Top 10 plugins for your WordPress blog
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Features include :
- Canonical URLs
- Fine tune Page Navigational Links
- Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
- Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
- Nonce Security
- Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
- For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
2 . Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Translators
- Albanian (sq) – Olgi Zenullari
- Arabic (ar) – Tarek Chaaban, Muhammed Lardi
- Bangla (bn_BD) – SM Mehdi Akram
- Bosnian (bs) – Vedran
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) – Leonardo Pinheiro, Henrique Vianna, Caciano Gabriel Batista
- Bulgarian (bg_BG) – Iliyan Darganov
- Catalan (ca) – Jordi Sancho, Robert Buj
- Chinese, Simplified (zh_CN) – Soz
- Chinese, Traditional (zh_TW) – James Wu
- Croatian (hr) – tolingo Translation Services
- Czech (cs_CZ) – Korry, Radovan Fiser
- Danish (da_DK) – Jens Griebel, Georg S. Adamsen
- Dutch (nl_NL) – Chris Devriese, Martin Hein
- Estonian (et) – Peeter Rahuvarm
- Finnish (fi) – Miika Turunen
- French (fr_FR) – Jillij, Maître Mô
- Georgian (ka_GE) – Nodar Davituri
- German (de_DE) – Marcel Spitau, Ivan Graf
- Greek (el) – Nick Mouratidis, Pr. friedlich
- Hebrew (he_IL) – Yaron Ofer
- Hindi (hi_IN) – Tarun Joshi
- Hungarian (hu_HU) – Andras Hirschler, János Csárdi-Braunstein
- Indonesian (id_ID) – Hendry Lee
- Italian (it_IT) – Bruno, Gianni Diurno
- Japanese (ja) – Takayuki Miyoshi
- Korean (ko_KR) – Seong Eun Lee, Jong-In Kim
- Latvian (lv) – Sandis Veinbergs
- Lithuanian(lt_LT) – Ernestas Kardzys
- Norwegian (nb_NO) – Kjetil M. Bergem, aanvik.net
- Persian (Farsi; fa_IR) – Mohammad Musavi
- Polish (pl_PL) – Zbigniew Czernik, Daniel Fruzynski
- Portuguese (pt_PT) – Hugo Baeta
- Russian (ru_RU) – Dmitry Volotovich
- Romanian (ro_RO) – Stas Sushkov
- Serbian (sr_RS) – Vedran
- Slovak (sk) – Patrik Bóna
- Slovene (sl_SI) – Mihael Simonič
- Spanish (es_ES) – Jordi Sancho, Vladimir Prieto, Federico Mikaelian, Matias Baldanza
- Swedish (sv_SE) – Fredrik Jonsson, the Swedish community
- Thai (th) – kazama
- Turkish (tr_TR) – Roman Neumuller, Hasan Yılmaz, Emin Buğra Saral
- Ukrainian (uk_UA) – Andrey Kovba
- Vietnamese (vi) – Thanh Hải, Hà
If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send gettext .po and .mo files to me so that I can bundle it into Contact Form 7.
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
4 . SexyBookmarks
Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. Our sole aim was to stray away from the “in the box” thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers, rather than deterring them with microscopic icons that get lost in pages heavy laden with content.
5 . WP Super Cache
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:
- Users who are not logged in.
- Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
- Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.
99% of your visitors will be served static html files. Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.
6 . Conversador
Chat with a fictitious character that learns from you. The bot records all the conversations and uses the users answers to write. When you answer a question it memorize the relation between both phrases, so if someone do the same question, it will write a related answer.
Fixes WordPress’ inability to find the install directory when it’s not in the root folder. This includes hosting services such as 5Gigs and Bytehost. This is a plugin workaround of the “Cannot find Content directory (WP-Content)” or “Unable to locate WordPress Root directory. Installation Failed” errors to get the following built in features working : Plugin Installation, Theme Installation and WordPress AutoUpdate.
Replaces the built in RSS Widget and adds the option to select the link target.
- Allows multiple widgets each with different settings.
- Adds the link target to both the RSS Title and all articles.
- Default settings screen allows you to decide what defaults will appear when adding a new widget.
9 . Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.
The E-mail tab makes it easy to share via Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL, and any other web-based e-mailer or desktop program. The Add to Favorites button (or Bookmark tab) helps users bookmark using any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.).
Individual service icons let you optimize your blog posts for specific social sites. Choose from over 100 individual services.
- AddToAny Smart Menu
- Individual service links (like Sociable)
- Includes all services
- Menu updated automatically
- WordPress optimized, localized (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Catalan, Russian, Belarusian)
- Google Analytics integration
- Many more publisher and user features!
10 . WPtouch iPhone Theme
With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.
The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini mobile, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm visitors without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.
The theme also includes the ability for your visitors to easily switch between the WPtouch view and your site’s regular theme.

about 9 months ago
thank you
about 9 months ago
thanks! the Conversador plugin is great! kalketon is amazing!
about 9 months ago
thanku for your reply dear visitors……….
about 4 months ago
WPtouch iPhone Theme is awesome. thanks for the heads up. nice theme too.