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As you may have noticed I’ve migrated this blog to WordPress.

I love the platform and have become an evangelist for it. I’ve always been a fan, but now I can be a fan from experience. My first order of business is to publicly thank Lloyd Budd, with the WordPress team, for graciously and flawlessly handling the import of years of blogging posts and comments and feed and permalink redirects that allowed my readers and the search engines to stay intact, seemingly without a hiccup.

Now on to one of the best aspects of the move – plugins, widgets and addons. WordPress has an army of developers out there making tools that allow WordPress users to enhance their blogs with useful (and sometimes goofy) additions to the base software.

There are lots of places to find these, including the WordPress site, but here’s a nice WordPress Plugin Database and make sure you also visit Weblog Tools Collection.

Share This – allows readers to bookmark and send a post via email
Related Content - Finds posts on my blog that are related to the current one
Akismet – Flags comment spam for easy deletes
Sphere – Finds related content around the web
WP-Cache – Makes the blog load much faster

I will probably add more to showcase books and products and make comments more lively, but a word of caution, you can go overboard with too much bling, make sure your additions benefit your readers – don’t add spinning gizmos just because you can.

Now, WordPress users, tell me about your must have plugins.

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Jul 05, 07 | 7:07 am
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Cory Miller

John, I would also add the Google Sitemap Generator plugin as a top priority if you're wanting to be found and indexed by Google ...

Also, I wrote a post called The First Five Essential Things I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation here.

Vijay Teach Me

I am using the following
1)sidebar
2)show top commentators
3)Threaded comments
4)All in one Seo Pack

Vijay

Neil Vineberg

There is a Jaiku plugin for WordPress developed by marketing blogger Douglas Karr --- http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/jaiku-plugin/

Matt Hamilton

Hi John,
I use and recommend Dagon Design's . It's very customizable and has a few handy applications.

John Jantsch

Matt, I do like the looks of that one.

Anyone have any favorites for desktop blog posting client for Mac? I've been playing with ScribeFire

Lars H

Alex King's "Popularity Contest" plugin is a great way to inform blog readers of your most popular blog posts. (It is found on the same page as your link to the Share This plugin.)

You can tweak the settings so that "popularity" is based on just page views, or comments, or trackbacks, or incoming links or however you'd like it to calculate. It has a default setting, so you can just go with that if you don't want to think about it.

I also second the Google Sitemap generator plugin suggestion.

And finally, if you want to keep a "sticky" introduction post that is always at the top of your blog for new readers, then I recommend the WP-Sticky plugin.
http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming...

I also agree about not going overboard. There are so many awesome plugins that it's easy to want to use them all, and hard to resist!

Moses Francis

I recomend you use the All in one Seo Pack

http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-se...

Oz

I would also recommend Dr. Dave's Spam Karma 2. My moderation is now nil.

Adam Pieniazek

Welcome to Wordpress!

How about Subscribe to Comments (by e-mail) for thos readers who "don't get" feeds.

John Jantsch

Adam,

Yes, I agree - I do have that feature already functioning on the lest sidebar but I do need to do some tweaking to get the sidebars in better shape from a user standpoint.

Mrs S - A pocketful of pixie d

I was going to recommend What would Seth Godin do - but I see you already have that one ;0)

I believe you also use the one that makes your comments stand out as the authors - which I can't for the life of me get to work!

I might check out some of the others in this list now though.

Mrs S

Bobby

Is there a working version of classified ads plugins?

been searching and directed here by google but to no avail.

thanks

Rob Cook

I use the following plugins: Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Google Analytics, Google XML Sitemaps, Popularity Contest, Quick Stats, Simple Tags, Smart Update Pinger, Tagalize It, and Wordpress Automatic Upgrade.

So far I don't notice that I am missing any features that I wish I had, but I am always browsing the new plugin releases to see what looks helpful.

deny

Im always use :
1. Platinum Seo Pack
2. Wp-Database
3. SEO Friendly Images
4. Google XML Sitemaps
5. WP-UserOnline

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