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To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don’t spend enough time managing it. That’s why there are plugins for WordPress. They literally make your job lot easier and if you work well with them you can put them to work for you.
Sounds cool I know, but you have to know which plugins are ment for your blog and when to use them. In my opinion, the administration plugins have one of the most important roles in your blog because they are the ones that help you to get: statistics, help you manage content and help you to generate content.
There are tons of plugins designed to do the job I’ve just mentioned and is pretty difficult to find the plugins you really need. That’s why, in today’s post I’ve selected some of the most powerful administration plugins I know. You should also check out the great article by Saad Bassi about WordPress plugins to change the outlook for Administrator Dashboard .
Keep in mind that you have to save lots of time in order to become more effective and I’m sure that using these plugins right will save you a lot of time.
Firestats is without a dub my favorite plugin for gathering statistics about the traffic that comes to my blogs. It has a powerful monetization system so that you can get info about: user country, ip, browser, operating system and many more. Firestats and Firestats Chart can work separately as well, but I recommend you to use both of them in order to get a better idea about the traffic that comes to your site.
Many people consider this plugin not very useful, but I consider that once with your blog evolution there will be more people to write for you or just more people logging in to your blog and if you are like me you want your own logo to be the one that dominates your creation.
Being able to create photo galleries and adding videos to your WordPress blog is just perfect for any type of blog you manage. This plugin helps you to easily do that and also integrates a small button in the visual editor of your post writer.
The combination between PHP and Java Script has always a good impact for your visitors. The Ajax Login system brings great login effects which will determine more people to register.
If you are a Google Analytics user this plugin saves you a lot of time but if you are not, than you should definitely go and start using it because is the best option for your website traffic statistics.
To save more time, Admin Management Xtended brings new Ajax forms to automatically change or add content to your blog without having to reload the page and lose time.
Easily customize the Admin Menu as you like.
Displays a small and non disturbing message text which contains information about the size of your WordPress blog database.
If you are running a collective blog, this plugin will help you to restrict some permissions for different types of members of your blog. You choose who sees what.
We all know how important a first impression is and without a dub, the favicon you have on your website is vital and probably the one that remains in your visitors head. Favicons Chooser helps you to easily add or choose a Favicon.
This plugin stores your ideas about what you would like to write in the near future. When you are ready to post about one of your ideas in the “Post Ideas” just click on it and you will be redirected to the writing page.
Is pretty messy to find out that the post or page you are looking for is missing or is broken. Broken Link checker helps you to solve this problem and warns you when you should change links.
The admin can easily change the style sheet of each page from the theme directory.
Helps you to add any type of ad banner anywhere you want and also it helps you to keep a statistics page for them.
WP Super Cache is a must have plugin for any respected website or blog. It generates static HTML pages for your every page and post so when you have tons of traffic the bandwidth will handle it and you will not have any problems.
This is very useful if you are that kind of guy who forgets what to do before posting a new article. If you forget to post an a category for your article or just need to add SEO tags you just have to add those into the Genki Pre-publish reminder.
Automatically adds clickable smileys for administrator area and also for users comment form.
Get more control over the styles of your blog and also emoticons and layouts.
This plugin helps you to get the content of other plugins and automatically installs it. All you have to do is to point the Plugin Installer to the source of the plugin and it will do the rest.
Automatically adds a new page to category management which shows what posts are in that category so that you will be able to easily transfer them to other categories.
One of the most powerful Spell Checkers created for WordPress.
This plugin helps you to select the way that your WYSIWYG panel looks like and choose what elements to show and which not.
Automatically generates xml and gz extension sitemaps for your blog which is very important for indexing your pages by Google.
Adds the social media links for every posts and pages.
Displays a message which alerts your visitors that your website is unavailable. The message is customizable.
Changes the whole User Interface in WordPress and creates a great experience for every user.
Helps you to easily manage batch tags so that you will be able to save lots of time.
Compress and hide unnecessary items in your wordpress blog.
Create and customize your own menu in WordPress Admin Area. You can add all kind of quick links in the menu section like: Google Analytics, Adsense account or just a simple other page.
