Top Wordpress Tools For Websites/Blogs

Here I have compiled some best and top wordpress tools,plugins for websites and blogs. Please notify me if i have forgotten some.

404 Notifier - Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages.

Admin Dropdown Menus - Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by turning them into dropdown menus.

Admin Panel Comment Reply - Adds a “reply to comment” option in the comments section of the admin area.

Ajax Spell Checker - Uses a combination of dictionaries to check your posts.

Auto-hyperlink URLs - Gives you several options for having URLs automatically turn in to hyperlinks.

AWSOM Pixgallery - Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to create a portfolio of their artwork.

Batch Categories - Adds a page to the category management, showing all the posts that belong to a category making it easier to add to another category, or when using an import tool from another blog.

Custom Admin Menu - Gives you the power to rename, hide or move just about anything you want in the admin area.

Custom Write Panel - Allows you to customize the “Write” panel of WordPress. Hide things you don’t need such as “Post Password” and add things you feel you may need.

Dashbar - Let admins have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.

Dashboard Editor - Ever wanted to change the Dashboard to be more useful? This is the plugin you need.

DashNote - Adds a post-it note feature to the dashboard to jot down notes to yourself.

Digital Fingerprint - Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts so you can search the web to see if your content has been scraped.

Domain Mirror - Will allow one WordPress install to be accessed from multiple domains and will even change the name and URLs based on the address people access it with.

Download Counter - Counts and tracks the downloads of all your files.

Email Users - This plugin allows you to mail registered users on your blog based on their role.

Enforce WWW Preference - Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www to make sure your search engine indexing is uniform.

Excerpt Editor - Gives you more control over the excerpts such as length and auto creation.

FeedBurner FeedSmith - Make sure all your RSS feed sbscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.

Fix Database - Will check your WordPress database for errors and attempt to fix them.

Genki Announcement - Allows you to add an announcement before your first post without editing your themes, can even run on a timer.

Genki Pre-Publish Reminder - Forget to set your categories before you publish? Write yourself a reminder!

Google Analyticator - Inserts Google Analytics on every WordPress page

Google Sitemaps Generator - Will create a Google compliant sitemap of your blog.

GT Post Approval - Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the administrators view on all posts, very handy for blogs with multiple authors.

Instant Update - Will handle the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install with just one-click.

Just Unzip - Upload a zip folder from the Write page; this plugin unzips the contents and associates them with the current post.

Khanh’s Instant Notepad (KIN) - Allows you to jot notes to yourself on a notepad.

Leprakhauns Word Count - Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page, very useful for writers working to a word count on professional blogs.

Mass Post Manager - Allows you to move or delete all the posts in a category at once.

Mutliply - Allows you to control multiple blogs from one administrator.

NextGEN Gallery - Adds an image gallery to your control panel and can even add a flash gallery.

OneClick Install - Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminates the need to unzip or FTP!

Page Link Manager - Allows you to easily rearrange pages, hide them, and move them at will.

Permacop - Allows you to redirect any URL to another.

Post2Page - Write a post that should really be on permanent display? Turn it in to a page with this plugin and have it handle the URL redirects to boot.

PlugInstaller - Point this plugin to a new plugin you want on the web, it takes care of obtaining it, uploading it and unpacking it.

podPress - Numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to their WordPress install. Previews, RSS feeds, adding cast to posts, and many, many more.

Search and Replace - Search all your posts at once for specified text, quickly replace it.

Share This - Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an e-mail-this function in one handy button.

Simple Pop-up Images - Add a thumbnail image to your post; when the user clicks on it, they get a larger pop-up of the picture.

Simple Tagging - Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus, can import from your current tagging plugins.

Site Unavailable - Puts up a message your site is down, customize the message, all the while, the admins can still log in.

Throttle - Monitors your bandwidth and limits non-essential items during heavy load times to help performance.

Wikipedia-NoFollow - Written in response to Wikipedia’s implementing a “nofollow” rule to their outgoing links, a plugin to add nofollow to links you give to Wikipedia pages.

WordPress Mobile Edition - Strips your blog down for easy reading on phones and PDAs.

WordTube - Why use YouTube when you can host and stream your videos as you please? Includes a flash player.

WP Grins - Adds clickable smilies to both the administration area and comments section at once.

