Having worked with and dealing with a lot of WordPress sites over time, I have came across a wide variety of helpful tools that make the job a lot easier and help with the efficiency of developing the site.  Though there seems to be a plugin for anything you can think of that easily integrates into WordPress, not all of them are as effective as the next one. You’ll come to learn with some plugins, you’ll need a bottle of pain relief to help with the headaches your about to endure while using or trying to figure them out.  Well hopefully I can help rescue you and help take some of that headache pain away and point you in the direction of a few that are ‘fool proof’, easy to use and really are very effective and to a great job and help with your WordPress site.  Feel free to take a look around at the collection I have assembled below.

Comment Redirect

Comment Redirect, upon submission of your first comment on this blog, points you to a thank you page while that comment lies in moderation. Only your first will be moderated, per the comment policy, to ensure you are not spamming.

Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps helps search engine robots know what the site looks like, enabling you to see the best post when searching for a keyword.

Growmap Anti Spambot

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is responsible for the checkbox at the bottom of the comment form. By clicking it, you further prove (if the moderation failed) that you are not a spammer.

PostRank

PostRank also runs invisibly and shows me metrics about the popularity of blog posts to help me know what you like to read and what you hate.

Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments emails any comment author whenever there is a new comment. (Note this gives you all comments, whereas ReplyMe only gives you comments in reply to your comment.) It’s incredible how many WordPress blogs lack this simple and effective code to improve communications.

WordPress Database Backup

WordPress Database Backup runs every 24 hours and emails me a file to restore this blog in case something happens.

WPTouch

WPTouch provides a mobile-friendly view of this blog for smartphones and other mobile devices. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin generates up to three links at the end of every blog post that share common categories or tags.

Maintenance Mode

Maintenance Mode is an “under construction” splash page that temporarily appears when I make programming changes and don’t want you to see anything. When I upgrade WordPress versions, for instance, I activate this plugin. The rest of the time, it remains inactive.

Magic Fields

Magic Fields born as a fork of flutter and is a WordPress CMS plugin, focuses in simplifies content management for the admin creating custom write panels also with Magic Fields you will be able to create (in a very easy way) custom fields for your write panels.

WP Google Analytics

This plugin allows you to use the powerful Google Analytics to track your WordPress stats and it’s easily configurable.

WP Page Numbers

WP Page Numbers is a paging navigation plugin for WordPress that will be an alternative to the ”Next page” and ”Previous page”. Instead it uses numbers which makes it easier for users to choose what page to go to. It also makes a tighter internal link structure which makes it easier for search engines to find your posts.