Comments on: 5 Plugins WordPress should Adopt

By: callumacrae

callumacrae — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:12:41 +0000

Great post! I’ve used all these plugins in the past and I mostly agree with you, but I’ve got some other plugins I find extremely useful:

WordPress Tweeter
WP-DBManager
Preserve Code Formatting
SyntaxHighlighter Plus

The last two are a bit too specific to be included in the core, though.

~Callum

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:23:41 +0000

@George and @Pradeep and @Nihar

When I wrote this, I was listing the simplest plugins that doenst have more than a few lines of code. Akismet is a big plugin by itself, so is All-in-one-SEO and Super Cache. Its always good if we have them inbuilt, then the WP core would have to be update often.

But these 5 are seldom updated, so they make the list

@Harsh

I never noticed that one! That fix should be inbuilt too, you got a point there. WP, are you listening to any of this?

@Amal

Thanks man!

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:21 +0000

Great post.

I think ALL in one SEO and WP Super Cache should also be included.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:35:51 +0000

Cool list..
there is one more plugin which I think should be an official part of plugin and that is max blog press ping optimizer..
Coz wordpress has a dirty habit of pinging ping services everytime u edit a post….

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:45:34 +0000

But I think most newbies find it difficult to handle plugins. Installing them itself was a mess until the in-built installer came. Wouldn’t it be better if a plugin can be replaced by a small tick-box?

hmm, Simple things are sweet, that’s true. Maybe that’s the only reason why we love twitter!

By: S.Pradeep Kumar

S.Pradeep Kumar — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:14:09 +0000

Maybe WordPress can join hands with Akismet and introduce it in their core for preventing SPAM !

By: Amal Roy

Amal Roy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:06:52 +0000

Thats most 5 worthful Plugins for WordPress too! Nice post.

By: George

George — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:10:47 +0000

Good Post Arun,

These plugins are must to have in WordPress by default.What about adding Askimet and Captcha into the list? Or you have considered Askimet as a part of WP Core..? But I feel Askimet is again a plugin..Correct me if I am worng.

By: TheAnand

TheAnand — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:26:12 +0000

I would say…stay away from the core! from wordpress 2.0, its been bloating up like anything…I want to remove every feature in it and put in packs of plugins for the user to choose from.

the wordpress is not confusing for newbies and heavier on resources with all those silly functions like sticky and all tht…if users need it, they will search and install it from the repository.

By: Alok

Alok — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:27:54 +0000

This post proved that why WordPress is more popular than other blogging platform. Because it gives more customization option for those people who are zero in development like me.

Thanks Arun for your great WP plugin post.