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TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere

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Is there any blogger blogging about blogging ;) that hasn’t posted a list of his favorite plugins yet? Well, since I’m now in it too, I might as well do it. But you won’t find a list of my favorite plugins here. I did much better! I compiled a true TOP 30 list of the most popular plugins in blogosphere ;)

The list is based on the Lists of favorite WordPress plugins, made by Lorelle last month. Lorelle found 48 lists with a total of 280 plugins that were recommended by other bloggers to their readers.

So I went through all those lists and compiled a spreadsheet of the mentioned plugins to see which of them were the most used in blogosphere. Here are the results:

  1. The first place among WordPress plugins goes to Akismet. 34 out of 48 bloggers are using this plugin. Obviously the spam is a very serious issue and Akismet is doing a great job combating it.
  2. Google Sitemap Generator came in second with 27 votes. Looks like a lot of bloggers are starting to care about SEO and this plugin is the best tool to tell Google how it should crawl your blog and where to find everything you want found.
  3. Related posts by Wasabi takes the third place. As the name suggests, this plugin generates a list of related posts based on the text of blog entry. It is a great tool to increase the stickiness of your blog by showing your readers similar posts that you’ve written on the subject. Although since I started using Chitika RPU’s on my tech blogs, I don’t use this plugin there. 19 out 48 bloggers have used this plugin on their blogs.
  4. Wp-Contact form. This plugin developed by Ryan Duff is used by 17 of 48 bloggers. It creates a contact form on your blog, through which your readers can contact you. However at the moment of this writing, Ryans website seemed to be down. Another good plugin to generate contact forms is here. Update: You can download Spam protected Wp-contact form from Doug Carr blog here.
  5. WordPress database backup now maintained by Ilfilosofo and originally developed by Skippy is on 16 lists. It’s a “must use” plugin for every WP blogger and if you are not using it you might be in a lot of trouble eventually. Imagine that something goes wrong with you database and you loose all of your archives! The latest version of the plugin even lets you schedule automatic backups at a set frequency.
  6. Feedburner Feed Replacement let’s you track your RSS subscribers and use a lot of other cool Feedburner services.
  7. Ultimate Tag Warrior is a plugin does everything related with tagging. With this plugin you can tag your every post through a separate field, enter tags inside post text, use tags in external editors, etc. The tags then can be used to search your blog and are picked up by blog search engines like Technorati and can bring in new users. UTW was used by 14 of 48 bloggers.
  8. Subscribe to comments plugin (13/48) allows your readers to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This is a great plugin to grow your blog community by letting your readers stay up to date in the discussion that they already are interested in.
  9. AdSense Deluxe (10/48) is a plugin that allows you to easily insert AdSense, YPN, Chitika ads inside your blog posts and provides for easy management when and where the ads appear. A must have if you want use ads inside a blog post.
  10. Gravatars (9/48) Another community building plug-in. It let’s you place the small pictures (avatars) of your readers next to their comments on your blog. Makes the comment area and the discussion much more personal and lively. In order for the avatars to appear, reader has to register it with Gravatars service.
  11. Jerome’s Keywords plugin. It’s another plugin for keywords/tags similar to Ultimate Tag Warrior. It has a little less options and functionality, but does tagging/keywords very well and is easier to use. JK plugin gets 11th place only conditionally, since 4 plugins were recommended by 8 bloggers. So the next 3 plugins (11-14 place) also have the same amount of votes and are ranked in alphabetical order.
  12. Optimal title (8/48) is a SEO related plugin. It mirrors the function wp_title () on your blog, but moves the position of the separator to after the title rather then before. This way you can make blog post name, or category name appear in front of the blog name in he <title> tags (one of the most important elements of on page SEO). If you use the keywords you want to rank for in your blog post titles (which you should), this plugin can help you improve your position in search engines.
