Over time I have built up a little arsenal of plugins for use in my blogs. Usually I install all of them but I may not use all of them all the time. I’ll fill in the details for the others as time goes by and add new ones as I install and decide to keep them.

WP-Cron This provides a fake cron facility so you do not need to set up a cron job with your host control panel.

All the WP-Cron stuff below is part of the same package, but if you use WP-Autoblog below then you MUST remove WP-Cron itself from the WP-Cron plugin folder. Autoblog already incorporates WP-Cron in its folder. The only one of these that I use actively is WP-Cron Future Pings as this one stops WP from pinging items with a future date from being pinged at the time they are uploaded which is normal WP practice.

WP-Cron Dashboard

WP-Cron Moderation

WP-Cron Reminder

WP-Cron-Mail

WP-Cron Future Pings

WP-Cron UpdateLinks

WP-Cron Gravatar Cache

Search Meter The Search Meter Plugin will automatically record what people are searching for and what they are finding on your website in your search box on the blog. You can find all the report in your admin interface.

Google Ad Wrap This plugin places Adsense tags top and bottom of content and comment text increasing the relevance and focus of any Adsense units used on the page.

WordPress Affiliate Pro A newly released plugin that makes life very cool and easy for autoblogging affiliate bloggers. Inserts links, tracks clicks, masks links and more. Great tool. Absolutely indispensible for bloggers who are also monetising their sites with affiliate programs. It is the details that set this one apart from the rest!

Google Adsense widget Makes Adsense modules for sidebars. Works with the Widgets Plugin. Specifically for Google Adsense blocks. Up to 4 instances of this widget may exist (since Google only allows 3 ads and one link block on a page). Heavily derived from the Text widget code included with the widget plugin by Automattic, Inc.

Sidebar Widgets Allows users to run little WP gadgets called Widgets, dead useful. Install this and then you can use all the fun widget stuff

Google Search widget Adds a sidebar widget to let users search your site with Google.

adsenseBeautifier Add pretty little pictures next to your Adsense modules. Works with Adsense Deluxe so I don’t use it. But I would…

StatCounter for WordPress Adds the StatCounter invisible counter code to the footer of each page of your WP site. Configure it from the Options page.

Filosofo Uncheck Default Category Unchecks the default category when you select another.

Zap_NewWindow If you want external links (links that refer to other domains) in your weblog opening in a new browser window use this plugin. So you don’t have to type target=”_blank” yourself for every link. Zap_NewWindow automatically detects an external link and will open it in a new browser window. Furthermore using Zap_NewWindow the code is valide to “XHTML strict”.

Link Library Provides a way to create a link page from the data entered in the links section of the admin area. Displays links with large descriptions, a list of all link categories at the top of the page and a way to replace the description with the notes field since the notes field is longer and is contents are not displayed in the links admin page.

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Google Sitemaps

AutoMeta automatically generates and includes HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. Technorati picks up tags from your blog’s feed so nothing for you to do. Tag selection can be done manually or left completely to the software.

ArticleTrader Easy Post

Adsense Injection

WPvideo

Filosofo Home-Page Control

WP-Autoblog

Adsense-Deluxe

Google Analytics

Google Adsense for Feeds

Spam Karma 2

WordPress Database Backup

Sociable

No Ping Wait Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php The server with the download seems not to be working right now. I hope the owner will not mind me posting the code for the plugin here:

code text

To use simply save as a .php file with the name nopingwait.php and place in your plugins folder.

<?php

/*
Plugin Name: No Ping Wait
Plugin URI: http://somethingunpredictable.com/wp-no-ping-wait/
Description: Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php
Author: Robert Deaton
Author URI: http://somethingunpredictable.com/
Version: 2.0
*/
remove_action(’publish_post’, ‘generic_ping’);
add_action(’publish_post’, ‘masq_set_generic_ping’);
function masq_set_generic_ping() {
update_option(’masq_generic_ping_waiting’, 1);
}
if(strstr($_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’], ‘execute-pings.php’) !== FALSE && get_option(’masq_generic_ping_waiting’)) {
update_option(’masq_generic_ping_waiting’, 0);
generic_ping();
}
?>