Your Go-To Guide of WordPress Plugins

by Ari Herzog on Oct. 10, 2009 · 19 comments


As a follow-up to my prior list of 22 WordPress plugins I use today, I tip my hat to Andrew Rondeau for his excellent compendium of 111 WordPress plugins assembled across the web.

Perusing through Andrew’s summary, I quickly realized he included more generic lists and less categorical ones.

With this in mind, and considering the master index of WordPress plugins on every topic imaginable, here are an assortment of recommended plugins for your clicking pleasure…

Plugging in

5 Super-Useful WordPress Plugins – Lisa Hoover

5 Best Social Bookmarking Plugins For WordPress – W3Mag

6 WordPress Plugins to Engage Your Visitors Better – Maneesh Madambath

6 WordPress Comments for Better Comments – Srikanth AD

6 WordPress Plugins to Reduce Spam – Michael Nguyen

7 WordPress Plugins You’re Not Using – Eric Doss

9 WordPress Plugins to Make you ‘Happy Go Lucky’ – Alan Hamlyn

My Top 10 Favorite WordPress Plugins – Katie Freiling

10 Essential WordPress Plugins For New WordPress Installation – Web Design Booth

10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins – Quick Online Tips

10 Great WordPress Plugins – Heart Internet

10 WordPress Plugins Often Ignored by Bloggers – Shravan Labels

10 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site More User-Friendly – Ankit Puri

10 WordPress Plugins for Effective Blogging – Ravi Chauhan

10 WordPress Plugins That You Must Install – Team DW

10 WordPress Plugins to Add Ratings and Polls – GuiDesigner

12 WordPress Plugins to Prevent Spam – CRshare

12 WordPress Plugins for Developers – CosmosBlog

12 WordPress Plugins for Facebook – Web Design Booth

13 WordPress Plugins to Improve Your Admin Area – Pro Blog Design

15 Essential Plugins For Your WordPress Blog – Lisa Barone

16 WordPress Plugins Everyone Must Install – Naeem Noor

20 Amazing WordPress Plugins – Graphic Mania

20 Most Commonly Used Plugins on WordPress Blogs – Chris Spooner

21 WordPress Plugins for Article Marketing – Lisa Angelettie

30 WordPress Plugins to Help You Improve Your Sidebar – Cosmin Lupsan

31 WordPress CMS Plugins – Jon Bishop

33 WordPress Plugins to Power Up Your Comment Section – Dainis Graveris

35 WordPress Plugins for an Effective Blogging Experience – Listelog

40+ Quite Useful WordPress Plugins Using jQuery – tripwire magazine

This list will be updated from time to time. Suggestions?

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{ 19 comments }

John Haydon October 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Killer WordPress plug-in superlist. Thanks, Ari!
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Andrew - We Build Your Blog October 11, 2009 at 3:03 AM

Ari,

Thanks for mentioning my post and supplying me with another huge list to go through!

If I’m looking for a certain type of plugin, I know where I’ll be visiting first! Right here!

Andrew
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Randy Tan October 11, 2009 at 3:10 AM

Hi Ari, really nice post about wp plugins. I like your high quality content. Can you rate my wp blog: theGroovie.com about Lifestyle, Blogging and Technology.
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Travis Quinnelly October 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM

Thanks for the wrap-up. I’ll be digging through each of these to make sure I have the “best of the best” of the WordPress Plugs.
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Jessica Deal October 11, 2009 at 3:28 PM

This is an amazing list. Thanks for the referral to top 10 for bloggers. There are some in there I’d never heard of. Thanks!

Matthew Praetzel October 11, 2009 at 8:01 PM

As a Wordpress plugin developer myself it is always good to see people like yourself compiling lists of ways for people to get ahold of our stuff. We work hard and give it away for free!

Check out some of my work if you care to:
More Wordpress plugins.

Ari Herzog November 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM

How often do you receive donations from users?

Matthew Praetzel November 16, 2009 at 12:30 AM

Smiles. That is a great question. Well, I received one donation for the year of 2009. I had about 2 or 3 other people promise to donate if I aided them in configuration of my plugins which resulted in no contact once I helped them and needless to say no donation. To be honest I would have helped them anyway.

I help probably about 3 people a week configure my plugins on their blogs. About one every two weeks needs code written out for them. I actually enjoy dealing with so many internationals. The web is a playground and Wordpress is a great set of monkey bars.

Thanks for the question Ari. I appreciate the work you do here.

MCSE Angie October 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM

The usability and sheer number of plugins to fit any type of blog is probably the number one reason why I love Wordpress more than any other blogger platform out there.

amby October 23, 2009 at 6:50 PM

This is really helpful post.
Quite helpful list of wordpress plugins.
Thanks for sharing such useful information.

Simon October 30, 2009 at 7:43 PM

Some really good resources here.

Thanks for taking the time to collate and publish.
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Joel McLaughlin November 2, 2009 at 6:02 PM

Awesome Wordpress plugin list! Thanks Ari

chakkravarthi January 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM

Those are some awesome links to really useful plugins, thank you so much for pointing them out.
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January 7, 2010 at 1:22 AM

Great Ari,
Now I have a ton of work to do :-) I love playing with new wordpress plugins. Sometimes I have to catch myself from spending too much time on playing around with them on my blog. I am going to have to check out your list of the 22 that you use today. I haven’t read that post yet, but I really like a lot of the features that you have on your blog here. I also really like your theme, very open and easy to read, not crowded like a lot of blogs you see.
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Lisa January 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM

Wow! Thanks for the list! It’ll likely take me a week to go through the whole thing. But I’m always on the lookout for useful WP plugins – so thanks!

PS. You have a very interesting blog here. I only discovered it today but I’ll be back for sure :-)
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Ari Herzog January 26, 2010 at 4:04 PM

Thanks for the kind words. ;)

Owen June 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM

Ari, thank you for pulling such an extensive list of plugins together in one place. This post is a great resource for both new and experienced bloggers. I haven’t had a chance to check out every post or plug-in that has been referenced, but I certainly will. Just out of curiosity, is this post continuously being updated? With so many talented people in the WordPress development community, I imagine there are some really useful plugins that have come out since you first published the post.
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Jason August 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM

excellent list, some very useful information, many thanks.
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Sharath March 13, 2011 at 6:38 PM

it is indeed an excellent list of plugins for the word press users. i was in search of wp plugins for which it really helps. thanks….

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