  13. Sociable (8/48) You probably noticed small icons from various social bookmarking sites (like Digg, del.icio.us, reddit, etc;) under the posts on many blogs. Well, lot’s of them are done by this plugin. So if you want to help your users spread the word about your best posts, you may want to install this plugin.
  14. WP-Cache 2.0 (8/48) is “… an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching WordPress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.” It is not that important if you have a low traffic blog, but if you get dugg it can make the difference between your site being up or down for several hours when all the traffic comes flooding in.
  15. Popularity Contest (7/48) A very useful plugin that lets you automatically highlight your best posts to your readers. It keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. It can significantly increase the “stickiness” of your blog and help you convert first time visitors into a regular readers.
  16. Sidebar Widgets (7/48) Plugin by WordPress creators Automattic, that lets you add various cool widgets (small applications developed by others) into your sidebar without any HTML knowledge.
  17. Wp_Notable (7/48) Another plugin for displaying icons for various social bookmarking sites, very similar to Sociable in functionality.
  18. Simple Tags. (6/48) Another tagging plugin for generating Technorati Tags. This is the most basic and also the most easy to use tagging plugin, if all you are looking for are tags for Technorati and other blog search services. Just type in your keywords at the end of your post between [tags]..... [/tags] and they will appear as Technorati tags.
  19. Adhesive (5/48) is a plugin that lets you make the posts “sticky”.These posts will remain at the top of the page no matter how many other posts you wrote later. Very useful for making announcements or giving directions to your readers.
  20. Exec-php (5/48). This plugin allows <?php ?> tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. Definitely not for the code shy, but if you want to insert php code inside your blog posts this is plugin to use.
  21. Extended live archive (5/48) plugin creates dynamic and easily navigable archive page that helps your readers easily find what they are looking for in your archive. The posts there can be sorted by tags, categories, date and popularity.
  22. No ping wait (5/48) Have you noticed sometimes, after you press “publish” on your posts, that it takes forever for this command to execute. Well, the reason is the “pinging” process, through which WordPress tries to notify various blog search and monitoring services that new blog post is coming up, which can take some time. This plugin solves the problem by separating “pinging” and posting into two separate things.
  23. PodPress (5/48) . If you are into podcasting, this plugin is a must have. It makes adding, managing and playing podcasts and other media files on your blog a breeze.
  24. SRG Clean Archives (5/48) . Another plugin to generate Archive pages. It is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. It lists the Month / Year (links to that months archives), the day of the month the article was published, the title of the article (permalink to article), and the number of comments that have been made on each article. It also hides password protected articles from showing up in your archives list.
  25. WP-Page Navi (5/48) is a plugin to improve page navigation on your blog. Instead of having to go through blog pages one by one, it adds better navigation functionality that can look like this: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last »
  26. WP-Cron (5/48) If you want to schedule some tasks, like database backup on your blog, this plugin lets you do just that. In the words of the author “WP-Cron provides a rudimentary support for scheduled execution of actions; a sort of “delayed action” processing for WordPress. It is nowhere near as robust as the actual UNIX cron facility, but should be good enough to “do stuff” on a fairly regular basis“
  27. Wp-Shortstat (5/48) is the stats plugin for your blog. Install the plugin, go to your WP dashboard and you can see the stats you need. The plugin was written by Jeff Minard but now is maintained by Markus Kaemmerer.
  28. Lightbox 2 (5/48) . Have you seen a neat trick on some websites, where you press on the image, the whole page dims into the background and the active window or image pops-up to the front? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just head to the plugin page and press on the images there. If you want such a trick on your blog, install the plugin.
  29. del.icio.us cached (4/48) . Want to show-off what you have bookmarked on del.icio.us recently? Then this plugin is just what you need.
  30. Get Recent Comments (4/48) does just what it’s name implies, it gets the excerpts of the latest comments on your blog and displays them on your sidebar

