Recommended WordPress Plugins

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Today I’ve decided to share the WordPress plugins that I use! I think they’re awesome.  Although I had to take down a few because my blog went kaput the last time I tried to update the WordPress versions so only the following plugins have stood the test of time.  In alphabetical order:

• Ajax Comments-Reply – send comment AJAX, and you can reply comments.
• Akismet – Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.
• Auto SyntaxHighlighter – Autoload SyntaxHighlighter only requisite js files and display you code. Uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter: SyntaxHighlighter Brushes. Full Support for : AppleScript, ActionScript3, Bash/shell, C#, C++, CSS, Delphi, Diff, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Sass, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic and XML/HTML…
• Business Directory Plugin – Provides the ability to maintain a free or paid business directory on your WordPress powered site.
• CommentLuv – Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts.
• Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
• Custom Post Widget – Show the content of a custom post of the type ‘content_block’ in a widget.
• Do Follow – Removes the evil nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments.
• Donate Plus – Donation form. Recognition wall. Donation total tracker. PayPal integration.
• Email Before Download – This plugin seamlessly integrates two popular plugins (Contact Form 7 and Download Monitor) to create a simple shortcode for requesting an end-user to fill out a form before providing the download URL. You can use an existing Contact Form 7 form, where you might typically request contact information like an email address, but the questions in the form are completely up to you. Once the end user completes the form, you can choose to either show a link directly to the download or send an email with the direct link to the email provided in the contact form.
• Google Custom Search – This plugin uses Google’s Search Engine to search your site’s contents! It gives you to option to display the Google search results in one of three formats. 1) As a pop-up dialog. 2) Within the widget 3) In an area you specify. Unleash the power of google search on your site!
• Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
• Hana Flv Player – The best way to embed Flash Player and Flash movie in your WordPress Blog. Includes GPL Flowplayer and OS FLV player.
• Hana Flv Player Extension – Extends Hana FLV Player to enable upload of media directly within the plugin rather than having to copy urls.
• MailChimp Widget -
• Move Comments – Allows you to move comments between posts or pages. Adds a section under Comments -> Move.
• Newsletter – Newsletter is a cool plugin to create your own subscriber list, to send newsletters, to build your business. Before update give a look to this page to know what’s changed.
• Newsletter Sign-Up – Adds various ways for your visitors to sign-up to your mailinglist (checkbox, widget, form)
• P-Login – Plugin for login page stylization
• Page Links To – Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.
• Post Author – Adds the name of author at the top or bottom of the content (post and/or page), plus optional publishing and last editing date, complete with surrounding text and a per-post hide option for exceptions.
• Quick Count – Ajax WordPress plugin that informs you and your users about how many people is currently browsing your site.
• registration-login- wp-login adds a Top Panel to let users login. To use the plugin add the following line just after the <body> tag in header.php file of your current theme

  <?php if(function_exists(print_form)) print_form(); ?>

• Send From – Changes the From line on any email sent from the server.
• Slick Social Share Buttons – Slick social share buttons adds facebook, twitter, google +1, linkedin, digg, stumbleupon, delicious, reddit, buffer and pinterest pin it social media buttons in a floating or slide out tab. Includes a social statistics page in the plugin admin panel showing summaries of all share totals
• Strictly Auto Tags – This plugin automatically detects tags to place against posts using existing tags as well as a simple formula that detects common tag formats such as Acronyms, names and countries. Whereas other smart tag plugins only detect a single occurance of a tag within a post this plugin will search for the most used tags within the content so that only the most relevant tags get added.
• WassUp – Analyze your visitors traffic with real-time stats, charts, and a lot of chronological information. Includes a sidebar widget of current online visitors and other statistics and an admin dashboard widget with chart. For WordPress 2.2 or higher. Caution: don’t upgrade when your site is busy!
• WordPress Download Monitor – Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts. If you are upgrading Download Monitor it is a good idea to back-up your database first just in case. You may need to re-save your permalink settings after upgrading if your downloads stop working.
• WP-Activity – Monitor and display blog members activity ; track and blacklist unwanted login attemps.
• WP Customer Reviews – WP Customer Reviews allows your customers and visitors to leave reviews or testimonials of your services. Reviews are Microformat enabled (hReview).
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. Now with custom post type support!

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