Which Plugins Do I Have Installed On My Blog?

This is a question I’ve often wondered when looking at other peoples blogs, so I thought why not make a page on my blog listing all the plugins I have installed on MY blog. That way anyone who would like to model their blog on mine can easily do so.

I also thought it’d be a good idea to include a short description of what each plugin does. So that is what I’ve done, you will now find the ‘Blog Plugins‘ tab at the top of the page, underneath the title.

But to save you needing to click away from this post, I might as well include the list here too, so here goes. But you still might want to visit the ‘Blog Plugins‘ tab, depending the date you are reading this. The blog plugins tab will be updated whenever I install a new plugin on my blog, but this post here will not be updated.

List of all current plugins installed on this blog

Akismet

This is a spam filter. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. In order to use it you will need a wordpress API key, you can obtain this by creating an account at wordpress.com. After you sign up they will email you an API key.

All in One SEO Pack

Allows you to easily optimize your blog for search engines, I would recommend all wordpress bloggers to install this.

CommentLuv

This is quite a clever little plugin, it shows a link to the last post from the commenters blog. It helps encourage people to comment on your posts. You can see an example of this by commenting on this post and putting your blog URL in the form.

Follow My Links

This is to prevent WordPress from automatically nofollowing links in comments by the post author.

IP Host Blocker

Does what it says on the tin, allows you to block IP’s of unwanted spam bots and repeat spammers.

Sociable

Allows you to automatically add links and logos of your favourite and most popular social bookmarking sites, to the bottom of posts, pages and RSS feed. There’s a massive amount of sites to choose from too.

Top Commentators Widget

Allows you to add a sidebar widget to show the top commentators on your blog. This is yet another way of encouraging people to comment on your posts, it also shows how active your blog is, and can also give the impression that your blog is more active than it maybe is, which is a good thing.

TweetMeme Button

It adds the Tweetmeme button to your blog posts, which if you have an interesting post, it makes it easy for a Twitter account holder to decide to retweet the post to their followers. Which in turn gets you more traffic, and helps the post go viral.

WordPress Database Backup

Gives you on-demand backup of your WordPress database. Because it’s better to be safe than sorry.

WP to Twitter

Sends a tweet out on your Twitter account whenever you create a new blog post.

Contact Form 7

This is a simple contact form so that, you’ve guessed it, people can contact you. The purpose of these contact forms is, so you don’t have to publicly display your email address, which means you get less spam.

That’s all the plugins I have installed right now, if you know of any other good plugins feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments. I’m always looking for new plugins to enhance my blog.

As I said at the beginning of this post, I won’t be updating this post with any new plugins I install. Instead I will be updating the ‘Blog Plugins’ page, which you will find located in the tabs at the top of the blog, under the title.

I hope this has helped some of you enhance your blogs, or maybe even inspired you to start a blog? Let me know what you think of the post either way by leaving your comments.

Thanks for reading,

Paul.

P.S.

I’m planning on making a sceen capture video for my next post, basically showing you how easy it is to find and install your plugins.

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