So there you have it. 30 most popular plugins in the blogosphere! If you liked it, help spread the news – do not forget to Digg it :)

Karoliukai internetu 

Written by Staska

March 27th, 2007 at 7:53 am

Posted in Blogtips,Main page

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  • http://douglaskarr.com Doug Karr

    Ryan’s site has been down for some time but you can get a Spam protected version of his plugin on my site. It’s been my most popular page for sure!

  • http://counterblog.gostats.com/ Richard

    Worthy of mention is GoStats for WordPress. A useful tool for inserting a counter into your blog. http://counterblog.gostats.com/how-to-install-a-gostats-hit-counter-using-wordpress-plugins

  • Staska

    Thank’s Doug,

    I updated information in the post with th elink to the plugin download page

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  • Sundarlal Chuddha

    I am partial to the Hello Dolly plugin

  • http://lorelle.wordpress.com/ Lorelle

    Excellent!

    By the way, WASABI Related Posts has a new URL, and it is no longer supported. There are others which are now taking its place, but it is still one of my favorites.

  • Staska

    Thank’s Lorelle,

    Couldn’t have done this without your list :)

    I also updated Wasabi Related Plugins link.

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    Two words: Digital Fingerprint.

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    Hi there – thanks for the list! Its very helpfull

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  • http://freetube.us.tc live tv

    Great roundup, but I would advise against running too many of these – it can bloat and slow your blog’s load.

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    I prefer Share This ( http://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/25/share-this-14 ) over Sociable =)

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  • Daisama

    Thanks for the great list!

  • http://dd32id.au/ DD32

    I prefer this contact form:

    WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition

    “WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition is a drop in form for users to contact you. It is derived from Ryan Duff’s WP-ContactForm 1.4.3 with the addition of code from the Akismet plugin. By Blogging Expertise;”
    from: http://www.bloggingexpertise.com/plugins/wp-contactform-akismet/

    It integrates with Akismet to filter any spam messages first, Since most people check akismet anyway(and since akismet is pretty good as its job) its rare to miss anything.

  • http://www.phonelosers.org Roy Gerbil

    Another excellent plugin is the Digg button that detects Diggs and posts the number of Diggs and lets users Digg your article. It only shows up if you’ve already been Dugg.

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    Hey, great list of plug-ins! I use many of them myself.

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  • http://www.thepiggybanker.com P.banker

    Nice post! thanks for the information, I’ll be sure to check out all the plugins for my own blog.

  • http://dmasq.blogspot.com Dan

    Damnit… I wish I didn’t start on Blogger.com…

    Someday I’ll cross over to wordpress..

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  • Robert

    Add to Any lets users bookmark using any bookmark manager.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/

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    This really HUGE LIST and very usable… thanks

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    dugg

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  • http://www.evoart.info Will

    Thanks for this so much. Ive downloaded about 4 plugins from this list :) .

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  • http://www.bloggingwv.com Bucky

    Great list and a great read!

    Thanks!

    Bucky,
    http://www.bloggingwv.com

  • http://www.gwot.us Brandon

    Thanks man, this list showed me the plugins that I thought were useful from other blogs but didn’t know what they were.

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  • http://www.bloggeek.net Xiteer

    Great post. I added the sociable plugin to my site and I am looking into a few other ones. I also picked up your post (with a link back to your site), I hope thats alright. I run a blog about blogging and was just about to write an article like this, looks like you did all the leg work for me!

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  • http://www.vidavee.com anthony

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    http://blog.vidavee.com/?page_id=7

    or grab it here http://wordpress.vidavee.com/wpvidavee_latest.zip

    “login to your wordpress site as administrator, go to the “plugins” section and activate the “wp-vidavee” plugin. once this is activated, you will need to go to the options section of the wordpress site and register for a site key. click on “options” then on the “wp-vidavee” sub-menu. There, enter a real email address and a password then click “get sitekey”. You are done!

    now all you need to do is either create a new page/entry or edit an existing one and you will notice a new panel below your editor ¹. upload a video, once the upload is complete, copy the small tag that looks like this “{vidavee id=”1? }” and paste it into your editor.”

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  • http://www.portigal.com/blog Steve Portigal

    I’d like to see a plug-in that adds navigation to each individual entry like you see in TypePad (?) blogs
    NameOfPrevEntry – Main – NameOfNextEntry

    Each of those is clickable and lets someone who is looking at a post-page move to another entry or back to the main very easily. That’s sadly missing in my blog. Maybe it’s easy to do another way, I just don’t know!

  • http://nearthwort.com Marc Fiszman

    ImageManager should be on the list. WordPress’s built-in image management isn’t too hot. This plugin makes uploading, sorting and inserting your images much more pleasant.

