There are a lot of cool WordPress plugins out there and I thought you might be interested in the ones I use on this site. Here’s a complete list of all my active plugins:
Advanced Blogroll 1.4
» Yakup GÖVLER (url)
Displays your bookmarks as you want.
Akismet 2.5.3
» Automattic (url)
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.
Amazon Associate Filter 0.4
» Rajan Agaskar (url)
Scrubs amazon links and replaces (or adds) the affiliate ID set in Amazon Aff options. IMPORTANT NOTE: the default affiliate ID is my affiliate ID. You MUST UPDATE THE AFFILIATE ID USING THE PLUGIN SETTINGS PAGE; otherwise any affiliate sales will be paid out to my account.
Author Information Widget 1.2.17
» Dennis Hoppe (url)
This Widget shows the “about me” text, gravatar and social network/contact links of an author of your blog. You can add this widget to sidebars on author relevant sections, i.e. pages, posts or author archives.
BM_Shots 0.8
» Ben Gillbanks (url)
A plugin to take advantage of the mshots functionality on WordPress.com
Broken Link Checker 1.2.5
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
CommentLuv 2.90.7
» Andy Bailey (url)
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.
Comment Reply Notification 1.4
» denishua (url)
When a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired. 评论回复通知插件, 当评论被回复时会email通知评论的作者.
Contact Form 7 2.4.5
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Drop Caps 2.1
» Thomas Milburn (url)
My first plugin used to generate the code for drop caps.
Empire Avenue Tools 0.3.4
» Olivier Lussier (url)
Adds links to Empire Avenue stocks in the (e)TICKER form and the EA badge as a widget
FD Feedburner Plugin 1.44
» John Watson (url)
Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
FD Word Statistics 1.2
» John Watson (url)
Computes Gunning-Fog, Flesch, and Flesch-Kincaid readability indexes about posts as they are edited for the purpose of improving their readability.
Flickr Gallery 1.5.2
» Dan Coulter (url)
Use easy shortcodes to insert Flickr galleries and photos (and videos) in your blog.
GetSocial 1.4
» Riyaz (url)
GetSocial adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts.
GoCodes 1.3.4
» Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp) (url)
Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your Wordpress Admin. When upgrading, be sure to read the upgrade notes.
Google Analyticator 6.2
» Ronald Heft (url)
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.
googleCards 0.4.2
» Mabujo (url)
Adds google+ contact card widget to your blog
LinkWithin 0.85
» LinkWithin (url)
Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog
List category posts 0.18.3
» Fernando Briano (url)
List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. This shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can use [catlist] as many times as needed with different arguments. Usage: [catlist argument1=value1 argument2=value2].
LiveJournal Crossposter 2.0.6
» Corey DeGrandchamp, Arseniy Ivanov (url)
Automatically crossposts your WP entries to your LiveJournal or LJ based clone.
MailChimp 1.2.4
» MailChimp and Crowd Favorite (url)
The MailChimp plugin allows you to quickly and easily add a signup form for your MailChimp list.
Move WordPress Comments 0.2.1.1
» Nicolas Kuttler (url)
Move comments between posts and fix comment threading.
My Page Order 3.0
» Andrew Charlton (url)
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.
NoFollow Free 1.6.3
» Michele Marcucci (url)
Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc… Supports multilingual and a Top Commenters sidebar Widget.
No Self Pings 0.2
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Pretty Theme Files 1.0
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Plugin which sorts your theme files edit list in wp admin
Quick Cache 110709
» PriMoThemes.com / WebSharks, Inc. (url)
Dramatically improves the performance & speed of your site! Also compatible with WordPress® Multisite/Networking.
Redirection 2.2.5
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
Revision Control 2.0.1
» Dion Hulse (url)
Allows finer control over the number of Revisions stored on a global & per-type/page basis.
Search Meter 2.8
» Bennett McElwee (url)
Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter section in the Dashboard to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.
Simple Tags 2.0-beta9
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.1 : Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Auto-tags, Autocompletion, Related Posts etc. NOW Compatible custom post type and custom taxonomy !
Social Profiles Widget 1.1.1
» Nathan Rice (url)
This plugin/widget allows you to insert social profile icons into your sidebar via a widget.
Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
Text Replace 3.0.3
» Scott Reilly (url)
Replace text with other text. Handy for creating shortcuts to common, lengthy, or frequently changing text/HTML, or for smilies.
Tweet old post 3.1.2
» Ajay Matharu (url)
Plugin for tweeting your old posts randomly
Twitter @Anywhere Plus 2.0
» GeekRMX (url)
This plugin allows you to easily add Twitter @Anywhere to your blog, enabling the @Anywhere features.
Twitterlink Comments 1.25
» Andy Bailey (url)
Plugin to show a link to follow the comment author on twitter if they have entered in their username at least once in the comment form
Widget Logic 0.48
» Alan Trewartha (url)
Control widgets with WP’s conditional tags is_home etc
Widgets on Pages 0.0.9
» Todd Halfpenny (url)
Allows ‘in-page’ widget areas so widgets can be defined via shortcut straight into page/post content or through the use of a template tag.
Woopra 1.5.0.1
» Elie El Khoury, Shane Froebel, Mario Achkar (url)
This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Simply sign up at Woopra.com, then activate the plugin!
WordPress.com Stats 1.8.1
» Automattic (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
WordPress Editorial Calendar 1.4
» Colin Vernon, Justin Evans, Mary Vogt, and Zack Grossbart (url)
The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog.
WordPress SEO 0.4.2
» Joost de Valk (url)
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
WP-DBManager 2.62
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.
WP-PageNavi 2.74
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WPtouch 1.9.29
» BraveNewCode Inc. (url)
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.
Zemanta 0.7.2
» Zemanta Ltd. (url)
Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient.



















Spectacular stuff, TYSVM! Off to install and test about 10 of these!
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Glad you like this page. I’m minutes away from publishing an article of my favorites!
Twitter: @PhotoLynda
Published! 12 WordPress Plugins I Can’t Live Without
Twitter: @BLOGitse
oh man…I could stay on your blog the whole day! so much to read!
But now I have to go – but I’ll be back and read more about these plugins!
Thanks for sharing!
Twitter: @franticmommy
Holy cats! I learned a TON from this! Thanks! Do you think Blogger has similar plugin?
Twitter: @mjc308
Hi Lynda,
I’m trying to find an amazon plugin that will basically let me just enter an ASIN and turn it into a link with a med pic. I can’t find one! I have installed and uninstalled so many amazon plugins this morning that I’m going nuts!
I figured I’d forget them and just do it myself using a custom field, but then I realised that I was thinking that would work just like an MT Macro, but then I realised I don’t know how to make it do that. I only know how to make it be in a particular place in a template, but I want to be able to just write it anywhere in a post and have it happen…. got any ideas for me?
thanks!
melanie xx
Twitter: @mjc308
never mind, I did it! I found Embedder
Twitter: @danielleliss
This is AWESOME. So helpful.