Our Favorite WordPress Plugins and Tools for Your WordPress Blog

Below you’ll find a list of some of our favorite WordPress tools and plugins. More WordPress plugins and tools will be added as they become our favorites to use or recommend.

WordPress Blog Tools

  • Scribfire : ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your Firefox browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
  • BlogJet : BlogJet is a Windows blog client for managing multiple blogs, with features no web-based blog editor can match.
  • Performancing Metrics : pMetrics gives you unprecedented detail on every visitor to your web site. Tag them by IP address, or use our custom data tracking to automatically name them for you!

WordPress Blog Plugins

  • All-in-one SO Pack : Ultimate SEO for your pages and posts; includes meta tags, descriptions and keywords for all your posts and pages.
  • AddThis Social Bookmark : Allow your readers to choose from almost 30 social networks or bookmarking sites to add your posts to.
  • Clean Archives : Dynamic, clean and good looking archives for all your posts.
  • WordPress Database BackUp : Backup your WordPress databases and protect your posts from being lost forever.
  • WP-Email : Enable your readers to email your posts to anyone.
  • WP-Print : Enable your readers to print a printer friendly version of each of your posts.
  • Search Pages : Allows your readers to search through both your posts AND your pages.
  • CG-Feedread : A simple RSS/RDF feed aggregator which dynamically publishes feeds from other blogs to your site.
  • Customizable Post Listings : Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner.
  • Feedburner FeedSmith : Essential plugin that detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
  • Instant Upgrade : Upgrade your WordPress-Installation with one simple click.
  • Dagon Sitemap Generator : Generates a fully customizable sitemap.
  • Dagon Secure Form Mailer (Contact Form) : Secure highly customizable contact form.
  • Ad Rotator : Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file.
  • AdServe : AdServe is the advertising server for WordPress. You could setup your banner campaigns using different sized banners, set available impressions and count resulting clicks!
  • Feedburner or other RSS feed subscription service: You should give your reaeders the option to subscribe to your articles via RSS feed or via email.
  • pMetrics: pMetrics is a statistics plugin specific for blogging. Track your blog traffic and generating reports so you know who reads your blog and how they read it.
  • WP 2.3 Related Posts : Generates related posts via WordPress 2.3 tags, and adds the related posts to your feed.
  • Arkayne Related Posts : Link page contents with similar content.
  • Maintenance Mode: Automatically publish a temporary home page that lets your readers know that you are maintaining or updating your site.
  • Aksimet : Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
  • Spam Karma 2: Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.
  • Event Calendar : Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

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