  • http://www.xdweb.net Kris Bailey

    You forgot mine :-) XDForum, a forum plugin for WP.
    http://www.xdweb.net/wordpress/xdforum/

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    TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere…

    Congrats to Sociable for making the top plugins list. Sociable creates the “submit your link” buttons at the bottom of blog posts and happens to include functionality for PlugIM buttons. This list made the front page of Digg, good stuff contained wit…

  • http://www.dropshiparea.com/wordpress Alex

    i use wp for all my websies (10) and i share the opinion of this poll. i do not think that every website needs all 30, in my opinion 5-10 plugins are reasonable number to enable the website operate properly.

  • Staska

    Steve: Didn’t happen to come by such a plugin. But I know that there are lot’s of WP themes which have this functionality implemented.

    Looked into such themes on some of my other blogs, how they do it. It seems that there is WP functions to do just that:

    previous_posts_link ()
    next_posts_link ()
    and php _e(‘Home’, ”) for the Home link

    You probably can look them up in WP Codex but you’ll have to have at least basic understanding of php.

  • Staska

    Kris and Marc: Both of these are great plugins, unfortunately they didn’t make top 30, probably because they are rather new and few bloggers wrote about them.

    Lorrelle was compiling her list of lists for 2 years

  • Staska

    Alex: I’m 100% sure that a site does not need 30 plugins to be great.

    It’s just that every website needs are different and they need different plugins :)

  • Staska

    Darn,

    I’m getting Threaded Comments plugin installed here first thing this weekend!

  • http://kylescove.com/2007/03/29/bloggers-top-30-wordpress-plugins/ Kyle’s Cove » Blog Archive » Bloggers Top 30 Wordpress Plugins

    [...] going through some of the best WordPress lists from around the blogopshere and figured out the Top 30 Most Popular WordPress Plugins.   Rather than being one blogger’s opinion, this list compiles 48 blogger’s lists to [...]

  • http://www.techtear.com/2007/03/29/los-plugins-para-wp-mas-usados-en-la-blogosfera/ TechTear :: T_T » Los plugins para WP más usados en la blogósfera

    [...] y 25 plugins más: Staska.net                [...]

  • http://11pixels.ciberarte.com.br/2007/03/29/30-plugins-mais-utilizados/ 30 Plugins mais utilizados at 11pixels

    [...] blog Staska.net publicou uma lista com os trinta plugins mais utilizados pelos donos e blogs WordPress. O primeiro [...]

  • http://blog.ftofani.com/?p=635 links for 2007-03-29 | blog.ftofani.com

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  • http://timelady.com/blog/2007/03/30/links-for-2007-03-29/ its about time» Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-29

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  • http://www.herdedpears.com/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere.htm TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere » Herded Pears

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  • http://www.domester.net/wordpress/news/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/ Domester.NET Blog » Top 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere

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  • http://ido.nu/kuma/bookmarks/2007/03/30/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere-%c2%ab-staskanet/ ZeroMemory Bookmarks » TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net

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  • http://ordpress.dk/top-30-over-wordpress-plugins-141.htm Top 30 over WordPress-plugins

    [...] Ud fra alle disse lsiter har Staska.net nu lavet en top 30 af WordPress plugins. [...]

  • http://megabluewave.com/blog/archives/208 TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins at Think This // blog

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  • http://www.pristina.org/?p=761 pristina.org | everything design » links for 2007-03-30

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  • http://www.annoxero.impulsozone.com/blog annoxero

    Cool list. Here’s soem very useful and excellent ones that deserve a spot imo:

    Alex Kings Share This
    Add Meta Tags (for SEO crazy ppl)
    Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
    Feedburner Feed Replacement
    In Series
    Top Posts By Category
    Ultimate Google Analytics
    WP-Polls (+ WP-Polls Widget)

  • http://aggietha.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/wordpress-plugins/ Wordpress Plugins « Random. Blurbs. Finds. Whatever I Want.

    [...] by aggietha on March 31st, 2007 Here are the Top 30 WordPress Plugins. You might want to check it out and install a plugin that might be useful for your blog. Browsing [...]