Adds the Notepad in your WordPress application. The Notepad panel can be hide or displayed by clicking one simple button.
I’ve personally tested all of these amazing plugins and I can confirm that they are great for every type of blogger. Hope it will help you too and stay with us to get more interesting articles about WordPress and blog management tutorials.
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Monday, May 9th, 2011 21:58
Great list
Google Analyticator, that’s the thing I’m looking for.
Sunday, April 24th, 2011 00:36
Hi,
Love the post ideas plugin. Just a bit disappointed with the Ajax spell checker as it does not capitalize my “I” s when i do posts, that would be really cool.
Thursday, April 7th, 2011 18:54
Seems very good plugins to use in my latest web site. Dude!!! I am not much into reading, but somehow I got to read lots of articles on your blog. It’s amazing how interesting it is for me to visit you very often.
Thursday, April 7th, 2011 20:14
thank you, appreciate your words! Well, try to keep up then!
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 08:52
Awesome list. I was especially looking for some advertising plugins. Hope they work as you say.
Saturday, March 26th, 2011 21:56
Good list. I just love AdRotator. It is a must-have on every best-plugin-list.
Thanks for some good ideas :)
Friday, March 25th, 2011 08:12
Great job mate :)…What a wonderful article you wrote. Its helpful for me for my new blog. I have bookmarked your blog too.
Monday, March 14th, 2011 14:56
very nice list… but my favorite one remains “hide admin panels”… my question is.. even though they are hidden, will they be accesibile if you use the link directly?
Thursday, January 6th, 2011 12:48
Really this post is very useful, i learn a lot from this post.
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 03:50
Some of the photos look like the old version of WP. I love this list. Some I knew, most I never heard of. I think I will be visiting the admin area very soon :-)
Friday, October 8th, 2010 19:15
the custom admin branding plugin I think is best for me, i should be thankful for your great share.
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 11:17
Just wanted to point out that the saying is NOT “without a dub” (whatever the hell that is), it is “without a doubt”.
Great article though. Thanks!
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 05:30
These are all cool and I will use those that will be helpful to my site… cheers!
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 14:13
Thank you very much for yet another first-rate WordPress tutorial. I am always searching for original WordPress tips to suggest to my own readers. Thanks for making this article. It’s just what I was searching for. Truly fantabulous post.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 11:12
Thanks for the list. These are some, besides very help. I have sometimes a question in addition. Is there a Plugin for subject symbols? I would like to say I have seen such a thing in the kind schonmal, however, I do not know where and whether it was a Plugin for subjects Symbols. Can somebody say to me there what?
Thanks and greets Micha
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 09:58
Thanks for speaking about my plugin ;)
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 20:01
…. a great list of awesome WP plug-ins, now if I could just get my WP blog going the way I want…. supposed to be a snap for blogger’s with “no experience” or very little “knowledge”…. I turn “simple” into something like “discovering” the cure for the common cold…. lmao :) !!
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 05:03
Great great list, fire stats looks like a awesome application and I am going to make good use of it. My mind is going into overdrive with this plugin list, it is going to take me weeks to check all these out!
Sunday, April 4th, 2010 13:56
Nice list Cosmin :) :)
I have almost used all the plugins but never knew about Fireststats plugin ;)
This made me to read more and more and scroll below :) :)
Thanks for the list :) Tweeted :)
Friday, March 12th, 2010 13:28
This list was really useful. Some of them are sort of outdated (although some also had newer versions/branches), but some were very useful! Thanks!
Monday, March 8th, 2010 19:02
Great list!
Post Ideas, Google Analyticator and Broken Link Checker look very interesting.
Can’t wait to check them out @ WP.
Thanks for putting this list together.
Monday, March 8th, 2010 16:29
Great list! I’ve downloaded the admin notepad for my blog wp super cache and the ad rotator, thank yo so much.
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Adrian A.
Friday, March 5th, 2010 12:33
Very useful stuff. Keep up the good work!
djavupixel
Friday, March 5th, 2010 11:11
Some really nice WordPress plugins! Some of them I already have them other I will give it a try :)
Carl - Web Courses Bangkok
Friday, March 5th, 2010 19:37
Perfect for our new up and coming WordPress course!
