5 Must Have Wordpress Plugins for your Blog

Jan 18, 2008

Yep I know, everyone has one of these lists on their blog. But below are 5 that aren’t usually seen in the those ‘Top 10 Plugins for Wordpress’ articles on other blogs.

1. WordTube:

I’ve searched high & low for a plugin to manage my media files, both audio & video. This plugin is brilliant and took me ages to find. It has a media control section under Wordpress - Manage and allows direct uploading of your files to a directory of your choice. All you do then is insert a media tag it gives you for the file you uploaded. Easy Peasy!.

2. JAW Popular Posts Widget:

If your looking for an easy plugin to use to add a list of your Top Read Posts to your blog sidebar then this one is for you.

3. Collapsible Categories Widget:

At some point everyones blog is going to have a multitude of categories. There is nothing more off putting than a massive list down one side of your blog of endless categories. The Collapsible Category Plugin is brilliant for reducing your lists to just the top categories with a + sign beside to unfold a list below it of sub-categories (you can see it in action on this site).

4. AFD Wordpress2 Admin Theme Plugin:

I’m not the greatest fan of the default admin area for the wordpress system so this plugin changes the default admin area to a nice look and feel thats easy on the eye and easy to navigate.

5. Batch Categories:

This plugin is great if your like me and suddenly want to move some of your existing posts to a more relatively named category. Simply click the ones you want to move and select the new category name. Very easy.

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