Five Overlooked (Usually) Wordpress Plugins 12
I set up so many Wordpress blogs, for myself and others, so its really easy to overlook a step or two during the setup process once in a while. Let this post be a reminder to you, readers, and myself, to add these five nifty plugins. We do want our websites to be the best that they can be, no?
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
I definitely try to remember to install this on all of my Wordpress blogs, it saves so much time when you have twenty or more blogs to upgrade when a new version comes around. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade does exactly what the name details, automatically (well, you click a button in your control panel after it alerts you a new version is available) downloads the newest stable release of Wordpress, and installs it. Perhaps we’ll see this plugin included like Akismet someday?
Live Comment Preview
Shows your readers exactly how their reply to your post will appear, in real time. Pretty neat feature that really increases the interaction between the user and your website.
WP Auto Tagger
WP Auto Tagger makes great use of the Yahoo! API to match search results against your current post’s content and provides relevant, popularly searched tags automatically. It doesn’t override any tags you suggest, either.
Nicer Trackbacks
The way Wordpress displays trackbacks to your posts from other websites is kind of ugly, and kind of not that SEO friendly. Well, don’t forget to change all that to suit your needs with this Wordpress plugin.
Most Commented Posts
Show your hottest topics with this plugin, which displays these posts in your sidebar much like the “Most Popular Posts” or “Recent Comments” sidebar items.
Don’t forget to bookmark the Five Most Overlooked Wordpress Plugins, so you don’t forget next time!
I want to use a wordpress plugin WITHOUT having wordpress installed.
Why would you want this? Wordpress plugins directly affect a Wordpress installation. It wouldn’t do anything. Do you mean you want to incorporate a feature set of a Wordpress plugin into your website that is powered by another CMS?
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never knew about some of these fantastic plugin’s, thanks for the post!
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Well i think there are a lot of Overlooked wordpress plugin. It depends with the users like. From your list “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” plugin only that i installed, the other i don’t use them. But because is really a lot plugin to use and sometime listing from one person to another can be different.
But thanks for sharing what plugin you use. it really helping people who don’t get used with plugin.
I dont understand why you dont release All in one Seo plugin, sitemap xml plugin. It’s very helpful and better for SEO.
You’re quite right, Wordpress All In One SEO Pack and the Wordpress Sitemap Generator are great SEO tools!
I had to pick my five most overlooked ones, and I don’t usually forget those!
Automatic upgrade is definitely not overlooked. I think it’s the most used features after it was released.
Nicer trackbacks ! Now that’s something I would install this weekend on my blog. Thanks for sharing
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I always wonder where the balance is between useful and ‘too many’ plugins, after all, each one slows down the load time for your viewers!
Off topic, but:
Have you seen the ‘review’ of your site on Tuscson SEO Solutions? (day 82)
Cheers – Rhys
Hey there Rhys!
No, I hadn’t seen the review, thanks for pointing it out to me, I had a good time reading some of his posts, and giving him an update on DaftSEO.
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Informative Post! The live comment preview is very useful. I personally would love to have that plugin installed. Unfortunately, i use blogger so most of these won’t apply. I am thinking about switching to wordpress. Still a dilemma.
Definitely worth the feature pool to migrate to Wordpress. However if you’re keeping it simple, I’d recommend sticking with Blogger on a custom domain.