101 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins Of All Time
Howdy,
If your using wordpress as your blogging platform you'll know that there are literally hundreds of wordpress plugins that you can use to enhance the look and feel of your blog…
So following on from a previous post where i shared with you a huge list of 101 of the most popular wordpress themes i thought it would be helpful to you to share a list of 101 of the most popular wordpress plugins…
The following list has been compiled from the official wordpress web site…
1. Sidebar Widgets
It's called Sidebar Widgets because it allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar. A widget is something that you might want on your sidebar, such as a category list or the most recent comments or a link to your admin pages…
Download Sidebar Widgets Wordpress Plugin Here
2. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under "Comments." To show off your Akismet stats just put in your template…
Download Akismet Wordpress Plugin Here
3. Google Sitemap Generator
This plugin will create a google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. Currently homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archives are supported. The priority of a post depends on its comments. More comments, higher priority! If you have external pages which don't belong to your blog, you can also add them to the list. This plugin will automatically notice Google whenever the sitemap gets regenerated…
Download Wordpress Google Sitemap Generator Here
4. Subscribe to Comments
Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address…
Download Subscribe to Comments Wordpress Plugin Here
5. Automattic Stats
There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn't really highlight what's most interesting to me as a writer. That's why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface…
Download Automattic Stats Wordpress Plugin Here
6. PodPress
A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress. PodPress adds tons of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast…
Download Podpress Wordpress Plugin Here
7. All in One SEO Pack
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) by
* Generating META tags and letting you define them
* Automatically optimizing your titles and letting you specify your own ones
* Avoiding indexing of duplicate content.
Download All in One SEO Pack Wordpress Plugin Here
8. WPG2 - WordPress / Gallery2 Integration
WPG2 is a Wordpress Plug-in that embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into the Wordpress Sidebar and Blog entries…
Download WPG2 Wordpress Plugin Here
9. AdSense Manager
AdSense Manager is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets…
Download Adsense Manager Wordpress Plugin Here
10. NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option…
Download NextGen Gallery Wordpress Plugin Here
11. Get Recent Comments
This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. You can let the plugin order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply order them by date…
Download Get Recent Comments Wordpress Plugin Here
12. WP-Polls
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page…
Download WP-Polls Wordpress Plugin Here
13. Gregarious
Gregarious is the ultimate social bookmarking plugin. Everything is configurable. Share link, Digg button, stats, FeedFlare, LiveSearch and more…
Download Gregarious Wordpress Plugin Here
14. WP-Cache
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database…
Download WP-Cache Wordpress Plugin Here
15. Viper's Video Quicktags
Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube into posts on your site? Well then this plugin is for you.
Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more. Best of all, it won't break your page's (X)HTML validation…
Download Viper's Video Quicktags Wordpress Plugin Here
16. Lightbox JS
This plugin includes the new Lightbox JS v2.03.2 javascript written by Lokesh Dhakar and got transformed into a Wordpress Plugin by me. Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups…
Download Lightbox JS Wordpress Plugin Here
17. Embedded Video with Link
The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well…
Download Embedded Video with Link Wordpress Plugin Here
18. SEO Title Tag
SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site! If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn't make a significant impact on your search traffic, you're doing something wrong!
Download SEO Title Tag Wordpress Plugin Here
19. IM Online
A neat little Wordpress plugin to show your current online status on your blog, with Widget support for those that use them. The plugin is powered via onlinestatus.org and supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ. Different servers and icon-sets are available so it should be possible to find something to match your own blog…
Download IM Online Wordpress Plugin Here
20. Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging….