  • http://jeffchasin.com/2007/03/30/top-30-wordpress-plugins-list/ jeffchasin.com

    Top 30 WordPress Plugins Master List…

    Stanislovas, or Staska as he prefers to be called, has obviously spent a LOT of time checking out WordPress Plugins. He recently posted that he reviewed and analyzed 48 lists containing 280 WordPress Plugins to come up with the TOP 30 WordPress Plugin…

  • http://www.adworkz.com/weblog/wordpress-plugins-top-30-most-popular/ Wordpress Plugins – top 30 most popular · Adworkz

    [...] read more | digg story [...]

  • http://rasml.org/?p=887 Present Tensed » Links/Articles that Intrigued Me between March 26th and March 30th

    [...] TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net : [...]

  • http://www.eplanetlabs.com Steve

    Hi,

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  • http://wiredgecko.net/2007/03/links-for-2007-03-31/ links for 2007-03-31 at Wired Gecko

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  • http://pieceoplastic.com/index.php/2864/ruff-linkage-200713/ … piece 0 plastic – the revolution will be blogged … » Blog Archive » ruff linkage . 200713

    [...] TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere – “I compiled a true TOP 30 list of the most popular plugins in blogosphere” [...]

  • http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/31/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ Top 30 WordPress Plugins | Connected Internet

    [...] have compiled a list of the Top 30 WordPress plugins based upon lists published by other bloggers. I’m only using 8 of the top 30 which I think is [...]

  • http://me.abelcheung.org/2007/04/01/wordpress-database-backup-%e7%bf%bb%e8%ad%af/ ???? » WordPress Database Backup ??

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  • http://siedlarz.com/blog/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/ m@rc.weblog() » Top 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere

    [...] read more | digg story [...]

  • http://reqfd.net/blog/?p=63 reqfd.net / feeding what ails one

    [...] popularity contest: WordPress plugins [...]

  • http://0ddn1x.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/popular-wp-plug-ins/ Popular WP plug-ins « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix

    [...] Popular WP plug-ins Filed under: Administrivia — 0ddn1x @ 2007-03-31 21:46:02 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/03/27/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/ [...]

  • http://www.cnyweddingpros.com James Malone

    Adhesive sounds pretty cool, but there is no download to be found if you follow the link. Is there any other way to get this plugin or any other plugin with similar functionality?

  • http://www.igorr.name/2007/03/31/30-luchshih-plaginov-dlya-wordpress/ 30 ?????? ???????? ??? Wordpress at smiled ???????? :)

    [...] ?? ??????? TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere. [...]

  • Staska

    James: Yeah. Looks that the authors server crashed last fall and took all his work with it.

    Try these links for adhesive:

    http://bloggerdesign.com/29/adhesive-when-your-blog-needs-an-introduction-paragraph/

    http://svn.redalt.com/projects/Adhesive/trunk/

  • http://www.ossblog.it/post/2272/i-migliori-30-plugin-per-wordpress-secondo-i-blogger/ I migliori 30 plugin per Wordpress secondo i blogger

    [...] il blog Staska.Net ha pensato bene di raggruppare i 30 plugin più amati dai blogger compilando una lista che tiene conto delle classifiche stilate nella blogosfera e si basa in particolare sulla Lists of [...]

  • http://blog.datenschmutz.net/2007-04/blogistan-panoptikum-woche-13-2k7/ Blogistan-Panoptikum Woche 13 2k7 auf datenschmutz.net 

    [...] beliebtesten 30 WordPress Plugins listet Staska.net nach Durchsicht diverser Toplisten: für wenig Überraschung sorgt Akismet auf Platz 1, das [...]

  • http://www.vinodlive.com Vinod Ponmanadiyil

    Nice List. I have a personal list on my site as well.

  • http://www.kopfkribbeln.de/2007/03/30/list-of-the-lists-webdesign/ kopfkribbeln » List of the lists (Webdesign)

    [...] to a pimped-out-money-making wordpress-blog 7 essential wordpress hacks Top 10 WordPress Plugins Top 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net 8 fresh and clean [...]

  • http://www.dailyblogtips.com/reader-tips-01-april-2007/ Reader Tips: 01 April 2007

    [...] Top 30 WordPress Plugins: a comprehensive list with the most used WordPress plugins on the blogosphere. [...]

