted 1060 days ago 14Thanks for sharing this great list of wp plugins.
Zorlone
Posted 1060 days ago 13I have a WP site but I haven’t started updating it. I was planning to transfer my blogspot to the WP site. Up until now, I haven’t maximized its use. (sigh, sigh, and another sigh).
One thing is for sure, I’ll be coming over this site for more info, @twitter, and @plurk too. hehehe
Z
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Stephen Cronin
Posted 1060 days ago 12I normally stay away from the WordPress plugin posts as they’re normally just the same plugins again and again. You had several new ones that I hadn’t heard of before – Thanks!
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Edwin James Lynch
Posted 1060 days ago 11Wow. Some of these are very cool. I’m particularly interested in the WP community ratings plug-in. Nobody does a good one of those and believe me I’ve looked. I’m also looking for an internal ratings plug-in where the Blogger can rate and review films, books etc. If anyone knows of one of these, please let me know. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to work out how to modify WP.
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reboltutorial
Posted 1060 days ago 10Good list though I knew many of them already, it was a good refresher for me.
But for postideas, it says compatible with 2.5, so does it work for 2.7.1+ ?
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Gennice
Posted 1060 days ago 9Finally a list that features plugins that aren’t so popular but are good!
Excellent finds and I’ve never heard about many of these… Will use some!
Thanks!
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Derek Kimball
Posted 1060 days ago 8Really liking the first featured plugin “WP Greet Box”. Never heard of it, but going to go check it out. Thanks
AREA 1
Posted 1060 days ago 7Great post! Thanks Dainis for this useful article!
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 1060 days ago 6@Aaron great, that’s a whole lot, just remember many plugins also can slow down your blog, it’s always hard to decide how to do better.
Aaron
Posted 1060 days ago 5Woaaahh! Awesome list, man! Thanks! I think I downloaded 1/2 of these as useful for me. Great work!
Dainis Graveris
Posted 1060 days ago 4@Tim Smith I liked that plugin too, though I hope I’ll get used to it, idea is good but it’s hard to change hapits :) Tell me your successes later :)
Tim Smith
Posted 1060 days ago 3My favorite is Post Ideas. I love it and the plug-in makes me a lot more productive. Thanks!
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 1060 days ago 2@Bariski I hoped to get that effect :) Thanks a lot :)
Bariski
Posted 1060 days ago 1Woo, I didn’t knew many of them nice collection buddy. Keep up.
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