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15 essential wordpress plugins, you cannot aford to miss

November 30, 2009 General, Wordpress

Here’s a list of 15 essential wordpress plug ins, which will power up your blog. Among some popular plugins, you also will discover new, not so well known or underrated but extremely useful WordPress plugins. If you feel, there is any plugin which should be a part of this list, then please let me know in the comments.

Maintenance Mode
Maintenance Mode WordPress plugin his plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Multi-level Navigation Plugin for WordPress
Multi-level Navigation Plugin generates the code necessary to create a Son of Suckerfish horizontal dropdown, vertical flyout or horizontal slider menu. The plugin produces W3C valid HTML and CSS and only requires JavaScript to function for very old browsers such as IE 6. The Javascript is held in an external file which is linked via IE conditional comments, so only the browsers which require it will download the file. You have control over what items (pages, categories, archives, blogroll etc.) appear in your dropdown via the plugins options page.

WordPress Backup
WordPress Backup is an essential plugin for all WordPress blog administrators. It performs regular backups of your upload (images), current theme, and plugin directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. You can adjust the interval between backups and the email address to which the backups are sent. For database backup you can use WP DBManager.

WPtouch WordPress plugin
WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-like experience when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch. It comes complete with Ajax & effects, and all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more.

Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress. You can also archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes), post a tweet from your sidebar or the WP Admin screens and pass your tweets along to another service.

Fresh from FriendFeed and Twitter
Fresh from FriendFeed and Twitter keeps your blog always fresh by regularly adding your most recent content from FriendFeed or Twitter. No external passwords required.

WP-Directory-List
WP-Directory-List provides you with a categorized directory listing for Url’s and Businesses. The directory listing can range from the simple link with description to a full business address, phone, fax and contact email. You can create separate pages for each category or list all of them at one time and allow your users to add links that will be pending until approved.

Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin
Shadowbox JS WordPress Plugin is a JavaScript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox. Supports all types of media, not just images. JavaScript libraries supported are: YUI, Prototype, jQuery, Ext, Dojo and MooTools.

WassUp Plugin
WassUp is a WordPress plugin to track your visitors in real time. It has a very readable and fancy admin console to keep tracks of your blog’s users visits. It comes with a “Spy” view in Ajax like the Digg Spy.

EasySMS
EasySMS is a great way for WordPress administrators to send SMS message to users’ cell phones. You can group subscribers together for more productive SMS messaging. Features include owner verification of cell phones with unsubscribe feature, auto-notification of new posts to subscribers, 80 default carriers.

MailPress
With MailPress WordPress plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails for comments subscribers, your periodic newsletters or post notification (per post/daily/weekly/monthly) as well as specific admin events : registration of a new user, comment to moderate, new comment on your posts. This plugin is widget ready; it’s using Swiftmailer and Google Chart API.

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
This plugin generates a compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

WP-Invoice
WP-Invoice plugin lets WordPress blog owners send invoices to their clients. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.
Once an invoice is created from the WP admin section, an email with a brief description and a unique link is sent to your client. Clients follow the link to your blog’s special invoice page, view their invoice, and pay their bill using their credit card via Authorize.net, MerchantPlus’ NaviGate, or PayPal.

WordPress e-Commerce Plugin
The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. This plugin makes it easy for you to accept payments online via Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express. You can also tweak your site to look however you want utilizing WordPress PHP template tags, shortcodes and widgets.

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