Lists of “Top 10” Wordpress plugins around the Internet

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There are several lists of “Top 10” Wordpress plugins around the
Internet. Most of them, however, refer to the best or most popular
plugins. Guess what, I’ve had enough of Akismet, Adsense Deluxe,
Related Entries and company!
Jokes apart, those plugins are certainly awesome, but there are many
others out there that can be life savers, and people often neglect
them. Below you will the Top 10 Underrated Wordpress plugins; if you
think there is a plugin missing on the list just post a comment.
1. Custom Querry String
Wordpress is a very flexible platform, but regulating the number of
posts that are supposed to be displayed on the different pages is quite
difficult. Most of the times you will want to display a limited number
of posts on the Homepage while displaying a larger list for the
categories, archives or search results pages, and this is not possible
through the control panel. The solution for this problem is the Custom
Querry String plugin, which allows you to configure this number
individually for each page type.
2. Head Meta Description
While the Meta Keywords Tag is no longer used by most search
engines, the Meta Description Tag still has some influence. Having the
same Description Tag on all your pages, however, might be inneficient
and send part of your website to the supplemental hell. This plugin is
extremely easy to install and it will create a dynamic Meta Description
Tag for every page on your blog, based on post excerpts or on the first
words of the page.
3. Clean Archives
Most blogs have a “Monthly Archives” section on their sidebar,
displaying a huge list of months and wasting some precious space. A
more efficient structure for your archives would be a single page where
all the posts are displayed, month by month. That is exactly what this
plugin will do (you can see an example here). Notice that you might need the plugin below to install this one successfully.
4. Exec-PHP
Many plugins or Wordpress features require that you run some PHP
code. When you need to use those features or plugins inside static
pages or posts, however, Wordpress will not recognize the code. The
solution for this problem is the Exec-PHP plugin. Once installed the
plugin will enable PHP code on virtually all the pages of your blog.
There are similar plugins available, but this one is the most reliable.
5. Enforce www. Preference
If your site can be accessed through http://www.domain.com and
http://domain.com you might have some problems over the long run. Most
search engines treat those addresses as two different domains, spliting
your backlink count. In order to solve this issue you need to setup a
301 Permanent Redirect. The are several ways to setup this redirect,
but if you are not familiar with PHP or if your host is not Linux based
(for the .htaccess file) this plugin represents the simplest one. You
just need to activate it and all the visitors and search bots will get
redirected to the address that is specified on the Wordpress control
panel.
6. Chunk URLs
Ever experienced someone posting a huge URL on your comment section?
Those long strings are not only ugly, but they might also break the
design of your website on certain browsers. This plugin will trunk
those long URLs into smaller ones, and you can even specify the amount
of characters that the output should contain.
7. Sig2feed
Sploggers are feed stealers are spreading out like fire. The first
measure to protect your content is to add a copyright notice to your
feed, possibly with a link pointing to your site. Sig2feed is a very
light plugin that will do just that.
8. FeedSmith
This plugin used to be called Feedburner Feed Replacement. It was so
popular and efficient that Feedburner itself decided to buy it from the
developer. Basically it will forward all the requests for your
Wordpress feed to Feedburner. It is very useful if you started using
Feedburner after having some subscribers, or if you want to make sure
that your feed statistics are completely accurate.
9. Jerome’s Keywords
This plugin is very similar to the Ultimate Tag Warrior, but it is
much more user friendly. Once the plugin is installed you will be able
to tag individual posts and to create an internal tag system and tag
clouds. Secondly you can also use it to generate a dynamic Meta
Keywords Tag.
10. WP-Cache
WP-Cache is a very robust plugin that will increase the
responsiveness of your website and reduce the server load. It is also
very useful to handle sudden burts in traffic coming from social
bookmarking sites. The plugin basically creates static versions of your
pages and serves them without querrying the MySQL database.