Download Google Analyticator Wordpress Plugin Here
21. WP-UserOnline
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics…
Download WP-Useronline Wordpress Plugin Here
22. WordPress Navigation Tool
The WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin is designed to provide you with complete control over the contents of your navigation links. The plugin gives you the ability to create unique navigation lists using a Drag 'n Drop Interface…
Download Wordpress Navigation Tool Plugin Here
23. Page Links To
Allows you to set a "links_to" meta key with a URI value that will be be used when listing WP pages. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your blog…
Download Page Links To Wordpress Plugin Here
24. Category Cloud Widget
The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar…
Download Category Cloud Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
25. WordTube
The wordTube Plugin creates your personal "YouTube" in wordpress. Together with the fantastic Flash Media Player from Jeroen Wijering you are able to show very easy your streaming videos…
Download Wordtube Wordpress Plugin Here
26. WP-Stats
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics…
Download WP-Stats WordpressPlugin Here
27. Inline Gallery
An easy way to turn posts into image galleries. Very customizable…
Download Inline Gallery Wordpress Plugin Here
28. GeneralStats
Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages…
Download GeneralStats Wordpress Plugin Here
29. cforms II - contact form
cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful contact form plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page…
Download cforms II Contact Form Wordpress Plugin Here
30. WP-Sticky
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress's blog…
Download WP-Sticky Wordpress Plugin Here
31. Inline Ajax Page
INAP uses AJAX to replace excerpts with the full posts, paginate posts, load comments and submit comments. Comes with a extremely powerful Admin Panel…
Download Inline Ajax Page Wordpress Plugin Here
32. WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog's post/page…
Download WP-Postratings Wordpress Plugin Here
33. KB Countdown Widget
Displays years/months/days since, until, or between events. Great for tracking a pregnancy (with a bar graph!), time until an election, or whatever…
Download KB Countdown Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
34. Optimal Title
Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the 'separator' to after the title rather than before…
Download Optimal Title Wordpress Plugin Here
35. WP-Table
This plugin creates and manages tables for wordpress. So you can post i.e. sport results in a fixed table format. You don't need to enter tables anymore in the plain text mode and the WYSIWYG editor didn't damage the table layout. The table layout can be changed via a css file and you can import a csv file as table….
Download WP-Table Wordpress Plugin Here
36. WP-Footnotes
Allows post authors to easily add footnotes to their posts…
Download WP-Footnotes Wordpress Plugin Here
37. Another Wordpress Meta Plugin
Add META tags like keywords and descriptions to your posts and pages…
Download Wordpress Meta Plugin Here
38. Cryptographp
This plugin allows you to add a captcha before anyone could post a comment. The captcha can be easily configured in the options of the Wordpress admin section…
Download Cryptographp Wordpress Plugin Here
39. Subscribe2
Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog…
Download Subscribe2 Wordpress Plugin Here
40. WP-ContactForm
WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+…
Download WP-ContactForm Wordpress Plugin Here
41. Sphere Related Content
Automatically show related blog posts and news articles from Sphere…
Download Sphere Related Content Wordpress Plugin Here
42. Simple Tagging Widget
This is a Widget plugin to show a tag cloud generated by the WordPress plugin "Simple Tagging"…
Download Simple Tagging Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
43. Thumbnail Viewer
A minimalist image viewer with an effect similar to Lightbox JS, only much faster with a whole lot less Javascript….
Download Thumbnail Viewer Wordpress Plugin Here
44. Quick SMS
Quick SMS allows visitors to your blog pages to send you SMS messages direct to your mobile phone, wherever you are…
Download QUICK SMS Wordpress Plugin Here
45. Presentation Toolkit
The Presentation Toolkit plugin adds an administration page under the 'Presentation' menu for Presentation Toolkit compatible themes and skins…
Download Presentation Toolkit Wordpress Plugin Here
46. SimpleFlickr
This plugin allows you to embed a Simpleviewer Flash Object integrated with a Flickr account…
Download SimpleFlickr Wordpress Plugin Here
47. KB Advanced RSS Widget
Similar to the default RSS widget, but gives you complete control over how RSS feeds are parsed for your sidebar…
Download KB Advanced RSS Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
48. ImageShack Uploader
ImageShack is a free easy-to-use hosting service which allows you to upload your images and share them with others. You can embed these images directly into your website and use the auto generated thumbnails…
Download ImageShack Uploader Wordpress Plugin Here
49. Visualize Advanced Features
Adds an extra button to the Visual Rich Editor (aka wysiwyg, tinymce) to show advanced features…
Download Visualize Advanced Features Wordpress Plugin Here
50. Kramer
Kramer will add inbound links to a post on your weblog as pingbacks by checking Technorati and by monitoring incoming referrers…
Download Kramer Wordpress Plugin Here
51. WP AJAX Edit Comments
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?
Download WP AJAX Edit Comments Wordpress Plugin Here
52. Spell Checker
The Spelling Checker plug-in for WordPress provides a built-in facility for spelling checks on posts from within the administration pages as well as spelling checks on comments via simple calls added to your templates. It requires no changes to the WordPress code-base to use, you merely drop it in to the plug-ins folder and enable it in the interface. This version has been tested in both WordPress 1.2.1 as well as WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn.
