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Nowadays almost everyone has a Wordpress powered website, but not everyone has a professional build blog. To build a professional blog you have to concentrate on few aspects. One of the most important aspects is of course the design. The design of your blog is without a dub the one who decides if your blog is going to be a successful one or not.
The design of your blog is based on the way you structure everything and the actual look. In this post I will talk only about the ways to improve your sidebar structure and make your blog more accessible to your visitors.
I will list here the most recommended Wordpress plugins for your blog sidebar. You don’t have to use all of them, using all of them will create chaos in your blog and people will be annoyed. You should choose the ones you think that fits your needs and try to avoid the situation described bellow.
1. Subscription Options
Is a simple yet very useful plugin for beginner bloggers. This plugin will allow you to add the classical icons for subscription: twitter, rss feed and email of course effortless.
2. Alexa Ranking Plugin
The earnings from your website are pretty important, the most effective way of getting high profits from your website is of course by selling ad space. In order for advertisers to buy ad space, they need to see what’s your alexa rank and if they like it, they will buy ad space from your blog.
3. Twitter Blender
Is a wordpress plugin that displays twitter updates in a simple widget box in your sidebar. The Twitter blender also has an updates archive.
4.Wordpress Newsletter Widget
Wordpress double option widget bulk email plugin for newsletter subscription will allow users to subscribe to your newsletter and also you will be able to manage the subscriptions.
5. Recent Comments by Entry
As I believe you figured out, the Recent Comments by Entry plugin will display the latest comments and also the entry where they were posted.
6. Post videos and photo galleries
Helps you to easily maintain your media works and place them into your blog sidebar.
7. WP Carousel
WP Carousel is a plugin that create a carousel with a category’s posts, and you can put it anywhere on the sidebar or blog.
8.Ad Code Widget Plugin
This plugin helps you to easily maintain the ads you display in your sidebar and in your blog. It was created by Primo Themes and it supports any image format and also any size and also you can add HTML/JavaScript/IFrame/etc codes.
9. Login With Ajax
This is a pretty cool widget plugin that allows your blog members to login. Using the ajax technologies, “Login with Ajax” will improve the aspect of your login page and also will impress all of your members.
10. Visitors Map and Who’s Online Widget
This will display a cool who’s online widget and also you will be able to see where the user comes from by using this great geographical positioning system.
11. Twitter Bubble
Will display your twitter updates in a simple widget who has the shape and the design of a twitter page included in a cool twitter bubble.
12. Post Google Map
If the blog you own is a business one and you have to show people where they can find you, Google Map is always the best solution. Post Google Map will help you to do that effortless.
13. Simple Flickr Photos
Nowadays everyone has a Flickr account and everyone wants to share their photos with friends and why not will all internet users. Simple Flikr Photos allows you to add a Flickr widget with your latest added photos.
14. PayPal Donations Plugin
This is definitely a must have plugin for developers and people who are offering services for free. Paypal was always the best friend of this kind of people and it helps them everyday.
15. Collapsing Archive
Being able to collapse your archive will save you some useful space in your sidebar. Collapsing archive is the plugin you want for this, and it is based on javascript.
16. General Stats
General stats counts almost everything from users, number of posts, days, and adds a simple widget to display this stats.
17. Tag For Me
If you own multiple blogs or websites, Tag for me will help you to display your stats using their widget.
18. Flash Tag Cloud
Displays the tags into a very interesting and cool way. The tags you write more are of course bigger and the ones that you don’t are smaller. The plugin is using the action script programming and is very stable.
19. Page Spot
This actually lets you to configure multiple types of sidebar and choose which one to display.
20. WP FlashTime
Adds cool and flash clock. This will help you to improve the design and it will make your site more dynamic. The plugin also contains over 25 different clocks.
21. Quick Adsense
It is a flexible and easy to use Adsense management plugin. With quick adsense you will add and maintain your adsense ads in no-time.
22. Sidebar Tabs
Includes a widget which adds multiple functions displayed in other tabs.
23. iContact Widget
Add the iContact ‘Automatic Sign-up Form’ to your sidebar with this widget. Simply paste the code from the form you created in iContact into this widget. Your form will be converted into HTML (instead of Javascript, which takes more time to load).
24. Display Widget
Choose which widgets to display and which widgets to hide. You can also choose to do this on which page of your blog you want.
25. Visual Categories
This plugin enables you to build “category entries” which contain a link to the category and which may contain a link to the category’s feed, an image, the time stamp of when the category was last updated, and the current count of posts in the category.
26. TinyFeed
A simple ajax plugin that loads a micro feed on your sidebar.
27. Flash Mp3 Player
It displays a cool flash player in your blog sidebar. You will be able to choose which MP3 file to listen and is more like the youtube player.
28. Category and Page Icons
This obviously adds icons to your categories and pages links.
29. ThemeSwitch
Using this plugin will allow you to easily change the current theme of your blog.
30. Gallery Widget
Gallery Widget is a simple plugin that let you show the latest/random images of the wordpress media gallery inside a widget, directly in your templates (it is possible to choose some categories to be included/excluded) or in posts/pages using a shortcode (see faq on how to use them).
If you liked this list of plugins just share it with your friend, and don’t forget to let us know what you think by commenting. Thank you!
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Great article! I was looking for a Twitter Bubble plugin for Wordpress. Couldn’t find any decent examples. I stumbled across this page via Google and there are more useful plugins on this page. I think Im gonna use the Tiny Feed plugin as well!
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This widgets are cool, thanks for sharing. I add this site to my bookmark.
Pretty post and so awesome, thank you for sharing.
Pretty post and so awesome, thank you for sharing.
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this is thank you.. :)
Beautiful selection. You linked to some widgets I’ve been searching for all day!
Awesome list
Good addition
Thank you
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heyy thankss
sure… :)
Amazing Post, Thanks for sharring
Nice article, I love all the plugins that you mentioned.
awesome list plugin here thanks
wow… what an awesome collection of useful plugins! :-) Thank you very much for putting this together! Sidebar tabs is beautiful – I’ll have to find a way to put that into my theme! :-)
Many grretings and thanks again! :-)
André
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man u r rocking ,you are gonna blow of my head with these huge list of wp plugins.
think m gonna visit this blog more often
thnx again.
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this was very helpful thanks a lot…
Nice article, I love all the plugins that you mentioned.
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Nice! have downloaded 4 of these, many thanks for getting the work done to put them all in one place, top job. bp
Great ! That was very useful, thanks.
Gotta have the subscription options!
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That was very useful, thanks. Some plugins I never new were possible, that were exactly what I didn’t know I needed, but do now.
most of listed plugins are really helpful for WP blogers and even for personal WP websites. thanks
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really this is very useful. we are web designer we know.
WoW :) Awesome wordperss plugins. Thanks for sharing this nice post.
Great post. usefull for every blog.
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great article. Those list help me to develop blogs
This was a strange thing to say…
“Nowadays almost everyone has a Wordpress powered website…”
There are millions and millions of people that do not have Wordpress powered websites.
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Thanks for this! I just opened my website and this really helps me to develop my blog.
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Good point. It sounds very logical when you put it that way.
Two of the most powerful sidebar plugins that I’ve come across recently are the QueryPosts plugin and the WidgetLogic plugin.
QueryPosts allows you to visually select from all of the different parameters that WordPress’ query_posts function provides and display the results in a widget.
WidgetLogic allows you to make conditional statements about a widget to determine if it will display on a specific section of your website.
this is amasing i have just got into webdesign having never done anything like this before and this is really helpfull
Wow this is useful. Thanks.