This is going to be a both funny & interesting blogpost, cause my entire blog is using Google’s Free Blogger.com solution.
However, I do manage blogs for other people which are hosted on non-free WordPress sites, and I get asked often what my plugins I use. BTW … the title of this post has been chosen for SEO reasons, cause “popular” really is a poor definition of these high quality and super functional plugins. These are the WordPress secrets professionals don’t want you to know about! And I’m giving them away for free, cause I can!
Free Plugins:
- Akismet | Protect your blog from comment and trackback spam
- Better Anchor Links
- Broken Link Checker | checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard. Very thorough .. and thus gets quite annoying very fast.
- Add From Server | Media Manager to add files from the webservers file system
- Contact Form 7 | Simple but Flexible
- Contact Form by ContactMe.com
- DisQus | Comment System
- eShop Lite | best e-commerce plugin
- Exclude Pages from Navigation
- Events Manager Extended
- File Commander
- Global Translator | Google, Babelfish and FreeTransLations translation engine
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Hana FLV player |
- Maintenance Mode | customised splash page
- Membership Lite
- My FTP | FTP-a-like plugin that can be usedw to manage folders and files via the WP admin panel
- Post Teaser
- PRO Player
- SEO Ultimate
- Shadowbox JS
- TagPages | add tags to your pages for better SEO
- TinyMCE Advanced
- TinyMCE Ultimate | even better than Advanced, includes more HTML features
- Upload Widget | The simple way to upload files
- Viper’s Video Quicktags | Easily embed videos from various video websites: YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, etc.
- WP-DB-Backup | The best and lightweight wordpress database backup plugin (also for large DBs)
- WP e-commerce
- WP-jquery-lightbox | drop in replacement for LightBox-2 and similar plugins (pictures only)
- WP-PageNavi | adds more advanced page navigation
- WP-Super-Cache | great caching solution for dedicated servers (less problems then W3Tc)
- WP Super Popup | creates unblockable, dynamic and fully configurable popups
- WP Touch | reformatting your blog to touch-based smart phones compatible pages
Commercial plugins (which are worth their money):
- BlogVault | external WP site + database backup
- Caffeine | Event Calendar
- My Domain List: $12 | Create your own domain list auction & bidding site within seconds
- WP Super PopUp Pro: $39.95
and for professional WordPress themes sites checkout this blogpost.
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: October 2022 - October 9, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: August 2022 - August 23, 2022
- [NL] Ultra Light digital nomad Europe travel with Ryanair / Wizz Air - August 20, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: July 2022 - July 27, 2022
- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: April 2022 - April 2, 2022
Communities I have been 'hanging out' regularly over the past two decades.
- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
Note: links go to my profile on those respective sites. Connect with me if you like.
- EarnWithEarnie.io since 2022
- EarnWithEarnie.net since 2018
- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021
