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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
Maybe you have some more new, but promising plugins in mind? Share them with us!
Thank you for the great list! Post Ideas is my favorite.Will there be an update with new Plugins?
You made my day … Thank you for this article. At least, i was really looking for such a greet box :)
Thanks, great work. I use 3 of the plugins and they are working fine.
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Thanks for the list! There are quite some nice plugins in there, but I do feel that a plugin like SEO Smart Links should have been a part of Wordpress’ core from the beginning.
SEO is essential for every website in my opinion. Stuff like that should be a part of the core.
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Thanks bro! Nice summary. I will use a few of them immediately… e.g. the Posts Ideas.
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Wow this is useful. Thanks.
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Great collection of plugins. I particualary like the Adsense stats. I’m actually looking for a link manager (that’s how I got to your blog) that lets you set any keyword in the posts to a hyperlink. I have seen one demo’d on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBS45Pg854Y which looks great but you need to buy it. Have you or any of your readers come across a free plugin that does something similar?
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The finest plugin I have found was just released from RoohIt. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instant-web-highlighter/
They call it an instant web highlighter that allows user selected portiions to be highlighted, but it allows visitors to microShare (share embedded highlights), microBookmark (go directly to highlights on my page), and microBlog (automatically post highlights to their own blog).
A fantastic tool for cutting through information overload. It has elements of tinyurl, delicious, twitter, diigo, digg, tumblr and a few more – all rolled into one.
In any case, I love it!!!
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Thanks for that list! I just discovered some really useful plugins.
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Thanks dude! great job you’ve done! I guess it’s time to check this new SEO pack.
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Nice list here…I would like to set up related content plugin on my website.