Wordpress plugins worth your time

Wordpress plugins can make your blog better and your blogging easier. These are my new faves.



Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site’s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

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Broken Link Checker
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

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Comment Info Tip
When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter.

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Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
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Embed Iframe
Embed Iframe is a Wordpress plugin that will let you embed iframe – an HTML tag that allows a webpage to be displayed inline with the current page, in a Wordpress post. Although an iframe can lead to a complicated website, it can be very effective when used appropriately.

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Hotlink Protection
Do you have problems that other people hotlink your images in guestbooks, bulletin boards and other sites? Then this plugin for Wordpress helps you without breaking online feedreaders. Normally, if someone hotlinks your image the plugin will serve your custom image or this image:

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MoFuse
MoFuse is a service that allows bloggers to easily create a mobile-friendly version of their blog for free.

This plugin allows you to automatically detect and redirect your mobile visitors to the mobile-friendly version of your blog.

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Lifestream
Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog.

Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but deep down it's a very flexible platform allowing developers to integrate any kind of activity they desire.

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SexyBookmarks
Though the name may be a little "edgy" for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

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Ultimate Category Excluder
Allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, and feeds. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!

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WP Greet Box
This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed.

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