30 Powerful WordPress Plugins For Blog Administrators
Cosmin Lupsan
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.
1. FireStats and FireStats Charts
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.
2. Custom Admin Branding
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.
3. Post Video and Photo Galleries
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.
4. Login with Ajax
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.
5. Google Analyticator
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.
6. Admin Management Xtended
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.
7. Admin Menu Editor
Easily customize the Admin Menu as you like.
8. Database Size WordPress Plugin
Displays a small and non disturbing message text which contains information about the size of your WordPress blog database.
9. Hide Admin Panels
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.
10. Favicons Chooser
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.
11. Post Ideas
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.
12. Broken Link Checker
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.
13. Digital Raindrops Style Sheet
The admin can easily change the style sheet of each page from the theme directory.
14. AdRotator
Helps you to add any type of ad banner anywhere you want and also it helps you to keep a statistics page for them.
15. WP Super Cache
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.
16. Genki Pre-publish Reminder
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.
17. WP Grins
Automatically adds clickable smileys for administrator area and also for users comment form.
18. WP Super Editor
Get more control over the styles of your blog and also emoticons and layouts.
19. Plugin Installer
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.
20. Batch Categories
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.
21. Ajax Spell Checker
One of the most powerful Spell Checkers created for WordPress.
22. Custom Write Panel
This plugin helps you to select the way that your WYSIWYG panel looks like and choose what elements to show and which not.
23. Google Sitemaps Generator
Automatically generates xml and gz extension sitemaps for your blog which is very important for indexing your pages by Google.
24. Share This
Adds the social media links for every posts and pages.
25. Site Unavailable
Displays a message which alerts your visitors that your website is unavailable. The message is customizable.
26. Fluency
Changes the whole User Interface in WordPress and creates a great experience for every user.
27. Simply Tags
Helps you to easily manage batch tags so that you will be able to save lots of time.
28. Adminize
Compress and hide unnecessary items in your wordpress blog.
29. Quick Menu
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.
30. Admin Notepad
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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Rex
Posted 192 days ago 78My personal favorite way to search for plugins is the search engine at:
http://searchwordpressplugins.com
It has all the plugins from the Official WordPress Repository but with a more advanced search interface.
mohammad
Posted 227 days ago 76awesome blog man!
nice your every post.
Chuck
Posted 230 days ago 75Hey guys!
I’ve found this website with a great wordpress plugin called Creative Unified forms:
http://www.prospekt-solutions.com/creative-unified-forms/
You can create contact forms with maps, videos, quizzes, tests and more!
Check it out!
cursus dreamweaver
Posted 206 days ago 77Thanks for this list, and thanks Chuck for the link to this awesome forms plugin too! Just what i was looking for.
Edward O'Daniel
Posted 232 days ago 74Great list of wordpress plugins it’s very helpful thanks and shopping cart plugin is the same which I needed thanks…
tas
Posted 240 days ago 73Thanks for this list, just needed htat
Pulkit Kaushik | TheDolt
Posted 243 days ago 72Nice list! Thank you! I installed Broken Link Checker. Hope it’ll do some good.
ISPSD
Posted 244 days ago 71Wow currently looking for most of them .
Tomy Egide
Posted 246 days ago 70Great 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.
Elmar Sandyck
Posted 247 days ago 69With 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
Taru
Posted 248 days ago 68Great list of plugins……Thanks
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Geek Revealed
Posted 250 days ago 67Hi Bro, that was a really nice of plugins.
I have book marked the page for future reference.
Thanks for sharing!!
iPhone 5
Posted 254 days ago 66Thanks man i was looking for this list Really good list! One plugin I’ve found very useful is Adminer, gives access to a mysql editor inside wordpress.
Johan Brodd
Posted 265 days ago 64Really good list! One plugin I’ve found very useful is Adminer, gives access to a mysql editor inside wordpress.
thiet ke web dep
Posted 259 days ago 65It’s very useful plugin , i alway use these plugin for my wordpress projects. thanks you .
hani
Posted 268 days ago 63tanks
Pavel
Posted 273 days ago 62Thanks for this great list. All right
neveyr
Posted 290 days ago 61Bookmarked! Some great plugins listed here guys.
Dehumidifiers for Home
Posted 293 days ago 60The 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!
Techmug
Posted 294 days ago 59Nice share
I have just added Google site map generator and ad rotator
Thanks mate
Jenni Cortez
Posted 308 days ago 58Thanks for review. I will build my new blog, after read this, my problem solved
PSVita-News
Posted 311 days ago 57Thanks 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.
Karthik Ramadoss
Posted 328 days ago 56This is a fantastic list. I just updated my own 40+ Best WordPress Plugins article with current WordPress plugins we use in a host of WordPress sites we manage as blogs and as CMS platforms. I have also neatly categorized into different sections so it is easy to find the ones you are looking for.
Dehumidifiers for Home
Posted 336 days ago 55This 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
AmaziBox
Posted 353 days ago 54i have WordPress theme but i don’t know how to install favicon plugin.http://www.amazibox.com
Adam
Posted 358 days ago 53A 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.
Gia ca phe
Posted 381 days ago 52Great list
Google Analyticator, that’s the thing I’m looking for.