Wed 4 Nov 2009
Wordpress Plugins That Power This SEO Blog
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)Here’s a list of the Wordpress plugins I use on this Hobo SEO Blog. Some plugins are permanent, some are being tested. Some are heavily modified, too. 1 or 2 although installed are not active yet.
Wordpress plugins add functionality to the core wordpress CMS we create, design and develop web sites with, if you don’t know.
There are 35 plugins used: 29 active plugins and 6 inactive plugins.Active Plugins
• Hobo WP Custom Link Love 0.9 Beta
» Shaun Anderson / Martin Gardner of Hobo SEO (url)
Custom Variation of Lucia LinkyLove to conserve Google Pagerank, Instead of adding rel=”nofollow” we wont Link to the Authors URL at all until they have contributed a number of intelligent comments.
• Remove Links from Home 1.0 Beta
» Shaun Anderson (url)
This plug-in removes links from the posts on the front/home page only.
Akismet 2.2.7
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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 <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
All in One SEO Pack 1.6.10
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist
Analytics360 1.2.1
» Crowd Favorite (url)
Allows you to pull Google Analytics and MailChimp data directly into your dashboard, so you can access robust analytics tools without leaving WordPress. Compliments of MailChimp.
BackType Tweetcount 2.0
» BackType (url)
The BackType Tweetcount plugin shows the number of tweets your posts get and allows users to retweet.
Comment Approved Notifier 2.2
» Yakup Gövler (url)
Send an e-mail to your commenters when you approve their comments.
Cross-linker 1.4.3
» Jan Hvizdak (url)
A plugin which allows you to set-up words which are automatically hyperlinked to desired URLs
DoFollow 4.0
» Kimmo Suominen (url)
Selectively disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments. Configuration: Options » DoFollow.
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Force Word Wrapping 1.0.0
» Jim Wigginton (url)
Prevents long sentancesconstructedlikethis from horizontally stretching the page. Ported from the phpBB MOD of the same name – Force Word Wrapping. For support / comments / whatever, visit the support forums.
Google Analytics for WordPress 3.2.5
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
Lifestream 0.99.9.6
» David Cramer (url)
Displays your activity from various social networks. (Requires PHP 5 and MySQL 5)
No Self Pings 0.2
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Ozh' Better Feed 2.2
» Ozh (url)
Your feeds, on steroids. Add a feed footer with a copyright, “Add to delicious”, the number of comments… Add anything to your feed. For WordPress 2.8+
PagerFix 1.1 for WP 2.1
» Jaimie Sirovich (url)
Makes the paging in WP more SE-friendly.
Permalink Redirect 1.0.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
Redirects all crap away from the end of the URL
Post-Plugin Library 2.6.2.1
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.
Recent Posts 2.6.2.0
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.
Related Posts 2.02
» Alexander Malov & Mike Lu (url)
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
Robots Meta 3.2.5
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
RSS Footer 0.9.6
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
Simple Pull Quote 0.2.4
» Toby Cryns (url)
Easily add a pull quote to blog posts using a custom field and shortcode.
Smart Ads 2.2
» John Kolbert (url)
Automatically adds advertisements before and after your post’s single page content based on word count or post age. You can also ad custom ads using the built in shortcode. Just type [smartads] into your posts to display the custom ad.
What Would Seth Godin Do 1.7
» Richard K Miller (url)
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.
WP-Announcements 1.8
» Brian Messenlehner of WebDevStudios (url)
Provides checkboxes on add/edit post pages to either display a marquee anywhere you call wp_announce_marquee() on your website and/or display a pop-up window using shadow box that shows the content of your announcement post (only once per visitor). Admin page included to toggle announcements on or off and to manage all posts saved as announcements for easy retrieval and reuse.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP Greet Box 5.5.8
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.
WP Super Cache 0.9.8
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
Which are your best Wordpress plugins? Have I missed any?
Note – This page should automatically update with new / deleted plugins using the cool WP-PluginsUsed 1.40.
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Hey thank you so much for such an informative article on wordpress plug ins!!!
This is a great resource. I’ve been using All in one SEO pack and I love it. Will give a shot for others too.
this is definitely going to be bookmarked. thanks a lot for the tops bro.
Cheers Rudy
Great list. I have a few others. I like the comment and keword luv plugins.
http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/
http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/
I really love the Wordpress platform and thanks for sharing your plugins too.
I am however not a massive fan of the plugins who force you to link back to their site. I like being given options!
Republished and updated!
Hi Shaun,
Nice list, I would add:
Broken Link Checker (name self explanatory, checks internal and external links): http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/
Google XML Sitemaps (name self explanatory, also creates gzipped file) : http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/
SEO Title Tag http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
Allows bulk edit of title tags of posts, pages, categories etc…
WordPress Database Backup http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup (could’t sleep without) emails db backup at regular intervals
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/ (display related posts on based on calculations using title, content, categories and tags.
I agree commentluv is nice to have.
ps, the link to “Related Posts 2.02″ goes to a domain squatter and the (url) of it to your site
I found using the broken link checker slowed my site down FAR too much to have it active.
Hi Shaun, interesting comment about the broken link checker. I had it on from the start and therefore didn’t notice anything, but I’ll run some tests.
How about when you use it alongside WP super cache. Does it still run slow ?
i’ve not actually tried it with that. I do have thousands of links to check on this blog though….
You can also try w3 total cache plugin ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/). Seo Booster Pro (http://mywordpress.com/plugins/seo-booster-pro/) is another one which I use on my niche sites.
Hi Shaun,
I couldn’t see any difference (but I just started blogging so only have a couple hundred links to check). I’ll see when the number increases if I need to turn it off, and have it run at night may be.
Thanks for your feedback on it though, if I notice the blog slowing down I’ll remember to switch it off.