Download Spell Checker Wordpress Plugin Here
53. Post Star Rating
Post Star Rating is a plugin that allows blog users to rate posts in a classic five stars way…
Download Post Star Rating Wordpress Plugin Here
54. WP-Syntax
WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting for embedding source code within pages or posts…
Download WP-Syntax Wordpress Plugin Here
55. Google PageRank
This plugin allows you add the google PageRank of your website into your blog…
Download Google PageRank Wordpress Plugin Here
56. Skinner
The Skinner plugin adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes…
Download Skinner Wordpress Plugin Here
57. No WWW
WWW checks in, it doesn't check out…
Download No WWW Wordpress Plugin Here
58. Share This
Share This is a plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail to a friend…
Download Share This Wordpress Plugin Here
59. Dashboard Editor
This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Wordpress dashboard through PHP and HTML even Sidebar Widgets. You can also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news, Planet Wordpress and the getting started section…
Download Dashboard Editor Wordpress Plugin Here
60. WP Grins
WP Grins will provide clickable smilies for both the post form in the admin interface and the comments form of your blog…
Download WP Grins Wordpress Plugin Here
61. Email Users
A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an e-mail to your registered blog users, based on their role…
Download Email Users Wordpress Plugin Here
62. JSSpamBlock
JSSpamBlock detects spam bots by sending a piece of JavaScript to the browser. This provides an effective and unobtrusive way to detect spam…
Download JSSpamBlock Wordpress Plugin Here
63. Simple Tagging
Simple Tagging is another tagging plugin for Wordpress: smarter, better, faster 
Tag Cloud, Related Posts, Tags and more…
Download Simple Tagging Wordpress Plugin Here
64. Cricket Moods
Cricket Moods is a flexible "mood tag" WordPress plugin…
Download Cricket Moods Wordpress Plugin Here
65. del.icio.us - Bookmark this!
This plugin will allow you to add an "Bookmark this page on del.icio.us/digg/furl/newsvine/blinklist" link on you sidebar / posts / wherever…
Download del.icio.us - Bookmark this! Wordpress Plugin Here
66. WP e-Commerce
A plugin that provides a WordPress Shopping Cart…
Download WP e-Commerce Wordpress Plugin Here
67. GoogleMapper
Allows creation and management of Google Maps using Google's Map API v2…
Download GoogleMapper Wordpress Plugin Here
68. pb-embedFlash
A filter for WordPress that displays any flash content in valid XHTML code offering the possibility to specify attributes and parameters individually…
Download pb-embedFlash Wordpress Plugin Here
69. WP-DB-Backup
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database…
Download WP-DB-Backup Wordpress Plugin Here
70. Adman
Lets you insert your ad-code (like AdSense) directly before or in the middle of your post content or wherever you want without having to edit your template…
Download Adman Wordpress Plugin Here
71. Quick Stats
Logs hits with referrer, ip, host, client and url information. RSS tracker feature lets you tracker your visitors in near realtime using an RSS reader…
Download Quick Stats Wordpress Plugin Here
72. AddThis Sidebar Widget
This widget adds the feed subscription and/or social bookmarking buttons from AddThis to your sidebar. This is a convenient way for visitors to subscribe to your feed or bookmark your pages without cluttering the sidebar with a gazillion buttons for all the different feed readers and social bookmark sites…
Download AddThis Sidebar Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
73. Gravatar Signup
Allows commenters to sign up for a gravatar by clicking a checkbox and filling in a desired password…
Download Gravatar Signup Wordpress Plugin Here
74. Wordpress PDA
This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda browser…
Download Wordpress PDA Wordpress Plugin Here
75. WP-SimpleViewer
This plugin allows you to easily include SimpleViewer Flash galleries into Wordpress posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to manage all the options and will also help you to create the thumbs. The cpations for each image can be changed individually if you like to show them in the gallery…
Download WP-SimpleViewer Wordpress Plugin Here
76.Tag Cloud widget for UTW
Adds a tag cloud sidebar widget, used with the plugin Sidebar Widget and Ultimate Tag Warrior 3
Download Tag Cloud widget for UTW Wordpress Plugin Here
77. Popularity Contest
Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a 'popularity score' for each post…
Download Popularity Contest Wordpress Plugin Here
78. Sub Pages widget
SubPages is a small widget which you can use to show all pages from a root page as a menu in the sidebar…
Download Sub Pages widget Wordpress Plugin Here
79. Sexy Comments
Replacing the comment section of your template, this plugin outputs forum style comments optionally with avatars…
Download Sexy Comments Wordpress Plugin Here
80. Calendar
A simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world…
Download Calendar Wordpress Plugin Here
81. Identify External Links
Searches the text for links outside of the domain of the blog. To these, it adds class="extlink" (and optionally, target="_blank")…
Download Identify External Links Wordpress Plugin Here
82. RSSImport
List a RSS-Feed in your WP-Blog, only headlines or with description..
