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…what plugin do you use for you blog ?

People have been askin’ me what plugins I was using for my blog. So here’s the list !

1. must have

- All in One SEO Pack : SEO (Search Engine Optimization) will easily help your blog being seen more efficiently by search engines. You just have to fill a form for each article you write with keywords, description and title, and it’s done !

- Akismet : one of the best anti-spam available.

- Google Analyticator : works with Google Analytics (which works with a simple Gmail account)

- Google XML Sitemaps : automatically generate a sitemap of your blog/website. That way, it’ll be better referenced by search engines.

- Secure WordPress : this plugin will secure your wordpress, by adding index.html files to your wordpress directories for example. This won’t secure completely your blog but that’s a start

- ZdMultiLang : this is a must have if you wanna have several languages on your blog. You can add a translation for your links, categories, pages, tags and of course articles. And you can add as many languages as you want !

2. contact, mails and so on

- cforms : allow you to create all kind of forms, very useful and lot of options available. I use it for my contact form.

- FeedBurner FeedSmith : a classic ! worpress integrates a RSS feed but feedburner will provide you a advanced RSS feed. Just one thing : try to join feedburner before you launch your blog or you’ll lose some readers on the way lol.

Just to remind you:

articles feed : http://feeds2.feedburner.com/uselesspeople

comments feed : http://feeds2.feedburner.com/uselesspeoplecomments

- MailPress : allows visitors to join the mailing list, so that you can send a mail to them automatically when an article is posted for instance.

3. comments

- @ Reply : simply add a “reply to” to each comment on your blog. Very simple to use.

- Get Recent Comments : allows me to display the recent comments everywhere I want on my blog.

- WP Ajax Edit Comments : a very useful plugin that allows you to edit comments on your blog directly from the blog without going on the admin area. Moreover, users can edit their own comments.

4. miscellaneous

- NextGEN Gallery : a really advanced tool to create pictures galleries with some cool effect (lightbox, fade in, etc.)

- Smilies Themer + Smilies Themer Toolbar : the first one will simply allow you to change the default smilies in your wordpress. The second one will add a toolbar to your post editor and to your “post a comment” area with the smilies available to include them in your posts and comments

- What Others Are Saying : display RSS feeds of your blogroll on your blog.

- WP-PageNavi : a more advanced pagination for wordpress.

5. useful links

Here are some links very useful I use quite a lot:

- Noupe : one of my favourite! talks about webdesign in general but gives great wordpress tips and tutorials as long as awesome freebies.

- WPdesigner : worpress expert, this blog provides news and complete wordpress tutorials an tips

- The Tamba2 Wordpress Guides by Podz : very usefull, this website contains awesome guides on wordpress templates and files, as long as tutorials.

- WpRecipes : when all you need is a simple recipes to add a “send to twitter” function on your blog, this website’s here for you. Just great !

- One of the best article about worpress plugins, with explanations and tutorials !