Gregg H. Hawkins

As I was browsing the internet the other day I came across a few WordPress plugins that I haven’t seen before and you (probably) have not seen either. I made a post last month in August (2007) titled “A Great List of WordPress Plugins,” which if you have not checked out before I suggest that you do! These plugins work well with any professional WordPress themes you come across and want to use.

The plugins that I will list below were created by one person – Lester Chan who also goes by the online alias ‘GaMerZ’. Lester runs his own website LesterChan.net which showcases his portfolio of websites, programming skills, graphic design skills, and animation.

Great WordPress Plugins

1. WP-Email is a WordPress plugin that allows your users to email a copy of a post to themselves or their friends. WP-Email is a great feature that many people forget about. Many people find email as a friendlier mean since they can check back on it whenever they want and not have to save a website to their bookmarks. The WP-Email plug also allows you to keep track of how many emails have been sent, from where it was sent, to whom it was sent to, the date and time, and much more.
   
   
2. WP-Print is a WordPress plugin that provides your readers the option to print a friendly version of your post or page. You can choose the “friendly” version to print with or without comments, links, and images. This is a great WordPress plugin in my opinion because I have had personal experience where I wanted to print just an article, but the comments and everything else ended up being printed as well.
   
   
3. WP-PostViews is a WordPress plugin that I’ve seen around before. This WordPress plugin allows you to keep track of how many times a post or page has been viewed by your visitors. By default, WP-PostViews does not keep track of registered users views, but that option can be easily changed.
   
   
4. WP-Polls is a WordPress plugin that is self explanatory. This WordPress plugin allows you to create and add polls to your posts or pages. There are many plugins that allow you to add polls to your blog, such as the Democracy AJAX Poll I wrote about in my previous plugins post.
   
   
5. WP-Sticky is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create “sticky” posts. What is great about this WordPress plugin is that a post made on a certain day will remain “sticky” – on top of all posts made for a specific day. Say you made a post on the 27^th, it will remain on top of all posts made on the 27^th. A post made on the 28^th will not be placed below the sticky post.
   
   
6. WP-Stats is a WordPress plugin targeted to those of you who are obsessed with the statistics of your blog! With this plugin you can track the stats for many things, which are useful to any webmaster. You can keep track of general stats which include how many posts were posted, how many pages were created, how many links were added, how much spam was blocked, and much more. You can also keep track of the stats for WordPress plugins such as the WP-DownloadManager plugin, WP-Email plugin, WP-Polls plugin, WP-PostRatings plugin, WP-PostViews plugin, and WP-UsersOnline plugin. There are also many other features of this plugin such as tracking the “Top 10 Highest Stats,” author’s stats, and miscellaneous stats.

These are just a few plugins that Lester Chan has on his website. I will be implementing some of these plugins into my blog within the next few days. Many of these WordPress plugins provide valuable information and also make the experience of your readers and visitors that much better. We don’t realize it, but adding little things (plugins) here and there eventually add up to a lot of things and make a huge difference in the end. As I mentioned in my post about how there is a correlation between girls and blogging, to take your time setting up your blog to make it the best it can be.

On another note, happy blogging!