List of Useful WordPress 3.x plug-ins [research]

admin · #1 03-11-2009, 10:20 AM

The following list of plug-ins have been deemed worthy of further study.

Admin / Housekeeping

WP Dummy Content - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dummy-content - generate a bunch of pages, sub-pages and posts for testing new blogs
Do-Follow - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dofollow-state - remove the rel="external nofollow" attribute from default wordpress comments-template and it also gives additional meta tag robots with content "index, follow" for every pages
WP Minify WordPress Plugin - http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordp...dpress-plugin/ - minify CSS and JS

Statistics

Contact Forms

FormBuilder - http://truthmedia.com/wordpress/formbuilder - build simple customizable forms without needing to know PHP/HTML

Design Tweaks

LJ Multi Column Archive - http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/softw...column-archive - display your archive list with multiple columns

Rotating Content / Ads

Search

Search Unleashed - http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed - extends the standard WordPress search with customizable search engines, ability to search across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data

Photo Albums / Photos in Posts

PageFlipGallery - http://pageflipgallery.com/online-demo/ - image gallery with page flip effect

Misc Features / Unsorted

SourcedFrom - http://sourcedfrom.com/wordpress - make WordPress posts/pages available for re-publishing to other WordPress sites, restrict access to specific publishers, controlling exactly what they can access and publish
Scissors - http://stephanreiter.info/2008/10/wo...lugin-scissors - adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to Wordpress' image upload and management dialogs
FeedFacebook - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...leave-facebook - generates a separate partial feed for Facebook, Use it to direct Facebook visitors to your blog while leaving your main full-text feed intact

admin · #2 08-11-2009, 12:50 AM

[MORE RESEARCH / NOTES] --

http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=6290 - 10 "most downloaded" plugins, according to this post - worth a read later on