João Leitão – Publicité, Tourisme & Logistique

Since a couple of years ago and thankfully to my good friend Nuno Morgadinho, I started increasing WordPress platform on most of my websites. WordPress is a great way of providing fully customized interesting web-pages, giving us web-masters, the possibility of adding different features and plugins.

Making a list of WordPress best plugins is quite strange as it depends on one’s needs. I below share a small list of my favorite WordPress plugins, the ones I use the most. Hope is useful, enjoy.

Another WordPress Tracker Plugin

Easy integration of third party tracking software like Google Analytics and others. No template change required.

Plugin page: Another WordPress Tracker Plugin | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/another-wordpress-tracker-plugin/

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.

Plugin page: Google XML Sitemaps | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

qTranslate

qTranslate makes creation of multilingual content as easy as working with a single language.

Plugin page: qTranslate | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate/

Robots Meta

Easy way to add or remove meta robots tags to WordPress pages by adding noindex / follow robots meta tags.

Plugin page: Robots Meta | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/robots-meta/

Simple 301 Redirects

Provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web.

Plugin page: Simple 301 Redirects | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

Secure Form Mailer Plugin

Secure Form Mailer Plugin for WordPress with many easy and useful features to include and build a contact form in your website.

Plugin page: Secure Form Mailer Plugin | Download

http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-form-mailer-plugin-for-wordpress/

WordPress Database Backup

Easy way to backup your core WordPress database tables and automatically send them to your email. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Plugin page: Robots Meta | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

All in One SEO Pack

Fully Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization – SEO).

Plugin page: All in One SEO Pack | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Category Icons

Easily assigns icons to categories with WordPress 2.3 or higher.

Plugin page: Category Icons | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-icons/

List category posts

Allows you to list posts from a specific category into a post/page using the a simple short-code.

Plugin page: List category posts | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/

Similar Posts

Similar Posts displays a list of posts that are similar or related to the current posts.

Plugin page: Similar Posts | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/

Post-Plugin Library

The Post-Plugin Library does nothing by itself but must be installed to provide shared code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, Popular Posts, and Recent Comments plugins.

Plugin page: Post-Plugin Library | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-plugin-library/

SexyBookmarks

Useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

Plugin page: SexyBookmarks | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/

WP-Stats

Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

Plugin page: WP-Stats | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats/

Theme Test Drive

Allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.

Plugin page: Theme Test Drive | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-test-drive/

Paged Comments

Enables comment paging. Useful for those popular blog entries receiving many comments.

Plugin page: Paged Comments | Download

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/paged-comments/