2011 Plugin List

March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Using WordPress for Websites is my current Platform of Choice.  From a SEM – Search Engine Marketing Standpoint it the most versatile.

Here is my list of plugins!!!

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The Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2011

1. W3 Total Cache – This WordPress plugin is great for two reasons. First, it makes
your pages load way faster. Second, since it stores static versions of your site, it
requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself. This
WordPress plugin is number one on the list for a reason.
2. HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple- Move over All in one SEO. There’s a
new guy in town. HeadSpace provides you with the features you need to drive
your site to the top. People spend way to much time working on SEO and too
little time writing great content. This plugin let’s you put your focus back where it
belongs. It takes care of all the SEO work that your blog will need.
3. PAID Gravity Forms – This is without question the best WordPress plugin for
forms. There is no competition. This form creates posts, allows image and media
uploads, allows conditional logic, and so much more. It is the all-in-one form
plugin for WordPress.
4. PAID MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja – This WordPress plugin is amazing as it
massively cuts down on the amount of time it takes to promote affiliate products
throughout your site. It converts keywords that you identify, tracks clicks, and
much more. You won’t have to keep chasing down your affiliate links when
they’re all stored in your WordPress dashboard and doing the work for you.
5. WP-DBManager – This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It
actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most
impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me
every day.
6. Thank Me Later – This plugin is great. It sends an email to all first-time visitors.
You can write up the email to remind them about your RSS feed or just to invite
them to connect with you personally. I do both.
7. WP-PageNavi – Those ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ links are boring. With
WP-PaveNavi you can get page buttons so users can go directly to whichever
page they want. Plus they look a lot better than plain little links.
8. SEO Smart Links – Do you inter-link your articles? You should. Linking within an
article to other articles is a great way to build Page Rank throughout your site
and it’s a great way to get readers to find your other articles on similar subjects.
This plugin will interlink keywords to your other articles for you.

9. Digg Digg Social Sharing – This simply WordPress plugin is what powers the
floating social icons to the left of each post here at Site Sketch 101. With an easy
to access Twitter icon, your friends and readers will be able to easily share and
promote your content.
10. Sharing is Sexy
11. Feedburner Circulation – The era of the feedburner chicklets are over. Install the
Feedburner Circulation WordPress plugin and you’ll be able to display your
subscriber count just as you see in the top right corner of this page.
12. Revision Control – With the revisions feature of WordPress, it doesn’t take long
for your database to get bloated and begin slowing down your site. With the
Revision Control WordPress Plugin you can limit the number of post revisions
that remain in storage. I have mine set to 2.
13. Tweet Old Post – If you’ve been engaging and building a community of friends on
Twitter, then this WordPress plugin is the perfect way to sprinkle your posts into
your tweets. It has options to add hashtags, leading text and more.
14. Widget Context – With the Widget Context WordPress plugin, you’ll be able to
pick and choose which pages you want sidebar widgets to appear on. You can
literally create different sidebars for different pages and sections of your site with
this.
15. WordPress Editorial Calendar – This plugin provides a crisp, clean editorial
calendar of your posts both past and present. You can drag and drop articles
from one date to another, edit them and much more. This is an amazing
organizational tool.
16. ReplyMe – This plugin sends an email to anyone who leaves a comment only
when someone comments as a direct response to them. This is a terrific way to
help continue the conversations that you’re working to build on your site.
17. WordPress SEO by Yoast is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for
WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that
helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML
sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.
18. Google Analytics for WordPress is the most complete Google Analytics plugin for

WordPress. Of course, you could just copy the tracking code into your theme andbe done with it, but then you’d miss a whole lot of features that this plugin has to
offer you. All the extra data this plugin can add to your tracking is what makes
Google Analytics for WordPress into the most powerful tracking tool you’ve ever
seen.
19. NextGEN Gallery: A NextGENeration Photo gallery. Want to build a gallery of
photo with ease and style? In our opinion this is the best.
20. Facebook Comments for WordPress – This WP Facebook plugin will integrate
Facebook commenting into your blog allowing your readers to comment using
their Facebook profile. The plugin can be customized to change the look of the
comments and set the maximum number of comments that should be displayed
to visitors. Commenters are additionally given the opportunity to post their
comment to their own FB profile.
21. Simple Facebook Connect – A WordPress Facebook plugin that adds Facebook
Connect login abilities to your WP blog permitting readers to comment using their
Facebook profile. The plugin also allows you to manually publish your blog posts
to your FB profile, an FB application, or a Facebook fan page. Other add-ons for
this plugin can extend its functionality to import other great features geared
toward integrating with Facebook and promoting your website’s content there.
22. Facebook Fan Box – If you have a Facebook fan page for your blog, you can
display any recent updates and new fans using this fan box plugin. Customized
settings for this WordPress plugin permits the admin to change the appearance,
dimensions, stream stories, and limit the number of fans that are shown.
23. The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your
WordPress site. It has a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin
pane
24. SexyBookmarks Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts,
pages, index, or any combination of the three.


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