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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, March 12th, 2012 03:55
Thanks. Saved a lot of time. I must recommend bloggers that they should get their hands on most reliable and powerful plugins at the very start of their newly developed sites so that they can avoid trial-error. Thanks for sharing all of the needed plugins in one post.
Monday, March 5th, 2012 13:02
Broken Link Checker is a very helpful but very slow.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 13:53
Great useful list for plugins, i am also looking for e mail plugins for my new WP project. Please share your information and source.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 22:29
When you write “without a dub” you actually mean “without a doubt”. Just saying.
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 11:16
Thanks for the most valuable contents. please update for current wordpress.
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 10:50
What a huge collection of plugins……… really like this post.
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!
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.
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 :)
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
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.
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…
Saturday, September 24th, 2011 16:15
Nice list! Thank you! I installed Broken Link Checker. Hope it’ll do some good.
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.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 16:57
With over a hundreds of WordPress features to choose from, you’ll never know which plugins to use. Glad you were able to put together these lists, although I don’t know some of them I’d be glad to try it out as well.
Thanks for sharing.
-Elmar
Sunday, September 18th, 2011 05:27
Hi Bro, that was a really nice of plugins.
I have book marked the page for future reference.
Thanks for sharing!!
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 23:21
Really good list! One plugin I’ve found very useful is Adminer, gives access to a mysql editor inside wordpress.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 18:40
Thanks for this great list. All right
Monday, August 8th, 2011 13:00
Bookmarked! Some great plugins listed here guys.
Friday, August 5th, 2011 20:52
The broken link checker is excellent. Found a couple for me the other day, works a treat. Google sitemaps too, how can anyone do without a sitemap plugin I dont know. Many here I havent tried or seen yet so looking forward to seeing what they can all do!
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 13:09
Nice share
I have just added Google site map generator and ad rotator
Thanks mate
Friday, July 22nd, 2011 10:04
Thanks for review. I will build my new blog, after read this, my problem solved
Monday, July 18th, 2011 15:37
Thanks for this great list. That’s just what I needed. Like others have said, usually people recommend the same old plugins but I have found some of yours to be pretty useful.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 19:36
This is one of the best WP Plugin lists i’ve seen online. Usually it’s the same old plugins recommended over and over again. But you’ve chose some ones i’ve never heard of and will be getting. Thanks
Monday, June 6th, 2011 12:47
i have WordPress theme but i don’t know how to install favicon plugin.http://www.amazibox.com
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 15:18
A really nice list of plugins, cheers!
I’ve been using broken link checker for a while now, so useful!
I find W3 Total Cache speeds up the loading of mysite more than WP Supercache however.
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fireRoxy
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 16:46
great collection. thanks for sharing.
Paul Pruneau
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.
Lanre
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.
Jordan Walker
Monday, March 8th, 2010 15:56
Great list of resources for administrators. Thanks.
dimaks
Monday, March 8th, 2010 09:04
i think i need the #1 and #30 plugins. I will get my hands on them some of these days. Great list here, though i don’t really use most of them. well, maybe that’s just me :)
emoracket
Monday, March 8th, 2010 11:38
Awesome list~~
kinozalov
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 22:05
Thanks, about many plug-ins at all did not know
cams
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!
Jacob
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 02:39
Great work. I am gonna use 3 of theme. Thank You
Squishy
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!
Usi
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.
Zashime
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 05:30
These are all cool and I will use those that will be helpful to my site… cheers!
Carol
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.
Hermitbiker
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 :) !!
David
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 09:58
Thanks for speaking about my plugin ;)
Dani
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
ImagingDesk
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 04:17
Wonderfull plugint list for administrators. Thanks for sharing this.
ivomynttinen
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 18:25
Great list, just added Databasesize and Adminize to my Blog :)
Simran
Friday, March 5th, 2010 16:28
Thanks for sharing these useful plugins with us
Suhasini
Friday, March 5th, 2010 16:50
Some really nice collection of plugins here, we have installed most of them and will install few more after seeing this article, thanks for sharing.
Kai Köpke
Friday, March 5th, 2010 10:41
Great collection of plugins. i´ll try some of them inn future for sure
Webthesurfi
Friday, March 5th, 2010 07:53
Great share, I never heard some of those plugins. Bookmarked and saved it for future reference.
arfandia
Friday, March 5th, 2010 07:06
Wonderfull plugint list.. i’m using 4-5 this plugin at blog. thanks for sharing this
Blog Tips
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 23:23
Great list, added a couple to my arsenal, trying to limit my plugin use but a couple of these I hadn’t used and seemed like great finds!
Mike B
Friday, March 5th, 2010 00:29
Great list of useful plugins, some of which I haven’t seen around on other blogs. Great work!