Indispensable WordPress Plug-ins for Home Business Blogs

If you use Wordpress as a Blogging Platform for your Work at Home Business, you undoubtedly use some Plug-ins to help ease the daily grind and enhance the experience of your readers, visitors and friends. I thought I would share the ones I have found to be the most useful to me.

 Here is a list of Plug-ins I use here at Working at Home on the Internet:

• Akismet

  2.0

  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.

• bdp-comments

  1.0.2

  List recent comments and posts – hacked from the WordPress core By Bryan Palmer (palmer.bryan@gmail.com).

• BDP Referral Tracker

  1.0.6

  Referral tracker – Provide links to referring domains, each with statistics on the number of hits By Brian Palmer (bryan@ozpolitics.info).

• DoFollow

  2.2

  Disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments. Timeout using comment age inspired by Christoph Rummel. Configuration: Options » DoFollow. By Kimmo Suominen.

• Feedburner Feed Replacement

  2.2

  Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.

• Filosofo Uncheck Default Category

  1.2

  Unchecks the default category when you select another. By Austin Matzko.

• In Series

  2.2.0

  Provides navigation controls for next/previous within a connected series of posts By Travis Snoozy.

• RS Discuss

  0.5.2

  The ultimate featherweight forum system for WordPress. By Rob Sargant.

• SimpleTags

  2.0

  Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor. By Broobles.

• Subscribe To Comments

  1.5

  Allows users(readers) to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted after their own. By Jennifer – Scriptygoddess.

• Text Link Ads

  3.0.1

  Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use By Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin & Alex King.

• Time Capsule

  1.0.3

  Creates a timecapsule that displays entries from the past. Created by Aaron Brazell on behalf of ProBlogger.net By Aaron Brazell.

• What Would Seth Godin Do

  1.2

  Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors By Richard K Miller

• WordPress Database Backup

  1.8

  On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

• WP-ContactForm

  1.4.3

  WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+ By Ryan Duff.

• WP-Polls

  2.14

  Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. By GaMerZ.

If there are any Plug-ins you have found that are useful to the Blogger who uses WordPress for Home Business, please share them with us.

PS. I’m looking for a “Broken Link Checker” Plug-in. With Well Over 800 posts and the way I spread the Link Love, I need help finding broken links.

Update: I have since uninstalled BDP Referral Tracker because it Consumes Resources like a Bear in a Salmon Stream. 

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