The Oikos WordPress Plugin List

There are loads of plugins for WordPress and they vary greatly in quality and functionality. Here are some of the best that I’ve found.

Oikos Plugins

A quick plug for plugins that I’ve developed myself:

• Oikos Talks – helps you manage audio files of talks
• Oikos Featured Items (coming soon) – a highly flexible slider/fader/gallery for displaying featured items

Multi-Purpose

• Jetpack – WordPress.org’s plugin bundle that includes lots of features from WordPress.com: visitor stats, URL shortener, media embedding, Twitter integration and more!

Social/Sharing

• Twitter Tracker (for Twitter Searches)
• Twitter Widget Pro
• Twitter for WordPress
• Sociable (Preferred!)
• Add to Any
• Blackbird Pie Twitter Integration Plugin
• (See also JetPack, above, which includes Wickett Twitter Widget)

Multimedia

• Audio Player – simple Flash-based audio player
• Lightbox 2 – popular and simple lightbox gallery plugin
• PhotoDropper – for searching Creative Commons images
• Image Widget – great widget for putting images in sidebars/footers

Search Engine Optimisation

• Yoast SEO (includes Yoast Breadcrumbs!)
• All In One SEO Pack
• Google Sitemap Generator

Analytics

• Ultimate Google Analytics
• WordPress.com Stats (now included in JetPack – see above)
• Google Analytics Dashboard

Mobile

• WP-Touch iPhone Theme
• WordPress Mobile Edition

Security

• Login Lockdown
• WordPress Database Backup (simple – DB-only)
• User Access Manager

Effects

• Smooth Slider
• SlideDeck

E-Commerce

• WP e-Commerce

Contact Forms

• Gravity Forms (the best, if you can afford it!)
• Grunion Contact Form – as seen on WordPress.com
• Clean Contact
• Contact Form 7

Widgets

• Special Recent Posts (highly flexible Recent Posts widget)
• Recent Posts with Excerpt
• Widgets Reloaded (better versions of default widgets)

Events

See my review of Event Manager Plugins.

• Event Manager
• Events

Other

• W3 Total Cache
• My Page Order (only for pages) – or better: Simple Page Ordering (works for hierarchical post types) or Post Types Order (works for non-hierarchical post types)
• RB Internal Links
• Configure SMTP
• WPCrontrol
• Events
• FD Footnotes
• Yoast Breadcrumbs
• RSSImport – can use options like displaydescriptions and html to import feeds with images, like from Tumblr