  • http://www.rueplumet.com/2007/04/01/delicious-87/ Rue Plumet » Interesting Sites For This Week

    [...] Top 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere Tagged as: plugin blog [...]

  • http://www.gadgetguy.de/2007/04/02/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ www.gadgetguy.de – The GadgetGuy

    Top 30 WordPress Plugins…

    Yeah, you’ve seen that list before, haven’t you?
    Well, here’s one with a twist: staska.net has compiled a meta list by adding up the number of recommendations from various (48) other lists in the blogosphere. Excellent job!
    ……

  • http://www.pureblogging.com/2007/04/02/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ Top 30 Wordpress Plugins | PureBlogging.com

    [...] Stasys of Staska.net has taken it to the next level by putting together a list of the top thirty plugins used by [...]

  • http://holotone.net/2007/04/02/daily-delicious-for-april-2nd/ holotone.net

    [...] TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net – Some nice ones, including the "comment notify" bit I’ve been looking for 2. April 2007, 17:30 o’clock [...]

  • http://www.wordpresscn.com/1462 BloggingPro China » TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere

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  • http://connectedinternet.co.uk/de/2007/04/03/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ Top 30 Wordpress Plugins | Connected Internet

    [...] haben eine WordPress Plugin Top 30 Liste veröffentlicht die auf Listen von anderen Bloggern beruht. Von den dreißig genannten Plugins [...]

  • http://www.earningblog.com/2007/04/04/earning-money-blog-reading-tips-4-april-2007/ Earning Money Blog Reading Tips – 4 April 2007

    [...] reminded you the top 30 WordPress plugins that are hot in [...]

  • http://www.staska.net/2007/04/05/on-page-seo-title-tags-and-internal-links/ On Page SEO: Title Tags and Internal Links « Staska.Net

    [...] my article on Best WordPress Plugins probably did help. It has brought tons of traffic and created more then a hundred backlinks, many [...]

  • http://tina.polito.it/~axa/archives/2007/04/06/links-for-2007-04-05/ aXaBlogga! » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-05

    [...] TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net (tags: wordpress plugin list article read toinstall) [...]

  • http://www.vocescuola.it/2007/04/08/i-migliori-30-plugin-per-wordpress/ Vocescuola – I migliori 30 Plugin per Wordpress

    [...] spesso lo integro in progetti didattici. Vi allego di seguito un articolo di qualche tempo fa di staska.net dove vengono elencati i 30 Plugin di WordPress più famosi della [...]

  • http://www.jonathanboothdesign.com/?p=15 Top 30 List Of The Best Wordpress Plugins

    [...] Staska.net has complied a great list of wordpress plugins, very handy, if like me, you are rather new to all of this blogging thing and need some tips now and again! Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  • http://thewebfiles.com/2007/04/09/top-30-plugins/ The Web Files » Blog Archive » Top 30 plugins

    [...] a great article over at Staska.net that lists the top 30 WordPress plugins. The list describes each plugin and gives the reason why it [...]

  • http://infoexp.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins « InfoExp

    [...] 5th, 2007 Staska,net compiled a list of popular wordpress plugins used by [...]

  • http://blogs.huihoo.com/?p=364 IT Weblogging Media » ?????30? WordPress ??

    [...] ?????: TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere [...]

  • http://megabluewave.com/blog Marek

    Thanks for the list. I am looking for a plugin I’ve read about somewhere and I can not locate it… it is used to selectively hide categories on the home page category list, so that if there is a category like “asides” that you dont want showing in your list than you can hind it.

    any lead would be appreciated.

    thanks

  • Staska

    Check out this list by Lorelle:

    http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/wordpress-plugins-for-blog-layout-formating-and-css-designs/

    There’s a chapter for category plugins in the post

  • http://www.flashboutique.de/seo/2007/04/15/top30-wordpress-plugins/ Top 30 WordPress Plugins » Tipps zur Suchmaschinenoptimierung

    [...] Link zur Seite: Top 30 WordPress Plugins [...]

