120+ WordPress Plugins
Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. We have compiled an A-Z list of more than 120 plugins to help you streamline everything you need to do out back.
AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins
The WordPress blogging platform has thousands of plugins, and many of them are now use AJAX to improve usability. Here is our pick of more than 30 goods ones: don’t install them all at once. 
For You, the Blogger
Ajax Comment Preview
Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
AjaxWP
Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
Alexa Rank
Display your Alexa rank with pride.
asTunes
Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
Codebox
Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
Crossroads
Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.
FireStats
Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.
Google PageRank
Allows you to display your Google Page rank on your blog.
Hardened-Trackback
Generates a single use trackback to help fight trackback spam.
imgViewJX
Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.
Live Spell Checker
Adds a spell checker to the admin area to check your posts with.
Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map
Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.
Wordpress Mailing List
Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe simply from the front page of your site.
WP e-Commerce
Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
WP-Polls
Adds fully customizable polls for your readers to take.
WP-Post Ratings
Allows readers to rate your posts.
Zorpia That’s Hot Box
Allows visitors to send posts they like Zorpia.com and vote on their favorite articles.
For Your Readers
AJAX Comments 2.0
Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.
AJAX Google Video Search
Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.
AJAX Shoutbox
Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.
Cool Weather
Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.
Currency Converter
Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.
Google AJAX Search
Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second site such as your Flickr account.
Google MapSearch Widget
Allows readers to search Google Maps without ever leaving the page.
Gregarious
Social bookmarking plugin that adds Digg, Reddit, Feedburner FeedFlare buttons and more.
Hottaimoijiruna
Adds a self-updating clock to the site for a timezone defined by the blogger.
Inline Ajax Comments
Hides comments until the user clicks on them, and then they fade-in with no reload.
Inline Ajax Page
Allows readers to see a snippet of a post, click a button and the remainder will appear without going to another page.
Tagboard Widget
Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site that displays new messages as they are posted.
Units Converter
Converts hundreds of different units of Length, Area, Volume, Weight / Mass, Speed without reloading the page.
WP Movie Ratings
Combines data from IMDB with the bloggers movie review and lets the readers add their own rating instantly.
XDTalk
Allows real-time conversation between registered users.
Plugins for Wordpress Comments
Comments on your WordPress posts are just as important as they can create valuable discussion. Here are our favorite comment-focused WordPress plugins that can eliminate spam, improve the appearance of comments, and add more value to your posts.
Anti Spam
Akismet
Antispam plugin from the creators of Wordpress that uses a central database of spam comments to flag spam. Requires a free API key from Wordpress.com.
Bad Behavior
Prevents spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their HTTP requests.
Comment Timeout
Closes comments on old posts.
Did You Pass Math?
Asks commenters a simple math question before their comments are posted.
Spam Karma
Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.
Enable Avatars
Gravatar
Displays user-selected avatars from a central database next to comments.
Favatars
Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website, and uses that for their avatar.
MBLA
Adds user images from MyBlogLog to comments.
OpenID Comments
Lets readers comment with their OpenID identity.
Enable Rich Comments
Custom Smileys
Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.
Edit Comments XT
Lets commentators edit their own comments.
Live Comment Preview
Allows readers to preview their comment before posting.
TinyMCEComments
Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.
Encourage Commenting
BlogFollow
Shows a snippet of the commenter’s blog at the bottom of the comment.
DoFollow
Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search engines can follow them.
DoFollow Trackbacks
Removes “nofollow” attributes from trackbacks
Show Top Commentators
Lists the most frequent commentators on your blog, along with links to their blogs, in your sidebar.
Improve Appearance
AuthorHighlight
Highlights comments by the blog’s author.
Comment Highlighter
Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.
Nicer Trackbacks
Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.
Numbered Comments
Adds numbers to comments.
wp-chunk
Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.
WP-NoSh*t
Filters bad words from comments.
Moderate Comments Effectively
Bannage
Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or IP.
CommentCentral
Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple posts.
Comment Twitter SMS Notification
Notifies you of new comments through Twitter SMS.
Show Off Comments
Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded
Shows the latest comments, along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.
WP-Most Commented Posts
Displays posts with the most comments in the sidebar.
Better Conversation
Comment Karma
Digg-style voting on comments.
Quoter
Allows users to quote a previous comment in their comment.
Simple CoComments
Tracks the conversation across blogs.
Whisper
Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one person.
WordPress Admin Tools
404 Notifier
Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages.
Admin Dropdown Menus
Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by turning them into dropdown menus.
Admin Panel Comment Reply
Adds a “reply to comment” option in the comments section of the admin area.