WPAds - Add rotating banner and text ads to any position you define in your blog.

WP-Custom Login - Allows you to modify the user login page logo to an image of your choice to allow you to brand your site more completely.

WP- DBManager - Gives you the power to optimize the database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database , drop emptied tables and run selected queries.

WP-phpMyAdmin - Gives you quick access to your PHP databases directly from the WP admin area without haveing to login to phpMyAdmin. Very handy.

WP Plugins Tracker - Will verify all of your plugins are the latest version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org database.

WP Super Edit - Gives you more control over the Visual editor including emoticons, layers, style attributes and more.

WP-Table - Allows you to add a table directly in the Visual mode or import from a spreadsheet.

• Some Ajax plugin's :

AjaxWP - Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.

Alexa Rank - Display your Alexa rank with pride.

Ajax Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.

asTunes - Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.

Codebox - Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.

Crossroads - Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.

FireStats - Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.

Google PageRank - Allows you to display your Google Page rank on your blog.

Hardened-Trackback - Generates a single use trackback to help fight trackback spam.

imgViewJX - Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.

Live Spell Checker - Adds a spell checker to the admin area to check your posts with.

Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map - Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.

Wordpress Mailing List - Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe simply from the front page of your site.

WP e-Commerce - Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.

WP-Polls - Adds fully customizable polls for your readers to take.

WP-Post Ratings - Allows readers to rate your posts.

Zorpia That’s Hot Box - Allows visitors to send posts they like Zorpia.com and vote on their favorite articles.

AJAX Comments 2.0 - Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.

AJAX Google Video Search - Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.

AJAX Shoutbox - Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.

Cool Weather - Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.

Currency Converter - Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.

Google AJAX Search - Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second site such as your Flickr account.

Google MapSearch Widget - Allows readers to search Google Maps without ever leaving the page.

Gregarious - Social bookmarking plugin that adds Digg, Reddit, Feedburner FeedFlare buttons and more.

Hottaimoijiruna - Adds a self-updating clock to the site for a timezone defined by the blogger.

Inline Ajax Comments - Hides comments until the user clicks on them, and then they fade-in with no reload.

Inline Ajax Page - Allows readers to see a snippet of a post, click a button and the remainder will appear without going to another page.

Tagboard Widget - Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site that displays new messages as they are posted.

Units Converter - Converts hundreds of different units of Length, Area, Volume, Weight / Mass, Speed without reloading the page.

WP Movie Ratings - Combines data from IMDB with the bloggers movie review and lets the readers add their own rating instantly.

XDTalk - Allows real-time conversation between registered users.

• Some comments plugin's :

Akismet - Antispam plugin from the creators of Wordpress that uses a central database of spam comments to flag spam. Requires a free API key from Wordpress.com

Spam Karma - Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.

Bad Behavior - Prevents spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their HTTP requests.

Did You Pass Math? - Asks commenters a simple math question before their comments are posted.

Comment Timeout - Closes comments on old posts.

BlogFollow - Shows a snippet of the commenter’s blog at the bottom of the comment.

DoFollow - Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search engines can follow them.

DoFollow Trackbacks - Removes “nofollow” attributes from trackbacks

Show Top Commentators - Lists the most frequent commentators on your blog, along with links to their blogs, in your sidebar.

Nicer Trackbacks - Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.

WP-NoSh*t - Filters bad words from comments.

Numbered Comments Adds numbers to comments.

AuthorHighlight - Highlights comments by the blog’s author.

Comment Highlighter - Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.

wp-chunk - Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.

Custom Smileys - Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.

TinyMCEComments - Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.

Live Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before posting.

Edit Comments XT - Lets commentators edit their own comments.

Gravatar - Displays user-selected avatars from a central database next to comments.

Favatars - Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website, and uses that for their avatar.

MBLA - Adds user images from MyBlogLog to comments.

OpenID Comments - Lets readers comment with their OpenID identity.

WP-Most Commented Posts - Displays posts with the most comments in the sidebar.

Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded - Shows the latest comments, along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.

Simple CoComments - Tracks the conversation across blogs.

Comment Karma - Digg-style voting on comments.

Quoter - Allows users to quote a previous comment in their comment.

Whisper - Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one person.

Comment Twitter SMS Notification - Notifies you of new comments through Twitter SMS.

Bannage - Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or IP.

CommentCentral - Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple posts.