Download RSSImport Wordpress Plugin Here
83. Ultimate Google Analytics
Adds Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog. Can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your site and mail links…
Download Ultimate Google Analytics Wordpress Plugin Here
84. Add Your Own Headers
This plugin allows you to add tags to the header of an individual page or post such as keywords/descriptions, custom meta tags, external style sheet links, or embedded style tags…
Download Add Your Own Headers Wordpress Plugin Here
85. Run for Cover
This widget shows cd covers from your Last.FM account…
Download Run for Cover Wordpress Plugin Here
86. PlugInstaller
Install and uninstall plugins from your admin interface without uploading the plugins via FTP and automatically check for plugin updates…
Download PlugInstaller Wordpress Plugin Here
87. Countdown Timer
Countdown Timer allows you to setup one or more dates to count down to or away from…
Download Countdown Timer Wordpress Plugin Here
88. SpamBam
Prevents comment spam and fights against comment spammers by delaying their attempts…
Download SpamBam Wordpress Plugin Here
89. Ajax Comment Preview
Visitors to your site can preview their comments with a click of a button…
Download Ajax Comment Preview Wordpress Plugin Here
90. Subpage Listing
Subpage Listing allows you to take full advantage of WordPress Pages' hierarchy by generating a navigational tree of the pages below them (subpages)…
Download Subpage Listing Wordpress Plugin Here
91. Front Page Excluded Categories
A basic plugin that excludes posts from one or more categories from appearing on the front page…
Download Front Page Excluded Categories Wordpress Plugin Here
92. Add to Any
Lets readers bookmark your posts using any bookmark manager such as del.icio.us…
Download Add to Any Wordpress Plugin Here
93. Enhanced Links
A plugin for wordpress which allows you to list your links in a sexier way. Very useful when you have a great number of links and categories…
Download Enhanced Links Wordpress Plugin Here
94. PictPress
PictPress is a WordPress 1.2/1.5 plugin that automatically generates a post with thumbnails and picture posts for all images found in a directory. Thumbnails and pictures are resized on the fly and stored in a cache directory.
Download PictPress Wordpress Plugin Here
95. Breukie's Categories Widget
Breukie’s Categories Widget is a wordPress widget, to replace the standard categories widget by Automattic. This widget displays your categories using the wplistcategories function, utilizes all available parameters for this function, like hierarchy, order and exclude categories in your sidebar…
Download Breukie's Categories Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
96. Image Headlines
This plugin allows you to have images created automatically for your entry titles. In this way you can utilize non-standard fonts and get smoother rendering than would be possible with simple text headlines…
Download Image Headlines Wordpress Plugin Here
97. Post Avatar
Choose an avatar from a pre-defined list to include in a post…
Download Post Avatar Wordpress Plugin Here
98. bbPress Integration
This plugin gives the default WP role to users who registered through approved bbPress installations. It also populates things like usernicename and displayname as necessary…
Download bbPress Integration Wordpress Plugin Here
99. Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account…
Download Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin Here
100. Flickr Tag Cloud Widget
This is plugin for the Widget Sidebar in Wordpress. It will display your flickr tags as a tag cloud in your blog's sidebar…
Download Flickr Tag Cloud Widget Wordpress Plugin Here
101. Text Control
Take complete control of text formatting options on your blog: Formatting and encoding per post, globally on posts, and globally on comments…
Download Text Control Wordpress Plugin Here
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Pedro | July 9th, 2007 at 11:49 pm #
Nice post!
I'm your fellow contestant on the Blog 3 project. You certainly have my vote
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shuron | February 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pm #
Maybe you also interested in one plugin that wraps the Popularity contest of Alex King and brings additional "Most Popular" Widget. I call it W-Popularity. It's full compatible with Popularity contest.