Ajax Spell Checker
Uses a combination of dictionaries to check your posts.
Auto-hyperlink URLs
Gives you several options for having URLs automatically turn in to hyperlinks.
AWSOM Pixgallery
Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to create a portfolio of their artwork.
Batch Categories
Adds a page to the category management, showing all the posts that belong to a category making it easier to add to another category, or when using an import tool from another blog.
Custom Admin Menu
Gives you the power to rename, hide or move just about anything you want in the admin area.
Custom Write Panel
Allows you to customize the “Write” panel of WordPress. Hide things you don’t need such as “Post Password” and add things you feel you may need.
Dashbar
Let admins have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.
Dashboard Editor
Ever wanted to change the Dashboard to be more useful? This is the plugin you need.
DashNote
Adds a post-it note feature to the dashboard to jot down notes to yourself.
Digital Fingerprint
Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts so you can search the web to see if your content has been scraped.
Domain Mirror
Will allow one WordPress install to be accessed from multiple domains and will even change the name and URLs based on the address people access it with.
Download Counter
Counts and tracks the downloads of all your files.
Email Users
This plugin allows you to mail registered users on your blog based on their role.
Enforce WWW Preference
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www to make sure your search engine indexing is uniform.
Excerpt Editor
Gives you more control over the excerpts such as length and auto creation.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Make sure all your RSS feed sbscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.
Fix Database
Will check your WordPress database for errors and attempt to fix them.
Genki Announcement
Allows you to add an announcement before your first post without editing your themes, can even run on a timer.
Genki Pre-Publish Reminder
Forget to set your categories before you publish? Write yourself a reminder!
Google Analyticator
Inserts Google Analytics on every WordPress page
Google Sitemaps Generator
Will create a Google compliant sitemap of your blog.
GT Post Approval
Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the administrators view on all posts, very handy for blogs with multiple authors.
Instant Update
Will handle the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install with just one-click.
Just Unzip
Upload a zip folder from the Write page; this plugin unzips the contents and associates them with the current post.
Khanh’s Instant Notepad (KIN)
Allows you to jot notes to yourself on a notepad.
Leprakhauns Word Count
Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page, very useful for writers working to a word count on professional blogs.
Mass Post Manager
Allows you to move or delete all the posts in a category at once.
Mutliply
Allows you to control multiple blogs from one administrator.
NextGEN Gallery
Adds an image gallery to your control panel and can even add a flash gallery.
OneClick Install
Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminates the need to unzip or FTP!
Page Link Manager
Allows you to easily rearrange pages, hide them, and move them at will.
Permacop
Allows you to redirect any URL to another.
Post2Page
Write a post that should really be on permanent display? Turn it in to a page with this plugin and have it handle the URL redirects to boot.
PlugInstaller
Point this plugin to a new plugin you want on the web, it takes care of obtaining it, uploading it and unpacking it.
podPress
Numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to their WordPress install. Previews, RSS feeds, adding cast to posts, and many, many more.
Search and Replace
Search all your posts at once for specified text, quickly replace it.
Share This
Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an e-mail-this function in one handy button.
Simple Pop-up Images
Add a thumbnail image to your post; when the user clicks on it, they get a larger pop-up of the picture.
Simple Tagging
Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus, can import from your current tagging plugins.
Site Unavailable
Puts up a message your site is down, customize the message, all the while, the admins can still log in.
Throttle
Monitors your bandwidth and limits non-essential items during heavy load times to help performance.
Wikipedia-NoFollow
Written in response to Wikipedia’s implementing a “nofollow” rule to their outgoing links, a plugin to add nofollow to links you give to Wikipedia pages.
WordPress Mobile Edition
Strips your blog down for easy reading on phones and PDAs.
WordTube
Why use YouTube when you can host and stream your videos as you please? Includes a flash player.
WP Grins
Adds clickable smilies to both the administration area and comments section at once.
WPAds
Add rotating banner and text ads to any position you define in your blog.
WP-Custom LoginAllows you to modify the user login page logo to an image of your choice to allow you to brand your site more completely.
WP- DBManager
Gives you the power to optimize the database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database , drop emptied tables and run selected queries.
WP-phpMyAdmin
Gives you quick access to your PHP databases directly from the WP admin area without having to login to phpMyAdmin. Very handy.
WP Plugins Tracker
Will verify all of your plugins are the latest version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org database.
WP Super Edit
Gives you more control over the Visual editor including emoticons, layers, style attributes and more.
WP-Table
Allows you to add a table directly in the Visual mode or import from a spreadsheet.
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