12 Must Have Plugins For A WordPress Design Blog

29 Dec

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put

in your template.

Link To Akismet Plugin

All In One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.

Link To All In One SEO Pack Plugin

Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

Link To Contact Form 7 Plugin

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.

Link To Google XML Sitemaps Plugin

Highlight Author Comments

Automatically applies a distinctive style to comments by the post’s author.

Link To Highlight Author Comments Plugin

MobilePress

Turn your WordPress blog into a mobile website/blog.

Link To MobilePress Plugin

Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

Link To Really Simple CAPTCHA Plugin

Sexy Bookmarks

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.

Link To Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

TweetMeme Retweet Button

Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

Link To TweetMeme Retweet Button Plugin

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation system to your WordPress blog.

Link To WP-PageNavi Plugin

WP Super Cache

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Link To WP Super Cache Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

Link To Yet Another Related Posts Plugin Plugin

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5 Responses to “12 Must Have Plugins For A WordPress Design Blog”

  1. Multyshades 07. Jul, 2010 at 12:13 pm #

    Such a useful list of wp plugins, thanks for share

    Reply
    • Lucas Cobb 08. Jul, 2010 at 9:36 am #

      Not a problem Multyshades. These plug-ins are a must have.

      Reply
  2. utari 08. Jul, 2010 at 8:33 am #

    thanks for nice information, i’ll try to my blog..nice post

    Reply

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