  • http://links.bubmiller.com/?p=365 Steve Miller’s Web Sites of Interest » links for 2007-03-30

    [...] TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere « Staska.Net (tags: WordPress plugins Blog plugin list top Blogging) [...]

  • http://www.cyclechaos.com/blog/ Motorcycle Guy

    Optimal title is definitely a good plugin, its kind of sad that you have to modify code for it to work, also if you disable it, your blog will break. WordPress should add hooks so that it can do what it does without breaking wp.

  • http://www.staska.net Staska

    Well, we have to live with tools available and hope that more good things will be added to the next version of WP…

    I personaly do not use or plan to use Optimal Title plugin. If you have to edit your blog template anyway and this editing is pretty easy , what’s the point of adding one more plugin to WP installation?

    On the other hand, if you don’t know php at all, this plugin may come in handy, as it’s current popularity shows.

  • http://www.pulpconnection.com/2007/04/22/trying-out-wordpress-plugins/ Pulpconnection Again » Blog Archive » Trying Out WordPress Plugins

    [...] this post with the so-called top WordPress plugins in the blogosphere. Checking out some of [...]

  • http://www.infoesfera.com/2007/04/24/links-for-2007-04-25-2/ infoesfera.com » links for 2007-04-25

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  • http://www.sellatheme.com/?p=7 SellATheme.com » Blog Archive » All Best Wordpress Plugins List

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  • http://ilias.webatlantis.org/2007/04/07/top-30-wordpress-plugins/ The Voyager – » TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins

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  • http://redemption.co.nz/2007/04/29/links-for-2007-04-28/ Andrew Garrett’s Scroll of Emptiness » links for 2007-04-28

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  • http://www.nullblog.com/2007/04/28/30%e5%80%8b%e5%bf%85%e8%a3%9d%e7%9a%84plugin.html   30????Plugin by NULL Blog

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  • http://muneeb-ahmed.com uknownsoul

    thanks a lot avery useful list for all the bloggers

    ;)

  • http://www.virtualrealestate.es/el-ranking-de-los-30-plugin-mas-importantes-para-wordpress/ Virtual Real Estate » El ranking de los 30 plugin más importantes para wordpress

    [...] El ranking de los 30 plugin más importantes para wordpress March 30th, 2007 | Category: Uncategorized http://www.staska.net/2007/03/27/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/ [...]

  • http://www.eyefall.co.uk/blog/news/07050/download-wordpress-with-themes-and-plugins-preinstalled.html Download Wordpress with themes and plugins preinstalled | Eyefall Search Marketing Blog

    [...] I have put together a wordpress installation with around 40 themes and 30 plugins based on the lists from Hongkiat and Staska. [...]

  • http://www.jaredritchey.com Jared

    Pure Genius; I’m glad someone finally did this. Months ago I put together an MS Access DB to keep track of sites I install and the plugins I install on them and this list is now in my Database.

    Good work.
    ~ Jared

  • http://www.fredericburton.com/weblog/?p=467 La Prom´ » 30 plugins les plus utilisés sur WordPress

    [...] via Fuzz sur Staska, 30 plugins les plus utilisés sur WordPress. J’ai donc installé quelques plugins que je n’avais pas comme “Simple [...]

  • http://onkulis.com/2007/05/23/saites-001/ saites 001 « 0nkulis

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  • http://www.savvyaffiliate.com/Blog/wordpress/getting-started-with-wordpress/ Getting Started With Wordpress

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  • http://iffect.net/2007/05/26/10-posts-wordpress-beginners-ought-to-read/ 10 Posts WordPress Beginners Ought To Read : iffect.net

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  • http://benediktrb.de/wordpress-quellensammlung/ Benedikt Rieke-Benninghaus » Wordpress Quellensammlung

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  • http://forum.webmasterpost.com/scripts/4604-blog-scripts.html#post28396 Blog Scripts – WebmasterPost Forum

    [...] that you keep in mind a few fundamentals. — Permalinks, get to know them get to use them. — Top 30 Plugins many tested for WP 2.2 — Social Network and take of ALL external links on the front page initially [...]

  • http://www.blogwire.net bw

    Nice list. The best one so far and with a good reason I mean you compared all the other lists. You did a great job. How come not many people like snapshots?

