Do you use WordPress Plugins? Where did you find the best ones? Probably from blogs that were using them! The best plugins I’ve found were being used on blogs I read. Sometimes it was easy to figure out what they were called and where to get them, and other times I had to wade through html code and comments to figure it out.
I’ve written about a lot of WordPress plugins, like the Automattic Stats plugin I use, or cForms for a WordPress Contact Form. I’ve written about plugins that make money through eBay and WordPress plugins that display ads – even ones that clean up formatting – like the plugin that escapes code in posts. But I don’t think I’ve ever written a post with every single WordPress plugin I use. That would be hard to keep updated anyway.
Rather than keep a list of the top 10 best WordPress plugins, the WordPress plugins that save the most time, or the most used WordPress plugins – I figure it would be easier to just show you a list of the WordPress plugin I enabled and running right now and use every day! How do I do this? You may find this funny – but I use a plugin to display my WP plugins, I use Lester Chan’s Display Plugins Used. I can’t say enough about Lester’s plugins – they all have worked flawlessly for me! ‘Display Plugins Used’ is a prime example, it shows all active (and inactive if you choose) plugins you have installed. Now I never have to keep an up to date list or constantly keep updating a post about my plugins – you can find them on my ‘WordPress plugins used’ page here!
This doesn’t mean I won’t write, review, or explain plugins in posts again – it just means if you ever wonder how I’m doing something on this blog first view my WordPress plugins used page, and if that doesn’t answer your curiosity – just use my contact form to ask me!
Question or comment about my plugins? Want to talk about what plugins you use? Comment now!
I use several of Lester Chan’s plugins myself, and am impressed with how easy they are to use and I’ve never had a conflict problem with them. I have avoided using plugins used one, though – I worry about security issues that may arise from revealing the plugins I use. Is this something you worry about, or are there not many security issues with WordPress plugins?
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=;; I’m not saying it doesn’t concern me, but no – I’ve never had a problem with WordPress plugins and security. And now that version 2.3x+ of WordPress automatically notifies you when there’s a new release of a plugin – it’s even easier to keep them up do date.
I would much rather provide my plugin list as a resource than guard it because I’m always worried about getting hacked. If something happens, I have database backups to restore from.
Hope that helped!
I have been looking for a plugin that can display my wordpress.com stats onto my blog, any suggestions? I guess it’d be difficult to make it as one needs to log in to wordpress.com to see the stats even in the dashboard…
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With so many plugins running on your site, does it slow down the loading of the site?
I try to limit my plugins because I was always afraid to many make my sites run slower plus on many plugins I was not sure what they do for me.
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They can – which is why you need to watch out for plugins that conflict. I have (in the past) tried and removed dozens of plugins that slowed down my blog, such as SezWho, Backtype, and a hundred more. Using WP Super Cache can help a lot as well.