Tonight I was delighted to be invited to speak at the London Blog Club and presented about the WordPress plugins which I find most useful.
Here are the slides from my talk:
20 Top WordPress Plugins – 2011 Edition – Kevin Gibbons, London Blog Club
If you have any questions on this please let me know in the comments or on the meetup.com page.
Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.
Hi there, I’m the developer of Subscribe to Comments Reloaded, which borrows the original idea from the plugin you suggested in your presentation, but brings it to a whole new level. I wrote my plugin from the ground-up, implementing all the features not available in Jaquith’s: subscription management, subscribe to replies to your comments only, better spam detection, WordPress MultiUser compatibility, and much more. Why don’t you give it a try? Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Camu
Hi Kevin! Great plugins compilation, there is some which is never known by me. Today I will try to install some of them in my blog. Thanks for share this presentation!
I’ve never seen a slideshow like this before, it’s very nice!
After viewing your slideshow I’m glad I saw your post on the +1 wordpress plugin, this is a very important plugin to have to help boost a websites ranking. Thanks for the reminder, getting it now.
Hey Kevin…. The plugins are really so interesting… I am surely going to use some soon..!! Can you suggest similar plugins for Joomla also?
The Scribd bit is certainly helpful but also including a list of actual links would have been a major collective time saver.
Nice list. Just wish it was more user friendly.
Great post, thanks for sharing! Some neat plugins mentioned, I really like YARPP as it encourages users to read further posts and it’s helpful for internal linking structures.
Great list, I really love the WP SEO plugin by Yoast.
Some awesome ones you may have left out:
WP SuperCache – deals with server caching to serve pages quickly
WP Minify – strips whitespace from code to allow browsers to render faster
WP Customer Reviews – puts testimonials into hReview format to allow Google to aggregate them on your google places page
I’d definitely recommend WP Super Cache as well, also Redirection is really nice. The redirection plugin is especially important for setting up 301 redirects, which are preferred by Google over canonical tags.
I’m a new user to WordPress in the last few months, and working on my website, so this great list of plugins should be a big help.
I particularly like the look of the social media plugins, as well as some of the others, so this should keep me busy for a while!
Thanks for an informative list.