Comments on: 5 Essential Plug-ins for Wordpress

By: 5 Really Sexy Plug-ins for Wordpress | Dotblog

5 Really Sexy Plug-ins for Wordpress | Dotblog — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:13:06 +0000

[...] we listed what we think are the 5 most essential plug-ins for WordPress, and 5 Useful but not essential ones. Today’s round up is a list of the ones we think are [...]

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:57:54 +0000

Thanks Susan, the ‘useful but not essential’, ‘really nice’ and ‘really, really nice’ lists coming soon!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:12:59 +0000

Great list of plugins. I use most of them with every project I do. I also love WassUp for those who can’t wait for google analytics to tell them their up to date statistics on visitors!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:29:34 +0000

I think yours would come somewhere in-between – ‘Useful but not essential’ whereas ‘nice to have’ would be all the other cool and pretty stuff.

I thought long and hard about this – the most essential ones before handing the WP over to your client are pretty basic ones really. In fact, I see that Akismet is now part of the basic download on the latest version of WP!

By: Grandad

Grandad — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:23:28 +0000

I would have put my lot in the essentials! I have about twelve others that are ‘nice to have’.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:43:21 +0000

Thanks Grandad.

I agree that Captcha can be bothersome. I had it on this blog then removed it to see if Akismet on it’s own was OK, and so far it is. It may be useful for really busy sites. We’ll see, when the traffic here becomes unmanageable!! Although I will try out your WP-SpamFree plugin first.

Some of your other suggestions will go into the next round-up, the ‘not-so-essential but nice’ list.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:11:58 +0000

Ahhhhhh! I could debate that list. I hate captchas.

I would include a few though –
“Subscribe To Comments” – I like to be reminded which sites I have commented on!
“WP Ajax Edit Comments” – Gives people a chance to edit those typos.
“WP Super Cache” – Essential for speeding up busy sites.
“WP-SpamFree” – Traps a lot of the crap before it even gets to Akismet.