10 WP-Plugins, that will rock your world

How many “Top Plugin” posts have you reader as a surfer of the World Wide Web? I’m sure every blog in these niches have one or two posts that are entirely dedicated to the top plug-ins.

Most of them are pretty much the same lists, with the same descriptions. If you wanted that you could just view the official list. Instead of mindlessly repeating the same popular plugins, that we all know – I want to shed some light on the ones that haven’t made it big but can really help you make your blog a better place.

Most of these, we are using on Blogussion and some I’ve used in the past. Obviously each and every plugin listed below have their own unique benefits, so make the most out of these rocking free WP-Plugins!

The 10 WP-Plugins

» Peter’s Post Notes

Do you run your blog by yourself or with a group of people? Either way, this is a pretty awesome plugin. It allows you to post “small side-notes” on each posts, so you won’t forget to do something.

Peter’s Post plugin adds a text area on the sidebar of the add and edit post / page screens so that users can add notes for themselves or others. Whenever you save a post, you can type a note to be displayed along with the post in the edit view. Note that this plugin requires WordPress 2.7 or higher.

» No More Frames

One of the most annoying things for a webmaster to notice is someone else ripping their work. What’s even more annoying is someone else ripping their work and stealing their bandwidth too!

With the use of iFrames, other people can place a “window” that directly loads your website on any other page, along with images, content and coding.

This is very irritating especially if there is no link-back or appreciation posted anywhere on the opposing website. This simple plugin ensure your site is protected from this.

» Chat Catcher

Social Media networks are becoming more and more the next big thing. Networks such as Twitter, Myspace & Facebook are the most obvious contributors to the majority of social networking, but there are many out there that we don’t even know about.

With millions of bloggers using such networks, wouldn’t it be great if you can somehow join your blog and your networks together? Chat Catcher copies your social messages, such as tweets and posts them directly as comments on your blog.

» RSSupplement

One of the better RSS Optimizers around for WordPress, or any RSS Subscription for that matter. I’ve covered a few points on how to get more RSS Subscribers for your blog. If you spend a few minutes reading that you will understand how important RSSupplement can be. In a nutshell, RSSupplement adds WP functions, copyright, and more to your RSS feed items.

» Our Progress

If you run an organization or your looking to raise funds, this is the best tool out there.

Our Progress allows WordPress to display a thermometer to measure progress such as a fundraiser.

This can be used in conjunction with Donate Plus. Donate plus is a uniquely written donation form which includes a recognition wall, donation total tracker and also PayPal integration.

» Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location. This can really help Search Engine Optimization and also help your readers navigate easier across your site.

You shouldn’t forget that visitors might want to go back to the previous page, or view something in a similar category. This Breadcrumb trail can really help in that sense.

» Broken Link Checker

When you link to external sources, you expect it to be working when your visitors visits them too. That would be the ideal scenario but nothing’s 100% reliable and some sources you link to might be down at important times. This is where Broken Link Checker can come real handy.

When ever you link to a source (external/internal) it will constantly keep checking the validity of the URL, and if it returns a 404 or other error it would simply run a line across the hpyerlink. This will alert your readers that the link isn’t functioning at the moment.

It will really save you a few annoyed customers and keep your potential readers on yours for a longer period of time.

» Maintenance Mode Plugin

What happens when you want to upgrade your WordPress or perhaps try out a major upgrade? The last thing you want your visitors to see is a page full of errors and malfunctions. The Maintenance Mode Plugin is very useful in these tough times. This will send your visitors a warm customized message saying you are performing an update and the website is temporarily down. You can redirect them somewhere else or give them something to do till your site’s back online.

» SEO Friendly Images

Search Engine Optimizing is all about making your blog readable by crawler-bots. How can we ever overlook optimizing the most unreadable item on the page?

Crawlers cannot read the content of an image, it’s just that simple.

They are visually impaired least to say, so this little plugin will optimize your ALT Tags and a couple of other things too. It’s vital you use proper ALT Tags or else any image you place will just pass as an invalid item on the page.

» Visitor map generator

Creating a map that pins all your visitors on it can be a great way to visually represent your traffic. Visitor Map Generator simply grabs your visitor IP addresses and generates a map for those visits. You can define most parameters from it’s options page.

It doesn’t really do anything for SEO, Content or Traffic but it’s a pretty cool plugin that lets you set geographical parameters to your website, and see which country or continent contributes to the majority of your website.

That’s it! Have you got any good plugins that deserve a mention? Perhaps you’ve written a few yourself? Leave us a comment and tell us all about it!