  • http://www.willkriski.com Will

    Great post – very useful to know which plugins work well.

  • http://www.seduccionreal.com SirLouen

    Impressive List. 10/10. I’m wondering how did you make it :)

  • http://www.openinnovators.net Philippe

    I’ve discovered some nice plugins – for my new blog http://www.openinnovators.net – thanks to your list! Very helpful!

  • http://www.lenoza.com/ feir

    Thanks sir, the list is nice and helpful.

  • http://www.SuccessEnroute.com Dave

    A good blog and some informative details of plugins too!

    Regards
    Dave
    http://www.SuccessEnroute.com

  • http://www.infospacedirectory.com yipman

    Good informative blog. I’ll use this guide to find some plugins

  • http://smartpowerdrinks.com Mark Michael Lewis

    Rockin! I have been going through WordPress plugins all day for my Smart Energy Drinks blog – building it from scratch and moving from Blogger. This list is the best I have yet to see, and I have installed 15 or them! well done!

  • http://www.plunker.com/blog/2007/08/01/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/ plunkerBLOG

    TOP 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere…

    As I am trying to setup WordPress, I stumbled up on this post. It looks pretty useful.
    http://www.staska.net/2007/03/27/top-30-wordpress-plugins-in-blogosphere/
    ……

  • http://www.pajamaprofessional.com Sara

    Staska,

    What a great twist on a twice-baked topic. It was great to see this list and check out the plugins I might be missing out on.

    Thanks,
    Sara

  • http://bu.bulicio.us Vic

    Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.

    Thanks

    Vic

  • http://www.bloggerbox.net Jahangir

    Nice Work. I have Installed 7 Pluins. Thanks for the list.

  • http://naady.com Africa vacation beaches and hotels

    This list is great! I’m finding the wp shortstats very useful and the information it gives is so detailed!

  • http://www.weareonline.nl Josh – Hosting

    Great list of plugins! I even Bookmarked this page. I installed serveral WP plugins. Only #7 I can’t get working …. :D

  • http://balipari.tamantirta.com Sumardika

    Thanks. Very helpful!

  • http://www.tangsanctuary.com/ tangsanctuary

    Great list!

    Thanks!

    There are quite a number of them which are very useful indeed. Just installed about 5 of them!:)

  • http://www.widgets-blog.com Russ

    This has been one heck of a resource!

    How about a top 60? :D

    You really did save me time finding some really cool plug-ins. Some I have been looking for and others I didn’t know I needed.

    Thank you very much!

  • http://www.exdownload.com songpon

    That’s Great list!

    Thank you so much.
    :lol: :lol:

  • http://www.dailybanker.com Daily Banker

    Great information here, I just downloaded Wp-Shortstat wordpress plugin. I’ll definately will be checking back for comment updates.

  • http://www.cesurturk.org www.r10.net küresel ?s?nmaya hay?r seo yar??mas?

    Great list!

    Thanks!

    There are quite a number of them which are very useful indeed. Just installed about 5 of them!:)

  • http://blog.jbbr.net/2007/05/15/neuigkeiten-zum-blog/ Jbbr.net » Blog Archive » Neuigkeiten zum Blog

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  • http://checktrafficwebsite.com Hufaxian

    nice informative post, thanks for sharing

  • http://fbt-hr.narod2.ru/ TDKS FBT

    I can’t believe that Ultimate Tag Warrior got #7 but the venerable WP-cache was down at #14. My experience with UTW is that it is by far the quickest way to increase page load times of any popular plugin I’ve ever used. Conversely I can’t imagine trying to keep a busy wordpress blog up *without* wp-cache. I seriously think wp-cache should be included in wordpress by default!

  • http://www.staska.net Staska

    This list was made in March 2007. Things have been a bit different 4 years ago. And the tags were the hot thing back then, while WP-Cache was in its early days and rather buggy as far as I remember. :)

  • http://www.configureterminal.com/ ccna training

    I want my blogs to be in your list. Anything I could do for my performance so that I can be a top-rated blogger? I am open for suggestions and recommendations.

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    Just released the new LAX Slider – A Parallax Post Slider For WordPress.
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    Implement with simple shortcode.
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