{"id":5331,"date":"2009-11-20T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T15:27:39","slug":"wordpress-plugins-and-how-i-use-them-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wordpress-plugins-and-how-i-use-them-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Plugins and How I Use Them (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wordpress-icon1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wordpress-icon\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" style=\"float: right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" border=\"0\">UPDATE: A new <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wordpress-plugins-and-how-i-use-them\/\">(2019) version of this article<\/a> about WordPress plugins is available.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of my most frequently used WordPress plugins, along with descriptions of how I use them and links to examples in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>The name of each plugin is linked to its download page (each link opens a new window).<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" >\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\" bordercolor=\"#c0c0c0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\" valign=\"top\">\n<h3>Plugin<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a name=\"akismet\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/akismet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Akismet<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Included with your WordPress installation, Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's &#8220;Comments&#8221; admin screen. Use it on all my blogs. As of today (publishing date November 30th 2009), Akismet has caught 181,601 spams on this blog.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"amaniche\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/amaniche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Amaniche<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>LOVE this plugin<\/strong>. Adds Amazon products and reviews to your blog in the blink of an eye. You can see how I use it <a href=\"http:\/\/myenergypal.com\/topics\/green-product-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"breadcrumb-navxt\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/breadcrumb-navxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Breadcrumb Navigation XT<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress blog. Used on my of my blogs. See it in use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myenergypal.com\/the-future-of-electricity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> at the top of the page above the post title. You don't need this if you're running <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/studiopress\">StudioPress<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/diyfocus\">Thesis<\/a> as it's built into those themes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"broken-link-checker\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/broken-link-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Broken Link Checker<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Exactly as the name suggests. LOVE this plugin. Placed on all my blogs &#8212; works especially well when I actually <em>use<\/em> it. \ud83d\ude42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"contact-form-7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Contact Form 7<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Manages multiple, customizable contact forms. I use this one on <a href=\"http:\/\/myenergypal.com\/contact\/\">MyEnergyPal<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"deactivate-visual-editor\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/deactive-visual-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Deactivate Visual Editor<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">For use with Exex-PHP to ensure that you don't break your php code. Using is heavily on <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/abp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AffiliateBloggerPRO<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"exec-php\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/exec-php\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Exec pHp<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Use it to execute PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets. See also &#8216;Deactive Visual Editor' plugin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"faqtastic\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faq-tastic.com\/faqtastic-lite-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Faq Tastic<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">VERY nice plugin. Can generate multiple FAQs. I use it <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"dynamic-content-gallery\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/dynamic-content-gallery-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dynamic Content Gallery<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Use it in conjunction with all my <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/studiopress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>StudioPress <\/strong><\/a>themes &#8212; on almost all my sites.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"google-analyticator\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/google-analyticator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google Analyticator<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Enables Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog without template modification. Stats show up in your Dashboard as in the screenshot below (and then some).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: center; padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/google-analytics-summary.png\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"288\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"platinum-seo-pack\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/platinum-seo-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Platinum SEO Pack<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">SEO plugin allows you to specify keywords, description and more. I use it most often to specify a title that is more search engine friendly than the one used on my posts. For example the SEO title for the post, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/have-patience-young-grasshopper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Have Patience Young Grasshopper<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; is actually &#8220;How to Improve Your Online Buying Experience&#8221;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"popshops\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popshops.com\/faq\/wordpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Popshops<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Use to build product feeds with affiliate marketing networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale, LinkConnector, buy.at, Pepperjam and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"popularity-contest\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/popularity-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Popularity Contest<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. Valuable for determining your readers' real interests.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"search-and-replace\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/search-and-replace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Search and Replace<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">LOVE this plugin! As name implies, allows you to search and replace anything in your ID, post-content, GUID, titel, excerpt, meta-data, comments, comment-author, comment-e-mail, comment-url, tags\/categories and categories-description. Excellent for changing links if you haven't created a single redirect page or you're not using MaxBlogPress' <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/go\/maxblogpressninja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninja Affiliate<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"search-everything\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/search-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Search Everything<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Choose which of your posts, pages, comments etc. you wish to include in search. I use this specifically to exclude pages from my search functions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"sexy-bookmarks\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/sexybookmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sexy Bookmarks<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Xxtremely useful plugin for getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"subscribe-to-comments\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/subscribe-to-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Subscribe to Comments<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Lets commenters sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. Used on NPT.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"tweetmeme\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tweetmeme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tweetmeme<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Displays button that allows your blog posts to be retweeted and displays retweet count. Used on almost all my blogs. See above left.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"wp-db-backup\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-db-backup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WP-DB-Backup<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Easy backup for your core WordPress database tables.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"what-would-seth-godin-do\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/what-would-seth-godin-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>What Would Seth Godin Do<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Drops cookies to display different messages for new visitors and returning visitors according to your specifications. Check it out on the homepage at <a href=\"http:\/\/101Date.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">101Date.com<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"wp-email\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WP Email<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Allows people to recommend\/send your WordPress blog's post\/page to a friend<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"wp-no-category-base\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-no-category-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WP No Category Base<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Completely removes the mandatory &#8216;Category Base' from your category permalinks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"wp-polls\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WP-Polls<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can see it in the sidebars <a href=\"https:\/\/101date.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myenergypal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"wp-print\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WP-Print<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog's post\/page.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"yacaptcha\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/yacaptcha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YaCaptcha<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">yaCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress that helps you block comment spam from automated bots.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a name=\"yet-another-related-posts-plugin\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/yet-another-related-posts-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Displays a list of posts and\/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<hr style=\"border: medium none; color: #c0c0c0; height: 1px;\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: A new (2019) version of this article about WordPress plugins is available. 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