When I started my blog I posted about some of the plugins I was using with my blog. Now, after almost 2 months, learning a lot more about blogging & WordPress, I am writing another post on the newer plugins I found & am using after publishing that post. Keeping the gibber-jabber out:
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AdSense Manager – I don’t need to talk about this a lot, but will recommend this plugin if you are using Google Adsense Ads on your blog. It creates Ad Units for ads of certain types you created using the Google Wizard &then all you need to do is put in that unit where you want the ads.
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Category Order: A simple yet highly useful plugin. It allows you to manually re-arrange you categories’ order.
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Exclude Pages from Navigation: Another simple but useful plugin which allows you to choose which pages you want to show as links on the navigation bar. For example: I have not shown the Sitemap and Terms page in the navigation bar. Yet they are published pages allowing me to put their links anywhere I want. In this case the footer.
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Downloads Manager: This is the plugin that gives me the beautiful download boxes. Though in beta and has quite a few bugs, works pretty well allowing you to know how many times the download link has been clicked. It gives the size and description of the download.
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Related Posts: A self explanatory name. Shows the related posts based on tags where ever you want them.
There is going to be a Part 3 also. I had first planned to make one single big post with 11 plugins, but lack of time made me split it.
Happy Blogging :D
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Nice list. I particularly like the download manager one. Will definitely try it.
Great list, Manan.
The Download Manager plugin is gonna’ help when we release something on our blog.
:)
Nice list :)
Nice list :D
mine fav is Related post :P
Thank you guys for the appreciation. :D
Nice list, though I’d replace AdSense manager with Shylock Adsense or Ozh’s Who Sees Ads.
I use Mighty Adsense, but Adsense Manager is equally good too.
And yes, Related Posts is very good for making your visitors stay on your site for that much longer.
Lightbox2 is another plugin which opens images in a lightbox.
Optimal title and Popularity Contest are 2 very good plugins too!
(I’m remembering these plugins one by one :P )
You should also consider Yahoo/MSN Smilies, replaces wp-default with Yahoo or MSN smilies.
PS: I remember you’d tweeted part III post too :?
That was a Twitter+Wordpress error. I have set Pt 3 as a scheduled post, so when I hit publish for it go into scheduled post mode, Twitter updated my status saying I published the article, though it is technically scheduled to be posted on a later date.
download plugin looks cool
definitely gonna try it
Surprisingly, you havent mentioned any AnitSpam plugin – Akismet or Spam karma ??
One of the other most used plugins is “Subscribe to comments” – My personal fav.
I’ve never used the “Download Manager” plugin but I kinda like it. I havent yet used the Adsense plugin too, I manually put in the code where I want to. :S
Askimet comes bundled with WordPress, doesn’t it? It did for me, I distinctly remember not installing it. Therefore I did not mention it.
‘Subscribe to’ features in part 3.
@Sathya: I know you have been telling me to change my smilies, will do that sometime soon.
nice plugins man … I will aslo use from now on my blogs the Exclude Pages from Navigation . great tips .. ty !