Sebastien Lhomme
Friday, March 5th, 2010 20:40
Usefull list. I descover some new plugins here. I usually try to keep plugins to a minimum, but some of them are really essential! Thanks for puttinng this list together.
The Inside Design
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 06:49
Amazing list of plugins for WordPress. We personally use most of the ones in this articles but there a couple I didn’t know about and look very useful especially for our blog. Good article and thanks for the resources.
Designerfoo
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 12:19
Great list! Loved it and Love Firestats, giving it a try now :) Thanks!
Alex Denning
Friday, March 5th, 2010 19:37
2.7 onwards comes with a plugin installer and 3.0 will include a menu manager. It’s all very well listing ‘the x most useful plugins for x’, but when the functionality is built in? Someone’s got some homework to do.
Untara
Friday, March 5th, 2010 17:15
Great list … thank you for sharing! :)
Danny Cooper
Friday, March 5th, 2010 12:18
Just installed Analyticator, great plugin thanks for the recommendation. Looks beautiful in the WordPress Dashboard too!
mupet
Friday, March 5th, 2010 12:26
Great list and very useful plugin. I uisng some of them on my wordpress site
Julianntrott
Friday, March 5th, 2010 20:57
Custom Admin Branding and The Favicon chooser, are the WP plugins I’ve been looking for a while!
Garcya
Friday, March 5th, 2010 21:25
Custom Admin Branding is sweet.
I used to manually change the login screen with my logo.
But every time I updated wordpress I needed to change that again.
With this plugin there isn’t need for that, so it’s saving me some time :)
Adamfarson
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 03:50
Some of the photos look like the old version of WP. I love this list. Some I knew, most I never heard of. I think I will be visiting the admin area very soon :-)
Derry
Thursday, January 6th, 2011 12:48
Really this post is very useful, i learn a lot from this post.
Benjamin
Saturday, December 17th, 2011 22:52
Some great plugins have come to my attention. Really helpful for my blog as I am a newbie wordpress blogger, this list is very useful for me. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Sahil Kotak
Monday, December 26th, 2011 05:48
Superb list, but I was wondering does all of them still works with the latest version of WordPress. In the latest version they’ve updated many things in Admin panel so I doubt it.
Thanks!
raj
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 10:50
What a huge collection of plugins……… really like this post.
Facundo
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 01:04
Wich plugin are you using for recommend other post, at the right-bottom corner?
Pleace respond to my mail, thx :)
Charlotte
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 09:40
Hey,
I also came here looking for the plugin to do the recommended for you popup in the bottom right.
Can anybody let me know?
Thanks
Rean John Uehara
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 09:53
http://simplereach.com/
Curry
Monday, October 31st, 2011 20:01
Thanks for this list, and thanks Chuck for the link to this awesome forms plugin too! Just what i was looking for.
Tomy Egide
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 20:37
Great Blog Administrator Plugins recommendation, i never thought of a plugin that can manage the WP blog so easily, Admin Management Xtended is a Gem. Thanks again for the recommendation of Admin Management Xtended.
Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt
Saturday, September 24th, 2011 16:15
Nice list! Thank you! I installed Broken Link Checker. Hope it’ll do some good.
Edward O'Daniel
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 12:50
Great list of wordpress plugins it’s very helpful thanks and shopping cart plugin is the same which I needed thanks…
Anas
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 11:16
Thanks for the most valuable contents. please update for current wordpress.
Hassan Raza
Sunday, March 18th, 2012 13:53
Best plugins list ever. I tried all of them to my blog :)
Anonymous
Thursday, March 29th, 2012 04:48
Hello Cosmin, I have found this blog while touring in the blog land. I would like to thank you for sharing such great information about WordPress plugins. This is really helpful for the blogger and webmasters as well. I am personally using “All in One SEO Pack” and “Google Analyticator” for my wordpress site – those are absolutely great plugin and easy to use also. Anyways, I have bookmarked your write up and will make sure to come back here again. Keep up the good work mate.!