Gregg H. Hawkins

Lately I’ve been messing around with quite a few WordPress plugins. This list won’t be your typical Top 10 WordPress Plugins list that includes spam blockers, Adsense deluxe, and the top commentator’s plugin.

These plugins may come in handy for some of you while others may not. You may have heard of some of the plugins before as well, but this list is some of the plugins that I’ve found most useful within these last few weeks launching a fansite. I hope you find them useful!

Top WordPress Plugin List

1. Sagtus Engelleme is a WordPress plugin that disables right clicking on your webpage. This plugin is great for websites that host a lot of images and don’t want their users to save images or anything else on their website. I’ve linked this WordPress plugin to the download because the website isn’t in English. It works though, trust me. My brother and I are using it on our newly established Fansite.
2. Click Tracking is a WordPress plugin that tracks the clicks of your users on your website or blog. This plugin allows you to monitor the activity of your users and how they interact with your website or blog. It allows you to gain valuable information of where your users are clicking, what advertisements they’re clicking, what pages are most popular, and much more.
3. Democracy AJAX Poll is a WordPress plugin that allows you to interact with your users by creating polls. You can create polls and activate them or deactivate them whenever you please. The design and look of an actual poll is sleek and doesn’t take away from your website or blog’s overall look. This plugin works like a charm and helps promote community involvement.
4. Google Sitemap Generator is a WordPress plugin that generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap for your website or blog. This format is supported by 3 big search engines Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. This WordPress plugin will allow your website or blog’s pages to be indexed in the search engines.
5. NextGEN Gallery is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create photo galleries and albums of your favorite pictures. It works great and is easy to use once you get the hang of everything. At first it may be a little confusing but you’ll get the hang of it. I made a post about NextGen Gallery just this last week if you wish to read more about the plugin.
6. AdRotator is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create rotating banner ads, text link ads, and much more. I’m currently using the plugin up in my header and haven’t had any problems. I’ve also made a post about the AdRotator WordPress plugin as well. If I can figure it out, so can you!
7. Kontera Integration is a WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate Kontera into your website without the ads appearing in your header, links, or post titles. I believe John Chow made a post about this one a day or two ago, but I thought that I’d mention it because it’s worked great for my brother and I. We integrated this WordPress plugin on our fansite and haven’t had a problem. Just be sure to change the Kontera Publisher ID to yours!
8. Permalink Redirect is a WordPress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archives) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.
9. All in One SEO Pack is a WordPress plugin that allows you to change the title of your blog, the description, keywords, and more. The All in One SEO Pack is a great WordPress plugin to help you rank better in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) terms. This WordPress plugin isn’t probably new to a lot of you, but it’s worked like a charm for me and deserves a mention.
10. Viper’s Video Quicktags is a WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate YouTube videos, Google videos, IFILM videos, Metacafe videos, MySpace videos, Quicktime files, generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV), and Flash videos into your website or blog.

Hope you found this list helpful and decided to check out some of the WordPress plugins I mentioned. The Click Tracking plugin is the only plugin I couldn’t get to work properly. If you get it to work please let me know! Instead of using the Click Tracking plugin I just registered at Crazy Egg and used the free trial. The free trial at Crazy Egg allows you to track 5,000 unique visitors a month for free.