Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – July 2009
Wed, Jul 22, 2009
Another sparkling line-up of fantastic plugins all tested by Enterprise Mastermind so you don’t have to! Some plugins are the same as previous months, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins. For more great plugins please see my last Top Wordpress Plugin post Top 20 Wordpress Plugins – June 2009.
If you think there is a plugin worth a mention here or you have developed a plugin and would like it reviewed please comment or contact admin@enterprisemastermind.com. This monthly post does get a lot of traffic so if you are a plugin developer it might be in your best interest to get your latest work reviewed here! I don’t charge a penny…
1. Referrer Detector
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Last month I showcased WP Greet Box, a great plugin that greeted each visitor to your site with a custom message according to the referrer. One thing that particular plugin lacked in my opinion was a way of tracking how many clicks you got from each referrer, always useful to know if you want to keep tabs on what marketing methods are working and which aren’t… You have probably guessed by now that this plugin not only greets you with the custom message but also tracks how many have been referred and by who. Super stuff.
2. WP Easy Paypal Payment Accept
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A stayer from last month…here is a great Wordpress plugin to accept paypal payments for a services, products or donations in multiple currencies with just one click. Can be used in the sidebar, posts and pages of your Wordpress install.
3. WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart
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Written by the same author as the plugin above (Ruhul Amin), this one allows you to put shopping cart interactivity and ‘Add to Cart’ buttons on any post or page within your Wordpress installation. An excellent alternative to the hassle of a fully blown e-commerce website if you don’t have a large product range.
4. Twitter Follow Badge
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Unless you are using Explorer 6 (get another browser!) you should be able to see a nice Twitter follow button on the left hand side of this screen. Now be warned, this isn’t exactly a plugin as such – the website above lets you enter details and then generates a block of code for you to manually add to your Wordpress Theme or regular website. The button is a great way of getting followers as it stays on-screen in the same position even after scrolling the window.
5. Plugin Manager
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Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin. Doesn’t do anything you couldnt’ do yourself manually but it is a great timesaver.
6. LJ Custom Menu Links
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LJ Custom Menu Links is a plugin that allows you to put extra links in the menus of most Wordpress Themes. The really great thing about this is that it doesn’t require any code changes to your theme because the extra links are added within Wordpress core functionality. Ideal if you were going to hack your Wordpress theme to add custom links or if you just want certain navigation items or links to appear when a user is logged in. This plugin does all this and more.
7. Easy Adsenser
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Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for a blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.
8. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam
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I have always been a fan of Akismet and in the past it has graced my Top 10 for quite a few months. I have noticed of late that just too much spam is getting through Akismet, no matter how much I tell Akismet it’s spam, it doesnt seem to learn like it should. So I decided to try out another plugin and I am glad I did. This fully featured anti-spam plugin not only stops comment spam, trackback spam and pingback spam but it also includes its own spam-free contact form. Over the 2 months or so I have been using this plugin it has worked impeccably. A must-have for any Wordpress user.
9. WP PhotoNav
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Simple little plugin that once installed and activated allows you to use a snippet of shortcode in your post to display an interactive panoramic photo (see below).
10. Pauls Latest Posts
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Pauls Latest Posts displays a list of your latest posts and comments in the sidebar with excerpts. Excerpts length can be modified or left out completely. Useful for sites that display one post on the main page, and want to link to previous posts.
Nice collection of Plugins and is really help for the blog. I had my own blog on wordpress so i’ll take the benefit of it.
Thanks for the post.
Thanks for WP spam free plugin, even my akismet pugin is going bongus.. I will try it right now…
most like the paypal plugins. works great for commerce site
just thought, maybe u can create one post under “Best WP Commerce Plugins”
anyway, thanks for the July Winners announce.