To summarize the year 2012 I have compiled a list of must have WordPress plugins:
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Contents
- 1 AddToAny: Subscribe Button
- 2 Better WordPress Syntax
- 3 Count Per Day
- 4 Easy Review Builder
- 5 Facebook Page Photo Gallery
- 6 Follow
- 7 Google+ Plugin
- 8 Google Analytics for WordPress
- 9 kk Star Ratings
- 10 Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny
- 11 Sociable
- 12 Social Slider
- 13 Subscribe to Comments Reloaded
- 14 WP-reCAPTCHA
- 15 WP Google Fonts
- 16 Xavin’s Review Ratings
AddToAny: Subscribe Button
Help readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader or feed service.
Add a subscribe button as widget, in a page or directly in the code.
Let your users subscribe to your sites feed, support many accounts providers.
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Better WordPress Syntax
Adding code to your blog posts? Making tutorial on HTML? Java? Good plugin, supports many languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, C, Java, Javascript, CSS, VBscript, XML, HTML4, Bash, CSharp, Apache, ActionScript, ActionScript3, and MySQL. .
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<!--?php Print "Hello, World!"; ?-->
<!--?php Print "Hello, World!"; ?-->
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Count Per Day
Counter, shows reads per page; today, yesterday, last week, last months … on dashboard, per shortcode or in widget.
Add statistics to your dashboard:
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Easy Review Builder
Creates a customizable star-based review summary table from a shortcode
Doing reviews? Great solution for you!
visit plugin site.
example:
An (optional) title goes here Category Create up to 8 rating categories, more than enough to accomplish most review formats. Sound While voiceovers were charming, the game really lacked in the variety of sounds, and the music was repetitive. Gameplay Where the sound and graphics faltered at times the gameplay is outstanding. Overall This optional summary is automatically calculated. You just provide the text. -
Facebook Page Photo Gallery
Show your public facebook album in your blog. Nice design.
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Follow
Adds a floating Follow Button at the bottom right corner of WordPress.ORG sites (like in this site!)
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Google+ Plugin
Integrate with Google+ Pages and add the Google +1 button to your site so your visitors can vote to tell the world how great your site is, exactly like in this post header!
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Google Analytics for WordPress
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.
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kk Star Ratings
A clean, animated and sweat ratings feature for your blog With kk Star Ratings, you can allow your blog posts to be rated by your blog visitors. It also includes a widget which you can add to your sidebar to show the top rated post. There are some useful options you can set to customize this plugin.
exactly like in this post header!
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Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn and many more.
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Sociable
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
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Social Slider
This plugin adds links to your social networking sites’ profiles in a box floating at the left side of the screen. you can see it in action in this blog.
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Subscribe to Comments Reloaded
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications. It includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts or suspend all notifications.
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WP-reCAPTCHA
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WP Google Fonts
The WordPress Google Fonts Plugin makes it even easier to add and customize Google fonts on your site through WordPress.
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Xavin’s Review Ratings
Adds a shortcode tag to display a rating.
Rating:
Development Specialist, Artist and Activist
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