PSD To HTML: Most Popular Wordpress plugins

Most Popular Wordpress plugins

Written by admin on December 15, 2009

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The best part of Wordpress is its flexibility. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything one can imagine.

We contacted many Wordpress coders and created the list of most commonly used plugins for wordpress.

Akismet

akismet_new

As per wordpress website: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.0 or higher

Version 2.2.6

Updated 2009-7-20

Downloads 2,004,971

Average Rating: 4 out of 5

All in One SEO Pack for WordPress

Website: (http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/)

As per wordpress website: Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher

version 1.6.8.1

Updated 2009-11-12

Downloads 4,010,038

Average Rating: 3.9 out of 5

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator for WordPress

Website: (http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/)

As per wordpress website: This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher

Version 3.15

Updated 2008-9-18

Downloads 90,084

Average Rating 4 out of 5

Google XML Sitemaps for WordPress

Website: (http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/)

As per wordpress website: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher

Version 3.2

Updated 2009-11-22

Downloads 2,775,918

Average Rating 4.2 out of 5

Google Analyticator:

Website: (http://ronaldheft.com/code/analyticator/)

As per wordpress website: Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher

Version 6.0.1

Updated 2009-12-7

Downloads 634,710

Average Rating: 4 out of 5

Contact Form for WordPress

Website: (http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts.php)

As per wordpress website: Fast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. This contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Does not require JavaScript. Easy and Quick 3 step install.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.6 or higher

version 1.9.5

Updated 2009-12-4

Downloads 82,470

Average Ratin 5 out of 5

Add to any

Website: (http://www.addtoany.com/)

As per wordpress website: 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.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.0 or higher

Version .9.9.4.2

Updated 2009-12-4

Downloads 662,417

Average Rating 4 out of 5

Twitter WordPress integration

Website: (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress)

As per wordpress website: Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher

version 2.0

Updated 2009-8-3

Downloads 317,377

Average Rating 3.9 out of 5

WP-Super Cache for WordPress

Website: (http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/)

As per wordpress website: 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.

Requires WordPress Version: 2.6 or higher

version 0.9.8

Updated 2009-11-18

Downloads 915,922

Average Rating 4 out of 5