Plugins & Tools
Wordpress Plugins
All in One SEO Pack plugin - Perform many SEO tasks for your blog instead of using several individual plugins
Blog Metrics plugin - Calculates average number of posts per month and words per post. Will also calculate the average number of comments per post without your comments and the average number of words used in those comments to all be displayed on your Wordpress Dashboard.
CommentLuv Plugin - Encourages bloggers to leave comment on your blog. The plugin will display a titled link to the commentators last blog post.
Donations Cloud - Donate and get a link!
Duplicate Content Cure Plugin - Reduce duplicate content issues with Wordpress by using this content. It modifies the header with a conditional tag to check for page type and adds the no index tag when needed.
Easy Paypal Wordpress Plugin - Allows you to make money from your blog by collecting a payment from your users. When a user creates a login, they will be taken to PayPal to process payment. When they return to your site, the next payment date will be updated on a period that you define and if the user tries to attempt after the next payment date, they will be forwarded to Paypal to process the next payment.
FeedSmith - Called the Feedburner Feed Replacement which forwards all requests for your wordpress feed to Feedburner. Very useful to build up subscriber count.
My Top Commentators Plugin - Allows blogger to discover the most active commentators on the blog via a wordpress sidebar widget.
Google Maps Plugin - Will easily render Google Maps anywhere on your blog.
Gravatars - Allows an image to be used next to your comments on any blog utilizing Gravatars to allow visitors to be easily recognized or help a comment stand out.
Keyword Luv Plugin - Reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website, giving them improved anchor text.
Maintenance Mode Plugin - Adds splash page to your wordpress blog to let visitors know when your blog is down for maintenance.
Permalink Redirect - Replies 301 permanent redirect if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink to ensure only one url is associated with each blog entry.
Random Image plugin - displays a random image from your blog posts linking it back to your post.
Robots Meta Plugin - Prevents indexing of your search results pages, prevents indexing of subpages to your homepage, prevents indexing of your login, register and admin pages, prevents yahoo and google from indexing your feeds and disables author and date-based archives, adds nofollow to category listings on single posts and pages to prevent PR leaking, adds nofollow to outbound links on frontpage, adds nofollow tag links, edits your robots.text and .htaccess within Wordpress, adds robot meta tags to individual posts and pages.
Theme Tester plugin - Allows the owner of a wordpress blog to test new wordpress themes without worrying about their visitors seeing something different.
WP Cache - Robust plugin that increases responsiveness of website to reduce server load. It creates static versions of your pages and serves them without querying the MySQL database.
WP PageNavi - Adds more advanced paging navigation to your Wordpress blog
WP Polls - Adds an AJAX poll system to your Wordpress blog that can be easily included into the blog and is extremely customizable via templates and css styles.
WP Post Ratings - Adds an AJAX rating system to your blog’s post and page.
WP Post Views - Enables you to see how many times a post or page has been viewed.
WP Print - Displays a printable version of a Wordpress post or page.
WP User Online - Shows how many users are online on your wordpress blog (Members/Guests)
AutoBlogged - Creates posts for your website automatically, via the magic of RSS feeds. Uses the built-in Wordpress cron feature so cron access is not required with huge speed and performance improvements. $59.95 for single license and $129.95 for multiple use.
OioPublisher - Get direct sales platform for your blog, where you keep 100% of sales instead of splitting it with ad management company. Sell, place and manage ads all within Wordpress. Keep 100% of what you’ve earned, letting Wordpress run on auto-pilot.
Other:
BBPress Forum Software - Made from the creators of Wordpress, this forum is easy to install.
Tools
OpenPhrases Keyword tool
Social Bookmarking Sites
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